The filling-station curfew (TIME, Sept. 22, et ante), which had annoyed the Eastern Seaboard and aroused more shouts of outrage than anything Harold Ickes had done since the last time, was called off last week.
Mr. Ickes announced that the British, doing better in the Battle of the Atlantic, would soon (by next month) return 40 of the 80 tankers they had got from the U.S. This addition to the U.S. tanker fleet, plus the savings effected by the curfew and a 10% cut in deliveries to dealers, said Mr. Ickes, ended the threat of oil shortage for the Eastern Seaboard.
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