OIL: Bleak New England Days

Last week a tone of desperate urgency crept into official pleas for more industrial and residential conversion from oil to coal for heating. James C. Richdale, chairman of the New England Council Liquid Fuel Committee, said: "We've got to quit talking about 75% [of normal fuel oil needs] we've got to tell the truth." The truth was that consumers may not get 50% of their needs.

Massachusetts' Governor Leverett Saltonstall, after a day spent conferring with Petroleum Czar Ickes in Washington, where offices are comfortably warm (see p. 22), returned to icy Boston determined to invoke his emergency war powers, if...

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