The Office of Price Administration (OPA) developed a nationwide gas rationing system that went into effect on December 1, 1942. The oil industry and its assigned wartime government coordinator, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes (1874–1952),...
CAL THOMAS The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 12-24-1992 CHRISTMAS 1942 By CAL THOMAS Date: 12-24-1992, Thursday Section: OPINION Edition: All Editions -- 3 Star, 2 Star P, 2 Star B, 1 Star Late, 1 Star Early SINCE 1942 was my first Christmas, this...
The Geelong Advertiser of 7 July 1990 carried an article by local writer Jack Loney on German and Japanese activities in Bass Strait. He mentioned a 1938 Japanese naval chart of the Geelong region that an army private had found in a tunnel at...
