Box 154

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A substantial amount of correspondence concerning an acute gasoline shortage in South Carolina resulting from the lack of facilities to distribute petroleum products along the Eastern Seaboard. Prior to the outbreak of World War II the vast majority of petroleum was brought in by tankers from the sea. As a result, the Office of Price Administration implemented gasoline rationing and distributed allotments.

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Correspondence concerning a proposed pipeline from Tinsley Oil Field in Mississippi to Charleston, South Carolina, and/or Savannah, Georgia.

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Correspondence concerning the relocation of an employment office from Georgetown, South Carolina, to Conway, South Carolina.

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Correspondence concerning the relocation of a Farm Security Administration (FSA) office from Georgetown, South Carolina, to Andrews, South Carolina.

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Correspondence concerning the acquisition of post office quarters in Graniteville, South Carolina.

Scope and Contents Correspondence concerning Greenville, South Carolina, including the use of the Phyllis Wheatley building as a recreational facility for black soldiers, construction of a building to serve as a fire station, water and sewer office, shop, and living quarters for the fire chief, operation of wartime school facilities for children while mothers are engaged in work essential to the war effort, Greenville school districts, remodeling of the county health center, recreational facilities for...

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Correspondence concerning a proposed stop in Greenville, South Carolina, on an Eastern Airline route between Memphis and New York.

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Correspondence concerning an Army proposal to discontinue the use of the Coronaca Airport near Greenwood, South Carolina.

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Correspondence concerning the application of the Greenwood Telephone Company for authority to establish maximum and minimum wage brackets for all employee classifications.

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Correspondence concerning the Geer Drug Company of Spartanburg, South Carolina, including an amendment to the Salary Stabilization Regulations to salesmen's commissions, gas for a heater at the company, the inclusion of the wholesale drug industry on the War Manpower Commission's List of Essential Activities, and an increase in the alcohol allowance to important pharmaceutical manufacturers to combat a flu epidemic and shortage of drugs.