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Show RESTRICTS USE OF COAL. Essential Industries Selected in Curtailment Plan. Washington. War-time restrictions on the nation's use of coal, more stringent strin-gent even than those applied during the war, were ordered into effect on December 1 to stave off a fuel famine, p Fuel Administrator Garfield, acting in conjunction with the railroad administration, ad-ministration, gave notice that hereafter hereaf-ter only the essential consumers included in-cluded in the first five classes of the war priorities list would be supplied with coal and asked the help of all state and municipal authorities to make rationing effective. This cuts off supplies from all but transportation agencies, which includes in-cludes inland and coastwise shipping us well as railroads; federal and local government institutions and establishments, establish-ments, including concerns working on government contracts; public utilities, including newspapers, and retail dealers. |