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Show FACTS ON CAS HIVKN 1JY OIL KX1:CUTIVKS Sixty executives of oil-trade as-sociations as-sociations from nil parts of the country, recently meeting ln Chicago, Chi-cago, declared that it was hieh time they furnished the public with oil information as well as with oil. Thereupon. William R. Boyd president of the American Petroleum Petrol-eum Economics of the Petroleum Industry War Council, added that prospects for gasoline supplies have improved somewhat In certain cer-tain critical areas but "not sufficiently suffi-ciently to indicate any likelihood of relaxation of rationing." "The outlook has improved slightly," he said, "but continues tight and will doubtless continue very tight throughout the European Euro-pean phase of the war." President Boyd gives the figures fig-ures on gasoline production, putting put-ting it at 1,S00,000 barrels daily. Of this, 600,000 barrels go to the military forces and 445,000 into essential industries. These facts are given to the public by leaders of the oil industry. indus-try. They do not represent figures by government experts, trying to justify rationing of gasoline, but they completely justify the present pres-ent strict regulations. |