Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order 9276, Establishing the Petroleum Administration for War and Defining Its Functions and Duties

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Franklin D. Roosevelt: Executive Order9276, Establishing the PetroleumAdministration for War and Defining ItsFunctions and Duties

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By virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes, as President of the United States and Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy, and in order to coordinate and centralize the war policies and actions of the Government relating to petroleum with a view toward providing adequate supplies of petroleum for the successful prosecution of the war and for other essential purposes, it is hereby ordered as follows.

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