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Great Britain Promises U. S. (reosote Shipment

Chicago, July 3.-Great 'Britain,.whose hesitancy to export coal tar creosote to this country since V-J Day had seriously'threatened huge stocks of poles, piling, railroad crossties and similar products needed by railway, utility and communications systems, has informed the U. S. State Department that it will export six million gallons of creosote during the last half of 1946.

J. F. Linthicum, president of the American Lumber & Treating, Co., Chicago, revealed he had received that announcement today from the state department in Washing, ton through the Civilian Production Administration. It was Mr. Linthicum who a month ago sent a letter to John Dl Small, administrator of CPA, asking state department intervention in Great Britain's curtailment of creosote exports.

Mr. Linthicum in the text of his letter to Small, pointed out that coincidental with passage of the Lend-Lease bill Fnglahd curtailed creosote shipments to this country and that no imports had been received since early 1942.

"With the termination of hostilities, it was anticipated that England would resume the exportation of creosote, but until now export licenses have been unobtainable," Mr. Linthicum said.

"Although thg' promised shipment is less than one-sixth of that imported annually in the period from 1931 to 1941, the six million gallons should 'aid measurably in bolstering already depleted stocks of creosote in this country. The wood preserving industry is appreciative of CPA's efforts in its behalf."

Domestic production of creosote, which is a by-product of coke, has declined sharply since V-J Day as a result of strikes in the coal and steel industries, and the nation's wood preservers faced a shortage of at ,least 20 million gallons of cresote in 1946 until Great Britain's announcement that exports would be resumed. Many wood preserving plants have been forced to shut down in recent months for the lack .of the product

IJ. S. creosote production has been supplemented by foreign sources for many years with normal imports from 1931 through l94O averaging 39,68,062 gallons annually, or 27.7 per cent of total cOnsumption, the greatest part coming from England.

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