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Phantagraph, v. 11, issue 2, October 1943
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THE PHANTAGRAPH (fantasy fandom's oldest existing fanzine) Combined with SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY, LE VOMBITEUR, MIND OF MAN, FUTURIAN NEWS, FANTASY FICTION DIGEST, etc. Donald A. Wollheim, Editor Elsie B. Wollheim, Co-Editor; John Michel, Art 98-50 67th Avenue Forest Hills, N.Y. Vol 11. No. 2 Fantasy Amateur Press Association October, 1943 OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF FUTURIA --Deadline for Civilization-- By Braxton Wells During the past year we have been deluged with a regular epidemic of science-fiction ad writing. I mean those ads that keep turning up in all the big magazines and daily newspapers showing what things are going to be like after the war. You know, the super-airplanes, the helicopter in every prefabricated garage, the 100 m.p.h. teardrop flivver, the stuff we fans have been reading about for fifteen years. Well, it all sounds very well. But we've been thinking. And what we've been thinking about is this: where are we doing to get the oil for all these things? You see, various officials have told us, the people, that this is going to be a long war and a tough one. And consulting our own crystal ball, we are inclined to agree with the gentlemen. Now it so happens that the total oil reserve of the U.S. is good for something like only 25 years more at the present rate of expenditure. And our rate of burning oil
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THE PHANTAGRAPH (fantasy fandom's oldest existing fanzine) Combined with SCIENCE FICTION REVIEW, SCIENCE FICTION WEEKLY, LE VOMBITEUR, MIND OF MAN, FUTURIAN NEWS, FANTASY FICTION DIGEST, etc. Donald A. Wollheim, Editor Elsie B. Wollheim, Co-Editor; John Michel, Art 98-50 67th Avenue Forest Hills, N.Y. Vol 11. No. 2 Fantasy Amateur Press Association October, 1943 OIL FOR THE LAMPS OF FUTURIA --Deadline for Civilization-- By Braxton Wells During the past year we have been deluged with a regular epidemic of science-fiction ad writing. I mean those ads that keep turning up in all the big magazines and daily newspapers showing what things are going to be like after the war. You know, the super-airplanes, the helicopter in every prefabricated garage, the 100 m.p.h. teardrop flivver, the stuff we fans have been reading about for fifteen years. Well, it all sounds very well. But we've been thinking. And what we've been thinking about is this: where are we doing to get the oil for all these things? You see, various officials have told us, the people, that this is going to be a long war and a tough one. And consulting our own crystal ball, we are inclined to agree with the gentlemen. Now it so happens that the total oil reserve of the U.S. is good for something like only 25 years more at the present rate of expenditure. And our rate of burning oil
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