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Saving Fuel In Wartime
Have a problem with getting up early for a tee time?
During World War II, golfers faced a more serious difficulty: gasoline rationing.
To cope with the problem, horse-drawn wagons picked up golfers at the Farmingdale Long Island Rail Road station and shuttled them to Bethpage State Park.
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