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President Calles soon after made an "announcement" of his own (see Page 13). Unlike Secretary Kellogg's, Senor Calles' announcement was doubtless intended more for home than for foreign consumption.
What does this mean? It means the smallest wheat crop in eight years. It means a wheat crop so small that it should just about equal our wheat consumption-perhaps fall slightly below it, leaving no surplus for export. It means that, even if wheat prices are low abroad, they...
Of course, the driving force behind this firming tone to the oil industry is this spring's unprecedented consumption of gasoline. On May 1, 1925, stocks of gasoline in the U. S. were 1,561,002,024 gallons-a goodly amount still, although 64,867,000 gallons less than...
April consumption of gasoline was unprecedented, at the rate-of 27,030,000 gallons a day, thus surpassing the previous record month of August, 1924, when consumption reached 26,700,000 gallons daily. Some authorities expect to see a daily consumption rate of 29,000,000 gallons set for May...
Refiners start to store gasoline in November and continue to pile up stocks : until June 1. Last winter, however, the increase of gasoline stocks was 225,000,000 gallons less than for 1923-24, while consumption is now running 35% higher than at this time last year.