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For the regular summer consumption of musical comedy, the following are being served: Chariot's Revue, Kid Boots, I'll Say She Is, Keep Kool.
Last year the unexpectedly large production of crude petroleum brought on a crisis in the oil industry by smashing the high prices for crude oil and even for its refined products. Large companies, however, stocked the excess crude oil product, and refineries greatly increased their stocks of gasoline. This policy...
This Spring, however, several things happened. Oil companies raised the price of crude, and again wildcatters began to bring in new crude production. Meanwhile the optimistic predictions of car makers suffered a rude jolt, and curtailment of car production became general throughout the industry. On top of this, the cold...
This spring the cold, wet weather has played havoc with many different lines of business. Would-be purveyors of Spring garments have had to swallow a bitter pill. Buyers of automobiles and automobile accessories have held back. The consumption of gasoline has been adversely affected. The latest victim of the...
The average annual consumption of whiskey in the U.S. during the ten years prior to Prohibition was 130, 000,000 gallons. In the calendar year 1923 whiskey withdrawn under Government permits was 1,696,360 gallons. The exact amount of bootleg whiskey consumed is not known.