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Evening Star, Issue 16823, 27 August 1918, Page 4

SALKS ON ’CHANGE : TUTS DAY. Canterbury Meat, £9 10;-, iho price of drugs lias increased enor•rrirmsly sine* the outbreak of war. In some cases I7ie increase amounts to 5,000 per cent. The most remarkable rise, perhaps, is that noted in pennanganato of pc.ta.-sh, which was once 9(1 a lb, but which now costs 18s a- lbThe Superior Steel Company of Carnegie, in tile United Slates, arc tilling a large Government contract for what is said to l*e the thinnest sheet steal over rolled. It Trill he used lo make wings for American. fighting planes for use in trance, replacing the present linen fabric wing, and is now being shipped to the aeroplane foetones. The Superior Company are also making steel frame rods to support the new w'ings. The steel for wings is onethousandth of an hwh thick—that is, thinner than onur-ary paper. The new wings are paid to hr/rear-proof, differing from the fabric wings, inasmuch as, though pierced by a. bullet, they will not tear, no matter what the speed of the plane. '] v tie I.WAV. inquiry in Sydney has been postponed till Thursday, owing to the illness cf Mr Justice. Street. j>t NAZOL protect your family against coughs and colds. One dose a day keeps colds away. Good for old and young. 60 doses 1/6. —[Advt.j