PETROL PRICES
AMERICAN GOVERNMENT INVESTIGATING.
Prow Association —By Telegraph-Copyright.
WASHINGTON, May 13.
The Government intends to investigate the reason for several recent increases in the price of petrol. During the past six weeks prices have risen 1 cent per week, and petrol is now selling at 29 to 31 .cents per gallon. The Department of tho Interior Bays that farther increases amounting to 5 cents arc expected by the middle of dime. The vast surplus stocks make the increase difficult to understand;.-—A and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17968, 15 May 1922, Page 7
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85PETROL PRICES Evening Star, Issue 17968, 15 May 1922, Page 7
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