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Depression I put an end to the halcyon days. Turpentine prices slumped from better than 50? a gallon to 31? in 1931, rosin from $8.50 a barrel to $2.95. By 1933 the housing collapse and a shrunken export market reduced the naval stores industry to a pauperish $13,792,000. In March 1936 producers met at Jacksonville, formed the American Turpentine Farmers Association Cooperative to cut excess production, get rid of surplus stocks, undertake conservation...
...Klamath Falls, Ore. is none other than Henry Ashurst's brother, Edward Bates Ashurst. Slight, dapper Judge Ashurst first got elected to the bench in 1934, tried vainly in 1937 to join his brother in the U. S. Senate. He continued to ornament Klamath Falls with his ten-gallon hats, his string ties, sideburns, frock coats, morning trousers, and the fanciest flow of language west of Henry Fountain Ashurst...
...large crowd further swelled by a number assembled to say farewell to a departing evangelist), delivered ten formal addresses, held eleven big press conferences, appeared at ten scheduled receptions, and shaken hands with 15,000 voters. He had collected two ten-gallon hats, a case of canned corn, had watched the dance of the Nez Percé Indians and had been serenaded in Portland, Ore., by a fife & drum corps of Civil War veterans whose leader was 95. His secretary, yclept Lemoyne Jones in the effete East, became plain Lem Jones as soon as he was west of the mountains...
Mildly booming as a middleman for the warring nations, Italy nevertheless now pays $1.25 per gallon for gasoline. More important, the State-fixed price of bread has been raised from 7.9? to 8.1? per pound; spaghetti from 7? to 8?; olive oil from 49? to 57?per quart; sugar from14½? to 16½? per pound; butter from 42½? to 45?. Rome housewives guessed that living costs have risen 25% since break...
...with no new orders coming in. Gasoline inventories rose to a dizzy 84,326,000 barrels, partly because producers are having difficulty in curtailing gasoline production now that its byproduct, fuel oil, is in demand. Meanwhile, wholesale gasoline prices, cut three times since Dec. 1 (net cut: ⅜? a gallon) were dropped another...