Oklahoma City, Aug. 31, Mid-continent oil folds began to re-open yesterday following a. tem-'Porary agreement between producers and the major oil companies.
Fields in Louisiana and Texas were the frst to re-open. Restored opera-ions restored a measure, of stability the oil market—United Press.
World Shipping The new edition of Lloyd's Register Book comes appropriately at a time when the state of British shipping is a subject of discussion in Parliament and elsewhere through the introduction of subsidies to help the British Mercantile Marine, says the "Financial News."
The figures for steamships and meterships (the percentage of sail~ ing ship tonnage is small) show that neither Great Britain nor Germany as recovered from the devastation the War. Of all maritime nations, they are alone in that respect, nol withstanding net increase of the steam and motor tonnage between June, 1914, and June, 1039, of no less than' 23,105,555 tons, equal to 50.9 per cent, of such tonnage in existence in 1914 and a net addition of 5,319 ships.
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