Business: Gasoline Truce

"Effective Saturday morning July 12, at the opening of business, the Standard Oil Company of California will restore its prices for gasoline to levels prevailing prior to the beginning of the so-called price war. . . . The Standard Oil Co. of California announces as a policy that it will not sell its products to ... the dealer who cuts his prices."

Thus a fair prospect of a truce in the West Coast oil war was born last week. Just why Standard of California should belittle the conflict as "the so-called price war" was...

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