Crude oil prices have held steady around $1 per barrel for eight months. Big companies are lifting distress gasoline stocks from the market. Gasoline prices have lately been upped over wide areas. The month-long strike of service station operators and tank-wagon drivers in Cleveland has been settled. There was talk of a fuel oil shortage. The industry's earnings for 1933 soared above those for 1932. At the American Petroleum Institute's semi-annual convention in Pittsburgh last week Consolidated. Oil's J. E. Dyer key-noted: "The oil industry under the code has made definite, unmistakable progress...
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