Pogue, "Economics of the Petroleum Industry," March 1939, The Chase National Bank of the City of New York.

B. Trend of Average Retail Price of Gasoline in Fifty Representative Cities in the United States by Months, 1919-1938, Showing Incidence of Gasoline Sales Tax. Courtesy of The Texas Company.

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B. Monthly Range of High and Low Quotations for Sterling Exchange at New York from 1931 to December 1938. When the bars are adjacent to each other as they are in this chart, the similarity between the bar form and the curve form of high-low chart is more pronounced. See 276B.

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