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Show Olive Oil Scarcer. News comes from France that the harvest of olives this year will be three times as great as in 3916. Nevertlie-. less there will be less olive oil In 1918 than ever before. The greater part of the harvest will rot away because hands are lacking to turn it into oil. The price at the present time of n liter of oil Is about five francs, that Is, in American values 51 a quart. The price will soon become six frnncs and, what is worse, the French will have to depend on Imported oil, Italian or Spanish, which they abominate. j |