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Show CHEAP PRICES ARE NOT TO RETURN LONDON, July 31. (Mail) Gone, never to return, aro tho cheap pro-war pro-war prices of clothes. That Is the view of an expert writing in a British trade publication, and he predicts another an-other rise soon. Every shot fired from a 12-inch gun, he says, uses up half a balo of cotton, cot-ton, and in three minutes a machine gun will squander a whole bale. The price of woolen cloth today is from two and three-quarters to three times greater than It was in July, 1914, Linen prices this year, It is "stated, probably will keep at least 33 1-3 per cent above those of 1917. nn |