Show BHADSTJIEETS VIEW mercantile Community Approaches End of Year With Complacency Now York Dec Bradstrcets tomorrow tomor-row vlll cay Wholesale trade In quieting quiet-ing down na the stocktaking period approaches ap-proaches and what activity Is noted b > Jobbers Its In forwarding supplies of goods needed to reinforce the stocks of retailers dcplelcil by what Is conceded to bo the moat actle holiday trade on record Cold weather North and West has halpcd the sales of furs heavy clothing and slelglui and further stimulated general retail buyIng buy-Ing Holiday buying it is noted Is for a rather moro expensive grade of gpodo than ordinarily experienced There are of course some drawbacks such as unsettled weather or bad roads In the South the coal shortage in tho East and tile continuance of time railroad congestion con-gestion In the Wrest affecting1 the movement move-ment of coke bituminous coal and general gen-eral freight but taken as a whole tho mcrcantlo community contemplates the approach of the end of the year with eomplncency and satisfaction knowing an It docs that most lines of trade will show gains over 1951 and therefore over any preceding year Tho feeling Is that the year has been a good one Raw wool Is Ilrm Woolen machinery la well employed and next years heavy wclffht goods are being ordered quito liberally lib-erally MJunlnons failures In the United Stales for the week ending Thursday December ISth number 22 as against 230 last week and 252 In this week lust year In Canada failures numbered Jl against 17 last eck and 2i In this week a year ago |