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Show Iron Age Koview. NEW YORK, July 4. Tho iron Age today says: While there will be some closing down of mlllB and steel plants for repairs and betterments during July, It will be less than usual, owing to the great pressure for deliveries. In nearly every branch of the finished trade it Is the same story of a rush of specifications, and In some the mills have not made any headway at all to relieve tho congestion. Tho operating departments are therefore driven to the utmost. Pig Iron Is being taken right along on old contracts, and there Is some demand for anticipating shipments. While the world's consuming markets are feeling much hesitation, growing out of the timidity of capital and new projects proj-ects seem to be moving slowly, yet there Is a good volume of new business in certain cer-tain quarters. This Is notably truo of India, and of China and Japan. From China come orders for bridge material, including one lot of 1000 tonn. with more to come. Some orders have been placed for structural material for South America. Amer-ica. Including 2300 tons for the first skyscraper sky-scraper In Buenos Ayres, a ten-story hotel. ho-tel. The copper deadlock has not yet beon broken. |