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Show REVIEW OF TRADE. Renewed Expansion In Trade, Tempered by Conservative Buying. NEW TOEK. Feb. 26. Bradstreet's tomorrow to-morrow will say; "Renewed expansion In trade, especially In the southwest, further speeding up in Industrial operations and excellent advices ad-vices as to winter wheat KO hand in hand with optimism, which, however. Is tempered tem-pered by conservative buyinK. There 13 no disposition, to speculate as to the future. fu-ture. With war orders furnishing activity activ-ity to a number of lines. Idleness lias decreased, de-creased, manv ammunition plants are working double time: ship building yards face many months of activity: automobile automo-bile shops, especially those maklne commercial com-mercial cars for use In the European war zone, 8re speeding up, and certain branches of the machine tool Industry aro swamped with war orders. "Railway famines aro showlnir up better, bet-ter, and January reports, taken collectively, collective-ly, aro likely to present a more pleasing view. "Bank clearing-- for the week (five days) aggregate $2,509,405,000. a decrease of 7.(i per cent as compared with the like week last year. "Business failures for the week were 400, compared with 260 last year. In Canada commercial failureH numbered fifty-nine, against forty-nine a year a0." |