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Show HOLIDAY PURCHASES HtAVY. NEW YORK, Dec. 8. Bradstreet's tomorrow to-morrow will say; "Consumption continues to overtax production, r yet there are a few halting signs, such, for instance, as less fever-ishness fever-ishness In pig iron, possibly due to the fact that prices are up all around, and diminished buying- of some food products tiiat have been subjected to boycotts. "But over and beyond such cross currents cur-rents as have developed are evidences that holiday buying Is of enormous proportions, pro-portions, that numerous industries are Impeded by inability to get sufficient cars either for receiving or sending out products, that jobbers as well as wholesale whole-sale purveyors of staple merchandise are making record-breaking sales, that wages as well as dividends keep going up, and that investment securities continue con-tinue to be absorbed on a large scale. Weekly bank clearings, $6,979,57S,000." |