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Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. - I I NKAV YORK. Dec. 7. Brndstree t 's to- ! morrow will say: Government requisitions and e-:pendi- ' tui-es for all sorts of military supplies are j at an unprecedented height, transportation transporta-tion routes are under unexampled strain, I and increasing stress is beine laid upon i the necessity for curtailing non-epsontlal j industries to allow of full supplies of fuel I and raw materials for war purpose, j There is. therefore, increasing evidence of I speeding- up on the so-called war lines, I accompanied by the presence of a r,ov- ! ernmental check rein upon activities In 1 others. j Incidentally, soareiiy of fuel or raw materials or tiie working out of other 1 processes making' for closer readjustments 1 to a war basis tend to restrict movements in various ways. Trade in civilian supplies sup-plies Is still Ia,e, but there appears to he a concentration upon foods and wearing apparel to an extent not hitherto seen- Further quieting down of ordinary house building-and operations in funiitura, automobile auto-mobile (pleasure car) and Jewelrv manufacturing:, manu-facturing:, farm and other products is balanced bal-anced by inrrensed buying of steel for munitions, shipbuilding and allied lines Agricultural implement mun. too, are buying and selling freelv enough for an ordinarily quiet period, while automobile manufacturers are reported shifting a great deal of capacitv to supplying government gov-ernment needs for munitions. Weekly bank clearings, $6,9$6, 477.000. ' |