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Show PREPARE TO SEND SALESMEN ROUND XEW YORK, Dec. 6. Bradstreet's to- j morrow will say: "Uncertainty, savored, however, with optimism, accompanied by a manifestly slower gait in actual movements and ad- ; ditional cancellations of war orders, j i epitomizes conditions. Groping for tangi- ble tendencies, speculating as to the i course of prices, shifting from war to peace work and year-end stock taking oc- ; cupv most attention in the larger lines. . Underneath, the pause, preparations to send salesmen on the road after the turn of the vear are going on. Immediate demand, de-mand, light as it is. overshadows buying ! for future account, thus indicating a disposition dis-position to await developments while ! covering current needs. On the other hand, retail trade at a number of centers i is of large volume, thanks chiefly to holi- , : day purchases, these being stimulated by , a cheerful feeling arising out of the ter-i ter-i mination of the war. and, to a lesser ex-j ex-j tent, to reduced prices on other than j holiday goods. M "Weekly bank clearings, $7,140,930,000. |