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Show AFTER THE WAR. The people of Nhis country are optimistic as to af ior-the-war biiMness conditions. The steel tradn will be i bclpV'd uhen the damag-1 done in the occupied portion of France is rep.iird, and. according to the Iron Ago, whi'h estimates th original cost of construction construc-tion at a billion dollars, "much of tho buying in this connection will be don1 . in the United States. KvPtits are likely 1 to move rapidly in Ruia. nnd, in all probability, Ku-ia will pren t a rrv large commercial problem. Then there are t he colonies of the va rions belli g-erents g-erents which, for reasons, will tHkc on a new lease of life and be eager to develop de-velop themselves. Finally, there are neutrals a'rid nun belligerents, which for five years or more will havo been starved of the good1 they have been accustomed ac-customed to biiv." |