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Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Manufacture and Industry Curtailed by Cold Weather. NEW YORK, Jan. 4. Bradstreet'a tomorrow to-morrow will pay: Post-holiday influences, inventorying, intensely cold weather east and south and heavy snows at the west have made for a quiet week in ordinary distributive trade, and weather plus coaJ and ear shortag-e has curtailed manufacture and Industry, This latter conditions appears , most acute in tho north Atlantic states, the coldest weather ever recorded having special effect in and near New Yorlt, r where the coal shortage caused the clos-ing clos-ing of many office buildings on several days, Uie suspension of many Industries, tho cripplinpr of educational and charlt-. able institutions and tlie shutting down even of war Industries, notably shipyards. ship-yards. Himilar conditions are reported east of the metropolis, soma munition centers In New England being badly crippled. This slowing down at , industry and trade has allowed a good deal of retrospection retro-spection and a fair amount of prediction as to the future. The annual reports to Bradstreet's from over 100 cities, given elsewhere, are almost a unit In reporting an increase tn tlie value of both wholesale whole-sale and retail trado in 19t7 over 1916, the grains reported in these lines being outstripped, however, by the Increases lp. output of manufacture and Industry, which was, of courso, stimulated by war work and a very full volume of domestlo demand. Weekly bank clearings, $3,749,sm,000. |