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Show WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW. Return to Normal Conditions In the Eastern East-ern Markets. NEW YORK, Feb. 21. Dun's tomorrow-will tomorrow-will say: A return to more normal conditions In business has resulted from the recent tempering of the rigor of winter weather, although the recurrence of a cold wave in some sections has tended to hinder the process of recovery. With the continued con-tinued absence of further general and severe storms, however, the derangement of production and distribution is steadiiy lessened and appreciably larger shipments of raw materials and merchandise reflect the breaking of the transportation deadlock. dead-lock. Efforts to - augment outputs of urgently needed supplies are more successful suc-cessful as the percentage of idle machinery ma-chinery diminishes through the freer movement of fuel, and the adjustment of some labor controversies lias improved the industrial outlook and made possible the resumption of full operations in certain government work. As for months past, activity in many directions is stimulated by the extensive and expanding war requirements, re-quirements, but th increasing restrictions restric-tions on regular domestic and . foreign business limit the volume of ordinary transactions and bank clearings at some leading centers do not equal those of this period in 1917, though the general level of commodity prices is now considerahly higher. Weekly bank clearings. 54.297,162,243. |