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Show Weekly Trade Review. NEW YORK, May 24. Bradltreet's tomorrow will sav: Tightening of conditions In non-essontlal lines, further speeding VP of war work, excellent crop news and reports that large distributors are selling sell-ing all the goods they can get after governmental govern-mental requirements are satisfied comprise the mainsprings of the week's events. Because of a paucity of supplies at a lime when shelves are being cleaned ont of medium-priced goods as the result heavy buying flowing from abnormally high wages, llnltod. too, with concern about tho likelihood like-lihood of being unable to cover future requirements, require-ments, final purveyors are buylny liberally and as often as opportunity offers. Yet, It must bo recognized rec-ognized that the shortage of merchandise plus the fact- that ordinary business is being gradually sidetracked to care for government orders, operates to lay check-rnlns on normal movements, to superinduces, super-induces, closer terms of credit, to enhance profits of those who may have free supplies, to create an air of unwonted activity at a season that is ordinarily marked by between-season characteristics, characteris-tics, and to give more than due prominence to demand for goods aa distinguished from actual abllltv to get supplies. Weekly bank clearings. $6,019,134,000. |