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Show Labor Peace Seen Urgent Business kept pace with industry indus-try this week in looking beyond immediate strike horizons to see an upward trend and a generally good outlook for the bulk of 1946. Recapitulation by the National Association of Purchasing Agents evaluated current business as "very good" despite labor difficulties, and shortages of "almost everything." every-thing." Looking beyond his, the association's survey said: "If the labor situation clears up it is generally agreed that we should have a higher level of activity ac-tivity than has ever been experienced experi-enced in this country during a peacetime period." This was accompanied by a warning, however, that the threatened threat-ened steel strike, fully consummated, consum-mated, might not only tie up all of industry but have "unfortunate and far-reaching effects on business busi-ness in general." |