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Show WEEK'S REPORTS GENERALLY GOOD Business Conditions Improving Im-proving in All Lines So long aa business conditions continue with the Irregularity which has charac-rertied charac-rertied them during the laat month, such measure of Improvement aa Is made must be based upon the sum total of smell Sains noted In every department of In-ustrlal In-ustrlal and commercial activity. It la a satisfaction to be abel to recognise continued con-tinued Improvement, even though It la not boisterous. . . , During the week Bradatpeefe food Index In-dex number increased 1.1 points, the figures fig-ures being $3.24 aa against Ja the Xrevlous week. Of eighty-one eommo-Itlee eommo-Itlee luted, twenty-nine advanced, eleven elev-en declined and forty-one continued unchanged. un-changed. Dun's report on wholesale pricee showed forty-six sdvancee and twenty-four declines. Failures reporter for the week by Bredstreet numbered 600. compared with 437 for the prevloue week for the whole country, divided ae fellows: New England states. 17; Middle. M: Western, 11:0 Northwestern, 3: Houth-em. Houth-em. 1.0; Ksr Western, fct. Of the con-oerns con-oerns that failed. 71 per cent had luOO" or less cspltellaatlon; II. psr cent from $6000 to 120.000. Eugene Meyers Jr.. mansglng director of the war finance vol put stton. eetrt wa tour of Investigation by President Harding, Hard-ing, said, on hla return to Washington, that he found eondltlona In the West and Houthwest 100 per cent better than last fell. He declared that farmers would be able to produce the cheapest crops In years hersuse labor waa plentiful and much cheaper. |