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Show I Building Boom at Last? ' F)R seversl years, economists have been waiting wait-ing for the building boom that was to lead us up and out of the depression. Each spring came, and it did not materialize. And everybody every-body ssid, well, each year the need for houses becomes greater, the "boom" more inevitable. Predicting on this subject, after so msny disappointments, dis-appointments, would be foolhardy. But never-"Thclcss, never-"Thclcss, reslderrtlat-btillding-truTlng-Msy wilt record the highest total since October, 1929, according to J. Seth Schnitmaa, economist. Certain it is that building for the first half of 1939 will record a total perhaps SO per cent higher then that of the first half of last year. This may not be the long-expected "boom." but it is certainly an encouraging sign, and welcome in its own right Beet news of all will come when one of these months surpasses 1929, for it is only in the exceeding of 1929 records that there lies hope of cutting deeply into unemployment un-employment The men who builds a house today to-day is a true petriot |