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Show a large share of the Liberty loans and helped float local bond issues, build market roads and have been forced more or less into handling investment in-vestment securities for customers. Hundreds of city and counlry banks aro acting as agents or advisers advis-ers to customers who invest in bonds and good stocks, and the failure of a large investment brokerage firm at, Portland has emphasized this. hanks Bt;.uu(; bk; iu nii:.s In trying to meet tho demands of readjustment of industries to the peace basis and to meet the enormous slump in values, the bankers have had about the biggest load to carry of any business. Tho grain growers, the fruit producers, pro-ducers, the livestock men, have all had to be financed more or less individually in-dividually and in some states plans were worked out to market large crops by collective methods. Qli top of this bunks have tarried |