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Show Home Bank Board, expenditures for carpentry represent 50 per cent of the cost of labor and materials ma-terials ln building a six-room frame house. It has been estimated that the nation's department, dry goods and general merchandise stores receive 52 million complaints a year which cost them about $1 each in operating- expense and markdowns. . . . The average American silver fox farm houses fifty foxes, but there are fur ranches which maintain as many as 8,500 breeding pairs of foxes and market 30,000 pelts a year. .Mutual savings institutions of the U S. hold in excess of 10 billions of dollars, belonging to ajmost 15"4 million deposit ors. . . According to the Federal |