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Show GENERAL BUSINESS SLIGHTLY IMPROVED .NEW YORK, May 13. Bradstreet" H Better weather and crop reports, B the BOUthwest and lower Mississippi valley exempted; more activity In re-tall re-tall trade, though few sections re-port re-port conditions better than fair; col-lections col-lections still on the slow side; In-d In-d us trial activities in April erystalllz ing Into numerous favorable measures H of movement; a rsrther better trend of reports as to European trade an-l H political conditions, chief of those being new high levels for sterling exchange, hut rather quieter and re- j actionary stock markets, nbout sum- marise the week's campaign As regards the stock market, it might be said to be appearing to H mark time while the industries, whoso Improvement It had been foretelling and discounting from last summer to mld-Aprll are "consolidating their positions" to use a war-trme phraj Weekly bank clearings f,S4,- ! |