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Show PROSPERITY'S ADVANCED GUARD ! Despite coke shortage, mills of the tr. S. steel corporation continue running run-ning an average of 7 5 per cent capacity ca-pacity New orders are being booked I. m a still larger scale. Open-hearth operations In the Voungstown district are going on a fuel-oil basis. Prices I continue, upward, especially pig Iron. Tin: BETTING. In the stock market, rails have boon having their best market since before I the war The average of leading rail road shares was down to about $68 after the reaction from the fH3 peak 'of the 1919 bull market. Recently It climbed around $35. the highest in three years, COMING BACK. About -100.000 freight cars are Idle now. on account of business conditions, condi-tions, especially dull coal movement Tremendous freight movement Is In sight for next fall. 1 Railroad buying continues on heavy I scale. Prices are attractive Steel rails. $28 a ton before the. war, climbed to $f." In the war boom and now are. down to $40. Standard 30-ton freight cars now cost $180i. against $1600 before the war and $3 200 at the peak of tho boom BRISK AUTO TRADE. Ford schedule calls for production of 120.000 cars In May That's ono car every '6 1-2 seconds. Detroit reports auio sales have Increased In-creased so rapidly since April Jo, that an acute shortage of finished parts, especially uxles is developing MORE BUILDING Sales of cement have doubled In the last 40 days and now are a sixth bigger than a year ago, due to build-ling build-ling pick-up. S 1 KIK1 GAINS. Coal Mrlke is developing more fav-' fav-' orabls (or the union miners than the I great strike of 1919. In the mattor of strangling cin! production. While ! this is partly due to lessened spot-I spot-I market demand, coal reserves are being be-ing eaten into rapidly. During the 1919 strike, the na-I na-I tlon's coal output In one week I dropped to COO.OOo tons a day. Then 'it began -.'limbing upward rapidlv, as i open-shop mines began producing, j In first three weeks of 1 922 strike I output continued slumping Trend still was downwurd April 24. Ix-admg New York cool brokers I predict the strike will end by the first j of June. |