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Show BUSINESS FAILURES LESSEN DURING MAY NEW YORK lunc 2. Business failures throughout the country dropped drop-ped 7.4 per cent to 180:1 In May as compared with the number for April, according to statistics issued i Brad-street's Brad-street's Thursday The totatl war. 33.7 per cent less than the record month of January, but 2 5 per cent greater than in May. 1910. the hitherto record fifth month Total liabilities In May are given I at $48, $48.1114,078. or 33 per cent less than in April and 17 per oent less than In May, 1921. but nearly six times greater than In May. 1919. and m ore than double the total in May. 1916. As for some time past, the south reported the greatest number of failures fail-ures In any one group, with more than one-third of the total liabilities, but! these figures also represented a decline. |