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Show Osesass at RiasS Casayon Yax. h?vj ,-'"V 'tt-jeti. . ' I ' i ' , i f.SPii ' ' ' ' . "'' Yi. . v. i O'V'k, . -f . i . . , ,l.t t , - - the price for st"'el and other necessary neces-sary commodities. Also, thei NRA used-car cede pravi ions s'owed down tales now that it is gone, and Mr. Pubi c wil be ab'e to get more for his old car, motormen believe he wiil go for new cars in a big way. RETAIL TRADE: Price wars are rampant, e.pee.ally in the tobacco, drug, liquor and sundry trad's. Consumer Con-sumer j a-re thronging the cut price stores, where "loss leaders" predominant. predom-inant. (Some chains recently sold cigaretttts which cost them about $.1.00 a carton for as little as CO Ciint',). Result is a terifio retail turnover. turn-over. AIR CONDITIONING: Developments Develop-ments are coming fast in this, one of our youngest industries. Competition Compe-tition is tremendous, some 100 coai-cerns coai-cerns bidd.ng for busiaeis. This tends to give ths public better equipment equip-ment at lowier prices and on moie favorable terms. A new entry into ' the fiUd offers, for less than. $800, a unit that will provide complete turn-mar turn-mar air conditioning for from four to eight rooms for $15 or less a season. sea-son. BANKING: A highly interesting development in this field is the fact that commtrc.al banks are taking up small loan busine.s, something thty refused to do a few years ago. Large banks are openin.r personal loan departments, where respeccsi-ble respeccsi-ble persons of imall means can ob-la, ob-la, n mou-y without going to the loan sharks who still charge anywhere up to 1,000 p-r cent a year interest. And there is talk that tome saving -aid loan aseociaticns my ro into the coi-.vmercial field by accepting demand de-mand deposits. AGRICULTURE: A late survey shows a small, hut encooret-ns, )-Sr in the value of farnii. Values j imped imp-ed 'n 30 states, between Mi rci. 1034, and March, 1935, declined slighily in only five, and were unchanged in 30. Larg.st gains were in the cotton belt larg.st declines, as might be expected, in the drought area. LXPORT TI-fADE: In aU but a handful of cases, America's (irst-quarter (irst-quarter export business was well a- had of a year ago, hris hfld up Fines. Canada bought 13 per cent mere, Italy 15 per e nr more, Cuba Sri pe; cent moie, Aus vrii. 53 per C'1 t more, Mexico 25 per cent more E.igiaiid and Japan marslv got into the fain ccleumn1 with resrective i'5'ies ct 1 and C pr cent. Pr nc'pa.1 drop came in Germany, which bought 62 per cent Isss from us. So far as new export business is 'eoncern'd, according tei Busfr: W'J'k, Oceania (Australia, So'-Islainds) So'-Islainds) offers the best prosjj- |
