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Show A Healthy Condition While some branches of American business and industry have suffered a temporary set-back here and there during the recent period of remarkable activity, conditions on the whole continue con-tinue sound and highly encouraging. A falling ofT in any one industry us-uallly us-uallly has been closely followed by a substantial recovery. This is true of building construction which during the early part of the present year showed a decline from that of 1928. However, according to a nation-wide survey recently reported report-ed by A. E. Dickinson, . president ol the Indiana Limestone company, a marked improvement has been noticed in the past few weeks. While residential building operations opera-tions are still somewhat below those of last year, a gain is seen in the construction con-struction of commercial, industrial, education;; ed-ucation;; 1 and institutional tyiies of buildings, with increasing activity in sight for the immeriatc future. In August, the last month for which figure.:; fig-ure.:; p. re available, approximately $5'!5.000.000 was spent for new con-V. con-V. ucticn. Reports of activities in other basic industries show a healthy condition, nd all indications load to the contusion con-tusion that this condition will probably prob-ably continue for a long period. |
