Show A business week survey shows that business activity averaged 10 per cent higher in the first six months of 1937 than in the S same period lint last year steel production rose 35 per cent automobile production 12 per cent residential construction 54 per cent lumber production 8 per cent factory payrolls 29 per cent and factory employment 13 per cent farm prices rose 18 per cent construction costs zoomed 13 per cent and department store prices upped 7 per cent stocks averaged 18 per cent higher and bonds 2 per cent higher |