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Show i ! ! Bits 0' Business And I Things To Come ! BITS 0' BUSINESS ; Employment of 59.947,000 persons in August marks year's ' peak; total of idle workers is ! down 400,000 ... A post-Labor I Day rash of re-orders from re- aitrs throughout the country to feced many -coat and suit ! manf .urers here into over-8 over-8 time operations and, according V to trxk leaders, raised the dis- tinct possibility of price ad-j ad-j raices over those quoted oh in- itial orders. . . IV2 million, or I ee-fourth of all farms in the ' country, now using liquified pe-; pe-; tro'eum gas for cookirxg. . . ! Bureau of Mines estimates that ! gasoline could be made from ! coal to sell for only three or I lour cents a gallon more than i natural gasoline. . . Department, I ; dry goods and chain stores i th oughout the country as of j mid-July had purchased only a j minor amount of their expected j requirements for towels to meet j an indicated increase in public demand during six months per- iod, August to January. |