The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-10-20
For Good of the
 Community
Complete ReuersaI of Form In Many Lines of Business From Bad to Good Points to Fine
 Holiday Trade at Profitable Prices :,

nPERATOR of large department store said yesterday We did the largest spot cash business of the year Sat urday night We almost busy Monday The trade from city and country It was proof of money pos by the and of workers of Birmingham being busy
 With such efrans mid October points the holiday trade The improvement progressive. Each week. almost each day. adding to the pay rolls. Each day since October hundreds of have returned to accustomed occupations Thousands not wholly idle pending shut down of plants where they usually worked They employed in the structural operations which have been high almost the entire year.
 The holiday aspect altogether a good More and money will be in circulation and going into the coffers of the merchants wholesale and retail Trades have graphically pointed out the contrast the approach the 1921 holidays and that of last year the fall of 1920 merchants looked the holiday them from bankruptcy This year they anticipate large sales and profitable prices complete versa of form,
 Reversal of form has been pronounced That of big business the Steel corporation showed increase thrilled tonnage at close of September first IA months It had been steady and cumulative decrease until that time The Steel corporation is the index of iron and steel Its reversal of form reflected by like change conditions of the independent producers.
 We began feeling the iron trade August when merchant iron producer had the blow idle and declare that the low of five active longer mar the industrial landscape In September another operator blew in stack Since October five have been active list and dozen are making iron where five did in July.
 Then September bank clearings with an increase of 900 the previous month equang the ngs of September 1920 marked the end of the monthly and placed alongside the 1920 record prior the slowing Another reversal of form the to the good.
 Recent official report from the lumber to effect that it in better form than years Stocks are gone and prices have frmed up This basic industry has also been reversal of form
 Coking plants all the district resumed Some were idle eight months Each furnace cong plant sumption means more producing coal Each iron maker not only for the producing ron but for the that dig coal and and blast limestone it's bed men who make coke men who haul the stuff from fiery and men'who work in stores and offices.
 The Gulf States Steel Aabamas independent steel maker began its recovery from low of per produce ton around July to better August better in Septe- Der and October until the time, when it per cent of capacity operations. That than \ the production of the low period.
 September also increase in the mill consump- ton of cotton following months of smaller consump- ton than in the preceding two Still another of form from the bad to the good and the progressive
 The record of loaded cars moved by the trunk lines reached 853000 week compared with 77O,OO0 the first week in July That ncontesble proof general business recovery
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