National Affairs: Commerce Report

Are the "good times" so good? Can they continue ?

Business men who ask these questions had waited to hear what the Secretary of Commerce would say this year. Secretary Hoover published his report for fiscal 1927 last week. The gist of his generalizations was that never in the world's history had a nation worked and lived so well as did the U. S. last year; never was prosperity so solidly founded (see p. 40).

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