Few businessmen will regret the end of 1931. Still fewer could look on the state of trade & finance last week with anything but thanks that this December was half over. October opinion was that business was "scraping bottom." Since then, bottom has sunk lower. Unfilled tonnage orders of U. S. Steel Corp., industry's major barometer, declined in November to 2,933,891 tons, off 185,541 tons from October, 9,250,000 tons below the record peak of April 1917. It was the first time since 1910 that these orders had...
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