Dun's Review has published some illuminating statistics on the current boom in construction. New building permits filed last March call for the expenditure of $318,926,000, compared with $248 million in the month preceding, $189 million in January, 1924, and $292 million in March, 1923.
Most of the leading centres of population show larger amounts this March than for the same month last year; leading examples are Boston, Buffalo, Pittsburgh, Baltimore, Greater New York, Memphis, Dallas, Cleveland, Detroit, Milwaukee and practically all the Pacific Coast cities. Yet many large cities, notably Chicago, Cincinnati, Philadelphia,...
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