Canada: THE DOMINION: Flattening the Curves

"Hard times aren't coming, but easy times are going." As the old year gave way to the new, that was the feeling of most Canadians from Cabot Strait to Juan de Fuca Strait.

Practically everybody who wanted a job had one. Almost everybody was taking home more dollars each week than ever before. Nearly all business indexes were hovering around their high marks. But the curves on the wall charts in executive and sales offices were flattening out. And if allowances were made for the decreased buying power of the dollar (9.3% less than a year ago), many lines of business...

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