Full text of Marriner S. Eccles Papers : Letter to Governor [Eccles], Box 27, Folder 9, Item 8

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FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
MEMORANDUM

To:

March 2 5 , 1936,
Honorable Marriner S* S e c i e s

SUBjeCT-

My dear Governor:
This chart has been compiled from figures furnished by the
Bureau of Labor Statistics*
Ihe figures are not ready
for publication, so will you plerse
be good enough to treat the chart as
confidential*




Stewart McDonald
Administrator

BUILDING

PERMITS

COMPARISONS OF VALUE IN RECENT MONTHS WITH THE
CORRESPONDING MONTHS OF PREVIOUS YEAR

NEW
MILLIONS

RESIDENTIAL BUILDING

OF DOLLARS

1934
1935
1936

70

60

50

40

+ 232.1%
30

20

10

V/

JAN.

FEB.

MAR.

APR.

PERCENTAGES

SOURCE OF BASIC
BUREAU

10-651 R.3/24/36




DATA:

OF LABOR

STATISTICS.

MAY

SHOW

JUNE

JULY

CHANGE

AUG

FROM

SEPT

OCT.

NOV

DEC.

1935 TO 1936

FEDERAL HOUSING ADMINISTRATION
ECONOMICS AND STATISTICS DIVISION
CHART NO. C 5 - 516 B .