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FEDERAL
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RESERVE
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 28, 1961.
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l.'ESKLi'" {BEPARTHEHT STORE SALES
Percentage change from corresponding period a year ago
(Based on retail dollar amounts)
Federal Reserve L
Jan. 1
Four weeks
District
I
° n e *'eek e n d i n g
to
endin
Sept. 23
| Sept. 231 Sent. l6f Sept. 91 Sept. 2
Boston
New York
Philadelphia
Cleveland
+ 5
+ 1
0
- 1
^Richmond
Atlanta
Chicago
St. Louis
+ 1
0
. 0
- 1
Minneapolis
"Kansas City
Dallas
San Francisco
+ 1
+ 4
0
+ 2
U. S. Total
U. S. weekly index, without seasonal adjustment, 1947-49=100 1/
1961
Aug. 26
Sept. 2
Sept. 9
Sept. 16
Sept. 23
152
154
129
150
154
I960
Aug. 27
Se-ut. 3
Sept. 10
Sept. 17
Sept. 24
144
147
130
150
148
mi
Aug. 29
Sent, 5
Sept. 12
Sept. 19
Sept. 26
139
148
133
158
145
r—Revised.
1,/ For description and weekly indexes for the period January 1937 to March 1958
see Federal Reserve Bulletin for April 1958, pp. 412-421.
Weekly indexes at the district and city levels are published by several of the
Federal Reserve Banks.
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