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JANUARY ■ DECEMBER 1956

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F e d e r a l R e s e r v e Ba n k

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S a n F r a n c is c o

Page Numbers In Each Issue

April
May .
June .

1-16
17-32
33-40
41-52
53-64
65-76

July ..............................
A u g u st..........................
Septem ber....................
O ctob er........................
N ovem ber....................
December ....................

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77-92
93-108
109-124
125-136
137-148
149-164

A r t i e 1e s
Bank Loans Rise Sharply.............................................. 54
The Booming Aluminum Market................................ 66
Business Loans at Twelfth District Member Banks. 68
Changes in Banks and Branches—Twelfth
District, 1954-55 ........................................................... 74
Changing Characteristics of Twelfth
District F a r m s............................................................ 56
Consumer Credit Continues to R ise............................ 132
District Bank Net Profits R ise.................................... 120
District Crop Production Plans.................................. 47
District Farmers’ Receipts Change Little.................. 26
Diversity of Trends Among District Industries.. . . 21

Monetary Policy in a Boom Period............................ 150
Net Profits of District Banks Drop in 1955.............. 36
1955—Recovery and B o o m .......................................... 18
1955 Retail Sales at a Record Level............................ 4
1956 In R e v ie w ................................................................ 155
Personal Income in the Twelfth District, 1955........ 117
Postwar Developments in Personal Saving.............. 43
Recent Developments in the Money and
Capital M a rk ets.......................................................... 113
Review of Business Conditions
............................................ 2, 34, 42, 78, 94, 110,126, 138

Farm Capital Expenditures.......................................... 79
Foreign Trade: A Favoring Breeze.......................... 28
Fruit and Vegetable Canning—Review and
P ro sp ects...................................................................... 128

Trends in Twelfth District Retail Trade, 1948-54.. 85
Twelfth District Bank Loans to Farmers.................. 140
Twelfth District Bank Loans to Small Business___ 97

Industrial Growth in the Twelfth District.................. 158
The International Finance Corporation...................... 102

The United States-Japan Trade Agreement
and Japan’s Foreign Trade........................................

Subject

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Index

A griculture... . . . . . . 2 6 - 2 7 , 47-50, 56-63, 79-85, 140-146
( See also specific headings)
Aircraft industry...................................................... 21,126
Aluminum industry................................ 23, 66-68, 89, 112
A s ia .................................................................................... 13
Automobile industry........................ 3, 22, 87, 96, 126, 139

Business conditions
2-4, 34-36, 42-43, 78-79, 94-97, 110-112, 126-128, 138MO, 155-157
Business indexes, monthly
.................... 15, 30, 40, 52, 64, 76, 90, 106, 124, 136, 147
Business loans.......................................... 55, 68-73, 97-102

Bank assets, member and nonmember...................... 74-75
Bank credit
3-4, 18-19, 36, 43, 54-56, 68-73, 94, 96, 97-102, 116-117,
120, 127, 132-135, 140-147, 152-153, 157
Bank earn in gs.............................................. 36-39, 120-123
Bank exp en ses.................................................... 38,121-122
Banking and credit statistics, monthly
.............. 15, 30,40, 52, 64, 76, 90,106,124, 136,147,163
Banks, changes in member.......................................... 74-75

Canning in d u stry.............................................. 26, 128-132
Capital m a r k e t................................................................ 114
Cash receipts, agricultural.................................. 26-27, 82
Construction industry
........................ 2, 25, 35, 42, 79, 85, 95,110,139,156-157
Consumer c r e d it.......................................... 45-47, 132-135
Credit, bank
(See Bank credit)
C rops.................................................. 26-27, 47-50, 130-131




Department stores
( See Retail trade)
Earnings, member bank
(See Bank earnings)
Economic developm ent.......................................... 102-105
Employment, nonagricultural
...................................18, 34, 42, 78, 94-95, 126, 138, 156
Expenditures, business.................................... 114-115,155
Expenditures, consumer.................................................. 155
Expenses, member bank
(See Bank expenses)
Farm a s s e ts .......................................................27, 60, 82-83
Farm capital expenditures........................................ 79-85
Farm in com e...................................... 26-27, 61-62, 82, 118
Farm lo a n s .....................................................54-55, 140-147
Farm production ex p en ses...................................... 27,118
Farm s i z e .......................................................................57-60
Feed g r a in s ....................................................................... 49
Foreign economic policy, United States.................... 7-14
Foreign tr a d e .................... 7-14, 28-29; supplement, June
Frozen fo o d s .....................................................................131
In co m e...........................................................86, 88, 117-120
Industry .........................................................21-26, 158-162
(See also specific industries)
Interest r a te s .......................... 72-73, 99-101, 113-114, 144
International Finance Corporation........................ 102-105
Inflation .....................................................................115-117
Inventories.........................................................115,126-127
Irrig a tio n .......................................................................58-59




Japan

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Loans, member bank
(See Bank credit)
Lumber in d u stry............................ 3, 24, 87, 111, 139-140
M ach in ery......................................................................... 22
Metals industries.................................................22-23, 112
Monetary p o lic y ................................ 20, 113-117, 150-154
Money m ark et...........................................................113-114
Money supply.....................................................................154
Petroleum in d u stry...........................................23, 111-112
P ly w o o d .....................................................................I l l , 140
Prices, agricultural...........................................27, 131-132
Prices, w h o lesa le............................................................. 19
Price supports, agricultural...........................................27
Population.............................................................86, 88,118
Production expenses, agricultural
(See Farm production expenses)
Retail trade........ 4-7, 35-36, 43, 79, 85-89, 94-95, 139, 157
S a v in g .............................................................................43-47
S ecu rities.....................................................................51, 114
Small business.............................................................97-102
Steel industry...........................................23, 78-79, 96, 110
Unemploym ent........................................ 18, 34, 78, 94, 138
Waterborne tra d e .................................. Supplement, June
W h e a t.......................................................................26, 48-49
World b a n k ...............................................................102-105