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JANUARY, 1932
SURVEY
OF
CURRENT BUSINESS
UNITED STATES
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE
WASHINGTON
VOLUME 12
NUMBER 1
Looking
a
h
to business
What is ahead?
What demand will there be for your products this year? What price will you
pay for raw materials? Will the results of your operations be written in black
or in red ink?
A score of questions ; many answers. The correct reply will be made only after
consistent, insistent, persistent research, covering not only your own specific
industry but also related undertakings and general economic conditions.
The correct reply will be individual. Your prediction will differ from that of
Jones, the textile man, or Brown, the steel man. It may differ decidedly from
that of your closest competitor. It may differ even though you use the same
foundation data— the SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS, for example.
Therein lies Progress. Independence of thought — after studying the facts of
production, distribution, employment, finance, from all angles and all points of
prejudice! Independence of action—such as discards old products, creates
new industries! Financial independence!
V o l u m e 12
JANUARY, 1932
Number 1
W E E K L Y D A T A T H R O U G H D E C E M B E R 26, 1931
MONTHLY DATA THROUGH N O V E M B E R
SURVEY OF
CURRENT BUSINESS
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Textile industry
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Forest products industry.
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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Monthly Business Indicators
1923-1925=100
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
160
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
180
140
140
TOTAL (ADJUSTED)
{^MANUFACTURES (ADJUSTED)*
^^ "^MINERALS (ADJUSTED)*
100
100
60
FACTORY EMPLOYMENT
FACTORY PAYROLLS
140
130
TOTAL FREIGHT CAR LOADINGS
130
CAR LOADINGS L.C.L.
120
r UNADJUSTED
\DJUSTED*
100
•yri I 1 I I I I I I | I i I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 I I I I I I I I I I I I
60 LL
DEPARTMENT STORE SALES
WHOLESALE PRICES
120
220
160
140
100
60 Lm
VALUE OF EXPORTS
VALUE OF IMPORTS
150
I50|
100
50
50
ZOO
BANK DEBITS OUTSIDE NEW YORK CITY
BUILDING CONTRACTS AWARDED
200
150
\r\/
100
50
1927
1926
1929
1930
1931
* ADJUSTMENT FOR NUMBER OF WORKING DAYS AND SEASONAL VARIATION
1927
1926
1929
1930
1931
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Business Situation Summarized
D
EVELOPMENTS in the general business situation were mixed in November and while the
trend continued downward, there were a number
of exceptions in individual industries and the rate
of recession was less marked than for the past several
months. December is normally a dull month and
recent weeks have brought some additional reduction
in productive activity. Retail trade has continued to
expand and, in so far as department stores are concerned, the November increase was of about the usual
seasonal proportions. Industrial production has receded somewhat further following the trend maintained
since the culmination of the spring rise, but the output
of manufacturing industries alone was as high as in
October. Mineral production was lower, with particularly large reductions in the output of iron ore and
coal, offset partially by an increase in the petroleum
output. Among the manufacturing industries the
seasonally adjusted indexes for iron and steel, automobiles, and tobacco manufacturing were higher, while
the indexes for the leather and food products industries
remained unchanged. The decline in the general
index as compared with a year ago was 14 per cent,
somewhat less than the drop in the preceding month
as well as for the cumulative decline to date of over 15
per cent. Building activities have slumped further
and the fall in the final quarter of 1931 was pronounced.
Employment in the retail trade group has continued
the seasonal expansion which began in September, but
employment decreased in all other groups, excepting
rubber products, in November. After adjustment for
seasonal factors, the indexes for the automotive and
food product industries advanced. Factory employment and pay rolls continued downward.
Movement of traffic on the railroads declined in
November, although the drop was of only slightly more
than seasonal proportions. Total loadings for the
month were 19 per cent below last year and the cumulative total for the 11 months was nearly one-fifth
below the same period of 1930. Loadings of 1. c. 1.
merchandise were off by the usual seasonal amount,
and to date such loadings have averaged less than 10
per cent below a year ago. The drop in foreign trade
in November was of greater than seasonal proportion;
exports were lower by the usual seasonal amount, but
the fall in imports was in excess of normal.
Financial conditions have improved somewhat since
October with a drop in bank failures and a return flow
of hoarded currency to the banks. Wholesale prices
were maintained at the October level and the general
index has varied less than 3 per cent since the rapid
decline was arrested in June.
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May
June
July
August
September
„ __
October .
November
.
Monthly average January
through November:
1929
1930
108
110 i
99
103
102
106
104
125
84
82
83
80
92
94
81
80
75
74
86
74
84 !
84
94
86
92
92
113
165
82
86
87
89
89 1
84
83
79
76
73
73
81
85
87
89
89
84
83
79
76
71
71
90
88
87
92
86
85
84
79
81 J
78
78
78
78
78
76
75
74
73
70
69
68
73
75
74
72
68
64
64
62
59
56
74
74
75
77
79
77
78
76
78
78
70
82
80
80 !
80
79
77
76
72
69
69
68
83
87
89
91
92
89
87
86
88
87
85
90
89
89
88
89
89
88
86
85
83
83 !
79
80
92
101
97
90
65
67
87
93
97
115 I
100
85 i
101
88
75
109
89
67
107
93
76
120
97
82
1931
108
1
121
97
81
!
:
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!
77 :
85 ;
Adjusted for seasonal variation.
102
105
97
88
103
96
86
2
Other than f a r m
products and foods
Farm products
Monthly average
1926=100
Monthly average 1923-1925=100
1929: November
1930:
November »
Decomber
1931:
January.
February
March*
April.
»
Wholesale prices
Combined index, 550
commodities
Bank
Imports
Exports
Adjusted »
Unadjusted *
Adjusted i
Adjusted i
Unadjusted *
Merchandise, 1. c. 1.
Total
Building contracts, all types, !
value, adjusted
!j
Foreign
trade,
value
debits outside
York City
Department
store sales,
value
Freight car loadings
Unadjusted *
Amount of pay rolls,
unadjusted
Number of employees, adjusted *
Minerals, adjusted l
Year and month
Manufactures,
Justed i
Total, adjusted i
ad-
emIndustrial produc- Factory
ployment
tion
and pay rolls
New
MONTHLY BUSINESS INDEXES
108
98 !
94
97
98
97
106
97
95
91
88
84
86
85
!
!
!
!
116
105
144.4 j
103
94.4
101.1
91.7
76
72
63
65
99.8 i
117.2 |
76
73
80.4
78.4
79.3
75.2
80.1
79.0
66
59
62
57
54
49
48
43
48
54
51
57
54
65
58
56
55
54
52
53
52
46
110.0 ;
86.6
98.4 i
99.5
95.6
98.4 i
93.5
83.8
84.3
91.9
74.0
71
79
77
73
66
64
61
59
59
55
49
77.0
75.5
74.5
73.3
71.3
70.0
70.0
70.2
69.1
68.4
68.3
73.5
70.1
70.6
70.1
67.1
65.4
64.9
63.5
60.5
58.8
58.7
77.8
77.1
75. &
71. 2
73.2
71. 9
71.8
72.3
72.0
71.4
71.8
115
85
54
115
80
55
118
92
65
96.8
87.1
71.6
105.0
89.7
65.7
92.8
85.6
73. 6
140.7
117.2
92.4
Adjusted for number of working days.
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Finance—Credit and Banking
HE general banking and credit statistics of NoT
vember reflected a steady easing of a situation
which had been featured during part of the previous
month by heavy gold withdrawals and by firming
money rates. Money in circulation assumed only
seasonal proportions in contrast with the heav}^ withdrawals of currency during October. Bank failures
assumed much smaller proportions than in the immediately preceding months.
Liquidation of bank credit continued throughout
November and the first half of December but at a
somewhat less marked rate than during October.
Loans on securities by reporting member banks expanded temporarily after the middle of November,
owing apparently to the withdrawal of the outstanding
nonbankers' loans from the call market. On the
whole, however, loans on securities declined steadily
throughout the month and continued during the first
half of December. Loans other than those on securities also followed a downward course. Liquidation of
investments was somewhat greater than that of loans.
Federal reserve bank credit declined during November but tended upward again during December. The
latter was due largely to seasonal currency needs and to
Treasury operations which added a Treasury overdraft
of nearly $200,000,000 to the reserve bank portfolio
over the middle-of-the-month financing period. Bills
discounted by the reserve banks remained practically
unchanged during November but rose sharply after
the middle of December when the payment of the
Treasury overdraft reduced the Government security
holdings of the system.
Money in circulation increased at a relatively slow
rate during November but seasonal needs raised the
total to a new high record of $5,733,000,000 during the
third week of December. In addition to an evidence
of a decline in hoarding the month's gold movements
reflected an increasing degree of confidence in the
general credit situation. Since the heavy outflow of
October the metal has been flowing back and a large
proportion has been released from earmark. "Window-dressing" operations by foreign banks for the
year end have led to renewed exports on a small
scale and to some additional earmarking during December but the nature of these movements suggests
that they will be only temporary. A large part of the
increase in our gold holdings was due to heavy shipments by Japan which amounted to $76,000,000 in
November and continued unabated until the country's suspension of gold payments on December 14.
Current statistics on savings banks deposits show
no important changes. Postal savings deposits continued to increase during November but at a slightly
reduced rate.
CREDIT AND BANKING STATISTICS
i
Bank debits
1!
R e p o r t i n g member i
banks Wednesday !
closest to end of
month
i
Year and
month
| OutNew ; side
York ! New
City i York
City
Canada
Lo
£ns
AH
!
In-
|
i
i
i
! Total
bankers' acceptances
Total
outTntai
MemTntal
M.Ul€tl
t|Hl«
ber
TnitPri Total
i standi ~*»
bought fsfatef
reserve bank | ing
end of
55}*!? 1 credlt
bank reserve
i: countacopen
month
ea_
M
market tifU
;
count ;
Condition of Federal reserve banks,
end of month
i
Net
gold
imDe- Postal
ports
savings,
in- Money posits
New balance
cluding in
York
gold circu- State credit
relation savings of deleased
banks positors
from
earmark
Thousands of
dollars
MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
1929: November.
1930:
November. _.
December-, .
1931:
January...-.
February
March
April .......
May
June
July
August
September...
October
November..
53,604
28,486
4,177
7,889
9,809 j
5,655
1,030
256
326
1,677
2,458
1,658
-22.2
4,845
4,333
163, 671
j
22,490 ; 19,685
29,001 1 23,113
2,974
3,012
7,768
7,814
8,766
8,449 !
6,800
6,693
275
251
175
364
599
729
1,079
1,373
2,373
2,471 j
1,571
1,556
33.1
17.5
4,528
4,823
4,666
4,792
200, 668
245, 379
24,557
20.948
27,689
26,821
25,072
25,893
21,007
17.501
20,073
20,678
14,464
2,668
2,535
2,570
2,786
3,172
2,694
2,400
2,244
2,451
2,587
7,379
7,313
7,256
7,052
6,867
6,746
6,544
6,519
6,346
5,897
5,807
8,374
6,843
8, 151
7, 183
8, 126
7, 551
7,941
7,903
7,863
7,807
7,945
7,795
7,942 7,810
7,879
7,665
7,845
7,916
7,624 ! 7,700
7,543
7,506
232
198
250
157
174
149
195
255
328
728
718
125
109
124
163
125
106
73
215
469
681
453
610
599
599
598
598
668
678
728
742
727
717
980
925
990
937
917
943
976
1,255
1,578
2,184
1,931
2,398 1
2,343
2,428
2,371
2,389
2,381
2,367
2,373
2,364
2,167
2,051
1, 520
1,520
1,467
1,422
1,413
1,368
1,228
1,090
996
1,040
1,002
46.3
18.6
28.6
42.0
53.6
156.1
—10.2
41.5
-258. 5
-445. 3
115.0
4,695
4,598
4,590
4, 647
4,679
4,750
4,836
4,947
5,133
5,478
5,518
4,888
4,628
5,018
5,059
5,083
5,156
5,149
5,173
5,231
5,217
5,213
278, 353
292, 059
302, 658
313, 775
325, 028
347, 417
372, 457
414, 986
460,915
527, 130
555, 560
!
i
i
i
!
i
i
!
!
21,697
17,084
19,421
19,620
18,858
19,408
18,444
16,526
16,627
18,125
14,605
SUEVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Finance—Security and Money Rates
A CTIVITY in the security markets during November
-^*- was less marked than during October. Stock prices
rose for several days early in November and then receded slowly throughout the rest of the month. The
share turnover was comparatively light with sales on
most days remaining within 1,500,000 shares. The
decline in quotations continued during the first half of
December. By the beginning of that month many
issues had reached their October lows, particularly
railroad securities.
Bond prices showed rather wide movements during
November. On the whole prices were downward and
have continued this trend during December. At times
United States Government issues showed evidences of
weakness but on the whole held up better than the general list. After the middle of November second grade
rail issues were particularly weak. During the period
under review the market has, however, been a thin
one.
Reflecting foreign conditions generally the prices on
foreign exchanges moved irregularly. The rise in the
November index of British stock prices was no doubt
due to the depreciation of the pound sterling the full
effects of which have had time to make themselves felt.
The Berlin Bourse remained closed.
New security issues continued on a low level. November offerings were small although above the Octo-
ber figure. The first railroad issue since September
and several public utility issues accounted for the rise.
There was no indication of a revival of foreign flotations. The situation has been the same during the
first half of December.
For November as a whole money rates showed little
change. Bill rates early in the month tended downward owing to a demand which became keen late in the
month when funds previously used by nonbankers in
the call loan market were released. Late in the month
rates tightened again when banks offered more bills to
the market. The month's investment demand was reflected in the general absence of offerings to the Federal
reserve banks. Commercial paper rates showed slight
reductions toward the middle of the month while call
rates showed little change during the whole period
under review.
Brokers' loans declined steadily during November
and the first half of December. The total reported by
the New York City member banks stood at $611,000,000
by the third week of December and represented the
smallest figure since early in 1918 and a decline of 91
per cent since the first week of October, 1929. The
extent of brokers' loan liquidation since November,
1929, is indicated by a drop from 6.32 to 2,35 per cent
in the ratio of these loans to the market value of all
listed shares.
SECURITY AND MONEY MARKET STATISTICS
Price indices of foreign listed common stock
Year and month
ReStock ported
sales
prices of
stocks
Commonstock
yields
Thou- Per
Rel. to sands
1926 sharesol cent
1929: November
193C:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March .
April
May
June
July
London
Range of open market money rates
New York
Made
byreTotal
ReLong- dividend
porting ported
term
New
j Bond capital
and
memby
the Rareal
i yields issues estate interest
Comber
New
Call
tio
paymonTime
merbanks
York
to
bonds
Paris Berlin
ments ey re- loans cial
in
Stock mar*
paper N.Y.C., Exnewal
ket
Wed. change, value
closest end of
to
I month
end of I
ii
month
Price
Rel. to Rela- to
par
Dec. 31, tive to weight1913
1923
ed
Per
cent
4.54
117. 91
489
135.2
116.7
109 4
51, 946
58 764
5.43
5 62
92 16
89 94
305
378
103.4 !
97 0 i
112.3
119 8
121.6
. .
109.2
98 0
95 1
.
98. 2
_. . 95. 5
81. 7
69. 7
71.7
52. 543
64 145
65.494
54,335
46 661
58 719
33, 640
24, 890
61, 140
47, 895
37,369
5.50
5 12
4 95
5.43
5 95
5 96
5,66
6.74
6.51
86 39
83 92
80 70
81.02
77 63
70 33
76.42
72.40
66 90
70 14
76. 64
349
90.5
365
84.7
373
101.2
362
96 6
346
322
80 6
83.7
329
309 Closed.
304
62.0
151. 1 72. 455
August
September
October.
November
7 58
7.07
Brokers' loans
5>fi9 Closed
249 Closed.
I
4.70
186. 793
7,820
4.46
4 55
137, 622
180 872
9,965
29 877
4.43
4 44
4 41
4.43
4 43
4 45
4.44
4.50
4 70
5 16
5.19
399, 848
74 251
269 030
267, 471
169 360
131 343
116, 070
46, 197
156 381
17 391
50,123
4,520
3,590
2,015
7,235
9 485
3 425
775
2,100
66, 785
9 125
2,619
553, 450
5%-6H
Per
cent
5.44
4H-6
3, 450
4. 017
6.32
2.00
2 23
2 -2l/i 2^-3
2 -% 2^-3
2.111
1,926
2,162
1.894
4.06
3.86
1.57
1.50
1.55
l*i~2V£ 2?4-3
J8^_2
2 -21^
2^9
154-2V4 2i/ 2V£
ji^_2
2 -2%
1,734
1,720
1,840
1,909
1, 651
1,435
1, 391
1,344
1.3S4
1,044
796
3.30
3.22
3.58
3.40
3.37
2.93
3.03
3.04
3.23
2.33
2.35
1
595.028 !
719 527
1 121,434
523 807
594,282
748, 873
659 624
762 077
945, 976
489, 858
532 840
747 157
557, 742
Millions of
dollars
Per cent
Thousands of dollars
.52
45
.50
.60
.50
.50
2.10
2.50
\%-\%
ji/_ji/
1^-1^9
1^-2
2^-4
3 -4
2
2
2
2
2 -4H
,798
,875
, 730
, 539
.479
,390
1, 366
1,172
869
720
730
SUKVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
6
January. 1932
1931 in Comparison
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BANK DEBITS
OUTSIDE NEW YORK
50
0
150
100
CITY —
EDO
REMAINDER OF YEAR
(MILLIONS or DOLLARS)
300
Z50
350
IQ3I
1930
1929
1926
1927
CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS AWARDED (dlLLIONS OF DOLLARS)
p
1931 mm
2
3
4-
5
7
6
mm am
^HBj
!Q30
mn
™
IQ29
1928
1927
STEEL IN60T PRODUCTION (MILLIONS OF TONS)
0
193!
1930
30
20
10
40
pp-JL
£
1929
50
60
70
J926
1927
AUTOMOBILE
0
1000
mm*
1931
1930
2000
PRODUCTION (THOUSANDS OF CARS)
3000
4000
50OO
ma
S929
1926
1927
FREIGHT
0
193
1930
1929
1926
1927
iO
CAR
20
LOADINGS
30
(MILLIONS OF CARS)
40
50
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Commodity Prices
/COMMODITY prices were relatively steady from
^^ October to November, 1931, a weighted average index of wholesale, of retail foods, and of farm
prices showing no change during that period as compared with a decline of 1 per cent from September to
October. Farm prices rose sharply from October 15
to November 15.
Advances of 15.8 per cent in prices of grains, of 8.4
per cent in prices of petroleum products, of 21.1 per
cent in prices of cattle feed, and of 1.4 per cent or less
in prices of chemicals, paint materials, mixed fertilizers, paper and pulp, and bituminous coal about offset
price declines in several groups of commodities, and
as a result the combined index of wholesale commodity
prices averaged about the same in November as in
October. The greatest declines occurred in prices of
butter and rubber, about 6 per cent each. Prices of
meats declined 4.8 per cent and prices of livestock and
poultry, cotton goods, hides and skins, and farm products other than grains and livestock, fell from 1.7
to 2.4 per cent. Other price declines were less than
1 per cent. Of the 550 commodities or price series
included in the combined index of wholesale commodity
prices, 280 showed no change from October to
November.
Retail prices of foods were 2 per cent lower on November 15 than on October 15, 1931, a decline about
equal to that from October to November, 1930.
Prices of 31 of the 42 articles on which quotations
are regularly received were lower; the greatest drops
occured in prices of pork chops, 15 per cent, and in prices
of butter, potatoes, sliced bacon, and cabbage, 6 per
cent each.
Farm prices rose 4 per cent from October 15 to
November 15, despite a decline during a corresponding period in each of the past four years. This was the
greatest advance in any one month since May, 1928,
and the first rise of any sort in eight months. Rises of
3 per cent occurred in prices of dairy and poultry
products, of 19 per cent in prices of cotton and cottonseed, and of 24 per cent in prices of grains. Declines
occurred in prices of fruits and vegetables and meat
animals of 2.9 per cent and 3.8 per cent, respectively. Wheat prices on November 15 were 40 per
cent higher than on the corresponding date of the
preceding month.
INDEXES OF COMMODITY PRICES
Retail
Wholesale i
"tl
^3
* Z,
*!
il
42
§
•d
~£
Year and month
is!
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u
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sii
if
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&
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1
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1
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«
3
O
BJ
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a
i
v
i
I
Si
•M
3
a
/
A
•3
£
1929: November
1930:
November .„
.- December.
.
1931:
January .
.
February..
.
March
_ _
April
May
June .
... - . _
July
August
September ._
October .. ...
November
Monthlyaverage, January through
November:
1929
1930
1931
CO
«%
bf)
£
!E
<M
05
"O
I
e
1
w
Mo. Mo.
aver- average
age
1913= 1923=
100
100
Monthlyaverage, 1926=100
Farm'
!l
18i§
S
Q
Mo.
average
1909
to
1914=
100
94.4
101.1
98.8
91.7
108.4
91.5
81.7
102.3
96.0
94.0
97.1
80.1
94.8
95.6
94.2
160
100.9
136
80.4
78.4
79.3
75.2
85.7
81.8
80.1
79.0
94.0
91.2
73.3
72.4
71.8
70.5
90.2
90.0
85.6
84.4
85.2
84.8
95.2
91.3
67.8
66.9
76.8
74.2
75.6
74.3
83.7
81.9
141
137
93.9
92.6
103
97
77.0
75.5
74.5
73.3
71.3
70.0
70.0
70.2
69.1
68.4
68.3
73.5
70.1
70.6
70.1
67.1
65.4
64.9
63.5
60.5
58.8
58.7
80.1
T7.1
76.7
75.6
72.9
72.4
73.1
73.7
72.9
72.6
70.9
77.8
77.1
75.6
74.2
73.2
71.9
71.8
72.3
72.0
71.4
71.8
88.6
86.6
87.4
87.3
87.3
87.8
89.2
88.5
84.8
82.2
81.3
71.0
70.4
69.2
67.6
66.3
65.4
65.4
64.2
62.9
61.5
60.7
69.8
69.6
64.5
61.6
60.9
58.1
58.2
62.3
63.3
63.4
65.0
89.3
88.9
89.0
88.7
87.8
87.4
87.5
87.1
87.2
86.5
86.2
82.9
81.8
81.9
80.9
78.4
77.5
75.8
75.4
74.9
74.3
74.0
83.6
82.2
81.9
80.1
79.1
77.9
77.3
75.5
74.8
74.1
74.7
91.1
90.8
90.8
90.8
89.2
88.6
88.0
87.5
84.7
83.2
83.1
64.7
63.9
64.7
63.9
62.8
61.8
61.0
58.5
58.4
59.0
59.7
72.9
70.6
69.4
68.3
66.5
64.7
64.3
64.1
62.7
61.5
62.0
73.4
72.3
72.2
71.1
68.9
68.5
69.5
68.3
66.3
64.7
61.4
80.5
79.3
78.4
77.1
75.1
74.0
74.0
74.6
74.0
73.7
73.2
133
127
126
124
121
118
119
120
119
119
117
91.1
89.6
89.1
88.2
86.9
85.9
85.9
85.9
85.6
84.9
94
90
91
91
86
80
79
75
72
68
71
96.8
87.1
71.6
105.0
89.7
65.7
99.9
91.0
74.4
92.8
85.6
73.6
109.3
100.8
86.5
94.1
81.5
65.9
81.5
76.6
63.3
104.6
95.7
87.8
97.2
90.8
78.0
94.5
89.0
78.3
96.8
96.1
88.0
80.5
74.1
61.7
97.6
85.4
66.1
96.7
83.1
69.1
96.5
89.0
75.8
157
148
132
100.0
96.5
138
119
3 National Industrial Conference Board.
8
8
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Employment
'TpHE decline in factory employment, which has been
A continuous since the slight upturn of last spring,
was extended still further during|Novemher, according to the seasonally adjusted index of the Federal
Reserve Board. November employment was about 1.4
per cent under the October figure, and about 15 per
cent under November of the year previous. The value
of wage payments to factory workers^ declined 5.4 per
cent from the October figure, and was about 25 per
C€k,nt under November, 1930. Employment in the mining industry decreased in all branches, except petroleum refining and silver mining, after seasonal adjustments are made.
Factory employment during the first 11 months of
the year averaged about 15 per cent under the same
period in 1930 and 26 per cent under 1929. The volume
of pay rolls during the first 11 months averaged about
25 per cent under 1930 and 38 per cent under 1929.
The rubber products industry was the only group
reporting an increase in number of employees during
November as compared with October. Normally a
decrease in employment takes place in this industry
during November, so that the adjusted employment
index for the month increased 4.2 per cent. Employment in the nonferrous group was the same as during
October, whereas a slight increase usually takes place
during November. The food products and automobile
groups witnessed decreased employment of less than
the usual seasonal proportions. With the exception of
these four groups, however, all of the industrial groups
reported a decrease in employment during November
of more than normal seasonal proportions.
The mountain geographic division reported increased
employment and earnings during the month, the remaining 8 divisions showing decreases in both items
from October to November. For the country as a
whole 64 manufacturing industries reported an average
of 87 per cent of full-time operation.
The decrease in pay-roll totals of 5.4 per cent, which
is more pronounced than the decrease in ernploj^ment,
is accounted for to some extent by the general observance of Armistice Day and election day in certain
localities during the November period.
Increased employment and pay-roll totals were reported in. the retail trade group in continuation of the
seasonal expansion which began in September. Number of employees in retail stores, however, was 7.6 per
cent- under November last year. Two additional
groups, electric railroads, and power, light, and water
plants reported slight gains in pay-roll totals over
the month previous coupled with small decreases in
employment.
STATISTICS OF EMPLOYMENT, PAY ROLLS AND WAGES
Factory emBituminous
ployment
F.R.B. coiil mining
F. B. B.
factory
Anthracite
mining
Power, light, 1 Telephone
and telegraph
and water
pay
Tear and month
rolls,
unadAd- Unad- justed
justed i justed
Employment
p_ v
Em-
& i±K
Monthly average,
1923-1925=100
1929: November
1930:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March
April.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November ._
Monthly average, January through November:
1929 . _..
1930
1931
1
Em-
ployment
| Em-
Ployrolls I1 ment
Em-
Pay ployrolls i ment
Number
Monthly average, 1929-100
Per cent
Cents
of total
members per hour
100.5 |
104.7
104.1
101.2
106. 7
105.2
153
88.0
40
98.0
100.0
103.4
103.2
103.7 !
106.3
93.0
91.6
97.9 i
101.3
98.4
116.1
96.8
97.7
227
218
78.0
77.0
38
37
73.3
68.3
65.2
58.6
54.4
52.4
50.4
50.6
53.6
56.2
54.6
90.6 89.3
89.5 101.9
82.0 71.3
85.2 75.2
80.3 76.1
76.1 66.7
65.1 53.7
67.3 56.4
80.0 64.9
86.8 91.1
83.8 79.9
99.2
97.8
96.7
97.1
97.6
97.2
96.7
95.9
94.7
92.7
91.3
98.6
99.7
102.4 i
97.6
98.7
98.3
97.4
98.2
94.3
93.2
93.3
90.5
89.2
88.6
88.1
87.4
86. 9
86.6
85.9
85.0
84.1
83.5
96.3
94.8 j
97.9
95.0
94.1
95.0
93.3
92.3
92.1
91.6
89.7 i
90.0
87.1
87.8
90.1
89.9
89.1
83.9
81.8
86.6
89.8'
90.9
89.4
86.7
87.5
88.3
88.0
87.6
83.3
80.3
83.5
84.6
85.4
224
202
179
177
181
205
209
217
196
221
73.0
73.0
74.0
75.0
75.0
75.0
74.0
74.0
74.0
74.0
73.0
36
36
37
35
37
37
36
36
34
35
34
99.3
81.6
58.0
99.4
92.9
80.6
99.8
103.0
96.1
99.5 !
104.2 !
97.2
99.9
98.4
86.9
99.7 !
103.0 !
93.8
97.6
94.1
87.9
98.1
95.1
85.9
135
187
88.5
78.9
74.0
39
39
36
101.0 106.0
99.3
98.9
102.5 i
81.1
80.1
81.0
78.8
75.1
73.7
92.5
92.5
79.1
77.7
97.2
99.1
78.3
77.8
77.9
78.0
77.8
76.0
75.1
74.1
72.8
70.3
G9.3
76.4
77.3
78.1
77.9
77.1
75.0
73.8
74.2
74.7
71.4
68.7
68.4
73.2
74.9
73.6
72.1
67.6
64.4
64.3
61.8
59.4
56.2
93.9
91.5
88.8
85.9
82.4
78.4
76.4
77.0
80.4
81.3
81.1
101.7
88.6
75.0
108.5
88.7
66.9
99.9
93.5
83.4
Adjusted for seasonal variation.
Pay
rolls
Employ- Employ- Wages,
comment
ment,
mon
agencies, trade- labor
in
appli- i union
road
per mem- buildPay cants
100
Jobs
i
bers
ing
rolls
Retail trade
104.0
96.6
94.9
75.1
101. 9
SUKVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Domestic Trade
trade continues well below a year ago
DOMESTIC
in volume, but the seasonal increase in retail
Freight-car loadings, one of the most comprehensive
indexes of domestic trade, declined in November and
the fall upturn in these loadings was not very pronounced. The significant index of merchandise 1. c. 1.
loadings was lower by approximately the usual seasonal
amount, and the adjusted index was unchanged from
the preceding month. November 1. c. 1. loadings were
9.6 per cent below November, 1930, or approximately
the same as the cumulative decline for the elapsed
11 months. Postal receipts, following the October
gain, fell back to the lowest level since midsummer.
Commercial failures decreased in November follow,
ing the large increase in the preceding month and,
while the liabilities were also reduced, they remain
exceptionally high. Compared with November, 1930,
both the number of failures and the liabilities involved
were greater. The improvement scored in November
was not maintained during the first three weeks of
December which brought a sharp increase in the average weekly failures.
Magazine and newspaper advertising declined in
November, following the seasonal increase in October.
To date magazine advertising has been 22 per cent
below the corresponding period of 1930, while newspaper advertising was off 10 per cent. Expenditures
for radio advertising have increased steadily during
1931 and for the year to date have been one-third
above a year ago.
sales started in August has continued into December.
The expansion in retail sales in November was only
slightly less than the usual gain, judging by the department store statistics. Sales through these outlets were
15 per cent lower in dollar volume than in the same
month of 1930, and the cumulative decline for the 11
months as compared with a year ago was 11 per cent.
St. Louis reported the best relative record during
November, with the greatest declines, averaging around
20 per cent, in the Philadelphia, Atlanta, Kansas City,
and Dallas districts. Stocks of merchandise in department stores, which after seasonal adjustment, varied
only slightly in the several months prior to November,
advanced 8.7 per cent last month. However, current
stocks are about 6 per cent less than a year ago.
Sales through the leading chain store and mailorder houses have continued relatively high, after allowance for price changes, and such sales were less than 6
per cent below a year ago in dollar volume during the
first 11 months. For the two leading mail-order
houses alone dollar sales in November dropped back
to the September level and for the 11 months were 14
per cent less than in the same period of 1930. Sales of
the 5 and 10 chains decreased by more than the usual
seasonal amount in November, and the adjusted index
declined for the fourth successive month.
DOMESTIC TRADE STATISTICS
Department
store sales
Unad- Adjust- justed^
ed*
Year and month
Five-arid -ten
Freight car
Department loadings,
cent-store
store stocks chandise,merl.&l.
sales
Unad- Adjust- justed'
ed'
Unad- Adjust- justed
ed*
Unad- Adjust- justed
ed'
Monthly average, 1923-1925=100
1929: November ., .
1930:
November...
December
1931:
January
_
February
March
April
May
Juiae
July
..
AUgUSt
September
October
November
Monthly average, January through
November:
1929
1930
1931
1
2
Advertising
lineage
Money
order
value,]
Fail- Liabil- Maga- News- paidj
ures
ities
zine paper
Thousands of
dollars
Thou- MilThouNum- Thousands lions of sands
ber ofsands
dolls. of lines lines ofdolls.
125
108
115
102
106
104
174
166
73, 697
32, 723
1,796 52, 046
3,063
108
97,825
113
165
98
94
104
85
92
91
94
86
92
92
160
300
159
154
55, 713
72, 486 i
28, 379
38, 572
2,031
55, 261
83,683
2,463
2,230
89
82
79, 934
91, 923
79
80
92
101
97
90
65
*7
87
93
97
97
98
97
106
97
95
91
88
84
86
85
78
81
87
85
85
80
75
76
84
88
98
88
86
84
83
83
82
81
79
81
80
87
83
87
89
91
92
89
87
86
88
87
85
90
89
89
88
89
89
88
86
85
83
8*
125
127
144
160
156
148
140
143
142
169
148
162
163
159
168
168
162
149
160
156
152
147
41, 459 !
39, 422
29, 172
26, 405
30, 178
29, 257
27, 844 I
26, 442
1, 585
1,992
2,203
2,421
2,375
2,191
1,613
1,316
1,603
1,911
1,882
76
78, 273
72 1 70,935
90
81, 747
89
90,646
88
81, 956
79,311
80
67
76, 365
67 | 71, 622
77
74,679
88
82
37, 799
53, 145
59,645
2,709
2, 454
1,917
103
96
86
Corrected to average daily sales.
93114—32
Commercial
failures
Postal
Mail- i receipts,
order i 50 sesales, 2
lected
bouses
cities
100
95
83
105
97
88
2
150
147
146
Adjusted for seasonal variation.
52, 280 i
28, 618
25,355
94,608
2,563 59,608
2,604 60, 387
2,386 50,868
2,248 53, 371
1,993 51, 656
1,983 60, 998
1,944 53, 025
1,936 40, 256
2,362 70, 660
2,195 00,660
58, 633 i
53, 656 !
46, 159
31, 582
29, 833
27, 052
1,897
2,166
2,321
43,008
52, 078
50, 070 i
49, 480
45,093
43. 004
45,955
45,898
1
2,525
24,578
23, 389
26,335
3,316
» End of month figures.
102
89
80
90,009
83,908
10
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Foreign Trade
T TNITED STATES exports during November de^ clined approximately 6 per cent in value from
those in October and imports about 11 per cent.
Although the decrease in exports was the usual seasonal amount the decline in imports was much larger
than normal with the result that the value in November
reached the lowest point yet recorded during the current depression. The so-called "favorable balance"
in November was $43,000,000.
Gold exports, after reaching the huge total of $398,000,000 in October, declined to $5,000,000 in November.
Gold imports which during the last three years have
ranged from 7 to 65 million dollars a month totaled
$94,000,000 in November and there was a net import
of $89,000,000 as a result. Approximately 80 per cent
of the gold imports were from Japan.
Declines from the value of October exports of
fruits and preparations, machinery, and automobile
parts and accessories amounting to 28, 22, and 35 per
cent, respectively, accounted for much of the decrease
in the total value of exports in November. Export of
automobile parts and accessories which have declined
continuously since March, 1931, amounted to 5.5
million dollars in November as compared with an average of 30.5 million in the same month of the years 1925
to 1929. Cotton exports which are normally smaller
in November than in October increased about 10 per
cent in value. As compared with November, 1930,
shipments of wheat were nearly three times as large,
exports of unmanufactured cotton and canned fruits
substantially greater and exports of oranges, gasoline,
and unmanufactured tobacco moderately larger. Leading import commodities which arrived in greater quantities in November than October were crude rubber,
cocoa, coffee, raw silk, and cotton cloth.
On the basis of statistics available to date, the year's
exports will amount to about $2,425,000,000 while
imports will total approximately $2,100,000,000.
These dollar figures show declines of 37 and 31 per cent,
respectively, in comparison with 1930 and of slightly
more than 50 per cent each as compared with the record
year of 1929. Drastic declines in commodity prices
were responsible for a large part of the decrease in
total values; raw cotton exports fell off only 1 per cent
in quantity while the value showed a drop of 38 per
cent; copper exports declined 19 per cent in quantity as
against 44 per cent in value. In spite of the extremely
unsettled conditions affecting international commerce
American exporters were able during 1931 to sell
greater quantities of a substantial number of the commodities produced and manufactured in the United
States than was possible in 1930.
EXPORTS AND IMPORTS
1
Exports of United States merchandise
Ex-
Year and month
ports,
including
reexports i
Crude
materials
General imports
Finished manufactures
Foodstuffs
!
!
! SemiAuto- |
moFruits manWheat Meats and ufacMaRaw
Total cot- Total and and prep- tures Total chinery
ton
flour fats arations
acces- i
sories !
!
Total
SI isr
i
i
Crude Foodmaterials stuffs
Semi-
Fin»*•*
•*"" SSt
Millions of dollars
442.3 144.8 106.9
1929: November
1930:
October
326.9 104.8
64.8
90.9
November
289.0
59.3
274.9
47.2
December
76.7
1931:
58.6 31.2
January
._ . 249.6
224.3
February
25 4
47.7
Mareh.,. .
235.9
56.5 36.0
April
215.1
40.0 22.9
36.5
May.
204.0
18 9
June
29.1
187.1
13.5
July..
28.3 13.5
180.7
9.9
25 5
August
164.8
180.2
44.4
23.5
September
October
204.9
63.6 39.8
68.0 43.6
November _•_
193.0
Cumulative, January through
November:
1929...
4, 814. 4 1,016.4 680.3
1930
3, 568. 3 752 3 449.5
1931..
2, 239. 6 498.4 278.3
66.3
19.2
17.9
14.7
51.8
172.6
47.3
25.5
17.7
338.5
121.4
69.3
66.2
81.6
47.2
45.6
40.5
11.3
7.8
6.3
9.8
11.0
9.8
17.1
17.5
15.1
38.0
33.1
33.9
132.7
115.8
119.7
30.8
33.2
36.1
14.5
14.1
15.3
21.8
12.4
13.7
247.4
203.6
208.6
77 5
59.2
69.1
56.0
48.3
52.3
45 6
38.3
38.1
68.3
57.7
49.2
35.5
29.5
33.0
28.2
29.4
28.7
32.3
28 1
28.4
39.3
34.6
4.9
3.2
3.9
5.7
7.4
8.8
11.6
7.0
6.7
8.8
8.5
12.2
10 6
10.1
8.5
7.8
7.1
6.8
6,4
6.3
7.1
6.0
10.7
8.9
10.7
6.4
6.5
5.7
7.6
8.0
9.2
16.2
11.6
34.5
27.5
31.4
30.6
29.9
24.5
28.0
23.9
21.4
21.2
20.8
117.1
116.1
110.3
111.1
103.5
97.7
88.3
84 1
83.2
77.3
66.9
37.7
44.0
29.4
31.1
26.6
28. 3
22.7
20.4
24.7
20.2
15.7
14.4
16.1
18.5
18.0
14.2
12.8
11.5
10.7
8.7
8.5
5.5
13.8
10.6
8.4
10.7
12.5
7.2
9.0
8.8
7.2
7.2
8.3
183.1
174.9
210.2
185.7
179.7
173.5
174.5
166.7
170.4
168.7
149.7
59.4
56.4
64.0
54.7
54 7
52.4
50.0
47 7
52.9
52.4
47.9
42.1
46.1
56.6
51.9
49.6
47.2
47.1
45.4
35 1
36.8
33.0
36.9
31.5
39.8
33.4
30 4
29.8
30.0
28 3
30.3
29.0
27.6
44.8
41 2
49.2
45.7
45 5
44.2
47.5
45 3
52 0
50 5
41.3
695.2
500.7
346.9
176.5
151.2
76.6
187.1
143.7
88.9
124.0
94.6
101.6
674.6 2, 350. 4
479.0 1, 779. 2
397.1 1, 054. 9
559.5
481.9
300.6
513.6
262. 1
138.8
241.5 4, 089. 6 1, 443. 0
236.9 i 2, 852. 3 933. 1
103.4 1, 937. 0
592.5
896.5
641 3
490.6
827.2
570 0
346.8
922.8
707 9
507.3
Reexports of foreign merchandise during November, 1931, were $3,162,006.
11
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Transportation
of railroad freight during November
M OVEMENT
declined slightly more than the usual seasonal
A decrease in the movement of freight was naturally
reflected in an increased number of idle freight cars.
The daily average number of surplus cars for the last
8 days of November was the highest reported for the
year and was 14 per cent over the average for the
same period in November, 1930. The peak in the
number of surplus freight cars in the present depression
was recorded in December, 1930, with 707,000 cars,
which was 7 per cent over the November, 1931, surplus.
Dividend payments of railroads during November
totaled $32,450,000, compared with $38,500,000 in
November, 1930, and $40,000,000 in November, 1929.
Payments of dividends by railroads during the first 11
months of the year were almost 11 per cent under the
same period in 1930.
The seasonal decrease in inland waterway traffic
which has been under way since August extended
through November, but the tonnage passing through
the Sault Ste. Marie Canal during that month was
only about 59 per cent of that reported for November,
1930. Government owned barges operating on the Mississippi River carried a cargo tonnage during November slightly over that reported for November, 1930.
amount, according to the adjusted index of freight-car
loadings published by the Federal Reserve Board.
Average daily loadings during November were about
19 per cent under November, 1930, and 33 per cent
under November, 1929. The adjusted index of weekly
loadings rose 12 per cent during the week ending December 5, but dropped back almost 4 per cent during
the week ending December 12.
Average weekly merchandise loadings in less-thanearload lots decreased by about the normal seasonal
amount so that the adjusted index was about the
same as for October. Merchandise loadings during
November, however, were about 10 per cent under
November, 1930, and 20 per cent under 1929. The
average monthly loadings of merchandise for the
first 11 months of the year were less than 10 per cent
under the same period in 1930 and 16 per cent under
1929. All commodity groups witnessed a decrease in
loadings with respect to October, after corrections are
made for number of weeks in the two months, the
greatest drop being reported by the ore group.
Monthly
average,
1923-1925=100
1929: November..
1930:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November. ..
Monthly average,
January through
November:
1929
1930
1931
1
Thous. of
dollars
Thousands of cars »
Canal and river traffic
Canals
Sault New
York
Ste.
Marie State
River
r
y*pe
Cod
Mississippi
(Govt.
owned
barges)
Ocean traffic clearances, American ports
Panama Canal traffic,
A m erica n
vessels,
both directions
1
w
Dividend payments,
steam railways
b
O
aej
Miscellaneous
H
"O
Ore
Ad- Unadjusted justed
0)
0) |
a?
-I
fl
«£.
Forest products
Year and
month
•c
Livestock
F.R.B. index
Merchandise,
1. c. 1.
Freight-car loadings
Freight-car surplus
RAIL AND WATER TRAFFIC
Thous. of Thous. of
long tons net tons
Thousands of short tons
102
102
3, 818
1,005
154
123
785
216
100
1,435
341
40, 000
6,952
333
196
103
1,271
2, 982
84
84
86
74
3,191
2,784
892
820
146
143
107
94
667
638
136
121
57
22
1,186
946
580
707
38, 500
39,000
5,130
312
390
0
225
225
83
108
1,009
953
2,501
1,991
82
80
80
80
79
77
76
72
69
69
68
74
74
75
77
79
77
78
76
78
78
70
3,491
2,836
2,940
2,986
3,736
2,991
2,931
3,747
2,908
3,813
3,620
997
842
886
899
1,097
876
880
1,069
841
1,081
806
196
165
153
151
180
140
220
228
149
193
145
124
88
79
85
106
75
71
106
96
145
104
817
584
555
486
611
465
452
617
516
755
507
156
138
138
130
165
125
106
138
104
123
87
26
22
23
29
80
119
139
175
121
102
25
1,175
997
1,105
1,206
1,496
1,192
1,113
1,413
1,081
1,415
946
647
651
622
603
616
599
564
574
564
535
659
55,600
44, 900
45,500
38, 100
32, 500
34, 000
41, 500
33, 500
26, 500
36, 000
32,450
0
0
0
922
4, 335
6,645
7,611
8, 385
7,126
6, 248
3,049
o
0
0
349
457
385
506
425
587
505
234
166
163
203
217
203
211
186
198
221
210
76
70
83
82
100
86
104
104
107
105
86
958
864
910
929
937
828
820
859
884
930
676
1,843
1,695
1,773
2,092
2,525
2,241
2,742
2,734
2,478
2, 420
2, 296
106
93
76
107
94
76
4,499
3,918
3,182
1,118
1,035
929
203
193
174
120
108
98
811
707
579
279
204
128
204
149
78
1,763
1,521
1,194
216
445
603
39, 073
42, 845
38, 232
8, 376
6,599
4,029
262
328
180
207
201
111
95
91
1,239
1,114
872
2,712
2,723
2, 258
Daily average basis.
' Data for January, May, August, and October are for 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks.
12
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Construction
activity during November as measured
BUILDING
by the number of square feet and the value of con-
in value than in the previous month, while during the
elapsed months of 1931 there has been a decrease of
16 per cent in volume and 25 per cent in value as
compared with the same period of 1930. The value
of contracts let for public works and utilities declined
42 per cent below the October total. The expenditure
for this class of construction was 38 per cent less than
in November, 1930, and 28 per cent less in the 11
months of 1931 than in the same period of 1930.
A much greater than seasonal decline occurred in
the production of cement which fell 24 per cent below
that in October, while maple flooring shipments declined 8 per cent, and those of oak flooring dropped
24 per cent. Bookings of fabricated structural steel
were 21 per cent less than in October.
The index of construction costs (constructed from
the prices of structural steel shapes, cement, lumber,
and the rates paid common labor) showed a slight
decline of only 0.3 per cent. Building-material prices
for frame houses increased 1.3 per cent and those for
brick houses, 0.6 per cent. Bond issues to finance new
construction continue small.
tracts awarded was seasonally and sharply lower than
in the previous month and at the lowest point in many
years. Construction of residential building which had
shown a firmer tone in October also reached the lowest
point in a number of years in November. The value
of contracts awarded for public works and utilities likewise was extremely small. Operations in the building
material industries were further curtailed, and the
index of construction costs declined slightly. Building
material prices which increased slightly in October
again advanced fractionally in November.
The total volume of all types of construction contracts awarded declined 33 per cent from October,
1931, and 38 per cent from November, 1930, while the
decreases in values were 38 per cent and 41 per cent,
respectively. Over the January-November period of
1931 there has been a decline of 27 per cent in square
footage and 30 per cent in value in comparison with the
11 months of 1930. November residential awards
were 28 per cent less in volume, and 25 per cent less
BUILDING MATERIALS, CONSTRUCTION, AND REAL ESTATE
Building contracts awarded
I
Year and month
j
i
Maple Oak
floor- flooring
ing
Residential
building
1931:
January
February^
March
April
May
June..
JulyAugust
September.._
October
November.
Monthly average, January through November:
1929
193t
1931
1
Long-term
real-estate
bonds
Building
material
prices
Construction
cost,
Eng.
NewsRec.
!
i
P. E. B.
index (3
mouths
moving
All types of
average construction
of values
unadjusted)
Public works
and utilities
Shipments
Monthly MilMilThou- MilMil
Mil- lions
average lions of lions
of l&of'^ lions
of
of square
1923S( a re
square dollars
dollars £e t dollars
feet
1925=100 feet
929: November
930:
November
December
Building materials
Fabricated
Ce- strucment tural
steel Frame Brick
house house
Production
estate
ket acTo fitivitynance
deeds
record- Total new
coned
struction
mT
New
orders
j
ThouThousands of Thou- sands
of month, monthsands of shortof First
feet, board
barrels tons i ly average 1913 =100
measure
Monthly average
1926=
100
Thousands oi;
dollars
94
51. 1
391
21.4
113. 5
581
80.3
3 748 23 378 1 14.053
212
178
182
208 5
80.6
80 6
7 R90
7,820
1 910
68
59
33.1
29.1
254 j
249
18.8
14. 7
80. 8
70. 9
468
697
76.4
78.6 i
2,554
1.811
15, 844
17. 152
11,098
8,480
151
153
165
168
172
174
198.5
196.9
9,965
64.6
68.9 ! 29.877
29,877
1
1,595
630
58
68
77
82
78
74
68
63
59
52
44
24.6
28.3 i
38.0 !
39.4 I
38.9 I
35.0 i
33.8 i
30.6 I
30.1 i
30.7 i
80.5 !
228
235
370 |
337 i
308
332
286
233
251
242
151
12.2
16.6
22.1
22.6
21.9
16.9
15.9
14.1
13.0
15.2
11.0
54.4
77.9
100.9
95.9
88.9
72.7
63.9
60.2
54.6
60.5
45.3
393
246
522
785
387
2,367
1,233
737
353
171
371
95.2 !
78.6 !
151.7 |
133.0
108.9 !
154.5 I
116.3
73.0
85.1
82.5
47.4
2,351
2,676
3,017
3,226
3,315
3,778
3,447
3,397
3,144
2,703
2,481
18,365 6,595
21,713 5,920
26,243 8,245
28,155 11,245
27, 745 14,010
23,131 14,118
25,691 13,899
21, 464 13, 549
19, 486 12, 092
18, 203 10, 762
13,907 8,161
162
158
184
293
153
177
159
124
197
110
87
163
165
163
157
160
158
155
156
154
156
158
170
171
170
167
167
166
164
163
161
162
163
194.5
196.6
194. 5 i
191.6 i
189.3 1
187. 4
174.4
171.4 I
171.4
169.8
169.3 I.
66.0
4,520
66.7
3,590
61.7 > 2,015
7,235
62.0
9,485
61.3
58.4
3,425
775
61.1
59.8
2,100
60.5 66, 785
63.2
9,125
2,619
2,
2 850
1
1,500
1,000
1
1,700
0
1
1,000
600
565
395
500
725
120
95
66
I
67.9
43.8 .
31.8
494
389
270
33.6
19.6
16.5
163.8
93.7
70.5
953
1,237
679
126.7 '
143.0 ;
102.4 i
6,009 38,324
3,763 j 25,697
3,049 i 22,191
300
231
164
177
173
159
182
178
166
206.8
203.4
182.7
84.7
70.7
29,616
12, 836
10. 152
11,753
11
5,0,57
5
985
14,453
13,857 i
10,781 i
13
SURVEY OF CUERENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Agriculture
ORLD shipments of wheat were substantially
Wcurtailed
during the latter part of November
and early December. This follows the usual trend,
induced b}^ the preparation for the heavy movement
following the harvesting of the new crop in the Southern Hemisphere. Shipments from Russia also were
lower but North American exports had a marked
increase.
A decline, that spread to all classes of wheat and
occurred at all the principal markets, took place in
November, when wheat prices in the United States
lost approximately half the gains of the preceding
month. Little change was recorded in the general
price level during the first week of December, but on
December 9 there was a further sharp recession. The
Department of Agriculture reported for the week
ended December 4, the weighted average of all classes
and grades at six markets as 61.7 cents per bushel compared with 71.7 cents for the week ended November
13 and 52.7 cents for the week ended October 2.
Receipts of corn at primary markets were low during
November and early December, which in the light of a
large crop indicates the reluctance of farmers to sell
at current prices. The rise in the cash price of corn
which took place in October continued through the
early part of November, but in the last two weeks of
the latter month a lafge portion of the gains was lost.
Domestic stocks of most United States types of
tobacco are considerably larger than is usual at this
time of the year. There has been a reduction of
consumption and curtailment of buying powrer in
several centers where American grown tobacco is used.
In addition to a reduced domestic consumption, indicated by retarded sales of revenue stamps, movements
of leaf tobacco into export trade have been appreciably
smaller in the last four months than recorded for the
same season in previous years.
The domestic wool market encountered increased
sales during the latter half of November, following the
settlement of labor difficulties in the New England
worsted industry. Price declines which have been in
force since September were halted and quotations on
the Boston market remained practically unchanged
during the month ended December 5, The Australian
market continued its strength of the preceding month
but exchange rate difficulties have curtailed transactions in the Union of South Africa and South American centers.
Exports of domestic cotton during November were
18 per cent above the same month in 1930, due largely
to increased shipments to the Orient. November
domestic consumption declined 7 per cent below October, but the total of 429,000 running bales was 3 per
cent above November of last year.
INDEXES OF AGRICULTURAL MARKETING AND STOCKS
Indexes of marketing
Animal products
Year and month
Com.
bined
index
Wool
MJ2:
stouc
Indexes of stocks, end of
month
Crops
Poultry Dairy
and eggs products
Fish
i
! Combined
index
Grains
Vegetables
Fruits
1 Wheat,
visible Meats, Cotton,
Cotton ! supply, coldUnited
United storage States
States
Monthly average, 1923-1925=100
j
1929: November
1930:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March
April
Mav .. .
June
July
August.
.
September ._ .
October
November
Monthly average, January through November:
1929
...
1930
1931
95.2^
62.6
96.4
127.8
80.7
153.9
143.3
69.4
90.7
93.0
234.2
326.7
76.1
198. 6
88, 5
97.8
34 5
57.1
88.0
93.9
121.6
137.8
77.8
92.7
146.2
98.9
148.8
105. 8
72.3
79.8
89.6
79.4
109.0
67.1
240.6
144.9
344.8
333.3
62.3
76.9
264. &
266.8
94. 7
85. 5
94.0
101. 2
106.7
118.0
105.2
94. 3
91.5
96.6
93.2
25. 3
50. 8
61.9
78. 2
197.1
405.4
573,2
259. 6
125.1
49.5
48.5
96.2
79.8
79.6
82.6
80.2
77.9
72.6
82.5
88. 3
104.2
95.5
95.0
94.0
121.8
137.0
125. 6
115.6
88.6
88.0
88.4
75.4
104.4
96.4
91.3
102.9
113.1
130.9
156.6
123.6
96.3
90.5
92.6
87.1
103.4
116.2
169.4
174.3
138.5
144.5
161.2
189.3
160.1
140.5
m.i
74.3
66.8
64.4
53.1
62.0
55.2
103.0
83.9
119.3
219.2
122.6
81.0
84.6
80.0
63.9
69.0
68.6
182.9
130.0
79.8
84.0
66.2
98.0
91.1
104.3
93.3
135.6
165.8
103.4
64.1
103.2
131.9
79.1
70.2
68.1
75.1
70.6
102.2
88.8
139.3
154.6
129.2
191.1
96.8
64.0
45.1
38.6
29.8
28.3 !
9.1 |
22.6 1
29.2 !
152.1 i
366.7
189.5 |
335.8
343.7
352.7
339.8
336.4
324,7
370.4
413.5
407.7
393.4
391.9
100.1
114,0
111.8
114.8
110.8
105.8
98.7
83.3
66.6
52.8
54.3
254. 2
235. 8
216. 4
196. 9
179.5
162.3
146. 8
140.1
188.1
281. 0
322. 8
134. 7
163.5
170.2
88.2
86.0
85.4
102.5
102. 5
103.1
108.0
103.7
107.4
181.8
188.5
147.1
109.2
100.3
83.1
103.9
95.2
90.0
120.4
114.5
106.3
112.8
102.4
107.8
110.4
101.0
88.6 i
250.5
282.8
384.5
113. 0
90.1
92.1
119.3
164. 5
211. a
'
99.7
98.4
98.3
14
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Iron and Steel Industry
in the iron arid steel industry in
OPERATIONS
November were marked by a contraseasonal up-
Steel ingot production increased for the second consecutive month, while the daily average output
advanced 8 per cent, the first gain since spring. Operations during the month at 30 per cent of capacity compares with 28 per cent in the two months immediately
preceding, but the November rise in production represented only a temporary condition as the average
operating rate so far in December dropped to 25 per
cent. The decline in unfilled tonnage of the United
States Steel Corporation, which reduced the total to
the lowest since 1910, was not only in contrast to the
usual seasonal increase, but the rate of decline was the
largest since August.
The recession in iron and steel exports was halted
in November, although the actual increase was small.
Iron and steel imports have been about the same for
the past four months. Prices continue under pressure, and the composite iron and steel price has recently
fallen to $30.28 per ton, compared with the December,
1930, average of $31.76. Finished steel prices were
maintained in November, but weakness has developed
in numerous finished articles during the current month.
Scrap prices have again receded in December following
the temporary halt in the decline last month.
turn in steel ingot production, largely as a result of an
increase in the output of the relatively small item of
Bessemer steel. The gain, however, was made at the
expense of the tonnage of unfilled orders. The
adjusted production index of the Federal Reserve
Board advanced 7 per cent above the October level,
the first gain since last March, and for the elapsed 11
months of 1931 the index averaged 37 per cent below
a year ago. Employment and pay-roll totals for the
month did not reflect the increased activity in the industry as both indexes continued to decline. The adjusted
index of employment was 1.4 per cent below October
and 19 per cent below a year ago, while pay rolls were
down 6.2 per cent and 40 per cent, respectively, for
the same months.
Pig-iron production was smaller than in October,
and the daily average output, which has been successively lower each month since April, fell 2 per cent
during the month. Furnaces in blast at the end of
November numbered 67 with a daily capacity of 35,810
long tons, compared with 107 furnaces with a capacity
of 60,205 tons in blast at the end of November, 1930.
IRON AND STEEL STATISTICS
;
Year and
month
i
|
Fabricated !
General operations
Steel ingots structural n
steel
j
steel
n united
States
- i
Steel
Pigiron
CorpoRate of
proi
operaration,
EmPer
Pay
duc- Pro- cent
F. E. B. tions,
New Ship- unfilled
ploy- rolls
Ex- Im- tion ducorders
index
electric ment
of
ca- or- oients
end of
unadports
ports
energy
(adad- justed
tion pac- ders
i
month
justed) i con- justed'
ity
sump-
Mangaim ports
(Manganese
content)
tion
Thousands of long tous
1
1
100
123.2
97.4
65
59
106.5
110.2
80.2
79.1
64
73
78
75
72
64
59
51
46
43
46
103.4
116.5
119.4
JOS. 1
106.8
86.6
83.1
78.0
78.3
76.3
77.0
77.5
75.9
76.6
76.5
74.8
72.6
72.1
70.3
67.4
66.2
05.3
134
97
61
i
i
i
Adjusted for seasonal variation.
Thousands
of short
tons
^^j.
Iron and Structural
steel
compos- steel
ite
beams
Composite
finished
steel
44 j: 3, 181
3,521 !
69
212
264
68.9 I
66. 7
112
102
35 1,867
24 ' 1,666
2,212
1.980
44
38
151
153
195
168
62.4
67.5
70.0
69. 1
64.9
57.6
52.4
50.6
45.2
43.9
41.2
93
91
110
101
91
76
84
73
70
59
60
34 1,714 2,459
22 1,707 2,502
33 2, 032 2r 994
41 2,020 2.722
30 1, 994 2, 505
31 1,639 2,076
28 1,463 1,886
22 i 1,281 1,719
25 1,169 i 1,548
23 1,173 1,592
33 !*103 1,594
:
j
.'
i
'
i!
'
99.3 . 107. 1 i
86.0 i
87.8
56.8 !
72.3
i
256 !
171 i
S3 [
Thousands of long
tous
Don, paring t o n !
™£&™
::
242
100. 0
1
152.0 ::
125.1
94.0
j
Steel
billets,
Bessemer
(Pittsburgh)
i
Monthly average, 1923-1925=100
1929: November..
1930:
i
November — !
December
!
1931:
Jaauary..
'
February
March
April
May
June . _ . 1
July
i
August..
September
October _. . !
November...'
M o n t h l y aver- j
age, January i
through No- i
vember:
1929 _ i
1930
1931
!
Prices
)!
162
43
49 ! 158
54 i 184
49 !!
293
45
153
177
159
124
197
110
38 i
34
31
28
28
30
;
!
87
:
172 !
166 !
151 !
158 ;
148
162
182
169
150
146
112
i
!
i
1
!
j
!
4,125
24
35.00
36. 04
1. 90
2.50
3,640
3,944
10
29
31.00
30.60
31.95 !
31. 76
1.60
1. 60
2.20
2.19
4, 132
3, 965
3,995
3,898
3, 620
3,479
3,405
3. 169
3, 145
3,119
2,934
17
10
2
33
21
37
38
22
27
21
9
30.00
30.00
30.00
30.00
29.50
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.00
31. 70
31.65
31.66
31. 61
31.39
31.02
31.05
31.05
31. 03
30. 81
30. 61
1. 63
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.60
1. 60
1. 60
1. 60
2.22
2.22
2.23
2.22
2.21
2,19
2.20
2.19
2.20
2. 18
2.13
4, 138
4,004
3,533
28
23
22
34. 66
31.95
29.41
36. 53
33. 72
31.23
1. 92 i
1. 72
1.63
2. 54
2. 33
2.20
;
1
i
48 3.586 4.674 I
37 ' 2.703 3,391 j
28 1.572 2.145
!
92 :
06
39
!
300
231
164
278 i
256 !
156
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
15
Chemical Industries
ACTIVITY in the chemical industries was further
-^"^ curtailed in November. According to the index
of the Federal Reserve Board, employment receded 3
per cent when adjusted for seasonal movements. The
unadjusted pay-roll index declined 5 per cent. The
average pay rolls for the first 11 months of the current
year are 19 per cent below the same period in 1930 and
employment has fallen 15 per cent for the same comparable periods. Compared with November, 1930, the
levels of pay rolls and employment have dropped 20 per
cent and 15 per cent, respectively, in a period of one
year.
Naval stores production was lower after the gain of
the preceding month, the rosin output falling 18 per
cent. Turpentine manufactured during November
was 10 per cent less than the October product and 46
per cent below November of 1930. By-product coke
output failed to maintain the gain which it made in
October and the November production was the lowest
of any month in the present year. The average
monthly product for the period from January through
November declined 28 per cent from the comparable
period in 1930.
Manufactured chemical stocks rose during November despite the curtailment in many lines of production. This increase is a continuation of the movement
of the two preceding months and has brought the stock
level close to the high point of the year. The increase
over the identical stocks of November, 1929 and 1930,
however, is only 4 per cent. Stocks of raw materials
declined 5 per cent in November and the supply now
on hand is 11 per cent below the same month in 1930.
Fertilizer consumption, which had increased for the
preceding two months contrary to the usual seasonal
demand, receded during November. Consumption in
November, 1930, was 8 per cent above the present year.
The average amount of fertilizer used in the first 11
months of the current year was 25 per cent below the
consumption in the same months of 1930. The average for 1930 remained at the 1929 level.
Imports of potash salts fell sharply in November and
reached the lowest total for the year. This is in line
with the usual seasonal movement but the recession
this year was more marked. Of the aggregate monthly
import of 18,872 long tons, muriate of potash was the
largest item and accounted for 8,128 tons. Crude sulphate received totaled 1,105 tons, kainite 403 tons, and
the remainder was distributed among the lesser salts.
Nitrate of soda imports declined 12 per cent from the
October total, bringing the average import for the first
11 months of the current year to a level approximately equal to that of the same months in 1930.
CHEMICALS
STATISTICS
General operations
Employment
F, R. B. Indexes
Year and month
Stocks
Ethyl
alcohol
Explosives
Pay Manu- a
Ad- Unad- rolls,
justed justed unad- tured teilals
™g:
justed goods
Rosin,
wood
Tur- Super- ByAr- Ferti- Potash Nitrate
pen- phos- prod- senic,
tine, phates uct refined lizer
salts of soda
wood
coke
Consumption
Imports
Thous.
Short of
short
tons
tons
Long tons
Production
i
Monthly average, 1923-1925=100
1929: November .
1930:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March . .
..
April
.
May
June
July
August
SeptemberOctober
November
Monthly average, January through
November:
1929
1930
1931 . . .
Thous.
of gals.
Thous.
of Ibs.
Barrels
Thous. of short
tons
113.4
113.8
115.6
124.2
129.2
20, 898
36, 134
40, 678
7,498
345
4,316
1,197
83 50,198
43,047
98.3
97.9
98.6
97.8
96.1
94.7
124.2
123.9
128.3
124.2
20,861
17, 770
30, 248
24, 024
38, 931
34, 332
6,584
6,200
303
336
3,114
3,055
1,508
1,439
72
74
19, 706
25,324
35, 474
35, 512
96.6
94.5
89.8
91.7
93.0
89.6
89.4
86.6
85.7
85.4
83.1
96.2
95.6
93.3
96.7
91.4
86.7
86.2
84.4
86.0
85.7
83.5
90.4
92.9
89.8
92.0
88.4
84.1
82.9
80.4
80.8
80.8
76.4
128.8
130.7
132.0
129.0
129.3
123. 3
119.2
117.4
120.4
127.0
139.6
107.7
103.2
96.5
91.5
88.4
87.9
86.7
85.3
99.5
120.7
114.1
11,869
8,859
11,929
11, 162
13, 120
13,111
11, 975
12, 363
12,952
16, 037
14,084
24, 056
28,751
25, 414
27, 647
26, 960
25, 981
25,068
24, 548
26,598
25, 282
24, 488
32, 332
33,544
35, 585
33, 593
34, 747
28,495
17, 074
25,058
26, 102
21, 440
4,757
5,634
5,740
6,344
5,996
5, 675
4,370
2,607
3,797
3,922
3,547
326
249
226
195
162
146
143
162
142
141
3,092
2,898
3,256
3,146
3,126
2,715
2,569
2,443
2,310
2,389
3, 376
1,570
1,409
1,506
964
1,044
1,024
997
1,238
1,252
1,180
1,136
343
640
1,352
1,132
195
74
25
40
91
94
66
41,663
33, 822
60, 394
30,206
17,706
14, 650
67, 958
65, 043
66, 440
50, 071
13,873
45,890
68,421
120,164
67,008
34,006
29, 711
18,809
35, 367
48,590
33, 968
39,871
113.4
121.0
104.8
129.2
85.4 I 136. 1
109.3
108.7
98.3
17, 309
13, 582
13, 496
30, 500
32, 558
37, 537
39, 978
38, 405
6,945
7,014
4,763
300
333
4,476
3,831
3,747
915
1,041
1,310
493
493
368
66, 473
73,505
41,893
48',346
112.3
105.1
89.6
16
SURVEY OF CUERENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Automobiles and Rubber
RODUCTION in the automobile industry was
Pfurther
curtailed during November carrying the
output totals to the lowest point of the year. The
normal seasonal movement is downward, but the
November decline in the current year is less marked
because of the extremely low output previously
recorded. An expected increase in activity has not
appeared and operations in the industry continue to
lag. Many price reductions have taken place in
manufacturing materials but production delay persists and specifications are held back while producers
endeavor to analyze the 1932 market. Passenger cars
absorbed the major portion of the loss and the total
product in this class was 17 per cent lower in November than in October. Truck production made a somewhat better showing and decreased only 9 per cent
between October and November of the current year.
New passenger car registrations during November
were estimated by R. L. Polk & Co. at 76,000 to 78,000
whereas the 5-year average is 157,000. This is based
upon complete returns from 34 States covering approximately 60 per cent of the United States. Sales totals
for November were placed at 26 per cent below October
and 16 per cent below November, 1930.
Price stability has been maintained in the tire industry throughout the year. The first marked change
occurred early in December when price reductions of
5 to 19 per cent were instituted in all lines. During
the preceding 11-month period the costs of raw materials had been subtsantially reduced. Crude rubber
had declined approximately 40 per cent in price and
the 'first increase occurred during the week ended
December 19. Reports at that time of curtailment
negotiations between two large producing nations
caused a slight rise in the price level. The cost of
cotton fabric, which is next in importance to crude
rubber in tire-manufacturing materials, was reduced
about 25 per cent between January and December.
Imports of crude rubber into the United States have
been somewhat increased by lowered consumption and
depreciated currency in England and some of the
continental countries. If this diversion continues
further, the addition to present stocks may make it
difficult to maintain any price advance. World stocks
at the end of November registered a further increase
bringing the monthly average stock for January
through November to a point 27 per cent above the
same months in 1930.
AUTOMOBILE AND RUBBER
! Automobile
Automobile production
F.R.B.
index,
Total
adjusted
Tear and month
July
.
-.
August
September.
_.
October
November
Monthly average, January
through November:
1929
1930
1931
Automobile
financing
exports
Auto- 1
mobile
United States
Canada
acees- i
By
sories,
By
ship- whole- conassen
PasTotal P
- Trucks ments ! sale
sumsen- Taxi- Trucks p?o- j *««*"
dealers
ger
cabs
due- i j
ers
cars
i tlon j j
j
Monthly averages,
19231925=
100
1929: November
1930:
November
December
1931:
January
February
March.. _.
April
May
June__ - »
STATISTICS
Production
Domestic
shipments
Crude rubber
World
Im- stocks,
ports end of
month
,'
Janu- !
ary,
\
I 1925=100
:
Number
Thousands
Pneumatic
tires
Millions of
dollars
Thousands
Long tons
113
218
168
1,646
48,081
9,424
13, 933
83
45
95
2,703
2,500
43,901 300, 443
74
85
137
156
101
121
609
1,425
35, 613
33, 443
5,407
5,622
6,039
9,096
6,039 1
5,102 i
63 \
55 !
30
36
60
66
2,123
2,251
2,119
2,550
29,733 427, 427
37, 370 439, 728
63
68
67
77
78
65
60
52
40
26
34
172
220
276
337
317
251
218
187
141
80
69
138
180
231
286
271
210
184
155
109
58
48
512
529
410
665
340
360
180
104
141
651
999
33, 531
39, 521
45, 161
50, 022
45, 688
40, 244
34,317
31,772
31, 388
21, 727
19, 683
6,496
9,871
12, 993
17, 159
12, 738
6,835
4,220
4,544
2.646
1,440
1,347
8,304
9,187
11,526
11, 228
8,468
5,843
6,478
5,699
4, 577
3,207
1,828
4,534
4,187
6,002
5,499
4,498
4,340 I
3,518
2,356
4, 171
4,500 I
1,184
46 :
53 i
65
66
40
50
63
71
73
58
49
44
36
26
16
62
66
92
113
109
105
96
80
68
61
49
2,940
3,188
3,730
3,955
4,543
4,538
3,941
3,125
2,538
2,379
2,855
2,580
3,143
3,804
4,197
4.320
4,244
3,845
3,034
2,185
36, 598
34, 374
40, 788
44,908
35, 844
46, 939
44,052
39, 033
38,933
41, 398
45, 103
460, 479
471, 285
487, 716
487, 696
497, 707
496, 238
509, 139
511,754
519. 846
539, 907
558,345
476
291
206
407
241
170
1,464
683
445
67, 592
48, 891
35, 728
23, 436
13, 506
7,290
29, 601
13, 088
6,950
16, 895 i
7,256
4,072
86
71
60
57
48
140
103
82
4,776
3,502
4,612
3,480
47, 325
40, 741
40, 725
263, 164
392, 027
503, 647
I
i
!
1
1
136
83 i
57
11,886
i
ei
61
57
66
66
80
SURVEY OF CUERENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
17
Textile Industry
ACTIVITY in the textile industry in November,
-^^- 1931, was about the same as that in the preceding
month. The consumption of cotton per working day
was 17,785 running bales, 2.5 per cent more than in
October, 1931, and 3.3 per cent greater than in November, 1930; the change from October to November,
1931, was, however, 2.3 per cent less than the usual
seasonal increase. Cotton spindle activity averaged
85.8 per cent of capacity on a single shift basis, a rate
of activity slightly greater than in October, 1931, and
7.1 per cent more than that in November of last year.
Output of 23 groups of carded cotton fabrics, representing about one-half of the total cloth production, showed
further increase in November and totaled 57,861,000
yards per week, 1.9 per cent more than in October,
1931, when the weekly output was already the largest
in any month since June. November sales of these
cloths were considerably smaller than in October and
3.1 per cent less than production; stocks at the end of
the month were sufficient to fill slightly more than
three-quarters of the unfilled orders. Prices of cotton
goods, according to FairchildJs composite index, declined
4.3 per cent from October to November, to a level 26.6
per cent lower than in November, 1930, a drop during
the past year considerably greater than the 15 per cent
which has occurred in the general wholesale commodity
price level.
Wool receipts at Boston declined in November as was
usual at that season of the year, but they were about 11
per cent greater than in November, 1930. More significant, however, is the fact that receipts for the first
11 months of 1931 were about equal to those during the
corresponding period of the past 2 years. The price
of territory fine staple, scoured wool at Boston was
steady during November and averaged the same as in
October, 1931. Woolen spindles were run at a lower
percentage of capacity in November than in the preceding month. Worsted spindles were 4 per cent more
active. Sales of wool fabrics were reported to be
slightly smaller in November than in October.
November deliveries of raw silk to American mills
were about 10 per cent less than in October, but about
equal to those of the corresponding month a year ago.
From January to November, 1931, inclusive, mill silk
requirements exceeded by 3.7 per cent those of the
first 11 months of 1930. Wholesale prices of "A"
grade bleached rayon have remained at 75 cents per
pound since December, 1930.
1929: November
1930:
November ,_ _ _ _ . . .
December
1931:
January
February
_ .
March
Aoril
May
. .
June
__
July
August.- ...
September. ,.
October _
November
Monthly average, January
through November:
1929
1930
1931
1
.
. .
Bales
ilsl
1*
OD
M
fill
Month-
MaThou- lions
of
sands of spindle
bales
hours
ly av- ThouDolerage, sands
of lars per
1911- pounds
pound
1913=
Thousands of yards
!
Silk
Deliveries to mills
ft
Spinning
spindles
S5S
Worsted
—a
-1
OQB
•><•- rt
»o2
•*
d ?B*S
«•« S
ssl c o S S
MS
o&o
|
Wool manu- (
factures
Woolen
Q£
Recef pts, at Boston, total
Production i
Spindle activity,
total
Cotton textiles (23 groups of
textile constructions)
Wool
|
Per cent of ac- j
tive hours to j Bales
total reported j
Dollars per
pound
100
108
541, 153
7,468
7, 821
345, 146
276, 377
431, 426
342, 232
159
12, 714
.88
69
65
50, 562
1.15
93
87
415,315
405, 518
9, 962
5,825
5,924
206, 633
234, 052
200, 661
226, 951
356, 861
363, 962
333, 251
288, 956
124
122
6,240
11, 574
.72
.72
52
45
52
52
57, 333
55, 424
.95
.95
86
93
97
98
98
97
102
100
100
93
90
450, 117
433, 376
490, 509
508, 691
465, 363
453, 901
450, 884
425,819
463. 701
462, 025
428, 870
6,365
6, 122
7,000
7, 125
6,733
6,102
6, 630
5, 520 i 6,528
5, 266
6. 193
6, 540
7.072
10, 566 : 6, 595
12, 137
6, OH
202, 149
212, 168
271, 638
225, 955
225, 392
260, 163
192, 545
209, 050
272, 1 18
227, 116
231,446
210, 597
248, 354
317, 185
217, 582
205, 603
273. 871
227, 644
278, 049
216, 207
213, 889
355, 514
319, 328
273, 781
282, 154
301,943
288, 235
269, 449
250, 855
244. 924
255, 833
273, 390
317, 465
395, 802
373, 951294, 118
248, 544
330, 575
277, 597
217, 508
227, 167
344, 639
354, 957
120
119
121
119
115
112
111
100
95
91
87
10, 795
13, 269
13,279
17, 775
30.341
56, 743
79,381
36,850
18,707
9,628
7,026
.68
.66
.66
.65
.63
.62
.62
.63
.62
.58
.58
48
66
57
55
60
61
64
66
63
53
46
52
55, 910
54 j 54, 242
57 ! 55, 383
57
41, 356
66
45, 073
73
42, 161
83
44, 746
78
46, 454
53,819
70
49
56, 668
51
50, 645
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
117
92
96
599, 746
452, 025
457, 569
8,467 298, 513
6, 432 235, 061
6,531 229, 976
294, 906
244, 529
238, 210
374, 023
427, 188
283, 219
408, 185
309, 680
307, 484
161 ! 26,293
134 ! 27,372
108 26,709
.98
.76
.63
79
56
58
68
52, 326
54 ' 47, 891
63
49, 678
1.24
1.06
.75
Months do not contain same number of weeks,
93114—323
Stocks, mills and
warehouses,
end of month
Mill consumption
Monthly average,
19231925=
100
Cotton manufactures
Wholesale price,
Fairchild composite
F. E. B. index, adjusted
Year and month
'
Cotton, raw
Bayon, wholesale price,
A grade, bleached
TEXTILE STATISTICS
10,031
9,557
8,864 !
8,136 j
7,404 i
6,748 i
4,487
6,187
7,943
211.331
!
1
!1
i
!
i
I
I
i
j
18
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Food Industries
Food products industry
•.
Year and month
1!
!i
p<
Crop marketings
F. R. B.
fa •i
It
J3
W
Animal products, marketings
FOODSTUFFS
STATISTICS
Wheat
ti
1
»••** .fl
&<s:3
w
Corn
&
8,
II * s IL %*
a^C
5«
11 Sfl?
,25 3 1
>
s O*
PI
bfi
;g
a.
1
OS
-goS)
*l
II
1
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1929: November
1930:
November
December
1931:
January ...
February
March
April
May
June
.
July
August
September
October
November
Monthly average, January through November:
1929
1930
1931
Monthly
average,
1923-1925= 100
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Coffee imports
level recorded for the preceding month. Employment, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board's
adjusted index, had a fractional increase.
Butter and cheese prices averaged lower for November than in the preceding month and production increased contrary to the usual seasonal movements.
Cold-storage holdings of creamery butter on December 1 amounted to 42,300,000 pounds, which is less
than half the stock on hand a year ago. If production
continues at the present rate it will counteract somewhat the full effect of the low-storage stocks. Egg
prices which rose seasonally during November fell
sharply during the first 10 days of December. A decline also occurred early in December of last year, but
this is contrary to the usual seasonal movement.
Frozen poultry in storage on December 1 amounted
to 90,000,000 pounds as compared with a 5-year
average of 94,000,000 pounds. Particular significance
is attached to storage stocks at this season of the year
as an indicator of one of the major sources of supply
during the succeeding spring and summer.
Receipts of lambs and sheep at seven leading markets were 34 per cent higher during November than
for the same month a year ago. Stocks continued
large. Stock and feeder lambs and sheep, shipped
through markets into the Corn Belt States in November, reached the greatest total since 1922. Lamb prices
were at the lowest level since 1911.
Raw sugar imports continued in November the decline of the previous two months and reached the lowest monthly total of the year. Coffee imports increased
further and the monthly average for the first 11 months
of the current year is substantially above 1929 and 1930.
Receipts of wheat at the principal American markets declined 21 per cent in November when compared
with the preceding month, but the receipts of November, 1930, were exceeded by 4 per cent. The monthly
average receipts for the months of January through November of the present year were approximately the same
as recorded in 1929 and exceeded 1930 by 7 per cent.
Total raw sugar imports
in the food-preparation industries
OPERATIONS
continued during November at the same seasonal
o
"o
I!
y. bo
!"
3 CJ
0 0
X3 """"
e
0
96
99.1
98.8
143.3
95.2
21
192
15
1.21
19
4
0.88
1,943
3,933
730
215
822
94
89
91.4
90.8
85.7
81.8
148.8
105.8
88.5
97.8
25
22
202
196
8
6
.70
.73
17
27
7
17
.71
.69
1,696
1,736
3,439
4,002
597
737
344
312
967
1,098
93
92
87
96
91
83
88
88
92
91
91
91.2
90.3
89.9
90.6
90.8
88.7
88.1
88.1
87.5
85.5
85.9
80.1 ! 74.3
77.1
66.8
64.4
76.7
53.1
75.6
72.9
62.0
72 4
55.2
73.1
103.0
83.9
73.7
72.9
lift 3
219.2
72.6
122.6
70.9
94.7
85.5
94.0
101.2
106.7
118.0
105.2
94.3
91.5
93.6
93.2
29
31
31
21
31
30
104
61
39
33
26
197
202
207
200
198
191
218
243
239
231
230
6
4
5
7
10
12
17
12
12
15
13
.71
.71
.71
.75
.76
.67
.47
.51
56
.58
.69
19
21
19
17
11
13
16
11
8
14
12
18
20
22
20
12
8
9
8
6
7
10
.65 I
.61
.60
.58
.56
.58
.57
.46
.42
.38
.43
1,508
1,303
1,535
1,617
1,551
1,540
1,488
1,821
1.797
2,137
1,866
4,652
3,704
3,207
3,067
2,938
2,854
2,511
2,454
2,727
3,462
3,752
959
1.092
1,072
1,100
1,062
1.014
946
798
638
506
520
204
364
515
415
313
382
413
532
330
269
189
1, 094
1, 289
1,407
1, 126
1,415
1,037
1,100
884
794
907
98
94
90
99.7
95.2
88.8
99.9
91.0
74.4
99.7
98.4
98.3
40
37
40
147
166
214
13
13
10
1.17
.94
.65
21
20
15
17
12
13
.94
.83
.53
1,717
1,675
1,651
3,622
3,343
3,212
1,083
863
882
490
384
357
934
1,0021,09ft
109.2
100.3
93.1
9sa
19
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Forest Products
of lumber as measured by estimated
PRODUCTION
timber cut reached a new low for the depression in
November, the Federal Reserve Board index adjusted
for seasonal variation dropping to only 30 per cent of
the 1923-1925 average. This represents a decline of
14 per cent from the month previous, 36 per cent from
November, 1930, and 66 per cent from November,
1929. The average monthly production for the first
11 months of the year was only about two-thirds that
during the same period in 1930 and slightly less than
one-half the production during the 11-month period
in 1929.
A decrease in employment during November of 3.4
per cent was greater than the decline usual for this
season of the year, and the adjusted index of the Federal Reserve Board was 2.1 per cent lower than in
October. November employment was 22 per cent
under November, 1930, and 44 per cent under 1929.
The volume of pay rolls in the lumber industry
declined during November to a new low for the
depression. The average monthly pay roll for the
first 11 months of the year was 37 per cent under that
for the same period in 1930.
Marketings of forest products in November were
under those of October, but above January and Feb-
ruary. November marketings were 58.1 per cent of
the 1923-1925 average, but only 5 per cent less than
in the corresponding month a year ago. Naval stores
marketings declined somewhat seasonally in November, but were comparatively well sustained. The
average marketings for the first 11 months of 1931
were 7 per cent above the 1923-1925 average, but
were approximately 13 per cent below the 1930
average for the same period.
Carloadings of forest products declined sharply to a
new low for the depression. Marketings of naval
stores declined during the month and were about 14
per cent under November, 1930.
Production of southern pine, Douglas fir, and hardwoods during the first 11 months of 1931 averaged less
than new orders, whereas during this period in 1930
production was exceeding the receipt of new orders.
This reflected a better technical position of the industry
although operations were at a comparatively low level.
Southern pine and Douglas fir production declined
to new lows for the depression, and were each about
40 per cent under November, 1930. Production of
southern pine during the first 11 months of 1931 was 41
per cent under that reported for the same period in 1930,,
while the production of Douglas fir declined 30 per cento
FOREST PRODUCTS
General operations
Year and month
Indexes of
marketing
Southern pine
Lumber
Em- Pay Total
pro- ployduc- ment,
roll, forest Naval
unad- prod- stores
tion
ad- justed
ad- justed
ucts
justed
F.B.B.
Production
1930
1931
1
i
Hardwoods
Pro- New Unfilled
duc- orders
tion
orders
Production
Furniture,
Carunload- filled
ings, orders,
Un- forest
prod- southNew filled
orders orders
ucts eastern
district
Thou- Dollars
sands ol per
cars
firm
Millions of feet board measure
87
85.0
89.2
81.3
141.7
310
253
215
259
184
622
216
47
50
60.4
58.8
54.7
50.4 |
61.5
56.6
112.9
117.7
185
157
177
146
105
99
192
167
186
189
176
188
143
134
133
125
452
456
136
121
49
45
50
49
50
49
44
40
38
35
30
56.3
56.3
55.7
55.4
55.4
54.4
52.0
51.1
49.4
48.4
47.4
44.0
45.6
46.2
44.9
45.7
44.6
41.7
41.3
40.3
38.2
34.4
54.5
54.4
59.3
63.6
66.7
67.2
64.6
64.3
67.5
63.1
58.1
37.1
25.5
39.7
98.3
136.5
189.9
186.7
141.5
111.9
114.0
97.3
165
154
165
165
148
127
122
120
117
117
111
191
171
174
169
158
140
147
151
138
135
111
116
107
121
104
84
83
83
83
74
58
63
160
179
186
202
207
200
149
172
155
150
116
192
189
217
224
189
191
181
188
159
151
136
183
182
197
216
136
163
166
111
125
81
105
143
158
165
146
146
143
109
101
105
105
169
188
173
154
158
176
139
131
131
131
456
481
473
463
431
419
402
375
bS7
374
156
138
138
130
165
125
106
138
104
123
87
92
68
44
88.7
70.2
53.9
91.4
67.1
43.4
86.8
68.0
63.1
125.0
122.9 i
107.1
232
137
216
153
150
89
328
245
171
332
241
183
322
206
151
308
208
297
174
644
554
279
204
138
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i
Data for May, August, and October contain 5 weeks; other months, 4 weeks.
Douglas fir *
UnNew filled
orders orders
Monthly average 1923-1925=100
1929: November
1930:
November _ _ „
December
1931:
January
February
March
April.
May
June - _ .. July
August _
September
October
November
Monthly average, January
through November:
1929
STATISTICS
19,917
14, 400
»&
34, 160
29,798
28, 248
19, 338
56, 865.
47, 997
47,706
42, 180
22,100>
37, 300*
20
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
EXPORTS OF FERTILIZER AND FERTILIZER MATERIALS l
[Long tons]
1923
i
Months
1933
1
i
1935
1934
1938
1937
1936
1939
I
I
1930
1931
Total
January
February
March
_.
April .
May
June . July
August
September
October
November
December
_._
. _.
_. _
- ..
-
__..
_
. _ _
.- _ _ -
_ -_
... ..-
. . ..
__ _ ... _ ... _..
Total
-
.
67,011
51, 631
66, 439
87,161
157,795
66,764
57,765
97,454
55,718
69,486
92, 074
65,649
!
\
67,975
72, 313
89, 730
97,849
105, .577
117,720
119,423
95,326
130,419
63,739
85, 133
54,484
79, 200
86, 942
73, 109
93, 828
126, 271
74, 150
98, 513
87, 687
76, 457
102, 371
78, 366
91, 441
66, 130
78, 058
94, 450
86, 202
123, 813
94, 725
120, 171
94, 112
111,474
87, 568
60, 228
125, 423
60, 121
93, 365
106, 850
110, 588
116,179
90, 798
88, 622
113,785
97, 701
73, 384
81, 033
70, 356
934,947 1
1,099,688
1, 068, 335
1, 142, 354
1, 102, 782
;
i
!
:
;
67,677 !
110,890 |
109, 580
128, 672
119,927
111, 497
138, 023
100,^659
113,322
96, 672
95, 605
78, 519
8V, 632
76, 169
114,623
130, 269
148, 745
112,077
98, 803
103, 575
99,611
87,115
94, 085
66, 134
1, 271, 043
99, 758
101, 885
165, 771
135, 905
114,706
141,619
123,535 !
112,667 !
159, 468
129, 849
101, 823
147, 309
106, 717
164, 733
155,817 i
193, 555
145, 126
113, 741
144, 121
115,580
121, 357
126, 621
92, 258
71, 933
1, 218, 838
1, 534, 295
1, 551, 559
13, 269
7,628
24, 913
12,972
8,648
4,949
12, 131
10, 002
19, 830
17, 528
15,460
21, 789
12, 022
12, 593
10, 816
7,083
10, 491
6,422
3,156
7,713
3,305
16,535
11,914
5,164
94, 092
103,951
112,725
146, 539
107, 900
89, 182
89, 409
1 15, 207
127, 953
94, 416
Nitrogenous
January . _
February
March
April
.
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
__.
,___
..
_
_
Total
1
i
!
i
23, 367
20, 976
14, 593
13, 130
12, 122
6,075
10, 797
11,513
9,396
6,507
9,600
10, 918
9, 146
12, 751
13, 058
19, 220
27, 482
15,062
18, 076
8,946
13, 168
10, 769
7,507
11, 783
13,739
31,839
J 1, 737
11,490
8,442
9, 155
9, 137
7,340
9,075
11,648
12, 466
7,008
8, 467
7,201
9,702
10, 207
7,217
9, 938
20, 306
10, 458
15, 253
8,314
9,603
13, 277
11,065
6,527
11,118
13, 092
11,244
19, 667
17, 184
14, 374
28, 466
25, 196
15, 570
17,261
18,916
17,269
12,221
7,984
17,636
13,013
13,244
7,579
11,326
13,284
8,192
6,979
I
9, 300
6,897
9,256
6,823
10, 036
8,906
11,699
9,861
6,947
8,495
8,209
4,358
148, 994
166, 968
123,076
129, 943
190, 764
147,643 j
100, 787
169, 119
107, 214
72, 206
58, 792
85, 439
104, 014
118, 990
96, 755
84, 326
85, 816
80, 939
69, 874
78, 348
51, 878
69, 663
85, 725
123, 094
99, 794
91, 916
126, 372
106, 399
94, 163
130, 422
105, 615
78, 583
116, 118
78, 950
140, 797
129, 881
163, 780
124, 553
104, 195
137, 648
98, 479
114, 161
105, 353
74, 863
64, 721
987, 377
1, 227, 864
1, 337, 381
i
!
!
;
13, 331
18, 311
19, 819
21, 931
6,619
7,690
7,078
7,682
7,554
13, 452
Phosphate materials
January
February
March
April
May
J une
July
August
September
October
November
December
--
-
-
_ - - - --
-
Total
41, 458
26, 950
46, 973
65, 801
143, 745
59, 963
46, 431
82,484
43, 721
59, 435
76, 847
52, 267
55, 974
54, 492
70, 461
69, 621
67, 365
96, 738
95, 380
84, 040
111, 549
50, 667
73, 138
40, 225
61, 903
73, 200
49, 766
68, 304
108, 839
58, 759
88, 097
74, 921 i
59, 239 j
83, 356 !
58, 103
80, 037
50, 187
66, 980
76, 569
67, 305
106, 056
82, 865
98, 418
78, 435
86, 544
74, 622
46, 194
101, 804
44, 352
78, 871
84, 501
83, 660
95, 393
66, 086
64, 065
90, 694
60, 825
44, 690
52, 587
47, 691
46,121
85,852
81, 106
109,265
95,477
746, 075
869, 650 j
864, 524
935, 979
813, 415
1,025,718
!
;
1
i
93, 107 ;
120,664
82,323
92,743
77,477 i
78,398 i
63,185
75, 153
80, 696
84, 682
112,717
91,049
79, 472
80, 670
105, 717
115,621
75, 114
Prepared fertilizer
January
February
M^arch
April
May
June
July
August
September
October
November
December
-
-
- - - -
Total
1,602
2,039
2, 472
1,806
1,220
65
86
376
645
1, 051
2,187
867
940
388
1, 585
1, 334
3,858
713
4,231
637
735
902
1, 606
1,062
14, 416
17, 997
!!
i
;
!
!
1, 186
590
4, 474
5,160
7,897
5,649
944
767
2, 295
3, 285
1, 551
1,995
35, 793
1, 663
314
3, 503
3,585
6, 653
390
194
1,726
5,713
2, 636
1, 898
1, 648
1
I
i
!
i
:
!
1
i
29, 923
I
5,947
7,610
3, 887
9,025
2,022
1,413
634
1, 588
1,290
1, 623
882
538
:
!
i
!
450
954
1,662
2, 622
858
998
651
630
1,369
2,438
1,518
570
227
2,261
3,571
3,656
7,172
844
1,274
984
2,686
1,864
1,608
267
26, 439 i
14, 720
26,414 i
33, 508
36, 459
5,899
8,219
16, 357 ;
15, 776
12, 547
5,572
1,504
6,914
9,039 !
6,882 !
15, 825 '
5,259
14,137
18, 133
8,907
6, 843 :
3,491 :
5,617 i
8, 695
6, 499
9, 798
3,733
11,233
13,667
8, 060
1, 071
551
3, 741
5, 326
6, 429
988
1, 888
1, 889
1, 046
1,148
1. 071
1, 291
!
!;
!
i
!
i
i
;
:
;
i
1, 001
3, 273
3, 627 '
5, 006
5, 235
3, 455
1, 514
2, 885 1
521
207 i
277
6, 507
495
462
469
1,136
734
106
497
383
915
300
Other fertilizers
Januarv
February
March
April
May
June
July
August
September
October.
_
- _ _ - _- .j
--
_
-
584
1,666
2, 401 i
6,424
708
661
451
3, 081
1, 956
2, 493
1 , 909 !
4,682
4, 626
7,674
6,872
5, 207 :
1,736
1, 703
4,967 :
1,401
2, 372
1,313
7, 132
8. 874
1, 093 !
587
335
4, 659
5, 848
4, 082
5,813
3, 563
4, 676
5,105
3, 887
1,532
1, 253
3, 493
3, 964 '
1, 996
3, 633
7,416
7, 490
8.510
3,113
4, 057
5,485
6, 828
7, 364
2, 350
1
|
I
i
!
i1
2, 190
6,815
14, 591
8, 801
5, 956
4, 379
3, 464
10, 127
7, 884
3, 473
1.711
2, 683
7, 800
2,601
3,110
5,113
4, 482
7,755
10, 755
9,498
1,914
1, 164
1,425
3, 863
5, 550
i Compiled by the Department o/ Commerce, Bureau nf Foreign and Domestic Commerce. The group "Other Fertilizers " represents the exports of muriate of potash, other
potash, and concentrated chemical mixtures such as nitrogenous phosphatic, nitrogenous potassic, and nitrogenous phospiiatic potassic mixtures.
21
SURVEY OF CUREENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
WEEKLY BUSINESS INDICATORS
[Weekly average, 1923-1925=100]
1931
ITEM
1931
1939
1930
ITEM
Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.
14
26 19 12 27 20 13 28 21
I
1939
1930
Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec, Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec. Dec.
26 19 12 27 20 13 28 21 14
i
*Composite index, N. Y. Times _ _ 62.1 63.1 63.3 78.9 79.4 79.0 93.3 90.5 93.4 Wholesale prices— Continued.
Fisher's index (1926=100)—
63.7 64.6 77.3 77.5 77.1 92. 1 100. l! 99.6
"Composite index, Business Week
66.7 67.0 67. 1 79. 0 79.4 79.8 93.1 92.8 92.6
Total (120) _ _
60.7 40.0
78.5 98.0
i 93. 1
Detroit employment
Agricultural product (30) _ 50.5 50.7 51.2 74.8 79.4 75.5 99.5 98.8 98.0
Production:
Nonagricultural products
7.8 9.0 13. 1 15.9 16.3 29.4 33. 5 32. 2
Beehive coke
69. 1 69.4 69.3 79.3 80.0 80.2 91.3 91.2 91.5
Bituminous coal (da. av.)_ — j 63. 4 69. 1 71.3 82.0 92.7 87. 1 91.8 111.2116.6
(90) 34 1 61.4 _ _ 59. 0 62.8
72.9 73. 1 73.3 76.5 76.5 76.9 86.7 86.9 86.8
• 91.2 !
Iron and steel, composite
Building (new awards)
t Electric current
_ _ _ _ _ _ 93.9 100.7 100. 4 97. 1 106. 2 104. 9 98.3 111. 6110. 5 Banking and finance:
Bank debits outside N. Y. C. 87.2 85.6 72. 6 107. 6 117.2 96. 1 132.3 140.6 123. 6
Petroleum _
110.1 116. 7 118.01102. 1105.7 107.2 125. 2 126. 5125. 9
85 8 83 Q 87 9 105 2 104.2 104.6 104.7 104.8 105. a
Bond prices
Steel ingots
31.6 32.9! 31.6 44.7 48.7 51.3 82. 9: 84. 2
Business failures (number)
138. 3 163. 9 141. 3:1.12.0 148.4 138. 1 97.3 122.4 126. 3
Receipts:
Federal reserve R. M. banks26.3 71.2 83.2 47.5 76.9 91.8 45.9 68. 0! 88.6
Cattle and calves
Loans and discounts
158. 1 140. 0 108. 5 133. 8 127. 7 106.2 176.2177.3
Cotton
_
_ _ ._
105.0; 105. 7 105. 9! 129. 6 130. 1 131.4 138.5 138.8 139.0
Net demand deposits
97. 5 100. 7 100.2112.6 114.0 115.2 112. 5 113.2 114. 1
55.3 108.6 106. 5 67. 3 84. 1 90. 3 59.8 107. 7 111. 4
Hogs
131. 2 132. 4 133,9157.2 158.4 162.2 148. 3 147.8 147.7
Time deposits
42. 4 44.7 69.7 67.4 59.5 49.3 60. 8| 88. 2
Wheat
Interest rates call
75. 91 60. 6 60.6' 48.5 58.7 48.5 136.4 109.1 109.1
62. 7 66. 0 72. 9 76. 1 78.4 86. Ij 91 3
Distribution: Car loadings
Interest, rates, time
_ _ _ 80.0 80.0 80.0: 68.6 68.6 62.9 114. 3 114.3 114.3
Wholesale prices:
Monev in circulation
- 117.9115.3 113. 9 102. 5100.3 97.4 103.4 102.3 101.0
50.0 44.9 45. 7! 73. 9 ! 71. 7\ 72. 5 129.0 129. 0 129. 0
Copper, electrolytic
75. 4 74. 7 78.4146.4 148.4 152.5 201 5 208.7 217.7
Stock prices
Cotton, middling, spot
23,5 23.5 22.8 36.0 36.0! 36.4 64.0 62. 5, 63. 6
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WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS
1931
1930
1929
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ITEM
Dec. 26
Dec. 19
Dec. 12 | Dec. 27
Dee. 28
Dec. 21
Dec. 14
Dec. 29
1, 563
10, 089
1,638
1,893
1,968
14 641
1,841
1, 400
17 836
1,527
1, 873
1,860
555
142
90
900
202
410
187
193
1,753
191
1, 249
1,176
222
1,218
599
313
! 744,353
| 157,614
34,062
j 39,532
I 25, 573
j 219,005
i 262, 174
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6,393
| 616,931
2,233
639, 389
146, 893
27, 837
31,584
17, 220
187, 249
222, 199
6, 407
447, 141
2,608
842, 775
211, 034
48, 771
36, 195
24,416
228, 536
285, 029
8,794
393, 345
2,634
667, 974
129, 366
32, 808
37, 091
21, 499
192, 853
245, 979
8,378
386, 132
2,581
900, 620
202, 680
58, 329
36,024
26, 318
242, 578
316, 595
10, 945
298, 004
2,551
Dec. 20 j Dec. 13
Dec. 22
PRODUCTION AND DISTRIBUTION
Bituminous-coal production (da. av.)
thous. tons..
Building contracts (da av ) 37 States
thous. dolls
Electrical current output
mills, of kw. hours. _
Exports:
Corn
thous. of bush _
Wheat
thous. of bush
Wheat flour •
thous. of bbls _
Freight cars:
Loadings total
cars
Coal and coke
cars
Forest products
- - - - - _cars__
drain and grain products
cars
Livestock
cars
Merchandise 1. c. 1
- - _cars._
Aliscellaneous
cars
Ore
cars _
N e t available surplus (da. av.) _ _ _ _ _ _cars _
Petroleum production (da. av.)
thous. of bbls__
Receipts:
Cattle and calves (12 markets)
thousands
Cotton into sight
thous. of bales
Wheat primary markets
thous. of bush
Wool total, Boston
thous. of Ibs _
Steel in^ot production
per ct of capacity
1, 080
1, 176
1,565
1,676
1,215
5,475
1,672
1,378
9,860
1,617
4
641
201
15
1,631
175
37
2,403
163
5
274
179
2,430
613, 534
137,639
19, 084
30, 179
24,691
197,558
200, 379
4,004
664, 769
2,457
2,293
223
411
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538, 419
202, 680
20, 693
27, 172
17, 739
167, 354
176, 135
4. 281
706; 538
2,127
1,579 i
1,770
9
'
4
373
232 1
713,810
170,014
31,218
36,049
22, 742
210,264
237, 780
5,743
649,314
2,202
1,483
9, 474
1,748
!
922,861 !
211,560
52,404 43, 995
28, 888
245, 043
322, 103
8,868
367, 657
2,622
1,710
150
282
5,537
1,469
24
243
348
5,351
3,415
34 j
290
332
4,726
752
37
145
276
3,918
3, 553
39
215
458
4. 829
2,890
63
280
461
7,010
5,252
64
127
374
5, 454
2,055
84
202
422
7,837
3,133
82
106.7
. 102
.098
2.47
31.66
.69
107. 2
. 099
.098
2.47
31.68
.71
107. 2 1
. 100 ;
.099 i
2.52
31.84
.72
112. 5
112.5
. 178
. 170
3.11
35.97
1.18
112.5
.178
.173
3.11
35. 95
1.20
108.3
.162
.206
3. 26
36.24
1. 10
108. a
. 174
3. 12
35.89
1.22
.158
.204
3. 2$
36. 24
1.11
746
3,451
24
263
364
3,549
2,639
25
106.3
.069
.064
1.97
30.16
.51
106.3
.062
.064
1.98
30.28
.53
106.3
.063
.062
1.99
30.36
.53
4,707
4,042
5,084
3,973
3,464
3,364
6, 351
4,993
7,221 i
5,436 j
5,465
4,460
7,204
5,115
9, 601
6, 524
9,898
5,735
8,957
5,437
12, 221
6,860
6,159
76.80
563
19, 792
75. 17
667
13,043
78.69
575
2,916
94. 23
456
3,010 !
93.32 ;
604 |
3,384 !
93.65 :
562 |
1, 651
93. 76
396
3,736
93.89
498
4,296
94.29
514
7,608
96.07
359
2,746
96.04
491
911
3,128
698
3,145
725
3,137
448
3,038
331 !
3,091 !
257 1
3,141 ;
763
2, 951
737
3, 026
769
3,110
1,168
2,689
947
2,724
13,119
7, 615
7,386
11,771
5,947
542
13, 212
7,751
7,471
12, 168
6,004
3.42
13,237
7,427
7,477
12, 105
6,073
3.30
16, 200
6,785
8,421
13, 603
7,126
4.86
16,258
6,827 !
8,511 !
13,771 i
7,180
4.86
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17, 305
5, 585
9,374
13, 589 '
6, 723
4.88 !
17, 356
5, 587
9, 458
13, 676
6, 702
4.88
17, 375
5, 547
9, 557
13, 776
6,698
4.88
16, 284
5,980
9,054
13, 266
6,864
4.86
16,248
5, 985
9,119
13, 322
6, 845
4.85
3.50
3.13
5,727
2^50
5, 599
3.50
2.50
5,529
3.00
2.00
4,977
3.00
2.42
4,870
2.75 '•
2.00
4,731 i
5.00 !
5. 63 •
5, 021 1
5.00
4.50
4, 968
5.00
4. 50
4,906
8.38
10.38
5,074
8.25
7.38
5, 060
73.24
6,011
72.59
15, 648
76.12
11,949
142. 24
9, 425
144.12 '
19,191 j
148.06 1
14,188 i
198. 60 i
13, 053
202. 69
18, 008
211. 38
23, 109
224. 79
18, 372
215. 77
17, 089
106. 2
98. 7
92.2
153.2
105. 5
98. 2
89.1
153. 7
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110. 5
103. 6
93.8 !
157. 7 !
150.9
144. 3 i
134. 1 !
196. 6
154. 4
144. 6
136. 3
195. 9
154.1
147.7
136.6
198.6
177.7
185. 5
136.8
180. 6
173.0
180.5
136.0
173.7
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WHOLESALE PRICES
Chemical index
rel. to 1924
Copper ingots, electrolytic, New York__dolls. per lb__
Cotton, middling, spot, New York
dolls. perlb_.
Food index (Bradstreet's)
dolls, per Ib
Iron and steel composite
dolls, per ton..
Wheat, No. 2, hard winter, Kansas City dolls. bu._
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Bank debits:
New York City
. . mills, of dolls. _
Outside New York City
mills, of dolls..
Bond sales, New York Stock Exchange:
United States Government
thous. of dolls
Average price 40 corporation bonds
dollars __
Business failures
number
Federal reserve banks:
Bills discounted
mills, of dolls. _
Total reserves.
mills, of dolls..
Fecleral Reserve reporting member banks:
Total loans and discounts
_ mills, of dolls-.
Total investments
_
.mills, of dolls. _
"Other" loans.
mills, of dolls.Net demand deposits
mills, of dolls. .
Time deposits
mills, of dolls- _
Sterling exchange, rate quoted (da. av.)
dollars-Interest loans on brokers' loans:
Time money, New York
per cent-.
Call money, New York
per cent-Money in circulation (da. av.)
mills, of dolls- Stocks, New York Exchange:
Average price 50 stocks
dollars
Sales
thous. of shares. .
Stock prices, weighted:
Industrials, rails, and utilities (404)... rel. to 1926All industrials (337)
rel. to 1926—
All railroads (33)
rel. to 1926—
All
utilities
(34)
rel.
to 1926—
54.7 !
51.4
31.7
90.6
54.7
51.4
31.3
90.6
60.6
56.9 !
34.4
101.2
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6,816
8,656
13,914
7,355
4.86
. 178
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22
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
Monthly Business Statistics
The following table contains a summary of the monthly figures designed to show the trend in important
Industrial and commercial movements. These data represent continuations of the figures presented in the 1931
Annual Supplement to the Survey of Current Business, in which monthly figures for the past seven years may
be found, together with explanations as to the sources and basis for the figures quoted. The figures given below
should always be read in connection with these explanations. For later data, which have become available
since these data were compiled, see recent Weekly Supplements to the Survey.
CONTENTS
Page
Page
Industrial indexes
Wholesale prices
Commodity groups:
Automobiles
Chemicals and allied products
Foodstuffs
.
Forest products
Leather and leather products
Iron and steel
Machinery
_
Nonferrous metals
.---..
Paper and paper products
Printing
22
23
25
26
28
32
_ „ . 33
34
36
37
38
40
.
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemAugust
October Septem
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
Commodity groups—Continued.
Rubber and rubber products
Stone, clay, and glass...
Textiles
„
Tobacco
.
Miscellaneous
„
Fuels
Distribution movement
Foreign trade
Employment and wages
Construction
Public utilities
.
Finance
40
41
42
44
44
44
45
47
48
50
50
__ 52
1930
1931
July
June
May
|
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March
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ber
INDUSTRIAL PRODUCTION
Federal Reserve Board
Total, unadjusted
_ _ . rel. to 1923-25..
Total, adjusted
rel. to 1923-25..
Manufactures, total unadjusted rel. to 1923-25. _
Manufactures, total ad justed., rel. to 1923-25..
Automobiles
. . rel. to 1923-25. _
Cement
rel. to 1923-25..
Food products
rel to 1923-25 .
Iron and steel
. . . rel. to 1923-25. .
Leather and shoes
rel. to 1923-25..
Lumber
rel to 1923-25 Nonferrous metals
rel. to 1923-25. _
Paper and printing
rel to 1923-25
Petroleum refining
rel to 1923-25
Polished plate glass
rel to 1923-25
Auto tires and tubes
rel to 1923-25
Textiles
. rel to 1923-25 .
Tobacco manufactures
rel. to 1923-25..
Minerals, total unadjusted
rel. to 1923-25..
Minerals, total adjusted
rel. to 1923-25..
Anthracite
_ _ - . rel. to 1923-25. .
Bituminous coal
rel to 1923-25
Copper
rel to 1923-25
Crude petroleum
rel to 1923-25
Iron-ore shipments
rel to 1923-25. .
Lead
rel to 1923-25
Silver
rel. to 1923-25..
Zinc
rel to 1923-25
Industrial Consumption of Electrical
Energy
Consumption by geographic sections:
United States
rel. to 1923-25..
New England
rel to 1923-25
North Central...
rel. to 1923-25..
Middle Atlantic
...
rel to 1923-25
Southern
rel to 1923-25
Western
rel. to 1923-25..
Consumption by industries:
All industry..
rel. to 1923-25..
Automobiles, including
repair parts .. _
rel. to 1923-25. .
Electrical apparatus and
equipment
rel. to 1923-25..
Food and kindred products rel. to 1923-25..
Leather and its products.. -.rel. to 1923-25..
Luniber and its products.. rel. to 1923-25..
Metals group
rel. to 1923-25..
Metal-working plants..rel. to 1923-25-.
Rolling mills and
steel plants
rel. to 1923-26..
Paper and pulp
rel. to 1923-25
Rubber and its products— rel. to 1923-25..
Shipbuilding
rel to 1923-25 .
Stone, clay, and glass
rel. to 1923-25..
Textiles..
rel. to 1923-25..
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
73
72
2
75
273
272
271
*26
273
291
43
«82
35
65
99
161
78
79
77
79
52
102
88
51
104
40
64
105
165
72
90
100
118
82
79
61
70
69
107
59
61
45
49
80
83
79
83
61
108
88
59
101
44
65
109
162
91
112
102
122
85
84
57
74
59
122
55
64
42
49
83
84
82
84
65
112
83
64
101
49
68
108
161
91
126
97
133
85
85
66
74
67
122
46
60
46
54
89
89
90
89
77
96
91
72
107
50
73
113
163
112
123
101
137
84
86
71
75
68
122
27
78
51
54
90
89
91
89
77
90
96
75
102
49
73
110
161
117
107
98
134
83
92
84
77
69
121
0
71
54
61
89
87
91
87
67
81
87
78
92
50
77
110
152
119
98
97
131
82
87
72
76
70
112
0
79
63
65
87
86
88
85
68
80
92
73
87
45
79
111
149
111
94
93
132
84
88
89
73
76
110
0
82
62
65
82
82
81
81
63
84
93
64
77
49
78
107
144
90
88
86
121
86
90
93
77
72
110
0
83
68
65
78
82
76
80
85
83
89
59
81
50
85
101
149
65
73
87
128
89
94
93
85
76
111
0
92
71
68
85
84
84
84
74
86
94
65
80
47
87
103
151
91
77
93
119
95
92
83
86
83
114
51
83
73
70
90
114
83
81
66
67
74
93
112
89
85
91
71
124
11
61
40
45
2 116
42
>66
40
47
77
76
276
76
240
95
* 92
46
J97
38
265
104
161
55
79
UOO
118
282
2 77
65
70
60
2102
51
67
40
49
98.8
86.4
89.5
99.6
119.3
118.8
97. 1
87.5
87.4
103.3
113.2
102.2
100.4
97.0
92.6
104.0
113.8
102.3
97.3
89.9
90.0
99.5
112.8
108.8
97.9
100.0
92.1
95.7
117.5
96.8
101.7
OS. 4
102.7
91.5
114.3
106.4
109.8
104.4
109.2
101.3
118.2
119.1
106.4
109.4
105.0
97.6
108. 6
114.0
108.2
105. 8
105.7
102.8
117.5
115.7
110.3
105.5
109.0
108.0
130.6
120.0
97.6
90.2
100.2
96.6
105.8
111.0
99.1
86.3
99.0
97.5
116.4
99.9
105.4
96.3
100.6
103.5
113.4
121.3
104.3
72
71
34
64
91
46
82
30
62
98.8
97.1
100.4
97.3
97.9
101.7
109.8
106.4
108.2
110.3
97.6
99.1
65.5
57.4
53.7
43.6
55.9
71.3
89.7
90.8
94.1
88.9
67.5
71.5
74.9
123.3
144. 0
75.2
76.4
76.4
76.0
128.5
136. 5
81.8
82.2
73.0
71.0
129.8
142. 0
81.9
82.2
76.2
75.0
128.0
146.4
77.1
79.4
75.0
73.3
130.1
147.0
83.8
76.9
74.5
69.3
130.8
136.2
85.4
86.3
81.5
78.6
132.0
126.8
81.0
97.2
98.5
94.0
136. 7
122.0
83.9
91.6
99.5
94.6
124.3
116.8
71.2
93.2
112.2
103.5
149.0
112.9
76.1
84.2
114.0
112.3
144. 7
118.3
71.6
82.6
97.4
95.0
132.4
107.1
68.7
73.3
102.3
97.8
137.5
124.4
73.0
86.5
99.5
89.6
77.0
126.1
93.5
95.0
113.8
93.4
76.3
113.0
82.8
84.5
113.4
98.2
78.3
138.3
88.0
88.9
113.9
98.7
78.0
121.7
98.5
85.6
105.9
95.0
83.1
104.0
97.4
82.0
104.8
98.2
86.6
112.4
121.0
84.8
118.7
100.5
106.8
135.1
122.3
89.7
132.0
103.7
108.1
109,6
109.0
92.5
116.5
100.0
119.4
123.0
109.6
98.3
105.1
97.3
116.5
127.0
122. 0
114.8
102.6
99.3
103.4
111.8
106.5
113.9
75.3
86.4
110.2
117.0
84.3
99.0
100.6
89.8
106.5
112.3
95.3
105.5
106.2
87.0
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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
N
<£T- October SeptemAugust
ber
1930
July
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
48.1
2 133. 5
2115.4
146.5
51.9
56.0
' 133. 6
U16.7
2 145. 7
256.6
52.9
* 143.5
2118.0
154. 2
57.4
60.4
144.0
M18.4
161. 7
60.5
58.2
2 150. 4
2118.8
173.2
61.8
49.8
2 152. 9
2119.0
177.4
61.0
Decem- November
ber
STOCKS AND ORDERS
New orders, total
Stocks, total
Manufactured goods.
Raw materials
Unfilled orders total
rel. to 1923-25
rel. to 1923-25
rel. to 1923-25..
rel. to 1923-25
rel to 1923-25
44.3
2 157. 3
2 103. 2
2
196. 5
244.4
M7.8
» 141.5
2 106. 7
166.7
46.0
84.9
75.4
81.5
90.5
80. 3
94.6
85.6
78.5
81.7
90.1
80.7
95.4
85.9
78.6
81.9
89.6
81.5
95.5
85.9
78.6
81.5
89.3
82.0
95.8
85.9
79.9
81.0
89.1
82.6
95.5
86.9
80.7
82.8
89.1
83.5
95.9
88.2
82.0
84.9
90.6
84.1
96.8
89.1
83.2
86.5
92.5
84.6
96.8
68.3
58.7
70.9
73.2
68.4
58.8
72.6
73.7
69.1
60.5
72.9
74.0
70.2
63.5
73.7
74.6
70.0
64.9
73.1
74.0
70.0
65.4
72.4
74.0
71.3
67.1
72.9
75.1
73.3
70.1
75.6
77.1
74.0
74.7
65.0
74.3
74.1
63.4
74.9
74.8
63.3
75.4
75.5
62.3
75.8
77.3
58.2
77.5
77.9
58.1
78.4
79.1
60.9
80.9
80.1
61.6
-81.3
82.2
84.8
88.5
89.2
87.8
87.3
83.1
86. 2
60.7
59.7
83.2
86.5
61.5
59.0
84.7
87.2
62.9
58.4
87.5
87.1
64.2
58.5
88.0
87.5
65.4
61.0
88.6
87.4
65.4
61.8
89.2
87.8
66.3
62.8
71.8
62.0
71.4
61.5
72.0
62.7
72.3
64.1
71.8
64.3
71.9
64.7
64.4
61.2
74.4
64.7
62.6
74.4
66.3
64.2
72.3
68.3
65.7
75.1
69.5
68.0
77.2
68.5
67.9
77.7
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
2.00
.2290
. 0388
.51
.130
.2290
.0393
.50
.130
.2290
.0400
.50
.152
.2290
.0400
.45
.154
.2290
.0424
.42
.157 j
. 2290
.0438
.39
.158
.2290
.0438
.45
.165
.2290
.0488
.48
.172
.2290
.0488
.44
.174
.2290
.0517
.44
.171
.2290
.0525
.44
.173
.2290
.0601
.47
.178
.2290
.0738
.48
.176
10.00
.31
1.310
10.00
.34
1.318
10.00
.33
1.331
10. 00
.28
1.331
10.00 1
.25
1.331
10.00
.23
1.364
10.25
.24
1.399
10.25
.26
1.422
10.00
.29
1.477
10.00
.28
1.543
10.00
.29
1.578
9.50
.32
1. 580
9.50
.36
1.588
.15
.16
86
.058
.0678
.17
86
.056
.0699
.16
86
.056
.0729
.15
88
.063
.0770
.14
88
.068
.0803
.14
89
.061
.0867
.15
90
.053
.0939
.16
90
.056
.0985
.16
89
.064
.0972
.17
90
.068
.0984
.18
93
.070
.1030
.19
94
.079
.1011
165.9
105. 9
209.6
245.5
2 136. 9
» 111.5
» 155. 3
M7.8
51.2
156.0
118. 8
182.8
61.8
48.7
163.3 !
120.1
194.5
61.8
48.7
161.9
118.6
192.6
58.7
89.6
84.4
86.9
92.7
85.3
96.9
91.1
84.6
90.9
92.9
85.9
97.2
92.6
86.6
93.9
92.9
86.7
97.4
93.9
87.7
96.8
92.9
87.5
97.6
74.5
70.6
76.7
78.4
75.5
70.1
77.1
79.3
77.0
73.5 1
80.1
80.5 j
78.4
75.2
81.8
81.9
80.4
79.3
85. 7
83.7
81.9
81.9
64.5
81.8
82.2
69.6
82.9
83.6
69.8
84.4
84.8
70.5
85.6
85.2
71.8
87.3
87.4
86.6
88.6
91.2
94.0
90.8
88.7
67.6
63.9
90.8
89.0
69.2
64.7
90.8
88.9
70.4
63.9
91.1
89.3
71.0
64.7
91.3
90.0
72.4
66,9
95.2
90.2
73.3
67.8
73.2
66.5
74.2
68.3
75.6
69.4
77.1
70.6
77.8
72.9
79.0
74.2
80.1
76.8
68.9
66.9
77.3
71.1
69.0
79.2
72.2
71.4
80.9
72.3
71.0
81.4
73.4
72.0
82.7
74.3
73.6
84.7
75. 6
76.1
86.4
2
COST OF LIVING
All groups
Clothing
Food
Fuel and light
Housing
Sundries
__.rel. to 1923..
rel to 1923..
rel to 1923
..rel. to 1923..
rel. to 1923..
rel to 1923
PRICE INDEXES
Department of Labor Indexes:
All commodities (550)
rel to 1926
Farm products
rel. to 1926—
Food (121) . _
rel. to 1926Finished products (380)
rel. to 1926..
Industrial group commodities—
Building materials (57)...rel. to 1926..
Chemicals and drugs (78)_rel. to 1926..
Fuel and lighting (23)
rel. to 192611 ides and leather products (40)
rel. to 1926House furnishing goods (37)
rel. to 1926.
Metal and metal products
rel. to 1926—
Textile products (75)
rel. to 1926..
Miscellaneous (25)
rel. to 1926—
All except farm and food
products (384)
rel. to 1928
Raw materials (108)
rel. to 1926Semimauufactured articles (62)
rel. to 1926Bradstreet's Index
rel. to 1926..
Dun's Index
rel. to 1926.
WHOLESALE PRICES
Acetate of lime
dolls per cwt
Aluminum No. 1, Virgin 98-99,
New York
dolls, per lb__
Aluminum, scrap cast, New York-dolls, per lb__
Barley, No. 2, Minneapolis
dolls, per bu~
Brass sheets, mill
dolls, perlbBrick, common, red, New York
dolls, per thous—
Butter, common, New York
dolls, per lb._
Cement, Portland (composite). -dolls, per lb—
Cheese, American whole milk, New York
_„ „
dolls, per lb_.
Chemicals...
..rel. to 1927Coffee, Rio, No. 7, Brazil grades.dolls. per lb—
Copper ingots, electrolytic
dolls, per lb—
Coal:
AnthraciteRetail, composite-dolls, per short ton—
Wholesale, composite
dolls, per short ton-Bituminous—
Mine average (spot)
dolls per short ton
Prepared sizes (composite)
...dolls, per net ton.-!
Retail, composite..dolls. per short ton—
Wholesale, composite
dolls, per short ton..
Coke, furnace, Councils ville
dolls, per short ton
Cocoa, spot, Accra, New York_.dolls. perlb..
Corn:
No. 3, yellow, Chicago
dolls, per bu__
No 3, Kansas City
. . dolls, per bu
No 3 white Chicago
dolls, per bu
Cotton:
To producer
dolls per lb
In New York, middling
dolls, per lb__
Cottonseed oil, refined, yellow,
prime, New York
dolls, perlb..
Cotton goods:
Print cloth 64 x 60
dolls, per yd..
Sheeting, brown.
-dolls, per yd..
Cotton goods (Fairchild) rel. to 1911-1913
Cotton yarns:
22/1 cones, Boston. __ _ _. dolls, perlb .
40/15 southern spinning
dolls, per lb..!
Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
rel. to Aug., 1914..
Drugs, crude
_.rel. to Aug., 1914. _
Essential oils
rel. to Aug., 1914..
Flaxseed, No. 1, Minneapolis-dolls, per bu_.
Flour, see under wheat flour.
Food, wholesale, see under individual items.
Food, retail (Dept. of Labor)
rel. to 1913..
Hides:
Green salted, packers'
heavy native steers
dolls, per lb._
Calfskins, country, No. 1 dolls, per lb_.|
2 Revised.
.003
.0656
14.96
14.97
14. 93
14.73
14.59
14. 31
14.19
14.39
14.85
14.85
14.88
14.89
14.90
13. 083
13. 083
13. 083
12. 796
12. 614
12. 413
12. 270
12. 202
12. 608
12. 732
12. 732
12. 751
12. 751
1.56
1.60
1.64
1.69
1.77
1.77
1.77
1.78
1.62
1.58
1.58
3. 962
8. 23
3.954
8.22
3.954
8.17
3.907
8.11
3. 856
8.09
3. 816
8.00
3.838
8.04
3. 845
8.46
3.999
8.71
4.223
8.83
4.270
8.87
4.317
8.94
4.336
8.94
3. 705
3.703
3.705
3.704
3. 706
3. 692
3.723
3.760
3.791
3.814
3.829
3.898
3.900
2.38
.0494
2.45
.0475
2.45
.0463
2.45
.0525
2.45
.0581
2.45
.0563
2.48
.0494
2.50
. 0535
2.50
.0550
2.53
. 05G3
2.55 :
. 0619
2.55
.0675
2.58
. 0688
.43
.46
.43
.38
.40
.39
.42
.46
.44
.46
.45
.49
.57
.53
.58
.58
.52
.59
.58
.52
.56
.58
.53
.58
.60
.54
.60
.0,
.54
.63
.65
.59
.68
.69
.66
.73
.71
.69
.76
.061
.065
.053
.064
.059
.065
.063
.072
.085
.093
.077
.090
.088
.093
.093
.102
.096
.109
.091
.110
.086
.102
.087
.101
.096
.110
.047
.045
.044
.059
.069
.068
.069
.076
.076
.073
.073 1
.072
.076
.036
.047
87
.038
.046
.041
.050
95
.043
.052
100
.049
.056
111
.048
.054
112
.050
.058
115
.053
.059
119
.055
.059
121
.053
.065
119
. 052
.062
120
.053 1
.065
122
.057
.066
124
.192
.189
.315
.201
.326
.212
.336
.225
.352
.215
.352
.223
.353
.231
.369
.240
.382
.239
.390
.248
. 390
.247
.390
.254
.405
157
117
157
118
65
1.32
157
118
70
1.37
157
118
76
1.41
157
118
77
1.64
157
128
77
1.48
157
130
79
1.55
160
131
82
1.57
174
130
81
1.58
175
131
80
1.56
175
133
81
1.57
175
137
85
1.61
175
137
87
1.65
119.1
119.4
119. 7
118.3
121.0
124.0
126.4
127.0
132.8
137.2
141.4
.095
.125
.107
.144
.118
.156
• 312
1.46
116. 7
119.0
!
. 082
. 085
.077
.083
,090
.098
.113
.129
.120
.139
.100
.129
.085
.129
.092
.135
.090
.128
.073
.117
24
SUEVEY OF CUREENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- \ NovemAugust
October Septemment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
July
June
1930
May
April
March
X^ November
FebruJanuary
ary
WHOLESALE PRICES-Contiaued
Hosiery
rel. to 1926-Iron and steel, metals and
metal products
rel. to 1926-.
Iron, raw:
Basic (valley furnace) .dolls, per long ton..
Composite pig iron
dolls, per long ton-Foundry No. 2,
northern
dolls per long ton _
Lard, prime contract, New
York
dolls, per lb-_
Lead, pig, desilverized, New
York
dolls, per lb._
Leather, composite, wholesale
price
. rel, to 1926..
Leather, solo and belting, oak,
and scoured backs
dolls, per lb._
Leather, upper, composite, chrome,
calf black, "B" grade
dolls, per sq. ft._
Leather, hides (see under hides).
Leather, shoes (see under shoes).
Linseed oil New York
dolls, per lb._
Lumber:
Composite, wholesale price... rel. to 1926..
Douglas fir, No. 1,
common
.dolls, per M ft. b. in__
Douglas fir, flooring, 1 x 4, "B"
and bettor (V. G. Washington)
dolls, per M ft. b. rn__
Southern yellow
pine
...dolls, per M ft. b. rn._
Meats:
Beef, frosh, carcass, good
native steers, Chicago
dolls, per lb_.
Beef, fresh, carcass, steers,
New York
dolls, per Ib
Cattle, corn-fed, Chicago-dolls, per 100 lbs__
Flogs, heavy, Chicago-dolls, per 100 lbs_.
Sheep, ewes, Chicago
.dolls, per cwt__
Sheep, lambs, Chicago
dolls, per lb__
Pork, hams, smoked, Chicago
__
_
dolls, per lb__
Western dressed steers, New York
_
dolls, per lb__
Methanol:
Refined
.dolls, per gal..
Milk, condensed, New York. .dolls, per case-Milk, evaporated
dolls, per case _
Nonferrous metals
rel to 1926
Oats:
No. 3, white, Chicago
dolls, per bu__
Oils and fats
rel. to 1927..
Oleomargarine, standard, uncolored,
Chicago
dolls, per Ib
Paper, newsprint, rolls, destination,
New York
_ dolls, per short ton._
Petroleum:
Crude, Kansas-Oklahoina_dolls. per bbl._
Gas and fuel oils, Oklahoma 24-26,
refineries
. dolls, per bbl._
Gasoline, New York
dolls, per gaL.
Kerosene, 150° water white-dolls, per gaL.
Lubric^ting oil cylinder
dolls per gal
Pig iron, foundry No. 2,
Pittsburgh
dolls, per long ton._
Potatoes...
dolls, per bu._
Rayon, 150 denier "A" grade,
New York
dolls, per Ib...
Rosin, gum, New York.,
dols. per bbl._
Rubber, crude, smoked sheets,
New York
dolls, per lb._
Rye, No. 2, Minneapolis
dolls, perbu..
Sheep, ewes, Chicago
dolls, per 100 Ibs
Sheep, lambs. Chicago.. ...doll, per 100 lbs_Shoes, men's black calf blucher,
Boston
dolls, per pair-Shoes, men's dress welt, tan calf,
oxford, St. Louis
dolls, per pair..
Shoes, women's black kid,
McKay sewed
dolls, per pair-Silk, raw, Japanese, 13-15, New
York..
__
..dolls, per lb._
Silk goods, composite
dolls, per yd..
Steel beams, mill, Pittsburgh-dolls, per cwt-.
Steel, crude:
Composite, finished steel
_
_
dolls. perlOOlbs..
Iron and steel, composite
, _.
dolls, per long ton-Steel billets, Bessemer. dolls, per long ton..
Steel scrap, Chicago. .dolls, per gross ton-Structural steel beams. dolls, per 100 Ibs..
Structural steel beams
rel. to 1926-Sulphuric acid..
..dolls, per ton-Sugar:
Retail average, 51 cities
rel. to 1913-.
Retail granulated, New York. dolls, per lb._
Wholesale, 96° centrif., New
York...
_
dolls, per lb._
Wholesale, granulated, New
York...
._dolls, perlb..
Tea, Formosa fine, New York-. dolls, perlb..
Textiles, general
_
rel. to 1926. .
Tin, wholesale, straits,
New York.
dolls, perlb-. i
48.6
48.6
48.6
48.6
48.6
48.6
50.8
50.8
51.9
61.9
51.9
58.3
86.2
86.5
87.2
87.1
87.5
87.4
87.8
88.7
89.0
88.9
89.3
90.0
90.2
15.00
16.02
15.25
16.23
15.50
16.32
15.50
16.38
15.50
16.38
15. 50
16.40
16. 25
16.64
16.50
16.75
16.50
16.72
16.75
16.82
17.00 !
16.94 !
17.00
17.01
17.00
17.14
17.76
18. 39
18.76
18.76
18.76
18.76
18.76
18.76
18.26
18.51
18.76 I
18.76
18.76
.071
.080
.075
.075
.082
.083
.082
.090
.094
.085
.090
.100
.112
.0394
. 0398
.0440
.0440
.0440
. 0392
.0382
.0441
. 0453
.0455
.0480 i
.0510
.0510
78.8
80.7
83.4
90.3
89.8
87.8
88.1
88.4
88.4
89.0
90.8 !
91.5
93.3
.32
.35
.39
.40
.37
.37
.37
.37
.37 !
.37
.38
.40
.41
.323
. 330
.337
.348
.350
. 352
.356
.356
.352 j
.354
.359 |
. 355
.367
.075
.073
.076
.083
.091
.086
.088
.092
.095 !
.092
.088 |
.092
.094
64.2
64.5
65.5
eao
66.3
67.8
68.4
73.3
74.2
73.2
76.0
78.1
80.1
11. 23
11.21
11.27
10.97
10.64
11. 25
11.64
12.12
12.68
12.86
12.82
12.99
13.25
24. 35
25. 63
25.48
25. 29
25.76
25. 98
28.33
29/74
31.14
31.65
31.33
31.73
33. 40
26.31
26. 49
27.21
27.68
27.82
28.15
28.82
28.32
29. 66
28. 42
30.73
32.51
33.44
.164
. 15')
.148
.144
.129
.129
.113
.160
.169
.178
.195
.195
.195
.175
10. 200
4.64
2. 00
4.98
.173
9.250
5.41
1.63
5.70
.165
8.656
5.71
1.63
5.94
.158
8.620
6.35
1.98
5.95
.145
7.250
6.24
2.56
6.05
.145
7.320
6.39
1.55
6.98
.155
7.675
6.40
2.44
8.36
.172
8.563
7.08
3.29
8.76
.180
9.075
7.18
3.79
8.27
.196
9.106
6.73
3.69
8.31
.205
10.00
7.34
3.44
7.98
.205
10. 58
7.94
2.93
7.40
.205
10.31
8.86
3.38
7.13
.172
.182
.186
.185
.173
.174
.182
.184
.187
.195
.207
.213
.222
.175
.173
.165
.158
.145
.145
.155
.172
.180
.196
.205
.205
.205
.35
4.75
3.00
53.5
.35
4.75
3.00
53.7
.35
4,75
3.00
56.8
.35
5.00
3.00
58.0
.35
5.65
3.10
59.4
.35
5.65
3.20
58.9
.35
5.65
3.30
60.6
.35
5.65
3.50
65.1
.40
5.65
3.50
67.1
.40
5.79
3.50
66.1
.40
6.03
3.75
67.4 |
.40
6.03
3.80
69.7
.40
6.03
3.80
68.4
.26
.23
47
.22
51
.21
62
.23
68
.27
64
.28
68
.30
72
.31
71
.32
68
.32 !
71 i
.34
73
.33
73
58.3
.133
.127
.119
.105
.106
.110
.128
.145
.145
.155
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
57. 000
.710
.560
.560
.434
.238
.300
.530
.530
.594
.850
.850
.850
.850
.143
.041
.338
. 143
.039
.319
.143
.039
.280
.133
.038
.294
.133
.038
.385
.133
.042
.463
.133
.045
.488
.133
.048
.145
.510
.133
.051
.145
.588
.138
.053
.146
.600 !
.135 i
.054 i
.165
.610
.141
.054
.172
.650
.141
.053
.184
.177
57. 000 i
.190
.205
62.000
62. 000
17.76
.457
18.39
.462
18. 76
.601
18.76
,767
18.76
.825
18.76
.753
18.76
.870
18.76
.908
18.26
.849
18.51
.887
18.76 !
.903
18. 76
.898
18. 76
.950
.75
3.96
.75
3.80
.75
3.87
.75
3.94
.75
4.28
.75
4.68
.75
4.70
.75
4.73
.75
4.64
.75
4.38
.75 1
4.45
.95
4.95
.95
5.29
.046
.51
2.00
4.98
.050
.41
1.63
5.70
.050
.39
1.63
5.94
.054
.38
1.98
5.95
.063
.37
2.56
6.06
.063
.37
1.55
6.98
.064
.36
2.44
8.36
.064
.35
3.29
8.76
.077
.36
3.79
8.27
.076
.37
3.69
8.31
.082
.38
3.44
7.98
:
.089
!
!
I
.44
2.93
7.40
.089
.43
3.38
7.13
6.311
6.55
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6.75
6. 75
4.35
4.35
4.35
4.35
4.35
4.49
4.60
4.60
4.60
4.60
4.60 ;
4.72
4.85
3.150
3.150
3.150
3.150
3.150
3.250
3. 250
3.250
3.250
3.250
3.250
3. 450 ;
3. 550
2.315
.98
1.60
2.266
.98
1.60
2.315
.98
1.60
2.512
.98
1.60
2.364
.98
1.65
2.463
.99
1.65
2.266
.99
1.65
2.266
.99
1.65
2.561
.99
1.65
2.709
1.00
1.65
2.807
1.02
1.63
2. 709
1.02 •
1.60
2. 463
1.02
1. 60
2.18
2.18
2.20
2.19
2.20
2.19
2.21
2.22
2.23
2.22
2.22
30.61
29.00
80.00
1.60
81.7
15.50
30.81
29.00
8. 000
1.60
81.7
15.50
31.03
29.00
8.200
1.60
81.7
15.50
31. 05
29.00
8.375
1.60
81.7
15.50
31.05
29.00
8.750
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.02
29.00
8.750
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.39
29.50
8.875
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.61
30.00
9.813
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.66
30.00
10. 000
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.65
30.00
10. 063
1.65
84.3
15.50
31.70
30.00
10.219
1.63
83.0
15.50
2.20
2.19
31. 76
30.60
10. 000
1.60
81.7 :
15.50 ;
31. 95
31. 00
10. 125
1.60
81.7
15. 50
102
.052
102
. 052
104
.052
104
.053
102
.051
102
.050
102
.050
104
.050
106
.051
107
.053
107
.053
107
.053
107
.053
.034
.034
.034
.034
.035
.035
.033
.032
.033
.033
.033
.034
.033
.044
.225
60.7
.015
.225
61.5
.045
.225
62.9
.046
.225
64.2
.046
.225
65.4
.044
.225
65.4
.043
.225
66.3
044
.225
67.6
.043
.225
69.2
.045
.225
70.4
.046
.225
71.0
.046
.225
72.4
. 2281
.2276
.2468
.2575 !
.2502
.2341
.2320
. 2512
.2707
.2631
.2610 !
. 2527 ;
;
.047
.225
73.3
. 2589
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
25
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Noverni
A
ment to the Survey
| October i1 bepteniker ; August
WHOLESALE PKICES—Conttnued
Turpentine gum,
New York
_
dolls, per gal—
Wheat:
No. 1, northern spring,
Minneapolis...
dolls, per bu_.
No. 2, red winter,
Sfc. Louis
„
dolls, perbu— i
No. 2, hard winter,
Kansas City
dolls, per bu._
W heat flour:
Standard patents,
Minneapolis
dolls, per bbl
Winter straights,
Kansas City
.dolls, per bbl.
Wool:
Raw, territory, fine, scoured.dolls. per lb_.
Raw. Ohio and Pennsylvania, fleeces, l/i
blood, combing grease.- dolls, per ID-Suiting, 13 oz . _ _
.dolls, per yd
Women's dress goods, French serge,
54-in., at factory
dolls, per yd—
Worsted yarns.
dolls, per Jb—
Zinc, prime western
_—
dolls, per Ib—
0.40
0.36 j
.80 !
2.71 j
.69 |
July
1930
June
i
May
Decem- i NovemMarch i February January
ber
! ber
j April
0.36 1
0.39
0.55
0.54 !
.65
.61
.74
.48
.72
.43
.44
.68
0.44!
0. 42
0. 43
.75
. 76
.77
.75
.79
.78
. 83
. 83
.69
.69 i
.71 i
.69
0.56
0.53
0.45
.81 i
.79
.76
.79
.80
.78
.73
.73
.70
.62
.52
.59
.48
4.84
4.28
4.24
4.21
4.13
4.75
4.85
4.71
4.67
4.85
4.96 '
4. 89
4. 69
3.03
3.10
2.96 i
2.96
3.84
4.12
4. 14 ;
4. 02
4.00
4,06
4.09
!
4.03
4.14
.58
.58
.62 ;
.63
.62
.62
.63 j
.65
.66
.66
.68
.72
. 72
.21
1.400
.21
1.400
. 22 j
1.400 j
. 23
1.490
.21
1.494
.20
1.494
.20
1.494 !
.22
1.494
.22
1.543
.23
1. 601
.28
i.eoi !
.27 1
1.601 ;
.29
1.601
.0321
.925
.950
,0338
.925 l
.950!
.0374 I
.925
1.00
.0382
.925
1.00
.0389
.925
1.00
.0342
.925 i
1.00
.0331
1
.968
1.00
.0372
1. 050
1.00
. 0400
1.050
1.10
.0401
.0401 ;
1.050 <
1. 10 !
1.050 I
1.17 !
.0410 |
1.050
1.20
.0427
53
89
97
54
92
60
75
71
84
110
57
92
58
79
65
85
114
67
91
59
80
80
99
109
74
106
G5
91
76
95
109
75
106
67
90
72 '
108
77
112 i
73 !
120
108
80 :
112 i
80
130
114
80
118
:
78
96
120
74
106
03
91
94 ;
97 ;
103
119.7
186.1
184. a
119.0
118.3
180, 8
121.0 '
179.4 ;
124.0
181.8
126.4
187. 7
1.27. 0
187,6
132,8 ;'
18S. 1
137. 2 i
188.1 i
141. ^
188.0
58
11 :
63
8
93
74
7
115 :
12 :
126 ;
23 I
72
38
207
7
185
9
76
7
119
12
70 I
17 i
70
17
63
.47 i
.43
FARM; PRICES
Cotton and cottonseed (2)
rel. to 1909-14Dairy and poultry products (4) .rel. to 1909-14-.Fruits and vegetables (9).. .....rel. to 1909-14—
Grains (6)
rel. to 1909-14
Meat animals (5^
rol. to 1909-14
UP Classified (5)
rel to 1909-14
All groups (31)..
rel. to 1909-14EETAIL PRICES
Retail food index (Dept. of Labor).rei. to 1913..
lie tail coal index (Depi. of Labor) rel. to IfiJ-'i
AIRPLANES
Deliveries, military.
—
_ . number
Exports, during month .. _.
number !
Production:
Commercial aircraft _
number
Manufactured for export
number . _ j
AUTOMOBILES
Production index (Fed. Res. Bd.)
i
rol. to 1923-25 i
Production index (elect, energy con«umed)
rel to 1923-25
Passenger cars and trucks:
Production, actual —
CanadaTotal
no. of cars
Passenger cars
.no. of cars..
Trucks
no. of cars
United StatesTotal
no. of cars..
Passing?! cars
no. of cars
Taxicabs
_no. of cars
Trucks
no. of cars—
Electric industrial trucirs and tractors:
ShipmentsDomestic
number
Kxports.
number
Autos, parts and accessories, export value
...thous. of dolls__
Exports (assembled):
From Canada—
Total
no, of cars..
Passf3nger cars
_, . no. of cars
Trucks
no of car?
From United StatesTotal
no. of cars
Passenger cars
_.
no. of cars
Trucks
.
no. of cars-.
Financing:
United StatesWholesale dealers... —thous. of dolls..
Total consumers _ _ _ _ _ _ thous. of dolls..
New cars
._. tbous. of dolls. _
Used cars
...
thous. of dolls
Unclassified ._
thous. of dolls...
CanadaTotal new and used cars
and trucks
thous. of dolls. .
New cars and trucks.. thous, of dolls..
Used cars
thous. of dolls..
New passenger -car, registrations
no. of cars.,
Sales (General Motors Corp.):
Total to consumers, U. S
no. of cars..
Total to dealers, U, S
. no. of cars..
Total to dealers, including Canadian and
overseas .
_
no. of cars.
Fire-extinguishing equipment:
Shipments—
Motor vehicles
number.
Hand typos
number
Accessories and parts, shipments:
Accessories
'.
rel. to Jan., 1925...
Original equipment
rel. to Jan., 1925-..
Replacement parts
rel. to Jan., 1925—
Service parts.
rel. to Jan., 1925—
Kim production
„.„ _„_... thous. of rims..
2
Revised
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ 4—R2Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
0.37
1931
50
102
42
99
70
46
79
53
68
57
76
51
71
1 1 fi 7
47
93
83
50
86
55
72
119.1
189. 1
i
!
1
!
1
!
1
119.4 j
188,7 i
I
. .
74
87
119
74
99
02
86
57
m
18
44
15
77
21
89 1
11
150
18
212
15
257
21
288
1
40 ;
52
00
05
77
11
,
.47
•
i
;
;
ru
22(3
fi.j. 5
57. 4
53.7
43.0
55.9
71.3
89. 7
1,440
2,646
2,108 !
538
4.544
3,42e>
1.118
4, 220
3,151
1,069
6, 835
5, 5X3
12.738
10,62]
2,117 \
;
108
;
70 :
GO ;
73
77
67
68
90. 8
M.1
88, 9
17,159
14,043
3,116
12, 993
10, 483
2, 510
9, 871
7, 529
2, 342
6. 1%
4, 5.'>2
5. h22
l,'-- r
1,397
6, 407
3.527
1,880
317,163 . 336,939
271,135 286,252
310
865
45, (588
50,022
270,405
230, 834
410
45, 161
219,940
179, 890
529
39. 521
171,818
137 SOn
155,701
120,833
1 425
3-5,443
130,754
100,532
609
35,613
48
23
8-1
50
6
33
5
14,174 i 18,004
18, 491
16, 071
14,353
1,172
763
409
1, 853
1.327
526
'ssi
''SI
12,966 !: 1*\ 727
8,468 ; 11.228
4,498
5,499
17, 528
11, 526
6, 002
85
74
71. ."
74. 9
i
' SI 2
43r,
( 7^!
K), 142
57, 764
651
21,727
6*. R67
' 999
19, 6S3
140,566
109,087
141
31,338
i 187,197
; 155,321
i
104
; 31,772
37
13
C3
15
50
25
8,658 ; 10,651
11.52S
12, 755
740
542
198
934
044
290
1,021
789
232
8,055
5,099
2, 356
0,996
6, 478
3, 518
10, 183
5, 843
4,340
43,947
1 79,641
1 46,871
i 30,493
i 2,277
48, 859
95, 953
59, 307
34, 136
2, 509
19
2
16
1
5, 548
8, 492
398
275
123
630
476
154
690 :
557 i
133
3, 112
1.928
l', 184
7,707
3, 207
4, 500
8.748 !
4,577 ;
4,171 !
39 :•
4 I
2
25,
2
15, 743
48, 659
25, 431
21, 945
1,283
770
60, 692
233,196
2
25, 882
a 1,614
35,841
68,285
38,610
27.581
2,094
i
|
i
i
_
218.490 250. 640
183, 993 210,016
3f,0
180
34.317 2 40, 244
2 903
1,417
1 , 485
4, 196
2, 102
2,094
69
0
1,512
1,083 1
429
58, 178 i 72, 630
104. 698 I 109, 426
63. 568
68,571
37, 999
37,793
3, 133 ! 3, OG2
4,918
2,445 j
2,474
iu, r. i
4' 1*7
49. fclh
63, 090
92. 055
66, 1S1
55. 036
16, 86f
34. 704 ' 27, 722
1, 593
2, 315 i
1 71, 194
! 113, 045
70,561
! 39,564
i
2, 920
!
33,531
42 !
9
37
9
15,292 ;
14,080
3. Oo4
1,79*
1.2,0
3 M-,
2. MI*
1,452 ;
2.FS8
1,200
1,328
si 3- '4
4, 534
9! 09«»
(j[ 03^
r- K"
So,
T.,,0
r p ,.fl',7
3.">, 3*2
2h k^
1, 7K
?9, 633
SO, 197
31,805
26,842
1, 550
:?',*' 15
1, 532
6,254
3,376
2,878
3, 543
1, 890
1, 653
2,361
921
1, 440
2, 1P7
247,727 : 205,732
200, 841
0,317
3,440
2,877 :
:
2.954 :
'613
2,3^1
3,038
817
2,221
102, 659
124,9031 155,744
194, 322
134,133
126. 78fi
96, 054
93, 060
34, 673
23, 716
49, 042
21, 305
51,740 | 69,876
47,895
62,667
85, 054
78, 723
103, 303 ! 122,717
100, 270 i 136,778
135,603
132,629
101, 339
98, 943 i
68,976
80, 373
61. SCO
76,681
57.089
68, 252
41,757
48, 155
29, 359
25, 975
58,122
70,078
87, 449
111,668
153,730
154,252
119, 195 i
96. 003
89,349
SO, OOB
57, 157
64 i
81
28,720 j 26,334
72
29, 895
90 !
29, GS6 1
75
31,117
72
32,533
7f>
34, 248
69
5fi
29, 280 | 27, 713
113
34, 295
71
29, 213
67
79
124
85
813
61
91 i
122
102
1, 085 i
201,911
i
58
20, 624
638"
2
80
24, 729
80
37
129
69
282
66
54
138
67
505
1
|
i
!
i
66
70
127
79
924 I
61
129
128
117 '
1,508 ;
66
327
127
118
l,71fc
j
65 !
117 !
no !
;
1, 42o
53
95
99
97
1,011
46
84
98
02
681
1
55
64
100
75
567 I
f>3
62
127
80
920
26
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the. 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1930
19,31
i , o \ e m - {)ftt)\
PI
se^j eni- ^UgUS{,
July
;
June
May
March
April
Deceru- November
ber
Febru- J antiary
ary
;
CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS
j!
'
Production index (Fed. Res. Bd.)
petroleum refiimg
rel. to 1923-25..
Production index (elect, energy
consumed) ,
...rel. to 1923-25..
Prices, wholesale
„ rel. to 1926. _
Stocks, manufactured goods,
end of month
rel. to 1023-25
Stocks, raw material, end of
month
rel. to 1923-25..
lf>!
138.9
74.7
161 ;
142.0
74. 1
165
162
161
183
161
152
149
144
i
149
151
144.6 \
74,8 ;
137.6
75.5 ,
137.7
77.3
132.7
77.9
133.8
79.1
137.4
80.1
139.3
81.9
146.6
82.2
132.0
83.6 ; j
133.5
84.8
145.0
85.2
13° 0
M27 0
3120.4 •
117.4
119.2
123.3
129.3
129.0
132. 0
130.7
128.8 \
123.9
124.2
114.1
J20.7
99.5 •
85.3
86,7
87.9
88.4
91.5
96.5
103.2
107.7
124.2
128.5
2,22,
5, (»
l'»,G>
2 00
I, V>j
2, 1^2
lU,b%
2 uu
• 1,^2
o,26^
11,41
JL W
666
4,777
16,277
2.00
840
4,654
20.389
2,00
1,853
3, 856
24, 203
2. CO
2, 953
4,674
20,208
2.00
4, 400
5,160
27,927
2.00
7,452
4,465
28, 687
2.00
7,073
3, 468
25. 701
2. 00
8,023
5,195
22,095 ' i
2.00 :|
7.357
8,375
19,266
2.00
6,535
9,128
20,285
2.00
! -"0
1 c *>
l.SJl
^,01,
9M
4,609
2,594
4,977
1,036
3,972
1 407
4,280
1.491 j
4,768 i
1,402
5,265
1, 957
5,478
1,494
5, 862
2, 803 !
6,486 j !
1, 483 '
5,767 !
2. 392
5,937
,! ,
! .( »
1,180
'6, An
1,252
3,5^
1,238
2=616
997
2,440
1, 024
2,201
1.044 !
964
2,012 ! 1,950
1,506
2,181
1, 409
2, 449
1,570 ; ,
2,419
1,439
2S221
1,508
2,010
Chemicals
\cet'ile of lime:
Mnpments
t'uv^. • f J s
Stocks, end of mo'ith
_tl.< TIS of "h?
Pncp, wholesale. - do 1( s pei f M
Arsenic, prude:
Production .. _. . s h o i t t? o n
Mo<H \ end of m^rth
^ ~>"t ons
Vr^emc refined.
Production f _
_ . . «hc-f t r ns
Stocks, fnd o month ... - s L d t t o n s
r t h \ l alcohol
Prodm t'OTi _
then", n p ^.f e r il
\v arehoa ^ ^*ocks, end r?
IllOLth ,
tliuU17 Of T\*or,f
13.111
13,120 ;
11,162
11,929
8, 859
!„, b u
1 , 1 vj
1" ^w
17,024
14,888
16,171
14,711 ;
13.074
11. 633
11,008
9,442 ;
6,858
j j ."]
r
13.0-6
11,637
10,4,%
10,491
10,288 : 10,541
8, 785
6, 296
8,081 i
19,134
vl1-
Withdr^Ti frr deriatL r patioLOUS, rf j»»of,f grJr
v <»Uianol, cr idc
^rodu Hf n
..
riP
Stocks at cnidf pL.nt , end f f
rnoiith
_
g i T!
Suvk^ at refineile^ ^nd IP «ranvt j. ''on-*
Exports.. . .. ....
.. E 1,( ^
Mejith riol, refirvd:
Pn< e, wholesale, Ne^ ^ oik dol|c- p» r „ ,i
Pioducl'on
.. - _
p " is
Shipment 1 --- - i r \liO'
Stocks, pn* of month. _ ..
- "fl 1
Price index numbersCrude d« ujr" - - - rel. to Auv . r t »
L^eniial oJs _ _ _ _ iel. to Sue , 1 >' Drugs ii d
I harn icvuti'11}!"!. - r«l to .^ „ , 1< < i
Chemical^ _. . .
_ _ . rv t" " .
Oils^rd f.ts..
.
.. j«' f , '<«_
Clastic ] vnts, (y]'!-\v;»ter ,n nt<% c L 'd <• i ( O r._
i l > f ic p nnf:>
- tl"C
o' fi(< i
< Mi mines _ . _ . ..thuis ef <] i 1 Cold vater paints _. t b « > i s o Co\l\ mt, \ciFiiish, and lacqu«T products*
Total s ues (315 es ibh^h
merits)
tl ou<* f d o , '
Trade s lies
thou> , i d r t . s
Industrial ^'iLs.
. . tnor c . o' doP v
T
nclis«i(ieu
v*l»thoin
ot «io!K
r
u l p h u r , piotinct] IP ( i J i r t e r l j - ; . . Ion,. ir ^ _
2
4
2. 1 , 4 •
I*} '
^ J > 107
113,892
154.473
182, 273
247, %'3
322.0*0
483, 222
465, 728
522,656 i 469,312
P'j , , )
1
, "«• ,
i<,' 'C
,,'» '
!
-57-,
»1
ln . 1 f '
»j,907 452, 4S9
M5 400 157,091
'/2<\ 543
494. K2
130.207
52,01s
520, bf> 5
36,176
5i, S.C7
415,489
105,238
30, 146
395, 855
121, 522
18, 295
302,320 244,763
89. 740 ! 93, 805
45, 139 | 90,111
3i
o , lf'
-)Si
.35
6o,Cil
12'J,8L2
.35
01,690
122, Si'*
107,
PI
1
. 3,'
118,052
257. 7P7
129,595
.40
. 35
211,073 253, 494
199,
500
141,801
569,250 499, 978
.40
228, 144
221. 279
445, 934
.40
306,373
167,309
444,119
(
1< TJ )Ort -
stocks, end of "if nth
D u l y npicit> AU
plants., _
P1 intb shut Jc^vii
._
.
.
424,736
!
.40 ,
40
i 382,547 ! 481,179
j ; 372,352 ! 477,029
I 305,055 | 294,860
US
76
118
77
128
77
130 !
79 ;•
131
82
130
81
131
80
133 1
81 ] •
137
85
!
j37
87
7
17
i ."
^
-'
157
80
62
157
m
68
157
88
G4
157 ;•
89
68
160
90
72
174
90
71
175
89
68
175 l!
90 I '
71
175 i
93
73
175
94
73
67
122
73
51
127
S3
141
80
109
165
91 !
102 ;
,
°»4
J62
81
100 ;
104
116
175
90
104
122
71 i
83 !'
90
60 |
65 i
100 ,
64
77
105
45
i ^ r^ '
*\ 07
2 k -> 5
>• •«
li ' ^ v
S U3o
r ; (.3 >
8'
14,242
8,392
85
15,112
8,802
6f 235
7K
19. 120
12,011
7, 031
84
?
808, 730
K,
10-632
110,599
92,895
90, 772
13.412
14,709
25J76 • 26,585 ! 15,424
i "
*"
«*'*
,.2
J1 -t
6, ->/
4417
4l»
»»,h">4
:
n
5( 764
l-OO
12 PS'
DOT ad •>
]4, o,
I 1 - > h+9
•* 6 "5
1
. 01S
15,967- 23,006
T4 t °fl o 2 ^4"
41'. , 7 '
. 7 ,3^
i'>2,S46
' 4 1(,
i" 'o.
. 1 ^oo
i ,r^n
io, i;.-?
4/ » 472
15 H/O
r
P. 500
r
3 ^> 106
IK ^76
2.0 77
1 i 500
319 2H
mir^
7f J
Mr 7
S ' , 0 ' 1(
1 1
SrJ 0^2
1 '(
i ^Lr
r
^.54
L75
J i> ( >
-0.148'
95 ;
1, 5 r t J
4^4
rQ
i-M' (
,U7 7'
1'7, «
3 S2<
^H'> i1 «
-17, f)S3
10 %<'
/OK '17
P'.^-ii
o
2^ 0J
1 j. C^
270, "12
1114S)
2)'»
9 r <l
i f c ^ ''7
IS'.fQ 0
PO,-4P
^7,1%
,LM'f>5
^T
14^n
' 4<
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Ji',")S
r
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20'i, M?
2-51,0?;
" l ' i , l 4 """9;o"'
^"4
P^,Q8^
'-JtH'i
Production..
t ms. of lb.Stocks, end of month - fhous jflps
* By 74 ftrtili'er com Darn s •/r^ratii ; J04 ulanr,.
215 443
59. 197
40,814
U^
7)
14.11°
1° 7 "
f'ott , seed,
^'on^uiripti >n (,r ru <!»/ .. .. _. Rhort ton "*_
Receipts aS m.lls. __ *houP o short * n«;
8to< v s f*t mills, erid of i^ont'r
thoa tf *b"~ '.HIPottonseed rako ana i 'oal.
Ki;orts
.
fho'i ton c
ProauctioTj.
_
sn K t ton
Stocks, end of inrnth... __
^L^ t to Ti s _
n
ottonsped oil, (pj^e:
!rodu(tion
„ _ „ _ , ...t^ou o f P s
Stocks, end of month. . . Thru 4 - nf i^s
(""ottonoeed ".], rerinedFactor j consumption
%
Tct^s1 fqtiarterlv)
thors o f 1 ^ .
In oleoi iart,drme. - thuiis. « f i v
Prioe, yelhAv, prime, Xe v ^ Oik
:
;
J1S
t
IS, 60"
co--":
. «.< rt ! -
20 ; 070
i ,
vi
(l
s
Price vv holt sale 66°
_ .dr'K j « t tun
Synthetic d>e«5, import^
.
p( md
Wood at distillation plnni ^'
8,304
!
~o, M
1«)',Ubl
f
1
!
20,861
-N ,4^
h ,lf>i
^ ip
c
Porohase
FroTu ierti! z^r m tn « ictu~c s
_ __
_ _ &hoit t(
Fn m IK" 'ortshzer mar»> f i tun* r
11,869 I: 17,770 ;
.059
11,968
212,371
, ""^
T ^>«
19,739
44,1*4
13 1
32
26
33
. 0.'IP
16. 26S
277^,;-:
116,447
li 6 1
1" 814
AOd 9 s 31') 050
F
671,0 ^
02 248
21,414
ul,4C-*
50^
^72
o 0"
'f^T
87,014 ! 155.373
37 ;
44
14. 269
7,844
6, 282
144
13,586
11,600
7, 399
6, 171 !
6,047 i 5,289 !
141
140
_ ,_
3fi78. 119 !
13,821
7, 649
6,025
147
146,458
103,647
184, 030 i 186,656
185,472
26, l-<)
*>00, 18
15 *>OM
218,844
35, 594
376, 076
15.500
1 ->2, 477
41,282
59, 244 ! 51,472
304, 745 438,836 ; 308,992
15. 500
15.500 '•• 15 500
181, 775 i 306,318
336,026
i« 607
3~< , 149
44. 933 I 51, 390 I 46,814 :•
397,78* 393,770 i 448,007 i
2, 499 1
368 i
280,837
111
207
"97
6, ' ^1
2^6, 00^
r,750
n r 144
303, r,45
62469
^,048
PQ 7Q4
60, ^-78
1^012 ~~~!,~26o~j~~~l,~447"
'276,906
1, 621
.068
30,398
348,438
'Revised.
105,250
17, 972
10, 461
7,431
81 !
« 649, 595
85
1^726
"H 919
8 Z 6~
22,600 1 21,689
14, 430 ' 13, 477
8 5 071 ! 7,999
100
213
i
45
I
i, ,04
2C5
c
\1 | 2 } 44
1^0, ? 0( 19 136
->, 9^
* 91
!
^3 <^r^
223 0^
2 OP
32,8 o
75 > ^,
i
377 '
3,147
190, 314
363, 201
2,519 ; 2,519
412 •
560
! "578 1 '" 2793
620 |"
991 ;
z ],C83
11, 084
7,538 '•
1,580
270, 965 305, 019 2 358, 580
343, 665 ; 298, 139 2 254, 075
124, 392 i 181,221
104, 910 1 127,739
:
201,621 2 237,913
114,248 2 114,845
2 328,614
2,178
2,091
.073
,073
.072
.070
130,556 1 150,998 ; 188, 823 2 213, 906
494, 882 461, 776 ! 428, 609 i 2 350, 925
Qnarl er ended in month indicatec .
.069 i
.076
38,470 i 76,852
406,237 ; 462.881
3
401, 736 i 589,911
219
1 58 j
42,888
478,962
,076
115.302
491,503
27
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1331 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
xr nvoni
bor i
October
September
\ugu-st,
CSIEMICALS AND ALLIED P&OD- 1
UCTS— Continued
i
|
Chemicals— Continued
Explosives
1
!
Explosives, black powder, permissible and I
j
other high explosives:
New orders
thous. oflbs..!
26,970 25. 803 25,437 !i
Production
.
thous. of Ibs. ! 25,282 26, 598 24,548
Shipments
thous. of Ibs i
i 25. fiin 27, 408 24,867 !
Stocks, end of month
.thous. of lbs~
17, 888
! 18,151
19,956
Fats and Oils
Animal fats (quarterly):
3176,221
Factory consumption.thous. of Ibs..
3491, 837
Production.- . __
thous. of Ibs
3230, 999
Stocks, end of quarter
.-thous. of Ibs.. |
i_...
Animal glues:
!
* 20, 847
Production (quarterly)., .-.thous. of Ibs. i _ . i
3 61, 848
Stocks, end of quarter.
thous. of Ibs.. L...
Coconut or copra oil:
Factory consumption-!
i
3137, 730
Crude (quarterly) ~ _ . thous. of Ibs
Refined—
3 78, 496
Total (quarterly) _ _ . thous. of Ibs,.
! 13,859
In oleomargarine
thous. oflbs,. !
10, 947
9,473
Imports
.-thous. of lbs._ 25,186 30,784 29, 455 18,228
Production (quarterly) —
3
Crude .
.
thous. oflbs.
61, 388
i
Refined
thous of Ibs '•
3 68, 682
Stocks, end of quarter3201, 036
Crude.
thous. of lbs._L-~
i
Refined
. thous. of Ibs !
1
8 17, 516
Copra:
Factory consumption (quarterly)
i
_ . short tors
s 49, 024
Imports
short tons
20,953 | 19,352
19, 832
20,207
Stocks, end of quarter
short tons
3 23, 795
Edible gelatin:
Production (quarterly)
thous of Ibs
» 1, 625
Stocks, end of quarter _ _ thous. of Ibs
3 6, 543
Fish oils:
Factory consumption (quarterly)
8
!
thous. of Ibs
52, 497
Production (quar erly)
thous. of Ibs.
» 29, 847
Stocks, end of quarter
thous. of Ibs..
3247, 638
Greases:
Factory consumption (quarterly)
thous. of lbs._
* 51, 941
Production (quarterly).. ... thous, of Ibs
3s 90, 056
i
Stocks, end of quarter
thous. of lbs_.
81, 072
Lard compounds:
Production (quarterly)
thous. of Ibs, .
3276, 713
Stocks, end of quarter
thous. of lbs__
3 21, 718
Oleomargarine:
Consumption
thous. of lbs._ 22, 838 23, 401 19, 499
16,483 !
Production
thous. of lbs__
... 23,965
16,075
18, 836
Vegetable oils:
Exports
,
thous. of Ibs.. 1,070
1,814
455
1,025 j
Factory consumption (quarterly)
_. mills, of Ibs
M89
Imports
thous. of Ibs.. 66, 677 59, 225 50, 633 63,096
Production (quarterly)
mills, of Ibs..
3441 .
1
Stocks, end of quarter—
3
Crude.thous. of Ibs..
591, 342
3
Refined
thous of Ibs
209, 759
Fertilizer
Consumption, Southern States
_
thous of short tons
40
66
94
91
Imports:
Total.
_ _
long tons
120 8?2 146, 700 127,599
Nitrogenous., . long tons ....
47,935 i
61,904
70, 022
Other fertilizers
long tons
4,763 !
5 516
4,063
Phosphates
long tons-. ...
9,858 i
| 3!331
6,175
Potash
long tons
65,043 I
12,872 j 50,071
68, 440
Exports:
Total. _ _
long tons
94 416 127,953 115,207 !!
Nitrogenous
-long tons
7, 554
7,682
13, 452
Other fertilizers
lonf tons
1,425 i
5 550
3,863
Phosphate material..long tons..
75,114 115, 621 105,717
Prepared fertilizer
long tons
300
915
383 !
Nitrate of soda, imports. .thous. of long tons..
30
34
49
35 j
Superphosphate (acid phosphate):
142
_
141
162 I
Production
thous. of short tons
85
58 j
Shipments
thous. of short tons..
119
Stocks, end of month
thous. of short tons_. ,.......1, 237
1,275
1,285
Flaxseed
1,234
1,468
2,469
Flaxseed, imports
__
thous. of b u _ _
1,339 |
Linseed cake and meal:
Exports....,__
thous. of ibs__ 42, 782 49, 027 48, 615 57,736
Shipments from Minneapolis
_. _ _.
thous. of Ibs
13,972
........ 14,354
17, 385
Linseed oil:
Factory consumption (quarterly)
thous of Ibs
3 70, 504
.083 |
Price, New York....... _._..dolls. per ib..|
.075
.073. 076
Shipments from Minneapolis
____
thous. of Ibs..
Stocks at factories (quarterly)
_. .
,_
_.,.__thous. of lbs__
»Revised,
July
June
May
j April
j Deceni- NovemJjaarrinrv
ndar
March 1 February
y
ber
ber
25,058
25,068
25,150
20,304
26, 719
25. 981
26, 611
20, 404
26,441
26,960
27, 379
21, 115
i
I
I
i
26,730
25,414
26, 598
20, 929
6, 806
«107, 508
5,675 !
28,721
27,647
28, 000
20, 639
„„'.._.
*8 1 66. 069
559, 688
!
276, 983 „
3
J313Q. 128
6,169
34,845
8
18,012
i» 201, 932 ...
» 16 869
„,..„
206, 123
* 16, 039
* 63, 434
17, 179
8
j 7, 491
i
1
8
4
!
549
8, 642
! '44,620
! « 11, 587
!» 215, 405
.
« 55, 715
* 94, 985
* 83, 074
i 8 53, 346
,. ...
: • 95, 948 ..
.._._'.._.„.„! • 70,012 ..
»8278, 216
25, 140
™,._. ; ....
...J...
13, 180
12, 636
15, 460
14, 912
1,008
1, 775
2S 358
!
2, 154 |
165
1, 132
3, 831
19,751 27,237
27,593
20,335 | 25,740 j 28,969
2,947
4,775
2,086
......... : « 1,076
! 72,142
72,028
L. .... . » 1,007
1
J 635, 271
i
. 8 469, 807
30, 631
29, 633
2,294
75, 352
343
74
»72
'!! 107,198
68,250
! 3,864
j 9,760
! 25,324
95, 798
66, 044
5,891
4,157
19, 706
104,049
18,336
4,734
80,696
'283
68
i 92,463 | 71,933
i 13,331 ,! 5,164
i 5.117 ! 1,510
1 73,520 ,-| 64,721
I
495 !
538
!
46 |
36
92, 258
11,914
4, 599
74, 803
882
35
146
65
162 !
106 j
1,158
1,060
996 I
1,685
1,150
1,496 |
8,285
_.'i»331,412
* 26, 672
! 137,172
!
82,466
! 6,764
i 6,279
! 41,663
143
63
,091
1 i 42, 675
« 25,364
: 3 197, 758
640
89,194 1 107,918 ;
7,690 ; 6,637 i
1,926
9,498 !
79,472 i 91,049 \
734 i
106
34 |
30
7, 653
L .
L__
i ..
141,421
98,435
5,438
3,726
33,822
89,409
7,078
1,164
80,670
497
19
39, 768
«4,434
»8>224
1, 352
59,970
37,998
3,983
3,339
14,650
11,414
^
! _.
33, 886
! 72, 159 143, 250 ! 255, 905
1 46,602 102,342 170,587
' 3, 019
5, 124 i 9, 766
i 4, 832 i 5, 578 ! 15, 158
1 17,706
30,206 ! 60,394
74 I
97,358
24,730
902
3,768
67,958
53,225
. >* 158,846
; : s 21, 993
.... ... 8 49,494
I
_ !i « 89, 338
„.!._
» 77, 791
;
_
»829
»588
79,809
75, 470
72, 280 : 52, 463 j 68, 238
74,285
...
.
!
i 674 .. ....
»390
-- I
3
!» 610, 812
517, 909 !
13
531 606
> 386, 176
25
» 90, 921
84, 264
.
^ 291, 386 .„„..._.
|—
; * 26, 081
17, 160 1 19, 573
19, 618 I 21, 154
17,111
20, 477
8
i i 71,229 . .
- i ' 7 1 , 134
18,927 ; 25,890
33, 133 I 34, 056
37, 419
* 27 167
!
* 41, 077
8
4 415
* 8, 647 . .
9,289
11,271
-
:
i
!
17,871
* 54, 465
» 4, 647
« 262, 106 -
!
28,847
30,248
30,229
16,346
159, 546
8
'
90, 307
11,492 ; 14,873 i i 16,491
44,034
24,690
30,952
91, 446 ...... .
'
> 66 268
;
a
'<
8
81, 899 .... — .* 87, 351
8
1
138 255
24,404
24,024
22,974
17,303
!88 154, 560
; 515 764
. » 191, 906
!
3
23. 515
;3 51 055
._._'..
* 75 479
il, 329 ! 12,088
26,862 | 27,550
8,466
15,970
26,714
24,058
25,201
17,372
' 33 23 348
54 991
s 23. 357 ......
» 78, 348
7,105
31, 000
25,448
28,751
27,543
20,219
'»1 164, 951
618, 459
3224,398
1 3 58 757
3141,205
4,410
1930
1
38, 172
11,921
326 i
103 i
336
70
303
78
1, 101
1, 836
2,287 !
i
2,292 j
(]
2,110
1,877
827
1,313
952
352
39, 847
12, 145 i 17, 827
» 78, 200 ' _
:
:
12, 792 1 11,552
_
i
249 !
131 !
J. ........I » 74, 092
.088
.092 ! .095
'•118 417
3 95, 544 •
.086
130, 635
j
226
305
195 i
407 j
30, 818
8, 432 [
1
6,788 ,
150,128 ! 112,725
25,146 !, 19,819
10,829
7,755
113,017 !' 84,682
1,136
469
67
120
..j'113.192
» C uarter en ded in month Indicated,
219
387
18,238 i 10,853 ![ 33,596
25,986
11,046
17,227 | 16,824
17, 315
; 388,894
.092
3131 257
.094
!..
.092 i
i
9,594
,088
8,553 !
7,385
.__.JI»113,423
10, 199
28
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1930
1931
Nl
£r-i October JS^I August
July
1
!
;
j
:
|
'
]
1,452 :!
924
1,422 |
:
CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS— Continued
June
May
April j March
Flaxseed— Continued
^f" November
|
Minneapolis and Duluth:
Receipts
.
. thous. of V>u .
Shipments
„ _ _ „ _ thous, of bu._
Stocks, end of month
thous. of bu...
Oi! mills (quarterly) —
Consumption, - __
thous. of bn__
Stocks, end of quarter
thous. of but .
Price, No. 1, Minneapolis
dolls, per bu_.
Production, crop estimate ...
thous. of bu.. *
Naval Stores
Pine oil:
Production
,
gallons...
Stocks, end of month
thous. of gals..
Rosin, gum:
Net receipts, Southern ports
bbls..
Price, "B," New York
dolls, per bbl_.
Stocks at 3 ports, end of month
bbls_.
Rosin, wood:
Production. _
„
bhls__
Stocks, end of month
bbls
Turpentine, gum:
Net receipts, Southern ports
bbls...
Price, New York
dolls, per gal__
Stocks at port, end of month
bbls..
Turpentine, wood:
Production
bbls
Stocks, end of month
.
... __bbls_.
Febru- January
ary
D
378
3^6
G7o
789
501
790
468
424
7S4
1.64
» 7, 205
» 1, 198
1.48
140,690 I 176.973 1 172,539 ; 114,205 ' 210,711
1,829 | 1,860 ,! 1,845 ;
1,866 ,
2,000
i,U2G :
J , ] 59 '
I,fi05 :
2,766
786 ;
1,381 !
2,436 ;1
' 406
747 !
498
185
1,205
426
286
1,293
491
243
877
1.55
i » 6, 571
! * 2, 345
1.57 |
1.58
1.56
1. 57
231, 207
2,013
210, 012
1,958
219,053 208,690
1,903 ;
1,882
220, 066
1, 839
144,440
1, 769
229,737
1, 799
229, 979
1,708
95,042 ! 101,157 1 116,630 : 129,018 ' 156,810 " 165, 500
3. 90 |
3. 80 !
3. 87 .'
3. 94 •
4 2h
4.68
497, 438 4G5, 466 ! 459, 588 j 449, 173 439, 241 436, 480
120, 819
4.70
351, 548
88,741 [ 38,977
4.73
4.64
310,576 ; 266,056
27, 322
4. 38
300, 695
41,345 ' i 117,489
4.45 '
4.95
329,626 ; 372,090
107, 414
5.29
323, 142
33, 593
124, 830
35,585 ! 33,544
126,534 125,919
32, 332
130, 490
24,488 '! 34,332
125,630 ; 122,318
38, 931
119,727
!
„ __j
1.46
11,018 :
\ 37,010 ::
!
i a 4,241
1,32 i
1.37
!
;
!
1.41
i
1
i
j
;
3 9<>') ;
5^231 i
3 797
4^817 ;
2 607 !
5^358 |
»7,391
l 4, 472
1. 61
, 5 21, 240
1,424
1,910
1,411
!
34, 747
126, 289
|
23,147 1 3f) 8^9 I 28 995 i 37 112 ! 53,459
-40 !
.36 !
.37 i
.36 1
.39
119,388 i 120,953 j 115,178 i 114,421 122,214
3, 547 <
5,143
709
517
1, 386
1. 65
j
i
21,440 i 26,102! 25,058* 17, 074 i 28,495
93, 112 : 101, 537 108,350 1 112,295 j 131,942
;
309 !
314 i
973 1
4 370
5,307
Ivoolmjjr
i
\
>
I
Dry roofing felt:
Production
_
..short tons.. 12,028 i 16,116 ; 18,356' 17, 143 i 16,747
Stocks, end of month .,
short tons.. 5,456 | 5,021 ! 4,834
4,761 ! 4,908
Prepared roofing, shipments:
Grit roll
thous of ^qs
574
711
568 •
532
Shingles —
Individual and single thickness
,__..
thous. of sqs_.
130
153
136
127
Strip, patented, and hexagon
_„_
thous. of scjs..
470 j
535
466 1
435
Smooth roll
thous. of sqs . _ _ _
i 128
1 198
1 067 '
-S73
Total
. -thous. of sqs
2,302
2-597
2*237 ' 2,017
5,354
.45
58, 202
7,228 i 27,482
.44 i
.42
68,320 .1 84,911
28, 107
.43
95rS60
5,740
9,987
5,634
13, 537
4,757 . :
14,437
6,200
15,799
6,584
13,895
16,643
5,378
13, 787
4, 677
13,045
4,759
8,106
3,731
8, 944
4,036
333
330
322
242
372
26,102 ;
9,511
'.56
.53
53,393 : 45,232
52, 345
.55
101, 905
37, 026
.54
66, 248
5, 675
4, 535
5,996
4,727
16, 795
4,398
19, 998
4,092
520
570
633 i
131
155
148
512
843
2,006
541
965
2,230
555
967
2,202
6,344 I
8,383
18,001
4,360
;
:
:
62
60
51
63
86
329
702
1,456
277
714
1,381
249
773
1,395
238
583
1,126
283
742
1,484
FOODSTUFFS
Production index:
Food products (Fed, Res.
Bd.)_
—
_.—rel. to 1923-25._
91
» 91 :
92 i
88 1
88
Food and kindred products
(elect, energy consumed) .rel. to 1923-25. . 144. 0
136. 5 i 142. 0
146. 4 '
147. 0
Stocks, manufactured
foodstuffs
rel. to 1923-25
65.9
*68.1 i *81.3
97.4
111.1
Stocks, raw foodstuffs
rel. to 1923-25
205. 8 2 201. 4 i 204. 1
213. 1
191. 7
Candy
Sales by manufacturers^ _ . ..thous, of dolls i 23,206 24,110 22,965 15,558^ 12,176
Cocoa
Shipments from Gold and Nigerian
Coasts, Africa
long tons
23, 080 ! 7, 256
6, 663
4, 355
7, 783
Imports
long tons
g 152
14 104
13 546
17,746
Spot price, Accra, New York
dolls, per lb_. .0494 | .0475 i .0463
.0525 \ .0581
Coffee
Clearances:
Total, Brazil for United
States
thous. of bags..
Total, Brazil for world
thous. of bags..
Imports
thous. of bags
Price, Rio No. 7, Brazil grades.. dolls, per lb._
Receipts, total Brazil
thous. of bags..
Visible supply:
United States
_._..._tbous. of bags..
World
-thous, of bags..
I
I
I
l
I
l
83
91
96
87
92
89
94
136.2
126.8
122.0
116.8
122.0
118.3
93 i
107.1
124,4
106.3
178.2
97.0
189.7
96. 1
193. 7
93. 5
202. 1
97.3
197.9
95. 5
194.8
89. 1
205.1
88.6
200.0
15, 512
15,680
21,608
22,062
21,444
21,948
28,727
29, 500
11,870
14, 892
.0563
11,720
22, 520
.0494
33,864
20,242
.0535
48,353
20,942
.0550
51,550
13, 696
.0563
39, 278
16,418
.0619
21, 756
13,700
.0675
18, 888
6, 338
.0688
889
1,590
1,289
.064
1,648
952
1,647
1,094
.068
1,697
881
1,590
1,098
.070
1,494
514
1, 080
967
.079
1,549
1,148
5,963
1,161
6,879
866
5,455 ,
929
5,188
817
5,014
!
'
:
870
1,529 i
936 !:
.063
2,319 i
805
1,485
907
,058
1,711
i
!
I
I
!
711
1,263
794 '
.056
1,533
592 .'
1,216 i
884 !
.056 i
1,495 ;
530
1,161
1,100
.063
1,462
760
1,504
1,037
.068
1,535
643
1,333
1,415
. 061
1, 755
1,080
849
1,863
1,559
1,126
1,407
.053
.056
1,550 ; 1,565
1,639 ;
C, 755 i
1,637 \
0,874 ;
1,555
6,578 ;
1,592 1
6,944 l
1,491
6,990
1,395
6,724
1,345
6, 286
1,088
6,136
197,536
205, 626
228, 387
1.S4, 528
160, 753
152,985
163, 6.S9
1 66, 506
154, 987
115.121
158.061
58, 522
.25
89, 172
188, 040
74, 151
.23
35, 155
174, 827
61, 813
.24
17, 195
18,010
140,676 122,954
53,566 i 48,739
.26 (
.29
30, 672
105,192
43, 251
.28
46,792
63,401
112.813 i 111,670
45,644 i 43,892
.29 |
.32
88, 012
101,950
36. 848
.36
45 088
53, 147
55, 345
47,925
46,332
38, 068
41,070
39,500
40, 035
§4, 003
11,496
148
3,413
14,190
52, 960
72, 977
4,078
119
5,121
17, 480
64, 533
55, 939
1,517
139
5, 856
12, 145
52, 563
53,172 ! 54,270
505 ;;
491
121
208
6,471 ! 4,611
11,445 ! 11,717
40,470 ! 34,388
61, 841
306
118
4, 062
10. 406
26, 379
69,471
918
129
4,123
11,600
27,543
1.: 79,015
!
4,025
!:
176
!
4,163
• 1 10,400
j 35,057
87, 171
14, 677
108
5, 041
10, 784
35, 782
68, 532
-15
58, 144
.14
42, 461
.14
40,542 I 41,836
.15 i
.16
47, 968
.16
54,499 L1 63,326
.17 I!
.18
71, 132
.19
!
'
1
Dairy Products
!
":
'
'
BUTTER
Apparent consumption
thous. of Ibs.. -.-.'•• 190, 179 189,462 203,734
Cold-storage holdings, creamery,
end of month
thous of Ibs
42,297 i 50, 164 : 80,152 I 104.678 !
Production (factory)
_ _ „ _ _ thous. of Ibs.. 112,002 i 121,062 ; 118,202 i 136,769 !
Receipts, 5 markets
thous of Ibs
44, 925 i 43, 857
42, 803 , 45, 588 !
Wholesale price, New York
dolls, per lb__
.31 1
.34 ,
.33 '
.28
!
!
CHEESE
1
i '
1
!
i
i
Total, all varieties:
Apparent consumption
thous. of Ibs
_ i 51 687 ! 46 557
45,277 :
Cold-storage holdings, end of
month
.
thous of Ibs
78, 587 ! 2 81, 743 ' 83, 426
86, 418 i
Exports, Canada . .
thous of Ibs
11,022 i 21,945 i 16,688
11,929 i
Exports, United States..... thous. of Ibs..
HO !
112 !
116
124 I
Imports, United States
thous. of Ibs. . 6,057 i 7,179 ; 5,515 4,389 1
Receipts, 5 markets
thous. of IDS
10,569! 13,588 i 11,949
14, 2G4 i
Production (factory)
thous. of Pos..
| 43,282: 38,175
43, 218 j
American whole milk:
Cold-storage holdings, end of
month
thous of Ibs
60, 606 1 64, 071 ! J 65, 802
68, 874
Wholesale price, New York. .dolls, per lb..
. 15 1
. 1(5 l
.17
. 16 I
s
* Revised*
Quarter ended in month indicated,
* As of Dec. l,
* Final estimate for 1930.
29
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
November
August , July
October September
June
1930
May
April
March
Febru- January Decem- November
ary
ber
FOODSTUFFS-Continued
EGGS
Cold-storage holdings, end of month:
Case
..
_-thous. of cases..
Frozen
thous. of lbs_.
Receipts, 5 markets
thous, of cases
MILK
Condensed milk:
Exports
thous of Ibs
Total stocks, manufacturers, end of
monthCase goods
thous. of Ibs. .
Bulk goods
thous. oflbs
Wholesale price, New York. dolls, per case-Evaporated milk:
Exports_
thous. oflbs
Manufacturers' stocks, end of month —
Total case goods
thous. of ibs__
Wholesale price, New York.dolls. per case-Fluid milk:
Consumption in mfr. of
oleomargarine
thous. of ibs_.
Production, Minneapolis and
St. Paul
thous. of Ibs
ReceiptsBoston, including cream thous. of qts
Greater New York
thous. of qts..
Powdered milk:
Exports
-.
thous. of Ibs _
Manufacturers' stocks, end
of month
thous. of Ibs
Net new orders
_
thous. of lbs_Production, condensed and evaporated milk
thous. of Ibs
Exports, condensed and evaporated
milk
thous. of lbs_.
3,447 2 5,745
86, 323 294,816
578
722
7, 960
103, 302
943
1,443
1,180
1,309
15, 130
8,578
4.75
17, 264
2 9, 995
4.75
20, 349
11, 007
4.75
4,240
3,610
3,659
139,844
3.00
129,802
3.00
136, 408
3.00
6-, 142
4,849
25, 224
21, 751
19, 558
19, 598
115,390
970
854
9, .507
9,016 I 9,504
110,271 |114,700 113, 513
1, 862
1,053 ! 1,180
1,862
1, 372
22,504 24,071
15.001 ! 16,221
5.00 1 5.65
23, 998
18, 992
5. 65
4,466 ! 5,892
5, 024
1,477
181,745 :275.931 275, 2SO
3.30
3.00 I 3.10
7, 887 '
106,607 1
2,236 I
5, 162
91,517
2,478
1, 893
78, 051
2, 046
408
73, 889
1, 254
1,973
1,853
1,873
1,345
19,892 ! 12,390
19,163
15,887
5.65 '•
5.65
13, 227
16, 273
5.65
13, 051
16, 171
5.79
5, 311
5,034
3, 775
230, 739 177, 754
3. 30 ,
3. 50
150, 931
3.50
136, 896
3.50
5, 114 •
1, 894
735
75, 685 ; 83, 184
768
1,026 !
4, 15-i
89,571
2, 403
1,907
1,973
13, 928
18, 594 j
6. 03
17, 803
19, 520
6, 03
20, 657
20. 885
6.03
5, 269
4, 546
4, 366
157, 152 202,070
3.80
3.76 i
211,828
3. 80
i
712
22, 900
8,205
2 23, 572
2 9, 914
26, 711
14, 331
5,38/
5,927
5,814
7, 464 i
8, 158
8, 404
32,654
36, 245
33, 026
34, 333 j
30, 310
25, 685
20,545 21,615 21, 021
115,166 1120,752 116, 580
1
1,085
1,047 I
964
21,023 1 19,877
116,117 ! 110,313
20, 312
113, 329
17, 444
101, 197
18, 352 | 18,313
110,428 1 111,345
18, 226
111,166
1,414
2,282
1,001
465
507
35,922 1 38,216 42, 628
11,062 i 11,816 11, 109
j
140,437 ! 175, 578 234, 055
43, 148
40, 502
11,047 i 12,145
41, 363
10, 606
41, 744
9, 492
38, 976
41,122
10, 253 1 8, 945
36,318
8, 733
244,229 ! 194,753
141,981 ! 140,904
132, 691
6, 453
6, 339
2,943
3, 432
24,012 | 27,436
33, 978
4,199
3,791 I
36,244
1,369
366
172, 306
144, 649
7,104
6, 907
5, 120
91,083
290
101,817
334
38, 446
300
45, 998 ! 107,333
333
406
108, 996
273
31,283 ^ 28,095
24,599 ! 30,949
38, 567
30,081
56, 560
20, 635
71,817
18, 35B j
1
85,323
17, £67
91,872
25, 967
10, 682
15,082
17,536
8, 085
17,454
141, 109
121, 599
5,683
4,790
4,968
5,943
7,754
6,396
7,087
83, 848
100, 138
539
91, 873
632
69,327
902
59,996
524
47, 423
340
59,883
384
74,667
20, 808
73,018
24, 947
68, 083
28, 439
57,518 ! 48,350
33,612 j 28,626
39, 700
25, 655
7,672
Fish
Canned salmon:
Exports, Canada
__ _ cases. _
Shipments, United States.thous. of cases. _
Cold-storage holdings, 15th of
month _
_
thous. of lbs_.
Total catch, principal ports
thous. of lbs__
j
Fruits and Vegetables
Export value, fruits and preparations
thous. of dolls-.
11,563
Apples:
Car-lot shipment
carloads.14, 339
Cold-storage holdings, end of
month
-thous. of bbls..
11,396
Production, crop estimate thous. of bu__ 4 211, 506
Citrus fruits, car-lot shipments
.carloads-11,049
Onions, car-lot shipments
. carloads-.
2,304
Potatoes, car-lot shipments
carloads
14, 368
Production, crop estimate
thous. of bu_. * 376, 248
16, 181
9,162
8,041
7,587
5,692
6,549 j
6,446
10, 717
8, 946
30, 137
12, 597
1,869
3,155
1,214
2,005 I
3,081
5,700
7,115
7,806 j
10, 705
2 2, 143
62
137
577 I
1,509
2, 917
5, 224
7, 439 i
8, 706
4,014
24, 392
5,688
3,776
16, 979
6,073 ! 9,407
2,258 ! 1,657
11,717 ! 20,161
10, 693
2,122
27, 084
15,585 i 15,099
3, 703
2, 377
23,895
21,032
17, 572
2, 540
23, 601
13, 980
2, 610
20, C24
17, 296
13, 124
13,439
18,750
13, 161
11,224
8,118
6,061
5,067
768
.50
717
.50
678
.42
807
.39
896 !
.45 ;
776
.48
745
.44
921
.44
5,406
4,770
5,152
4,138
5,088 ; 1,801
4,089 ; 3,449
2, 193
4,126
2,523
4,626 |
2,446
5,662
2, 484
7,840
2,246
9,583
256
165
5,912
201 j
4,665 j
556
5,168
123
5,738
151 !
5,580
206
5,492
534
5, 441
443
5,575
.38
.42
.46 !
.57
.58
.56 ;
.58
.60
.61
.53
.58
.52
.59
.52 i
.56
.53
.58
.54
.60
.54
.63
11, 320 ! 16, 152
6,561 1 8,955
8,271 j 8,536
13, 417
10, 589
7,785
11, 381 !i 17, 102
14,855
14,246
12,286 i 19,676
18, 567
12, 281
21, 998
21, 278
11,895
20, 110
81 I
9, 575
5155,982
12, 554
14, 197
2,254
3, 454
15,092
20, 971
5333,210
10, 860
11,338
2,753
16,267
Gralns
Total grain exports, including
flour..
_
thous. of bu_-
i
14, 999
6,610 :
7, 578
9,803
1, 047
.47
5 304, 601
3, 569
2,511
11,401
10, 731
964
.4.8
4,207
11,854
188
5,990
132
5,241
163
5, 434
.65
.69
.71
BARLEY
Exports
Price, No. 2, Minneapolis
Production, crop estimate
Receipts, principal markets
Visible supply, end of month
-thous. of bu._
dolls, per bu_.
."si"
4 iQS 965
thous of bu
thous. of bu _
thous. of bu._
4,963
1,014 i
.45 !
732
.44
COBN
Exports, including meal
thous. of bu_.
508
Qrindings (starch, glucose)
thous. of bu__
Prices:
No. 3, yellow, Chicago
dolls, per bu_.
.43
No. 3, yellow, Kansas
City
dolls, per bu..
.46
No. 3, white, Chicago
dolls, per bu,..
.43
Production crop estimate
thous of bu 4 9 556 863
Receipts
thous. of bu
11, 741
Shipments...
thous. of bu
4,884
Visible supply, end of mo
.__ thous. of bu..
10, 079
HAY
Receipts..... _ _
Production, crop estimate
.40
.39
.46
.44
14,414
7,211
7, 364
8,447
6,364
5, 592
5, 094
3, 959
.69
.76
17, 067
8, 396
7,411
j
number of cars
thous. of tons..
3,495
3,052
3,777 j
4,198
4,519
4,279
5, 214
4,057
5 63, 463
4,863
253
938
.23
374
770
.27
192
785
.28 |
179
822
.30
174
844
.31
120
940
.32
144
997
.32
208
1,126
.34
51,277,764
202
1, 085
.33
10,239 ! 12,963
20, 088
15, 960
12,903 ! 5,749
7, 090
7, 398
15,577 ! 7,785
18, 605 i 17, 468
* As of Dec. 1.
11,098
4,748
7,654
10,525 \ 9,871
5,294 ! 7,604
9,892 1 13,837
10,243
6, 843
19, 103
11,895
7, 123
22, 947
14, 360
13, 320
6,121 i 6, 021
1
30,504
26,650
14, 605
6,075
30, 641
« 64, 233
OATS
Exports, including meal
thous. of bu
850
Qrindings, Canada
thous. of bu._
Price No. 3, white, Chicago
dolls, per bu__
""."26"
Production, crop estimate
thous. of bu__ » 1,112, 142
Production, oatmeal, and rolled
oats, Canada.
thous. of lbs._
4~532~
Receipts, principal markets
thous. of bu._
17, 863
Visible supply, end of month.... thous. of bu__
* Revised.
.45 !
.49
.66
.73
52,060,185
27, 367
19, 320
10, 925
12,611
16, 993
17, 562
.59
.68
857
1, 506
.23
627
1, 166
.22
5,001
1
1
i
429 !
836 !
.21
* Final estimate for 1930.
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
30
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
1931
Earlier data for items shown here may 1
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- \ *~
ment to the Survey
j ^^
FOODSTUFFS— Continued
October Septan-'
August
Ju}y
June
|
May
1930
Decem- November
ber
April I March
]
|
RICE
j
Exports
pockets (100 Ibs.) 1 380 658 322,302
Imports
pockets (100 Ibs.) _| 4 11,859
9,397
Production, crop estimate ,
tfious. of be _ . j 45, 014 - Shipments:
i
Total from
i
mills
tbous. of pockets (100 Ibs.). J
1,216 1,396
New Orleans
pockets ( 100 1'os.) ' 136,328 199 965
Southern paddy, receipts at
mills
tboii". of bbls i 1,408
1 810
Stocks, end of
i
;
month
thous of pockets (100 Ibs.) i 2 051
1 805
11 YE
Exports, including
flour
Price No, 2, Minneapolis..
Production, crop estimate.
Receipts, principal markets
Visible supply, end of month...
87,630 1 108,181 100,899 239,358 1 260,949 \ 203,519 : 211,843 259,578 ! 376,000
3,756 ; 4,475
5,443 ; 10,009 i 50,472 j 38,748 ; 41,223 37,821 41,891
404 1
601 i
617 :
780
37,121 \ 75,732 ; 88,718 : 68,753
875 !
427
139,048 78,269
864
68,349
;
933 i 1,119
74,629 | 75,643
413, 674
27, 504
3 44, 299
383, 517
29, 294
1, 003
75, 426
1, 208
126, 781
1,455
382
172
323
520
566 ;
599
864
1,147
844
1,257
1,305
683
848 \
1,051
1,293
1,388
1,561
1,790
1,793
1, 678
1,776
27
,39
14
.38
10
.37
19
.37
3
.38
1,311
8,922
1,137
8,267
16,843
8,397
11,588
|
thous. of bu J
27
dolls, per bu.J 4
. 51 i
thous. of bu.J 32,746 \!
thous. of bu i
thous. of bu !
_
i
9
.41
- 1, 213
9,186
WHEAT
1
;
Exports:
I
!
Canada, including wheat
j!
; 1
flour
thous. of bu
2^ 594 2 436
United States—
I
:
Wheat only
tbous. of bu j 9 519 !' 11 873
Including wheat Clour.— thous. of bu..'i 13, 380 15^ 406
Export value of wheat and flour
i
]
, thous. of dolls _i 8,510 '• 8,751
Stocks, held by mills (quarterly),, thous, of bu-_!
.
;....._._.,
Prices:
|
i
» No. 1* northern spring,
j
2
Minneapolis,,-.-.
..dolls, per bu.J
.80;
.71
No. 2, red winter, St, Louis. .dolls, per bu.J
.62
.52
No. 2, hard winter,
j
i
Kansas City.
...dolls, per bu..i
.59!
,48
Production, crop estimate:
i
j
Total
_> _.
..... thous. of bu.J 4 892, 271 i
..
Winter wheat
....thous. of bu_.i*787,465 i
Spring wheat .. - ~~. thous. of bu -104,806 !;
Receipts
.. .. ..
tbous. of bu J, 26,405 32,058
Shipments
thous, nf bu i 29,470 26851
Visible supply, end of month:
!
Canada
tbous. of bu ; 189,675 161 912
United States
thous. of bu ! 230, 147 231, 049
15
.37 :
29
.36
3
.35 ,:
34
.36 ;
4
.43
472
8,687
862
8,730
1,035 •
8,540
880
9,262
855
10, 440
716
11, 110
884
11,911
4
.44
( 45 379
1,356
12, 644 ;
14,258
14,107
22,988
31, 687 !
6, 148
15, 521
12, 165
11,373
24, 939
34, 782
8;901
11,731
12,731
17,253
8,136
11, 842
6,406 1
9,956 i
3,531
6,954
1, 357
4,574
137
3, 564
1,289
6,543
2,173
6, 187
3,266
8,470
6,769
7,039
H39,002 _
...;
11,561
8, 805
s 38, 771
7,443
5,671
3,882
81, 841
3,234
4,864
6,278
137,194
7,833
.77
.83
.75
.83
.71
.69
;
;
1
3
.69
.47
.65
.47 ,!
.61
.48
.74
.72
.81 :
.79 i
.79
.80
,76
.78
,75
.79
,76
.78 I
.43
.43
. 44
.68
.73
,73
.70
.69
.69 1
• 858, 160
snm 840
i
61,463 ' 104,047
45,747 ! 65,987
29, 656
30, 385
122,199 101,300 i 116,462
239,431 ; 242,846 : 217,526
122, 318
190, 702
38,877
28,325
1, 640
13, 316
1 ,9*fi' r^9O
30,863 i 21,230
24,061 | 16,601
30, 833
15, 570
30, 672
14, 817
136,856 i 160,750 180, 253
197,563 i 199,561 207, 138
183, 704
201, 862
j
j
i
Consumption (computed)
tbous. of bbls i
.J 10,462
9,898
9,843 j 7,642
6, 666
8,711
Exports:
!j
j
Canada
thous. of bbls
476 i
558
557
522 1
467
490
481
United States
thous. of bbls i
858 !
785
824
709
640 ! 1,005
789
Grindings of wheat:
i
6,772
5,992
5,932
Canada...
thous, of bu..L
...'
7,565
5,033
5,304
United States.. ....
_. thous. of bu.J
47, 473 44,569 44,412 ! 45, 362 35, 893 36,946
Prices, wholesale:
j
Standard patents,, Minneapolis
!
;
dolls, per bbl 1
4.84
428
4.24 |
4.21
4.13
4.75
4.85
Winter, straights. Kansas City
!
i
dolls, per bbl
3. 03
3. 10
2. 98 !
2. 96
3. 16
4.12
4.14
Production:
I
Canada
thous. of bbls u.
1,694
1,518
1,333
1,319
1,121
1,183
United States—
|
Actual (Census)tbous. of bbls.. 1
.
\ 10,401
9, 735
9, 658 1 9, 852
7, 763
8,015
9,847
Prorated (Russells')-— thous. of bbls. J — —
j 11, 112 10,611 10,614
7,981
8, 739
Capacity
percent i
_ _ _ _ J 60
61
58 i
59
47
50
Grain offal
...thous. of lbs..|
----- 328,523 781,318 ! 785,108 ] 802,424 647, 400 663, 303
Stocks:
i
All positions (computed)
i
end of month
*hous of bbls i
6, 000
6,135
6,131 i 6,000
4, 800
4,857
Held by mills (quarterly) ..thous, of bbis.-j
.... .
« 3,532
,..J
* 2, 830
29,496 i
13,706 |
21, 549
15, 053
24, 597
20, 955
193, 858
197, 219
205, 854
195, 716
197, 998
202, 475
WHEAT FLOUR
MEATS
|
8,281
8,654
8, 738
9,622
9,846
i
j
326
761
561
715
415
762
392
945
602
892
792
1,156
! 4,719
| 39,127
5, 169
40, 137
4,607
37, 939
4, 834
42, 529
5,226
41, 307
7,789
42, 428
4.71
4.67
4.85
4.96
4.89
4.69
4.02
4.00
4.06
4.09
4.03
4.14
1,058
1,164
1,035
1,086
1,170
1,739
8,242
9,232
8,724
9,275
9,937
8,750
52
65
56
713, 507 678, 795 761,935
| 8,973
i
9,888
!
54
| 739, 243
9,184
10, 403
60
762, 108
j
!
1
i 8,494
! 9, 134
i
51
1 702, 189
10, 59
5,618
5,526
« 3, 712
5, 620
6,370
7,000
t 4 nif,
7,850
8,477
10, 082
10, 576
12,204
9,819
11, 039
421, 252
379, 405
335, 603
384,754 ! 397,741
331, 945
53, 150
981
412, 757
61, 111
1,444
374, 151
67, 622 72, 398 ! 75, 285
961
9 0 2 i ; 1S207
330, 321 381,531 398,741
73, 392
1,491
342, 405
1,038
1,617
960
1,535
812
1,303
897
1,508 |
1,015
1,736
823
1,696
175
581
146
546
147
486
222 I.'
607 i
332
1,015
478
873
i
Export value, meats and fats.-thous. of dolls. J
6,020
7, 145
6,321
]
6,386
6,821
7,074
7,791
CATTLE AND BEKF
Beef products:
Apparent consumption
... thous. of Ibs. .| 345,024 :* 448, 863 404,928 432,312 ! 416,822 404, 731 424. 872
Cold-storage holdings, end of month
|
_
._. -...thous, of Ibs. J 39,170 331,407 35,171 39,050 i 41,055 45, 548 49, 448 I
Exports
.....
thous. of Ibs.. i 1,189 ' 1,604
2,077
1,837 1,497
1,573
1,468 i
Production, inspected..
.thons. of Ibs.. 1 319.598 446,798 400,752 430,595 411,952 400, 529 419, 124 i
Cattle movements, primary markets;
!
Local slaughter
thousands
905
1 037
961
1,009 !
930
968
980
Receipts.
.. ..
.. .thousands
1,866
2,137
1,797
1,821 i 1,488
1,540
1,551
Shipments, stocks? and feeder
i
thousands
487
582
381
251
124
111
153
Shipments, total—
._ ....thousands.-!
905
1,098
552
861
756 ;
561
661
Prices:
1
Beef, fresh, carcass, good native steers, i
Chicago-,.
.
-dolls, per lb..i
.164
.156
. 148
. 144
. 129
.12S
. 143
Beef, fresh, carcass, steers, New York
j
—
.
dolh. perlb.-;
.175'
.173
.165
.158
.145
.145
.155
Cattle, corn fed, Chicago
i
...
_...__,._....... .dolls, per 100 Ibs— ' 10.20
9.25
7.32
8. 66
8. 62
7. 25
7.68
s
3
Revised,
Quarter ended in mouth indicated.
* As of Dec. 1.
l!
. 160
.169
.178
.195
.195
.195
,172
. 180
, 196
.205
.205
.205
8.56
9.08
9.11
10. 00
10. 58
s
Final estimate for 1930,
10.31
:
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
31
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
lf):31
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Novemment to the Survey
October
ber
S
^
m
' August
July
19 30
June j May
!
•" "-•
1
j
FOODSTUFFS-Oontfnued
- '
\ April
-
March
^-| J a D U 8 r y ,necem- November
i
;
i
I
I
HOGS AND PORK
Hog movements, primary markets:
Local slaughter
thousand'.
Receipts
thousands
Shipments, stockcr and feeder
thousands
Shipments, total
_.
thousands. .
Lard (included in pork products):
Cold-storage holdings, end of mouth
thous. of lbs_
Exports.
thous. of lbs__
Production
thous. of lbs_.
Pork production:
Apparent consumption
thous. oflbs..
Cold-storage holdings, end of month —
Total
thous. of lbs__
Fresh and cured
thous. oflbs..
ExportsTotal
thous. oflbs...
Other products than lard
thous. oflbs..
Production, inspected
thous. of )bs_Piices:
Hams, smoked, Chicago... -dolls. perlb_.
Hogs, heavy, Chicago dolls, per 100 lbs._
Lard, prime contract, New York
dolls, per lb-_
2, 297
3, 752
2,155
3, 462 ;
1,663
2, 727 >
1,398
2, 454
1,474
2, 511
2,854
62
1, 427
72
1,311
55
1,062
49
1,045
37
1, 039
3,072 J
39, 766 !! 69, 296 i 96, 047
121, 926
33, 824
109, 265
2
33, 915
35, 205
125, 859
623, 230
43,547
116,124
2
679, Oil
428, 178 * 420, 661
394, 2G3 2 380, 895
48, 224
13,019
678, 452
37,790 , 34,510
97,114 i 91»680
601,392
!
56, 134
\
552,387
1,773
1,841
1,983
1, 002
3, 207
2,393 ;
3,704 ;
2,907
4,652
2,460
4,002
2,169
3, 439
1,088
36
31
1, 234
37 i
1,417 |
i
45
1,739
41
1,542
37
1, 269
115.561 j 103.360 ;: Do, 693
37; 786 ' 39,623 44,769
.123,263 126,323 i 129,090
78, 249
58, 395
127, 516
74,077 ; 62,624 . 51,434
68,760 i 68,882
45,114
147,632 186,062 150,538
119,355
2,938 :
36 j
33
1,099
3,067
31,582
42, 552
540, 228
585,146 | 581,110 | 523,963
563. 934
608,890 1 683, 9d? •' 608,323
553, 479
544,183 j 691,130 833, 737
474,887 595,063 711,811
890,212 | 931,117 ; 963,217
774,651 | 827,751 , 867,524
921, 920
S43, 671
«28,385 788,888 !; 572,626
853,408 ! 726,204 ; 521,192
44?,, 286
73, 61.0
48, 550
48S 032
49, 193
53,226 i 55,557 | 59,406
12,587
10,760 ! 13,522
611,171 ; 502,673 j 457,105
15,369
15,440 ! 15.934 i 14,637
164
. 182
5.41
. 188 !
5.71 |
.071
.080
.075
83,470 1 86,902 j
15,215 14,710 ! 38,020
604; 427 : 624, 301 630S 661 731,633 i 962,175
532, 757
597, 185
. 185
6.35
.173
6.24
.174
6.39
.075
. 082
.083
.082
54,679
55, Trt
54, (04
1, 892
53, 947
2 {,85 i 2 371
55* 678 f.1, 133
!
[
411,701
61,134
62, 325
16,020
798,311
19, 773
665, 665
.182
0.40 •
.184
7.08
.187
7.18
.195 i
6.73 ;
r-7
7.31
.213
7.94
222
S.86
:
.090
.004
. 085 l
. 0.-0
. 100
.112
SHEEP AND LAMBS
Lamb and mutton:
Apparent consumption
thous. of lbs._ 50. 533 i s 66, 438
CO, 792 j 58? 351 j
Cold-storage holdings, end of month
.
thous. of lbs__
1,967 ! M,975
1,908
1, 975
Production, inspected.
„ thous. oflbs.. 56,545 J 66,546 60,754 68, 466
PricesSheep, ewes, Chicago
2.00 I
1.98
dolls. porlOOlbs..
1.63 i
1.63
Sheep, lambs, Chicago
4.93
|
5.94
|
„
dolls, per 100 Ibs..
5. 95
5.70
Sheep movements, primary markets:
1.2S1
1,461 I
1,474
Local slaughter.
....thousands1,500
2,811
3,900 i 3,270
Receipts
thousands. _
3,956
Shipments, stocker and feeder
718
„ _ _ _ _ _ thousands. .
],18J ; 1,104 I
2,455 ! 1, 734
Shipments, total
thousands..
2, 468
j
Miscellaneous meats:
Cold-storage holdings,
50,670 ; MS, 744 56,881 ! 66, 334
end of month
_
thous. o f l b s .
Total meats:
1,025 i 21,194 | 1,067 j 1,043
Apparent consumption..., mills, oflbs..
Cold-storage holdings,
520 ;
638 i
798
end of month
mills, of lbs_.
964 I
946
Production
.
.
mills, of Ibs. . 1,085 I
4, 677
56,453
2. 56
1.55 !
2,44
3,29
3.69 :
3.44 i
2.93
6.06
e .98 ;
i, 381
8. 3r>
8.76 i
8.31 |
7.98 !
7.40
1, 342
2, 535
2,
587 ;
1, 401
2,810
243
1, 190
289 i
1, 21-i j
176
1, 353
69? 028
SI/..VJ
1, 060
',1)0*
1. 062
1,078
1, 100
1,096
1» 045 j
946
1,
.1, Go3 i
oi4 ;
1,230
2. 307
1,070
2, 607
282
1, 081
75,409 ' 79,331
1,012
Dim
1,1-r>7
85,6/8 ; 62,744
998 :
1, 072 !
1,051)1
;
895
1, 092
93.747
1,107
:
.1,1121
959 '
1,401 ;
1,254 I
597
1,059
POULTRY
Gold-storage holdings, end of
month
„
Receipts at 5 markets
,
thous. of lbs_.
thous. of lbs._
89,978 ! 265,663
64,731 ! 30,377
56,215 ! 43, 056
32,409 | 28, 055
SO, 438
24, 871
32,762 1 35. 348
22,164 i 17, 252
45,920 I 69,980 1 95,188 , 101,807 i 104.913
17,443 j 20,600 ! 26,008 • 34,472 i 73,314
Prices
Retail food (Dept. of Labor)......rel. to 1913.,
Wholesale food
.
_rel. to J926.,
117 !
70.9 i
119 i
72, 9 :
120
73.7
121
72.9
124 I
75.6 I
13?
81, 8
141
85. 7
215, liO i 203,030 j 148,624 j 137,205 94,805 i 134,928 !i 168,450 86,518 231,039
93,548 i 118,514 i 238,872 ! 546, .588 429,576 '• 105,726 , 150,277
930 I
982 i
1.007 |
844 i
461 i
SO
669
41 ",400
119
73.1
118 ;
72.4 |
127
77,1
133
80,1
Sugar
Cuban movement (raw);
Exports
.
long tonsReceipts st Cuban ports
long tonsStocks, end of rnonth.thous. of long tossPrices;
Retail coverage, 51 cities.
rel. to 1913.
Retail granulated, New
York
dolls, per lb.
Wholesale, granulated, New
York"..
dolls, per lb~
Raw:
Imports—
From Hawaii and Porto
Rico
long tous. :
From foreign countries
long tons^ !
Meltings, 8 ports
..long tons- .|
Stocks at refineries, end of
month._
long tons..J
Refined:
Exports, including maple
long tonsShipments, 2 ports
.....long tons.
Stocks, 2 ports
....long tons-
146, 102 j 134, 33fi
101,278 97,725
623 !
666
1021
102:
160,992
J 09, 613 I2-UH6 i 119,664
702 i
754
' 843
"
104 |
104
102
.052 j
.052
.052 I
053
. 051 |
.044 I
.045
.045 !
.046
. 046 |
102
102
. (MO
. 050
. 044
53, 741 82. 062 126, 970 135, 228 i 148, 636 I 143. 382
135.308 186! 928 202, 564 397,042 i 324,848 239,085
231,746 328, 310 414, 066 376,715 469,609 383,157
.043
107
104 \
106 i
. 050 |
»051 !
,053
,053 i
mI
. 045
.046
.044
;
764
107
. 053
161, 260 I 135,457 i 160,851 i 151,980 ; SI, 700 ;
5. 5W
151,815 I 279,578 i 364,493 ! 212.453 122,071 306,500
332,556 ! 403,337 I 351,169 I 290,337 I 258, 585 207.006
50,977
293,455
337,360
187,552 j 245,694 j 321,815 ] 429,229 j 307,252 ! 400,567 463, 73€ ! 445,535 j 420,050 j 329,324 ; 293,938 .1 305,208 | 321,930
3,598 i 4,304
41.538 I 48,208
34; 486 33,047
4, 365
60,502
41,171
3S 893 I 3, 952
76. 412 i G8, 879
37.116 i 36,481
4, 329
78, 583
35,030
4,723
33, 045
42, 555
3. 338 j
57, 670 i
32,632 I
Tea
Imports
-.
thous. of Ibs.
Price, Formosa, fine, New York.dolls, per To.
2
Revised.
213,688
7, 813
.225 :
7. 977
.225
4.135
,225
6,184
. 225 :
7,995
5, 223
. 225 ' . 225 ,
8, 029
.225 1
32
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
1931
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
*°™»- October » August
1930
July
June
May
99,633
33.4
66.0
120, 354
35.2
66.3
120, 501
47.7
67.8
143, 558
35.6
68.4
79.4
103. 8
33.7
76.9
2 103.4
38.2
86.3
2 100. 4
51.4
97.2
2 105. 5
48.1
9,255 ; 8,314
68,318
73,002
9,457
76, 554
8,513
78, 274
10, 084
79, 017
2,599
34,718
3,481 ! 3,249
35,207 i 36,245
3,280
36, 966
3,745
37, 279
3, 368
2,707
2, 48 1
20,216
4,851
2,700
2,812
2, 703
20,042
3,778
3,312
2,973
3,397
21, 130
4,183
16,928
22,425
19, 486
65,696
35,589 i 17,590
FOREST PRODUCTS
;
Lumber
April | March
Febru- January
ary
^' November
D
i
I
i
ALL TYPES
Exports
.
M ft. b. m
77,877
85,234 < 89,502
1 2 29 2 i
31 3
New orders
rel to 1923-1925
Prices, wholesale, composite
rel, to 1926 ...
612 |
64.5 j
65.5
Production index (elect, energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-1925..
76. 4 '
82, 2 1
82. 2
Stocks, end of month
rel. to 1923-1925,. lOi. 5 ! 2 98. 9 i 2 104. 4
Unfilled orders, end of month rel. to 1923-1925 , _ — _ _ I 2 24.. 2 i1 29. 0
114,557 128, 424
33.8
36.7
78.1
76.0 i
135, 771
41.5
73.3
73, 818
40.3
74.2
91.5
104. 3
49.2
93.2
2 105. 9
48.8
8, 451
80, 051
7,767
80, 816
5,236
81, 158
3,494
80, 251
3,563 : 4, 145
76, 552
70, 531
9,028
71,025
3,432
37, 718
3,421
38, 816
3,368
39, 534
3,389
39, 657
2,641
38, 628
2.878 i
37, 839
2, 530
37, 739
3, 940
38, 1 08
3,712
2,737
3,447
21,321
4,772
4,245
3,116
3,778
21,821
4, 955
3,327
2,629
3,315
23, 467
4, 604
3,679
3,326
3,226
24, 191
5,312
3,131
3,760
3,017
26, 193
5,180
3, 455
3,179
2,676
25. 835
5, 248
3,584
3, 452
2, 351
25, 578
4, 664
1, 905
3, 045
1,811
24, 271
3, 491
2, 798
2, 759
2, 554
23, 35:;
X, 204
18, 631
21, 736
21, 464
65, 004
26, 390
24, 120
25, 691
64, 798
21, 065
20, 984
23, 131
67, 619
24, 710
24, 505
27, 745
76, 753
28, 575
25, 147
28, 155
76, 783
31,407
23, 643
26, 243
78, 305
24, 771
19, 548
21,713
80, 943
2.1 J 16
21,010
15,738
17.686
18,365
17, 152
82, 487 ; 83,420
14,170
16,231
15, 844
91,598
18, 194
21, 204
30, 176
30, 235
34, 095
36, 326
32, 719
30,241
29, 353
20, 790
2
2
67, 792
35.7
73.2
2
84.2
108. 2
47.7
2
82.6 i
110. 3 ;
46.8 !
2
73.3
116.5
44.7
130,855
36. 8
80.1
2
86.5
117.2
42.6
RETAIL MOVEMENT
Retail yards, 9th Fed. Res. Dist.:
Sales
—
.....Mft.
Stocks, end of month
M ft.
Retail yards, 10th Fed. Res. Dist.:
Sales
M ft.
Stocks end of month
M ft.
b. m._
b. m__
b. in._
b m
FLOORING
Maple:
New orders
M ft. b. m..
Production
...
M ft. b. m__
Shipments
M ft. b. m__
Stocks, end of month
_M ft. b, m _
Unfilled orders, end of month. M ft. b. m.,
Oak:
New orders.
M ft. b. LI
Production „ _ _ , _
M ft. b. m. ,
Shipments
M ft. b. m__
Stocks, end of month
M ft. b. m._
Unfilled orders, end of
month
.- - ...
.Mft.b. m__
' 2,783
! 3,134
: ?>, 14 4
! 20,189
: 3,775
13, 526
15,973
15,744
19,299
13, 907 i 18, 203
08,293
67,103
14,334
HARDWOODS
All hardwoods:
New orders
_ . . . mill. ft. b, in
Production
mill, ft, b. m__
Shipments
...mill. ft. b. in..
Stocks, end of monthTotal...
mill. ft. b. m..
Unsold
..mill. ft. b. m..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
- mill. ft. b. in._
Gum:
Stocks, end of month-Total
mill ft. b. m
Unsold _
mill. ft. b. in
Unfilled orders, end of
month
mill. ft. b. m
Northern hardwoods:
Production
M ft. b. m
Shipments
M ft. b. m__
Oak:
Stocks, end of monthTotal
mill ft b m
Unsold
mill. ft. b, m_.
Unfilled orders, end of
month
mill. ft. b. m..
Walnut logs:
Made into lumber and
YgQ£pr
M! ft log measure
Purchases
M ft. log measure..
Stocks, end of month.. M ft. log measure..
Walnut lumber:
New orders
M ft b. m
Production
M ft b m
Shipments
M ft b, m
Stocks, end of month _ _ . _ M ft. b. ni.
Unfilled orders, end of month.M ft, b. tn__
131
105
135 i
131
105
131
131
101
143
139
109
139
176
143
161
158
146
169
154
146
161
173
165
176
188
158
1Q5
169
143
158
125
134
125
133
143
148
2,915 i
2,542 !
2,960
2,559
3,020
2,645
3, 065
2,662
3, 126
2,707
3,149
2, 718
3,175
2,713
3,205
2,731
3,249
2,769
3, 308
2, 851
3,319
2, 863
2! 82 1'
374 1
387
375
402
419
431
463
473
481
456
456
452
615
518
634
542
653
551
683
575
686
586
694
593
703
598
713
601
726
607
611
511
610
500
607
516
98
92
102
108
100
101
106
112
100
102
2,617 ; 3,210
15,378 ! 14,907
5,864
13, 445
6, 173
9,846
11, 878
11,690
10, 820
10, 330
12, 767
12, 808
17, 878
12, 631
17, 252
12, 330
14, 178
10,854 |
8, 147
8, 021
4, 382
9, 374
1, 029
935
1 , 022
95
95
1,460
791
91
900
878
623
;
118
827 i
742 j
840
761
853
783
864
783
890
803
914
809
935
814
966
844
990
861
1,017 !
918 !•
85 :
79
70
81
88
105
120
122
129
99
1,145 i
1,104 i
666 !
925
1,113
707
709
776
510
523
666
442
958
674
293
1,135
828
519
925
719
845
816
699
1,050
829
874
1,172
895
1,179
1, 136
1
1, 146
*• 777
S°!
i, 187
!
1,148
1,110
1,121
12,745
2,101
1,463
1,405
1,720
12,825
2,173
i 1,861
: 1,037
! 1,786
!
13,176
! 2,934
1, 252
887
1,472
13, 926
2,821
1, 574
624
1,853
14, 543
2,981
996
1,075
1,223
15,837
2, 918
1, 1S1
1,382
1,277
15, 990
3,151
1,393
1,141
1,506
15, 893
3,279
2,094
875
1,942
16, 265
3,522
1,471
804
1,363
17, 236
3,314
1,152 1
642
1,064 ;
18, 295 I
3,211 ;
16,383
14,436
15,333
18,636 j 16,007
15,931 ! 14,760
17,055 i 15,734
15, 386
18,270
17, 323
16, 576
14,717
18, 131
19, 321
16, 429
18, 253
19, 220
17, 618
21, 568
22, 480
18, 781
21, 898
24, 485
21, 795
24, 852
20, 695
23, 836
23, 555
25, 928
26, 998
21, 410
17,380
19, 331
20, 376
20, 237
22, 290
22, 726
23, 613
45,308
25, 155
188, 460
53, 088
18, 186
181, 297
47, 766
35, 718
191, 146
69, 043
55, 586
188, 907
63, 159
37, 573
224, 272
15,211
19, 964
217, 109
11.27
10,97
10. 64
11.25
11.64
12.12
24.35
25.63 ! 25.48
115,941 149,962 i 155,334
126, CS84 162,049 ; 166,525
105,197 i 81,472 j 125,341
25.29
171,897
175, 030
111,017
25.76
149, 067
173, 240
165, 630
25.98
199, 651
197,413
162, 944
28. 33
206, 813
221, 586
135, 637
26,670 : 27,370 : 24,640
35, 350 \ 33, 110 i 33, 320
24, 276
32, 375
27,013
30, 408
30, 338
34, 293
9,991
7,864
10, 128
8,640
10, 013
9,554
1, 203
1, 184
928
I,:MO
s, 118
1,343
1,444
1,470
18,731
3, 393
17, 857
23, 048
20, 307
21,485
25, 900
20, 549
28, 725
22, 766
24, 514
14, 951
14, 978
189, 355
38, 251
16,081
191, 593
53, 718
12, 859
189, 355
42, 364
9,151
186,222
12.68
12.86
12.82
12.99
13.25
29.74
201, 889
200, 099
215, 766
31.14
186, 222
195, 622
196, 517
31. 65
179, 059
186, 669
181, 745
31.33
160, 258
178, 164
182, 640
31.73
167,420
174, 583
188, 012
33.40
191,593
179. 954
176,373
30, 233
31, 780
31, 241
34, 454
27, 439
33, 250
24, 318
32,417
24, 129
32, 844
28, 350
30,317
28, 140
34, 300
9,893
7,894
8,616
7,437
6,583
5,432
6,085
5,508
6,526
6,094
5,812
4,955
4, 046
6, 596
17, 670
SOFTWOOD
California redwood:
New orders (computed)
M ft. b. m,_
Production (computed)
M ft. b. in...
Shipments (computed)
M ft. b. m._
Unfilled orders, end of month
(computed)
M ft. b. m
Douglas fir:
Exports-Lumber
. M ft. b. m
Timber
M ft b m
New orders
M ft. b, m._
Price wholesaleNo. 1 common. -dolls, per M ft. b. m _ _
Flooring, I x 4"B"
and better, V.
G
dolls per M ft b m
Production
_ _ _ _ M ft. b. m._
Shipments
M ft. b. m._
Unfilled orders, end of month.M ft. b. m..
North Carolina pine:
Production (computed)........ M ft, b. m_.
Shipments (computed)
M ft. b. m._
Northern hemlock:
Production..
_._.__
M ft. b. m__
Shipments
M ft. b. m__
1
EtvissQ,
21,229 i 20,485
17.585
|
29,549
36,714 i 38,787
19,019 ! 21,874 ! 18,020
135,637 I 151.305 1 158,915
11.23 i
.
11.21 i
3,928 • 4.804
7,811 i 7,531
:
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
33
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Novem
ment to the Survey
October SeptemAugust
ber
ber
1931
1930
Decem- November
ber
July
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
21, 956
7,888
151,484
27.78
61.4
119,828
155,511
82, 551
29, 925
8,745
146, 860
27.82
61.7
121, 994
151,488
83, 013
30, 278
12, 535
140, 322
28.15
62.4
126, 739
138, 663
83, 475
34, 067
5,827
157, 920
28.82
63.9
148, 048
165, 004
83, 958
32, 544
10, 256
169, 015
28.32
68.2
165,325
180, 306
104, 307
22, 478
6,261
174, 020
29.66
65.8
164, 929
175,742
121,401
21, 309
4, 935
170, 709
28.42
63.0
153, 831
163, 926
106, 932
127
125
125
1, 225
128
137
119
1,245
114
156
125
1,230
107
135
122
1, 204
141
141
125
1,196
109
112
120
1,174
112
66
107
1,174
87
63
107
1,218
111
85
108
1, 262
114
1, 284
85
64
78
92
99
99
79
54
83
59
105
82
118
118
101
138
111
112
106
97
16.0
15
7.0
22
43
71.0
17
48
81.0
18
FOREST PRODUCTS— Continued
Lumber— Continued
SOFTWOOD— Continued
Southern yellow pine:
ExportsLumber
.... _ M ft. b. m
Timber
M ft. b. m__
New orders
M ft. b. m._
Price flooring . dolls, per M ft. b. m
Price index
rel. to 1926
Production
M ft. b. m._
Shipments
M ft. b. m
Unfilled orders
M ft. b. m__
Western pine:
New orders
mill. ft. b. rn._
Production— _
..mill. ft. b. m__
Shipments
..mill. ft. b. ni__
Stocks, end of month
mill. ft. b. m._
18, 425
4,056
111, 307
26.31
20, 895
5,017
134, 757
26.49
58.7
117,241
142, 254
58, 464
110,803
108, 668
62, 013
18, 936
5,663
138, 204
27.21
60.3
116,511
142, 170
74, 235
33, 509
35, 873
8,163
9,029
190,985 146, 465
30.73
32.51
68.1 i
72.1
165,065 ! 157, 143
182.679 ! 145,110
116, 193
99, 036
28, 113
11,893
177, 327
33.44
74.1
184, 712
176, 110
105, 021
[97
VENEER
Rotary-cut veneer:
Receipts
Purchases
.no. of carloads. .
no. of carloads—
Furniture
Household furniture and case goods:
Grand Rapids districtCancellations
per cent new orders
New orders
no. days' production-Outstanding accounts,
end of month
no. days' sales..
Plant operations per cent full time
Shipments
no days' production
Unfilled orders,
end of month no days' production
Southeastern district —
Shipments
dolls., av. per firm
Unfilled orders, end of month
dolls., av. per firm..
Steel furniture. (See under steel manufactured products.)
Wholesale prices:
Beds
rel to 1926
Dining-roorn chairs, sets of six. rel. to 1926..
Kitchen cabinets
. rel. to 1926
Living-room davenports
rel. to 1926—
!
8.5
14
8.0
16
7.0
15
6.5
13
4.5
27
13.0
9
8.0
13
12.0
14
6.0
13
7.0
16
38
83. 0
17
39
72.0
19
36
73.0
16
32
80.0
14
32
74.0
12
31
70.0
11
33
67.0
13
34
64.0
13
35
63.0
13
42
68.0
14
"
11
15
20
22
23
11
15
15
17
,8
17
22
64, 122
66, 042
59, 223
65, 063
43, 077
46, 431
52, 390
62, 382
50, 858
36, 692
29,051
43, 975
22, 100
42, 180
47, 706
47, 997
56, 865
19, 338
28, 248
29, 798
34, 160
31, 781
14, 400
19, 917
73.1
91.0
100.1
82.0
73.1
91.0
100.1
82.0
80.4
92.1
100.1
84.2
82.9
92.1
102.9
88.2
85.2
92.1
102.9
88.6
85.2
93.0
102.9
89.8
86.8
94.0
102.9
89.8
90.7
94.0
102.9
93.2
90.7
94.0
102.9 ;
93.2
90.7
94.0
102. 9
92.3
90.7 !
94.0 '
102. 9
92.3
90.7
94.0
102.9
92.3
91.7
94.0
102.9
92.3
78.8
80.7
83.4
90.3
89.8
87.8
88.1
88.4
88.4
89.0
90.8
91.5
93.3
82
'82
97
104
101
100
,107
102
92 i
87
78
81
81
75.2
82.6
81.8
280.4
81.9
80.1
77.1
77.4
83.8
77.6
85.4
78.2
81.0
79.5
83.9
80.3
71.2 i
81.2 ;
76. 1
82.1
71.6
85.3
68.7
86.4
63.0
83.8
3,164
10, 846
5, 533
4,472
25, 856
3, 265
11,934
6,858
3,360
27,445
5,058
11,870
7,556
3,368
29, 513
6,211
9,313
7,686
3,472
28, 332
3, 646
7,528
9,321
3,313
26,053
4,512
6,812
8,274
3,091
24,437
3, 337
4,404
6,160
4,453
19, 616
1,818 i
1,339
6,867 1 4, 149
6,292 : 3, 991
3,280 | 2, 890
19, 468
13,417
2, 067
5,186
5,863
4,040
20,211
2, 126
6,781
6,154
3,313
20, 471
2,202
6,781
5,167
1,965
18, 207
75
259
98
80
247
193
80
204
117
78
162
81
77
148
71
92
164
56
103
158
23
101
172
27
58
161
32
69
166
37
75
170
53
78
168
98
614
355
4,218
1, 505
781
407
3,772
1,804
687
393
2,955
1,667
727
357
2,500
1,598
706
356
2,767
1,491
667
417
3,251
1,516
704
425
3,408
1,444
690
471
3,488
1,493
j
!
!
j
559
353
4, 142
1, 223
651
379
5,362
1,426
692
398
4,647
1,426
605
324
4,024
1, 305
.082
.077
.090
.113
.120
.100
.085
.092
.095
.107
.118
.083
.098
.129
.139
.129
.129
.135
.090 |
i
.128 I
.073 1
.085
.117
.125
.144
.156
26, 977
217, 394
33, 152
277, 523
27, 413
221,343
34, 649
283, 405
28, 325
212, 299
35, 376
276, 000
29, 033
206,317
35, 223
270, 573
26, 027
209, 697
34. 034
269, 758
24, 150
216, 400
35, 026
275, 576
23, 662
220, 846
32, 926
277, 434
24, 104
23, 132
223, 182 ! 225,315
34,168 | 33, 172
280, 482 i 282,591
26, 707
235, 649
33,296
295, 652
27, 553
237, 392
34, 489
299, 434
28, 221
227, 647
34, 368
290, 236
309
531
546
459
652
983
1,143
1,442
949
713 I
1, 128
825
.32
.35
.39
.40
.37
.37
.37
.37
.37
.38
.40
.41
1,127
19,531
1,088
18, 765
1.160
19, 837
1,097
19,281
1,078
19, 522
1,034
18, 388
1,137
20, 406
i
984 !
18, 219 |
.37
951
17, 386
1,087
19, 559
1,226
21, 993
1,071
18, 777
83, 463
69. 850
80, 773
69.172
81,319
68.931
81, 906
67. 212
85, 626
67. 070
85, 848
67. 938
87, 196
68. 933
90,321 1 91,827
88, 044
71. 122 i 72. 488
73. 261
90, 878
74. 135
86. 331
77. 485
LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS
Prices, wholesale, composite, leather
rel to 1926
Production index (Fed. Res. Bd.)
rel. to 1923-25..
Production index (elec. energy consumed)
rel. to 1923-25Stocks, end of month
rel to 1923-25
Hides
ImportsCalfskins
thous. of IDS..
Cattle hides
thous. of lbs._
Goatskins
thous. of Ibs
Sheepskins
..thous. of lbs._
Total, hides and skins
thous. of Ibs
Inspected slaughter of livestock:
CanadaCattle and calves, .thous. of animals..
Swine
thous. of animals
Sheep and lambs.. .tbous. of animals..
United StatesCattle
thous of animals
Calves
thous. of animals..
Swine
thous. of animals
Sheep
thous. of animals..
Prices:
Packers, heavy, native steers (Chicago)
dolls, per Ib
Calfskins, No. 1, country (Chicago)
__
_
dolls, per Ib__
Stocks, end of month:
Calf and kip skins
thous. of lbs._
Cattle hides
. thous. of Ibs _
Sheep and lamb skins
thous. of Ibs..
Total hides and skins .
thous of Ibs
Raw
Sole and belting:
Exports (sole only)
thous. of Ibs
Price, oak, scoured backs (Boston)
dolls, per lb._
ProductionSole only thous. of backs, bends sides
Sole and belting
thous. of Ibs..
Stocks, end of monthFinished
thous. of Ibs..
In process of taimine
thous. of Ibs..
2
Revised.
85 i
154 \
32 !
635
416
3,523
1,324
726 I
34
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
LEATHER AND LEATHER PRODUCTS— Continued
Raw— Continued
Upper leather;
Exports
thous. of sq. ft
Price, composite, chrome, calf, black "B"
grade
_ dolls, per sq. ft_.
Production
_thous. of sq. ft..
Stocks—
Finished
thous. of sq. ft
In process of tanning— thous. of sq. ft..
Manufactures
Gloves and mittens cut
- dozen pairsShoes:
Exports
thous. of pairs
Prices, wholesaleMen's black calf blucher
(Boston)
dolls, per pair
Men's dress welt tanned calf, oxford
(St. Louis)
dolls, per pair__
Women's black kid, McKay
sewed
. dolls, per pair_
ProductionTotal
thous. of prs
Men's
- -. thous. of prs—
Boys' and youths'
thous. of prs..
Women's
thous. of prs__
Misses' and children's— tbous. of prs__
Slippers, all types
thous. of prs._
All other footwear
thous. of prs—
1930
1931
N
Septem- August
ber " October
ber
1
m
July
May
June
April
March
Decem- j November
ber
Febru- January
ary
9, 718
7, 926
6 529
6 635
7,463
9,234
9,211
8,752
9 347
7,700
9,133
8, 118
7 451
. 323
. 330
60,682
.337
65, 543
.348
69, 626
.350
67, 234
.352
63, 229
.356
60,542
.356
62, 536
.352
61, 515
.354
54,706
.359 i
52,225 i
.367
57,888 |
367
51,848
267 705
116,578
254 306
126, 146
250 478
131,095
246 424
128, 425
250, 612
126, 684
254, 142
124, 330
257, 195
125, 722
261 057
127, 867
264, 392
128, 967
272 866 ' 280 856 i 279 023
129,513 ' 127,785
133,' 357
233 394
226 754
223 837
164 205
182, 077
171, 968
191, 120
175 988
158, 485
162,388
136
149
132
140
167
194
177
185
130
6 31 I
6 55
6 75
6 75
6.75
6.75
6 75
6 75
6 75
6 75
6 75
6 75 i
6 75
4.35 !
4 35
4 35
4.35
4.35
4.49
4.60
4.60
4.60
4.60
4.60
4. 72 i
4 85
3 15 ;
3 15
3 15
3 15
3.15
3.25
3.25
3.25
3 25
3.25
3.25
3. 45
3 55
95 331 2 31 293
6* 120
7 423
1,991
l' 775
8,133
11,883
2,055
2,785
4,705 24,171
2,543 * 3, 040
33 475
8,245
2,078
13, 103
3,140
3,931
2,978
28 614
7*349
1,739
10, 400
2,846
3,431
2,849
27,839
7,244
1,605
9,596
2,835
2,974
3,585
19 889
5,250
1,418
7,573
2, 495
853
2,300
17,537
5, 034
1,262
5,401
2, 003
2,044
1,793
46.8
86.6
56.2
87.1
59.0
86.9
66.9
88.1
70.9
88. 0
136
:
i
:
i
!
;
!
28 452
6,735
1,647
10, 058
3,128
2,812
4, 072
29, 888
6,641
1,768
11, 042
3,846
2,454
4,137
29 364
6,254
1,654
11,888
3,712
2,045
3,811
23 971
5.687
1,438
9,644
2,983
1,370
2,849
57.9
87.2
83.6
87.5
74.5
88.1
59.9
88.4
157, 079 1
130 ,
208
^36 °63
270
1
!
1
!
|
|
18 541
4 740
1 271
5,034
1, 769
3,953
1,774
1RON AND STEEL
New orders.. _ . _.
rel. to 1923-25—
Prices, wholesale
rel. to 1926Production index (Fed. Res. Bd.)
.. rel. to 1923-25
Production index (elect, energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25
Stocks, manufactured goods, end
of month
rel. to 1923-25
Unfilled orders, end of month.. rel. to 1923-25. Ore
Iron ore:
Consumption
_. thous. of long tons
Imports
thous. of long tons
ReceiptsLake Erie ports and
furnaces
thous. of long tons
Other ports
thous. of long tons
Shipments from mines
._
thous. of long tons.Stocks end of month —
At furnaces. __ thous. of long tons..
On Lake Erie docks
_. thous. of long tons
Total
thous. of long tons
Manganese ore:
Imports
thous. of long tons-
86.0 ;
46 '
42 6
86.2
56 0
86.6
58 0
88. 3
]
43
46
51
59
64
72
75
78
73
76 3
78 3
78.0
83.1
86.6
106.8
108.1
119.4
116.5
103.4 i
110.2
106 5
125 3
252.4
123 3
53.0
128.7
53.4
130.1
57.6
136 6
60.3
138 9
62.4
142.8
67.4
145 7
69.6
139 7
68.6
141 7 '
71.6 ;
146.4 •
76. 3 |
146 1
69.4
1,451
70
1 470
99
1,652
92
1,832
128
2,114
122
2, 675
194
2,826
163
2 835
169
2,368
2,350 i
150 i
2, 339
176 i
2 640
74
457 •
277
2 099
1, 162
2 873
1 440
3 229
1,658
3 191
1,735
2 369
1,428
599
656
9
106
o
o
o
0 •
0
l 634
993
421
3,094
4,179
5,065
4, 956
3,808
1,769
176
0
0
33,184 i 33,687
31, 998
29,385
26, 451
23, 556
21, 968
23,292
25, 751
28, 247
30, 430 i
6,048 i 6,080
39,232
39 767
5,974
37 972
5, 686
35, 071
5,386
31 817
5, 157
28 713
5,147
27 115
5,430
28 722
5,765
31, 516
6,011
34, 258
6,190
36, 620
27
22
38
37
21
33
2
10
17
111
82
68
137
260
99
79
70
123
231
101
92
70
117
226
108
82
60
123
229
126
105
77
134
232
122
123
93
140
252
122
134
98
136
261
108
107
84
118
268
101
97
68
131
309 1
17, 610
18.6
18, 193
18, 387
18, 494
19.0
18, 531
20,513
19,400
20.1
19,943
23,511
22, 176
24.5
23, 837
28, 132
28, 328
32.2
31,450
36, 540
36, 086
36.3
36, 076
37, 693
34, 331
35.9
35, 210
36, 677
32, 566
34.4
33, 587
32,663
77. 0
124.4
|
1,311
94
9
21
0
95
64
59
o
o
0
!
65
0 s
1,988
:
34,761
6,331 >
38,949 '
6, 4G6
41 227
29 '
10
32,618
Iron — Crude
Gray-iron castings:
Production _
av. tons per foundry
New business
av tons per foundry
Unfilled orders
av tons per foundry
Material received., av. tons per foundry
Material on hand av. tons per foundry
Malleable castings:
New orders
short tons
Operating activities— per ct. of capacityProduction
short tons
Shipments
short tons—
Plg-iron production:
Canada
thous. of long tons
Merchant furnaces
thous. of long tons
United States, total thous. of long tons..
United States, total . .. rel. to 1923-25
Pig-iron furnaces in blast, end of month:
Furnaces, end of month
number
Capacity, end of month-long tons per day..
Prices, wholesale:
Basic (valley furnace)— dolls., per long ton-Composite pig-iron
dolls, per long ton-Foundry, No. 2, northern
(Pittsburgh)
dolls, per long ton
18, 542 l 18, 145
18.3
20.5
17,678
20,123
17,888 ; 17,484
103
101
80
112
273
i
i
i
i
i
106
77
53
135
260
32, 676 1
31.5
31,267
31,536
26,433 i
31. 1 !
30,431
27,474 |
27,451
27. 8
27,114
25,974
36
292 1
1,714
67.4
38
396 .'
1,666 i
55. 8 :
46
375
1,867
62. 5
95 :
51,330 |
107
60,205
:
17.00
17.14
0
18
1, 173
39 3
1,169
39 1
23
297
1,281
42.9
40
371
1,463
49.0
56
336
1,639
54 9
51
410
1,994
66 7
54
404
2,020
67 6
57
356
2,032
68.0
46
317
1,707
57.1
67
35,810
70
36,530
73
38, 600
76
39, 085
82
45, 230
91
50,855
105
61,085
113
66, 980
116
67, 880
108
61,850
15. 00
16.02
15. 25
16.23
15.50
16.32 1
15. 50
16. 38
15.50
16.38
15.50
16.40
16.25
16.64
16.50
16.75
16,50
16.72
16.75
16.82
17.00
16.94 |
17.00
17.01
18 39
18 76
18. 76
18.76
18 76
18 76
18 76
18 26
18 51
18 76 !
18. 76
! 105,181
i 947 730
i 270,880
|
842
158, 495
257 941
288, 422
978
208, 072
195 946
213, 852
1,106
201, 956
155 723
159, 568
1,089
178,101
156 769
166, 923
1,069
174,244
154 650
148,749
1,014
227,605
150 227
149,057
997
210, 584
95 765
94, 251
916
178,224
114,693
116,186
797
7,204
9, 148
4,678 1 4. 662
10,262 1 7, 309
48, 095 i 53,558
5,520
3,977
6,071
57, 274
4,948
4,654
5,055
59, 876
4, 525
5,069
4,787
59, 770
3,741
6,553
4,232
60,221
—
1, 103 i
36.9
17 76
!
102
57,365
18. 76
Iron— Manufactured Products
Cast-iron boilers:
Gas-fired boilersProduction
thous. B. t. U—
Shipments
thous B t u
Shipments
dollarsStocks, end of month -..mills. B. t. u._
Round boilersNew orders
thous. of lbs_.
Production
tbous. of lbs._
Shipments
thous. of lbs__
Stocks, end of month .. -thous. of lbs_.
2 Revised
329,726
146 023
147,698
741
8,406
11,731
5,228
6,502
8, 497
13, 923
36,872 . 41,257
4,311
4, 864 1
4,071
57, 794
3,912
5, 509
4,183
56, 878
163. 390 ' 85,399
98, 397 ! 221,775
92, 702 181,966 '
621 \
721
6,412 1
4,109
5,724 '
54, 997 i
7,193 •
3,614
7,131 |
51,657 i
85,328
149 507
202,835
759
9,495
5,910
10,041
53,686
35
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober Septemment to the Survey
August
ber
ber
1931
1930
Decem- Novem^' January!
ber
ber
July
June
May
April
March
F
IRON AND STEEL- Continued
Iron— Manufactured Products— Contd.
Cast-iron boilers— Continued.
Square boilersNew orders
thous. of Ibs
Production
thous. of lbs_.
Sbipments
_
thous. of Ibs .
Stocks, end of month... thous. of Ibs..
Cast-iron fittings:
Production
short tons _
Shipments
short tons
Malleable fittings:
Production
short tons..
Shipments
.
_ short tons
Radiators:
New orders. thous. sq. ft. heating surface..
Production. thous. sq. ft. heating surface-Shipments.. thous. sq. ft. heating surface. .
Stocks, end of month
thous sq ft heating surface
Hange boilers:
New orders
number
Production.. _ _
__ number
Shipments
number _
Stocks, end of month
..number
Unfilled orders—
Total
number
Delivery, 30 days
number
Delivery, more than 30 days.number_-
19, 029
11,741
19, 137
106, 617
27, 999
19, 751
31,479
113, 228
22, 547
14, 231
25, 328
124, 657
19, 967
15, 264
19,413
137, 143
14, 765
13, 028
15, 184
139, 469
12, 200
13, 256
11,422
141, 522
10,049
13, 140
9,537
139, 773
8,091
15, 981
8,448
136, 840
9,771
14,700
8,851
129, 643
9,122
15, 957
8,632
124, 238
5,381
4,778
5,475
7,638
4,592
5,822
3,650
4,442
4,059
4,779
4,165
4,508
4,976
5,088
5,603
5,379
5,763
5,665
6,288
5,897
2,412
2,026
2,973
3,610
2, 466
2,964
1,959
2,041
2,114
2,330
2,365
2,489
2,471
2,784
3,075
2,995
3,290
3,242
8,302
5,560
8,465
10, 342
7,292
11, 282
8,508
5, 090
9,262
8,365
4,572
7,960
6,606
4,194
6, 834
6,428
5, 025
5, 759
4,863
5,164
5,003
4,330
5,957
4,293
34, 388
36, 798
40, 549
44, 834
47,414
50, 183
50, 953
37, 427 2 46, 680
37, 918 2 51, 769
36, 930
50, 127
26, 605 2 25, 617
42, 109
39,211
41, 754
23, 975
35, 674
32, 003
33, 636
26, 518
39, 066
44,611
46, 036
28, 151
39, 428
42, 012
41,001
29, 576
41, 768
43, 799
41, 744
28, 565
7, 023
2 5, 423
1,600
10, 470
8,470
2,000
10, 115
8,054
2,061
8,077
5,922
2,155
15, 047
12, 752
2,295
2.18
2.20
2.19
2.20
2.19
7, 520
6,309
1,211
2
17,723
10,857
16,837
109, 835
21,377
12, 858
21. 480
115,313
6,446
6,758 |
6,506
5,358
7,188
7,222
3,379
3,432
3,236 !
3,533
3,209
2,603
3.322
3,108
4,451
6,781
4,013
4,483
6,801
4,410
6,267
6,961
6,091 !
7,471
4,097
6,866
9, 089
4,791
9, 118
50, 632
48, 978
45, 969
43,613
38, 702
41,420
43, 287
48, 250
47, 148
26, 510
48, 733
48, 051
49, 861
25, 408
40, 807
42, 083
41, 944
27, 218
58, 233
60, 213
64, 033
27,079
39, 927
38, 302
31, 496
30, 899
39, 304
43, 251
41,677
24, 093
16, 620
9,944
6,676
16, 596
8.599
7,997
20, 457
10, 882
9, 575
21, 585
11,708
9,877
22 722
11^712
11,010 1
28, 522
17, 192
11, 330
20, 091
6,870
13, 221
2.21
2.22
2.23
2.22
2.22 ;
2.19
2.20
11,500
14, 689
12,082
117, 622
Steel— Crude
Prices, wholesale:
Composite, finished steel
2.18
dolls per 100 Ibs
Iron and steel composite
30.61
dolls, per long ton
Steel billets, Bessemer
(Pittsburgh).
dolls, per long ton.. 29.00
Structural-steel beams (Pittsburgh)
_ dolls, per 100 Ibs . 1.60
Sheets, black, blue, galvanized, and full finished:
New orders
net tons.. 102, 867
Production—
26.7
Per cent of capacity. _
per cent-Total
net tons 102, 758
Shipments
net tons . 94, 975
Stocks, end of month —
74, 763
Unsold
net tons
Total
net tons.. 133, 296
Unfilled orders, end of month net tons.. 147, 169
Steel castings:
New orders —
20, 000
TotaL _ .
short tons
Miscellaneous
short tons_. 12, 831
Railroad specialties..
short tons.. 7, 169
14
Per cent of capacity
_ per cent..
Production —
23, 109
Total
short tons
Miscellaneous..
._
short tons . 16, 108
Railroad specialties
short tons.. 7, 001
16
Per cent of capacity
per cent..
Steel ingots,, production:
Canada
thous of long tons
United States, total— thous. of long tons.. 1,594
46.1
United States, total
rel. to 1923-25
30
Per cent of capacity
per cent..
D. S. Steel Corporation:
Earnings
thous. of dolls..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of long tons.. 2,934
Unfilled orders, end of
61.4
month
rel. to 1923-25..
30.81
31.03
31.05
31.05
31.02
31.39
31.61
31.66
31. 65
31.70
31.76
31.95
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.00
29.50
30.00
30.00
30.00
30.00
30.60
31.00
1.60
1.60
1,60
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.65
1.63
1.60
1.60
117, 195
120, 688
122, 849
144, 461
163,599
148, 612
191,987
236, 310
168, 564
180, 863
233, 289
135, 682
33.1
122, 739
129, 365
32.0
116,842
123, 371
34.9
123, 752
151,529
46.3
174, 890
178, 460
40.3
147, 843
156, 160
56.6
201, 846
191, 942
58.2
213, 608
211,118
61.1
224, 322
208, 207
57.2
192, 218
179, 138
45.1
39.8
167,865 1 145, 125
170,379 144, 040
43.6
148, 550
158, 182
70, 465
137, 243
159, 367
C7, 337
143, 153
167, 366
75, 288
149, 533
170, 122
77, 953
160, 959
203, 358
75, 618
168,013
304, 107
82, 532
169, 444
296, 731
85, 415
176, 846
325, 169
89, 334
189, 915
383, 280
92, 047
181,614
343, 439
83, 629
87, 496
180, 285 184, 590
360,479 | 378, 601
90, 248
184, 586
295, 282
22, 851
15, 890
6,961
16
23, 073
17, 050
6,023
16
27, 458
20, 610
6,848
19
32, 869
19, 248
13, 621
23
26, 136
18, 539
7,597
18
39, 052
27, 746
11, 306
27
46, 039
29, 844
16, 195
32
48, 184
37, 172
11,012
33
40, 320
31,184
9,136
28
46,810
32, 092
14, 718
32
49, 387
30, 131
19, 256
34
48, 123
31,628
16, 495
33
24, 083
16, 717
7,366
17
26, 948
19, 683
7,265
19
30, 186
21, 529
8,657
21
31,751
23, 339
8,412
22
35, 018
25, 608
9,410
24
43, 154
31, 083
12, 071
30
48,282
35, 439
12, 843
33
56, 755
42, 544
14, 211
39
49, 548
35, 638
13, 910
34
46, 294
35, 351
10, 943
32
46,290
32, 093
14, 197
32
44, 290
32, 445
11,845
31
31
1,592
46.1
28
33
1,548
44.8
28
52
1,719
49.7
31
45
1,886
54.6
34
56
2,076
60.1
38
75
2,505
72.5
45
91
2,722
78.7
49
99
2,994
86.6
54
83
2,502
72.4
49
58 !
2,459 !
71.1
43
56
1,980
57.3
38
72
2,212
64.0
44
2,559
2,960
3,662
4,499
4,183
5,136
7,191
6,156
6,118
4,191
7,949
3, 119
3,145
3,169
3,405
3,479
3,620
3,898
3,995
3,965
4,132
3,944
3,640
65.3
0,9
66.4
71.3
72.9
75.8
81.6
83.7
83.0
86.5
82.6
76.2
1, 591
1,774
1,587
1,632
999
1,182
283
515
468
503
409
641
Steel— Manufactured Products
Furniture, steel:
Business group —
910 2 1,114
1,841
1,424
1,092
1,272
1,487
1,478
New orders
thous. of dolls
1,059
1,306
1,010
956
1,078
1,221
1,522
1,563
1,768
Shipments
.thous. of dolls..
1,057
1,074
1,305
1,188
1,481
Unfilled orders, end of
780
826
1,072
948
896
952
986
month
thous. of dolls. .
919
966
897
790
Shelving304
267
328
452
401
418
New orders
thous. of dolls..
304
506
408
455
307
226
310
371
382
422
449
423
Shipments
thous. of dolls..
358
409
481
310
Unfilled orders, end of
419
424
378
404
month
__
thous. of dolls .
441
483
480
383
398
383
390
Iron, steel, and heavy hardware,
109
124
104
110
sales
rel. to Jan., 1921..
112
129
134
123
117
110
Iron and steel:
59, 335
91,212
59, 526
75. 585
92, 745
Exports
long tons
69, 768
84, 466
91, 407 101, 081 109, 512
73, 338
23, 104
23, 335
40,606
Imports
.
long tons
24, 509
21, 898
29, 689
33, 959
28, 225
30, 987
33,343 22, 479
85
122
172
163
Lock washers, shipments
thous. of dolls..
84
179
177
140
83
96
Steel barrels:
Production..
barrels.. 453, 547 489, 555 451, 562 449, 590 580, 565 552, 955 610, 788 591, 399 550, 583 450, 134 421, 814
32.7
39.9
33.1
35.3
31.7
43.1
41.9
32.6
Per cent of capacitv
per cent
38.9
31.6
40.7
Shipments
barrels.. 444, 201 492, 145 452, 960 455, 502 581, 450 549, 781 618, 801 600, 566 554, 332 449, 485 427, 622
Stocks, end of month
barrels
44, 050
34,704
63, 244
62, 595
37, 294
38,692
45, 489
42, 315
59, 495
44,604
50, 328
Unfilled orders, end of
1.424
1.392
914
1.053
1,253
month
thous. of barrels..
549
638
939
1.078
1.195
1.030
2
Revised.
123
139
101, 988
24, 338
115
111, 968
34, 572
119
412, 283
30.3
406, 327
68, 403
497, 539
36.5
500, 409
62, 447
1,437
929
SURVEY OF CUBRENT BUSINESS
36
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
October
November
Septem- August
ber
July
i June
May
April
i
1
1930
i
Febru- January Decem- Novemary
ber
ber
i
March
IRON AND STEEL-Continued
i
1
Steel— Manufactured Products— Cont'd.
Steel bars, cold finished, shipments-short tons.. 12, 182 13, 034
Steel boilers, new orders:
424
467
Area
___
thous. of sq. ft_672
491
Qnantity
number-Steel plate, fabricated, new orders:
Total
short tons - 18, 268 » 20, 839
1,955
1, 755
Oil storage tanks
short tons_.
Structural steel, fabricated:
New orders —
Computed total.
short tons.. 87, 200 110, 000
27.5
21.8
Per cent of capacity
per cent-Shipments—
Computed total
short tons.. 111,600 145, 600
36.4
27.9
Per cent of capacity
per cent .
2,162
1,948
Track work, production .
short tons..
Baths:
New orders.
no. of pieces.,
Shipments
no. of pieces^,
Stocks, end of month
no. of pieces..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
no. of pieces..
Lavatories:
New orders
. no. of pieces..
Shipments..
_ _ _ _ _ _ n o . of pieces..
Stocks, end of month
no. of pieces._
Sinks:
New orders...
_
_no. of pieces.Shipments
no. of pieces._
Stocks, end of month.
_no. of pieces..
Miscellaneous sanitary ware:
New orders
no. of pieces._
Shipments
.no. of pieces..
Stocks, end of month
no. of pieces..
Small ware (except baths):
Unfilled orders, end of
month
no. of pieces. .
Porcelain enameled flat ware:
New orders—
Total
. dollars.
Signs
_ dollars.
-dollars.
Table tops
Allother
-dollars.
Shipments—
Total
-dollarsSigns
-dollars.
Table tops
-dollars.
All other
.dollars-
21, 727
11,576
12,600
14,413
16,360
22,768
692
893
595
827
687
816
677
818
603
658
33, 473
4, 024
24. 282
1,138
'
27,261 ! 22,808
4,136
4,679
26.210
2,411
196, 800
49.2
124, 400
31.1
159, 200 177, 200 152, 800 : 292, 800 184, 400 158,400
39. 8
44. 3 |
38. 2
73. 2
46, 1
39.6
162,400
40.6
150, 000
37.5
3, 472
168, 800
42.2
3,924
181, 600
45. 4
4,409
162, 400 148,000 158.400
40. 6 i
37. 0
39. 6
5,705
7,453 1 8,564
172.000 168.400
43. 0 i
42. 1
5,626 j
5, 174
195.200
48 8
4, 212
24,445 i 35,703 33,578 ! 35,463
25,473 ! 36,022 34,980 ! 37,633
126,718 ! 131,858 134,392 ; 139,496
46. 704
47, 922
138, 759
43,228 ! 42.991
43,584 j 45,512
145,140 I 152, 206
56. 494
68, 564
148,909
52, 254
36, 008
167, 932
30, 813
35, 489
168, 80g
12,320 j 13,722 i 15,892
17,110 | 17,466
22,067
24,642
36, 712
20, 466
33,851 i 30, 883
36,642 i 34, 438
230,817 | 212, 395
71,113
93, 870
192, 072
72, 493
48, 023
214, 472
41,227
47, 078
205, 517
10,973 | 12,001
25,141 \ 25,011
825 !
689
29.916
7^749
21,943
665
630
622
516
i
577 I
598 |
31.056
2, 538
24, 438
3,585
27,518 !
2.598 !
151,200 166.400
37. 8 ! 41. 6
8,944
6,321
40, 111 I 33.196 i 28, 041
40,449 34,938 30,616
163,037 j 166,158 | 160,851
19,987 I 20,325
15, 747
15, 456
587
814
709777
26, 787
5,118
33, 151
9, 965
152.800 S 151.200
38.2
37.8
30.259 | 43,238 :, 41,489 i 43,521
30,844 ! 44,963 43,372 45, 262
161,911 | 169,509 176,825 ! 190,226
53, 226 49,181 ! 51,395 45, 440
53, 585 50,575 | 54,520 43, 221
192,552 209,841 | 218,067 232, 277
34,997 I 44,287 43,518 i 43,174
34,163 | 46,437 43,070 i 44,907
212,783 ; 224,726 | 226,440 1 236,005
51, 341
52, 963
245,354
49,928 I 54,693
51,676 I 56,845
255,269 j 260,426
52, 771
41, 532 i 35, 873 63, 074
49,443 ! 41,787 I 39,211 80, 095
273,154 i 267, 828 j 259, 442 244, 880
61, 567
43, 968
261, 800
44, 897
51, 027
253, 374
17,418 ' 26,854 i 21,911 ! 27,324
17,718 I 20,175 22,231 I 28,073
83,492 J 86,401 i 66,640 86,455
27,106
29, 082
94, 260
27,463 I 21,243
26,453 ! 24,490
98,384 ! 101,673
22,995 ! 18,641 | 15,781 29, 785
21,719 18,811 i 17,768 33, 527
107,917 j 109, 508 ! 107,439 106,152
25, 092
19, 680
112, 460
21, 453
22, 065
108, 795
36,465 | 38,503
39,702
41,457
45,680
49,637 | 51,769
65, 566
109, 086
61, 605
i
!
!
I
706,284
206,012
205,756
294,516 I
701, 487
213,856
175, 642
311, 989
564, 093
170,313 i
128, 350 i
265,430 :
649, 891 637,688 i 716,502 670,171 707, 480 623, 973 548, 403
245, 943 249, 455 283, 528 242,938 264, 769 263,677 j 259,070
168, 362 132, 869 148, 700 161,172 173, 064 122,836 | 104,522
235, 589 255, 364 284, 276 266,061 269, 647 237,460 i 184,811
412, 512
181, 600
50, 271
180, 641
515, 383
195, 764
85, 009
234, 610
I
!
i
!
692,415
182,077
201, 935
308,403
704, 428 638,431 690, 801 708,838 739, 656 691,107 738, 358 628, 969 468, 779
222, 332 229,459 278, 732 290,032 i 290,429 256, 906 293, 356 270, 886 197, 894
180, 650 131,675 163, 979 140,545 I 151,647 160, 892 174, 347 120, 623 102,199
301, 446 277,297 248,090 276, 261 297, 580 273, 309 270,655 237,460
509, 392
283, 966
50, 680
174, 746
524, 486
192, 547
80, 764
251, 175
110,372 106,928 101, 784 122, 642 135, 674 118,510 | 130,895
106, 466 118, 358 108, 525 126, 368 125, 652 127,055 i 117,445
199, 308 203, 213 211,622 200, 227 211,972 204, 586 213, 574
100, 556 96, 650 108, 080 114,821 119, 578 109, 556 i 118,101
111,689
108, 021
j247, 513
126, 718
96, 928
104, 088
232, 467
123, 050
60, 293 I 53, 470 j 56, 686
Plumbers' Woodwork
New orders, net
no. of pieces.. 100,194 ! 100,275
Shipments
no. of pieces.. 100,708 { 111,422
Stock, finished, end of month.__no. of pieces.. 190,034 191, 933
Unfilled orders, end of month no. of pieces.. 88,895 89, 409
| 98,869 j 111,957
j 119,725 113,168
j 215, 628 i 212, 683
! 104, 651 I 125, 507
Bathroom Accessories
Total:
181,955 173,588 121,546 ! 121,205
Production
no. of pieces.. 121, 490 \ 154, 106 160,401 j 163,462 147, 999 203, 283
Shipments
no. of pieces.. 104,849 166,839 153, 126 144, 466 162, 497 192, 246 192, 848 177,051 I 166,084 122, 745 158, 414
Stocks, end of month
no. of pieces.. 645, 909 629, 268 648,161 640,886 621,890 636, 388 625, 351 628, 220 I 623, 316 615,812 | 617,011
I
Shipbuilding
Rate of activity (elec. energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25..
Building or under contract, end of monthMerchant vessels
thous. of gross tons..
Completed during monthTotal
.gross tons..
Steel, seagoing
_
gross tons.
Machlnery
Total exports...
thous. of dolls.
Air conditioning equipment:
New orders—
T9tal__
thous. of dolls.
Air washer group
thous. of dolls.
Fan group
thous. of dolls.,
Unit heater group
thous. of dolls.
Electric hoists:
New orders—•
Quantity
„
no. of hoistsValue
..dollarsShipments
.
. dollarsElectric overhead cranes:
New orders
...thous. of dolls.
Shipments.
-thous. of dollsUnfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of dolls.
Foundry equipment:
New orders..rel. to 1922-24.
Shipments
_„
.rel. to 1922-24.
Unfilled orders, end of
month
_
rel. to 1922-24.
2 Revised.
95.0
84.5 ;
283
85.6
294
299
82.0
326 i
84.8 i
89.7
92.5
359 I
370
397
27,906 ! 11,554 ! 30,471
22,647
25, 002 j 7,150 ! 25,363 I 16,964
15, 700 ! 20, 200 ! 24, 700 ! 20, 400
1,485
83
575
827
104
48, 243
65, 714
165
71, 451
62, 493
44
102
73
157
1,432
61
562
809
!
1,359
75
553
731
132 !
203
63,032 i 85,526
81, 465 ! 73,163
84
235
91 I
345 I
98.3
409 I
114.8 !
113.9
99.0
412 i
421
344
359
34, 527
28, 613
13,766 ! 17,443 ! 25,622
4,985 j 13,976 j 9, 703
29,413 l[ 25,971
21,045
18,391
53, 551
39, 830
31,100 : 29, 400
37,700 ;! 36, 100
33, 200
22, 700
28, 300
26, 600
1,719
93
832
794
1,538
127
788
623
1, 671
205
781
685
1, 398
78 i
756 i
564 I
1, 307
99
740
468
44, 000
j 1, 180
|
64
i
585
i
531
1,284 i
79 i
666
539
276 i
261 i
205
192
220
293 i
335
90,964 109,245 1 142,962 ! 125,550 i 117,216 i 113, 862 133,295
142,143 122,189 | 115,809 | 101, 746 ; 134, 995 j 112,363 132,157
160 i
435 j
261 !
410
105. &
307
310 j
274 :
416 i
671
261 i
268
530
423
496
231 i
267
126,592 | 122,136
106,459 115,849
302 I
671 !
370
587
435
497
581
736
990 | 1,264
1,413 '
1, 420 i
1, 552 |
1, 207
1,407
1,517
1,864
17.2
32.9
45.9
26.2
31.9
29.6
16.9
37.4
38.7
55.7
40.9
90.4
54.1 i
118. 6 i
57.7
69.7
174.4 !
72.9 |
54.7
55.4
65.3
54.7
59.8
102.6
45.3
76.5
40.8
56.8 |
32.1
51.8 i
70.1
123. 8 I
180.1
314. 6 i
93. 5
94.6
82.3
124.9
37
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
IRON AND STEEL-Continued
Machinery—Continued
Machine tools:
New orders
rel. to 1922-24..
Shipments.—
rel. to 1922-24..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
rel. to 1922-24..
Oil burners:
New orders.no. of burners..
Shipments
no. of burners..
Stocks, end of month
no. of burners-Unfilled orders, end of
month..
_
no. of burners..
Patents granted:
Agricultural implements
number..
Internal-combustion engines
number..
Total, all classes
number..
Pulverized-fuel equipment:
New orders, central system—
Furnaces and kilns.no. of pulverizers._
Water-tube boilers.no. of pulverizers..
New orders, unit system—
Fire-tube boilers...no. of pulverizersFurnaces and kilns.no. of pulverizers. .
Water-tubeboilers.no. of pulverizers..
Pumps (water):
Domestic shipmentsPitcher, hand, and windmill
no. of units..
Power, horizontal type_.no. of units..
Steam, power, and centrifugalNew orders.
thous. of dolls..
Shipments
thous. ef dolls..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of dolls..
Pumps (gasoline and other):
ShipmentsGasoline—
Hand operated.
...units..
Power operated
units. _
OtherHand operated.
units..
Power operated
units. .
Stokers, mechanical, sales:
Power
horsepower..
Quantity
number..
Water-softening apparatus, shipments
no. of units..
Water-systems, shipments
no. of units..
Wood-working machinery:
Cancellationsthous. of dolls..
New orders
thous. of dolls..
Shipments
thous. of dolls..
Shipments
no. of machines..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of dolls..
NONFERROUS METALS AND PRODUCTS
Prices, wholesale, metal and metal
products.
—
rel. to 1926..
Production index (Fed. Res.
Bd.)
rel. to 1923-25..
Production index (elec. energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25..
Stocks, end of month
rel. to 1923-25—
Stocks, raw materials, end of
month
rel. to 1923-25..
Raw Materials
Babbitt metal consumption:
Direct by producers
thous. of lbs_.
Sale to consumers
thous. of lbs_.
Total apparent
thous. of lbs__
Copper:
Exports, refined
short tons..
Domestic shipments, refined..short tons..
Price, wholesale, electrolytic
(N. Y.)._
dolls, perlbProductionIndex (Fed. Res. Bd.).rel. to 1923-25..
Mines
short tons..
Refined (N. and S.
America)
short tons..
Smelters
short tons..
Stocks (N. and S. America),
end of monthBlister...
short tons..
Refined
..short tons..
Refined
..rel. to 1923-25..
World production, blister
short tons..
Lead:
Ore shipments—
Joplin district
short tonsUtah...
short tons..
Production, refined
short tons..
Production (Fed. Res.
Bd.)
rel. to 1923-25..
Price, pig, desilverized (New
York)
dolls, per lb..
Receipts in United States, ore.short tons..
2 Revised.
1930
1931
Novem-
51
50
eptemoer
A
56
92
45
85
t
July
June
May
April
I.
72
62
72
97
97
140
182
202
5,852
6,413
8,860
13,542
14,234
8,326
12, 329
12, 536
9,748
10,621
10,035
10,155
8,010
7,491
10,113
616
1,177
1,869 |
2,076
1,490
79
44
4, 163
54
57
4,074
62
66
4,750
55
60
3,962
74
95
212
6,046 i
6,044 !
9,193 |
971 i
67
5,270
87
96
105
91
232
238
5. 528
5,248
10, 036
4,836
4,406
8,603
969
1,399
60 I
58
4, 270
67
68
4,167
1,119 I
I
67
68
4,789
si
225 j
!
84
73
67
75 !
Decem- November
ber
69 !
85 I
60
67
204
179
3,699
3, 531
8,645
3,842
4,046
8,572
5,026 I
5,025 !
8,604 ;
6,861
7,855
8,319
521
725 I
I
58 |
67 i
4,251 I
724
44
76
3,715
41
58
3,215
203 |
230
52
54
3,023
0 I
2|
0
0
2 !
5
2
15
.Si
5 !
17,677 I 20,490
1,063
1,032
1,8521
118 I
92 i
5, 132
5, 562
8, 553
0 !
0 I
475
627
March
Febru- January
ary
2,023
24,873
1,564
23,056
1,325
21, 562
1,238
950
1,036
765
873
773
718
1,047
1,205
967
1,116
2,762
2,616
2,717
2,826
2,812
2,975
24,579
2,312
26,330
2,229
22,417
2,135
775
800
874
944
875
1,028
921
1,037
1,075
918
2,161
2,450
2,441
2,471 I
2,605
2,715
3,676 i
3,276
4,309
4,585
5,742
5,019
7,735
6,041
10, 263
599 i
886
563
695
32, 902
1,657
22,379
2,197
24,255 i 25,181
1,772
2,145 i
22,479
291
18,645
458
22, 708
501
37, 660
985
37, 287
1,162
37, 355
1,077
13,231
20, 339
83
22,462
31,171
132
20,735
101
29,889
111
23,646
80
18, 723
65
17, 993
63
13, 849
66
25, 902
85
11, 726
53
21, 103
71
458
518
6,030
429
7,850
525
7,640
605
9,090
692
7,638
766
6,105
591
5,434
664
6,010
566
5,177
647
6,401
447
572
513
16
533
448
421
46
503
463
391
21
487
513
10
484
451
356
16
527
545
400
13
474
491
421
9
486
383
400
21
470
500
529
16
459
506
442
356
534
479
516 !!
518
479
502
557
467
520
87.1
87.5
87.4 !
87.8
88.7
89.0
88.9
89.3
90.0
90.2
73
73
276
278
277
85
286
62
500
6,681 j
7
345
379
331
8
377
347
371
340
16.2
86.5
87.2 j
62
65
65 |
76. 0 j
71. 0 I
202. 7 2 201. 9 |
169.3
607;
75. 0
200. 9
2!63.9 I 152.0
'65 I
69.3
203.3
78.6 I
213.7 !
94.0
219.3
94.6
220.4
103.5
219.9
112.3
224.4
95.0
227.4
97.8
228.1
89.6
231.1
147. 9 !
137.7
127.7 !
122.4
126.9
144.8
130.7
130.9
129.6
139.8
511
1,420
1,932 |
702 i
1,605 I
2,307 j
731
1,678
2,409
716
1,844
2,560
832
1,829
2,661
687
1,820
2,507 !
766
2,090
2, 856
647
1,459
2,107
791
1,904
2,695
23,244 I 22,951
50, 217 45, 265
24, 179
54, 567
31, 536
74, 685
28, 947
60, 636
42, 192
60, 209
32, 208
69, 854
37, 773
62, 693
.0867
.0939
. 0985
.0972
. 0984
.1030
.1011
68
45, 580
69
46, 452
72
76
47, 504 1 48, 059
76
48, 726
83
53, 141
102, 458
53, 429
106. 366
60, 022
112, 646
64, 816
198,811 | 203,224 | 210,637
354, 205 i 363, 629 j 363, 827
312. 9 i 321. 2
321. 4
136,958 i 128,685 | 129,390
218, 799
367, 175
324.4
135, 252
223, 280
369, 832
326. 7
143,214
2, 896
48, 705
48, 517
3, 963
48, 400
43,423
497
1,355
1,852
404
1,377
1, 781
15,215 | 11,429
17,201
40,459
19, 271
45, 816
.0656 I
.0678
.0729 i
60
86,704
47,012
65
73.3
199.9
552
1,495
2,047
1, 255 i
1,062 |
567 I
22, 381
43,144
.0770
59 !
59
38,925 j 38,228
.0803 i
44,473
90,190 i 96, 408 I 98, 275 i 102,695
47,246 ! 46,503
51, 652 j 53, 734
100, 501 ! 102,058
52, 085
57, 922
! 178,425 176, 105 [ 179, 658 187, 353 ! 190, 578 I 193,876
i 479,896 455,775 | 440,417 413,474 i 398,667 ! 367,921
I 423.9
402. 6 I
389. 1
365. 3 j 352. 2 | 325. 0
120,689 121,655 j 121,504 ! 126,722 j 130,486 j 128,877
27,535
31.671
...: 2,9ii
34,807 j 25,305
36,546 I 31,966
266 I
3,064
27, 711
34,144
67
61
.0391
.0440
.0396
29,182 ; 33,104 ; 33, 228
.0440
33, 385
2, 290 ! 1, 432 ! 1,881
31,577
28,806
41,576 i
32,157 ! 30,708 i 39, 519
64
60 |
78
70
48, 702
1,995
34,816
35, 498
71
99, 853
55, 229
3, 702 I 2,508
35,498 ! 46, 902
41, 775 ! 39,464
79 |
.0440
.0392 i .0382
.0441 ! .0453
30,136 i 32,551 i 35,677 i 34,694 | 37,878
82
2,721
55,331 !
43,405
83
. 0455 .0480
35, fi!2 42,110
92
. 0510
40,4G2
2
80
. 0510
38,820
38
SUEVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
Novem- October Septem- August
ber
ber
July
June
1930
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
Decem- November
ber
NONFERROUS METALS AND PRODUCTS— Continued
Tin:
Raw materials—Continued
Deliveries (consumption) _ -.long tons..
Imports (bars, blocks, etc.)
long tons_.
Price, wholesale, Straits (New
York).
dolls, perlb..
Stocks, end of monthUnited States
long tons..
World visible supply
long tons
Zinc:
Ore, Joplin districtShipments
short tons
Stocks, mines, end of month
short tons
Price, slab, prime western (St.
Louis)_
_
dolls, per lb._
Production _.
short tons..
Retorts in operation, end of month
. number-Stocks, end of month
short tons..
5,015
4,882
5,270
5,249
5,100
5,587
5,185
4,698
5,505
5,483
6,630
6,126
6,120
6,986
5,100
5,903
. 2276
.2468
.2575
.2502
.2341
.2320
.2512
.2707
6,773
50, 602
5,868
50, 722
6,213
50, 987
5.833
51, 707
5,633
51, 626
5,698
51, 231
6,212
48, 462
7,917
48, 607
5, 385
5,607
3, 550
5,301
.2281
7, 458
50, 583
2
Wood Pulp
Ground wood:
Consumption and shipments,
Imports
.._
Production
Stocks, end of month
6, 659
7,495
6,270
6,470
.2631
.2610
.2527
.2589
5,862
49, 339
4,904
43, 619
4,693
42, 498
5,372
40, 811
17, 113
20,243
12, 059
14, 395
22, 470
27, 261
17, 163
25, 389
25, 987
31, 056
39, 478
81, 190
79, 533
76, 566
70, 935
65, 480
61, 110
63, 001
58, 534
56,013
47, 000
49, 441
.0321
20, 526
.0338
21, 674
.0374
21, 356
. 0382
21,467
.0389
21, 365
.0342
23, 483
.0331
25, 688
.0372
29,137
.0400
32, 328
.0401
29, 562
.0404
32, 522
.0410
32, 733
.0427
32, 097
21, 828
130, 865
23, 774
130, 666
22, 817
130, 155
21, 705
129, 701
21, 666
131, 833
21, 422
138, 928
23, 024
143, 049
29, 072
143, 212
34, 221
141, 493
35, 518
144, 389
35, 635
145, 076
33, 640
143, 618
37, 492
145, 139
1,732
2,680
1,791
2,046
2,358
4,599
1,489
2,202
Manufactured Products
Electrical equipment:
Delinquent accounts, electrical trade.
(See under Distribution movement.)
Electric furnaces, new orders.. .kilo watts. - 1,513
1,231
1,862
1,956
3,975
Electric goods, new orders
(quarterly).
thous. of dolls..
« 157, 472
Electrif-al porcelain, shipments2,038
Glazed nail knobs -thous. of pieces..
1,844
1,643
1,482
Special
dollars
82, 485
66, 906
74, 183
63, 044
84,617
Standard
dollars. - 29, 449 40, 171 42, 562 38, 303 33,042
869
Tubes
thous. of piece^..
516
1,000
971
1,095
Unglazed nail knobs- thous. of pieces..
901
562
1,973
Industrial reiiectors, sales
units..
54, 691
61, 794
59, 103
56, 735
Laminated phenolic products,
shipments
thous. of dolls. .
644
637
623
577
Manufactured micaShipments
_ . tbous. of dolls
79
76
81
73
103
Unfilled orders, end of month
81
thous. of dolls.100
73
81
87
Motors (direct current) —
Billings (shipments)
dollars..
387, 770 365, 930 365, 877 360, 444
New orders
dollars..
311, 793 413, 864 299, 081 377, 129
Nonmetallie conduits, shipments
thous. of feet.. 1,782
3,356
2,005
2,777
4,487
Parielboards and cabinets,
326
shipments.
thous. of dolls..
333
367
336
Power cables, shipments. .. thous. of feet-806
840
890
1,137
Power switching equipment, new orders —
40, 586
Indoor
.dollars..
47,041
37, 547
48, 707
Outdoor
dollars .
244,122 188, 043 175, 629 360, 325
47, 142
Vacuum cleaners, shipments
units.59, 074
37, 952
35, 447
Vulcanized fiber —
Consumption
thous oflbs
1,407
1,345
1, 398
1,783
1,057
Shipments, total
thous. of dolls. .
332
262
344
313
348
Welding sets, new orders0
Multiple operations
units..
0
0
0
Single operation
units..
115
108
80
120
Miscellaneous products:
Brass sheets
..rel. to 1926..
79.7
68.3
82.5
80.9
Copper-wire clothNew orders
thous. of sq. ft..
339
366
308
326
328
Make and hold orders,
end of month
thous. of sq. ft.522
509
504
546
583
Production
thous. of sq. ft..
312
338
333
302
330
Shipments
thous. of sq. ft_.
312
254
324
316
330
Stocks, end of month. thous. of sq. ft_.
910
911
889
898
953
Unfilled orders, end
of month__
thous. of sq. ft..
129
135
134
158
160
Enameled sheet-metal ware,
shipments
dozen pieces
255, 782 307, 068 251, 544 246,858
Pails and tubs, galvanized —
Production
dozen pieces
98, 340 110,253 2 134, 003 103, 345
Shipments
dozen pieces
18, 270 120, 851 129, 693 114, 134
Other galvanized ware—
Production
dozen pieces-32, 276
26, 970
26, 626
34, 709
27, 792
27, 334
Shipments
dozen pieces
36, 007
32, 764
PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS
New orders .
rel. to 1923-25
Production index (Fed. Res.
Bd.)
rel to 1923-25
Production index (elect, energy consumed)
(paper and pulp).
rel. to 1923-25..
Stocks, end of month ._
rel. to 1923-25
7,210
8,113
"182,486
' 224, 348
• 208, 936
1,263
77, 194
41,331
592
929
66,188
2,061
78, 983
57, 462
1,309
2,323
67, 256
2,144
76, 313
52,009
890
1,281
72,003
1,458
78, 716
52, 599
783
1,224
69, 484
2,523
86, 471
64, 823
1,125
1,386
68,285
2,253
86, 976
87, 794
875
1,752
65, 501
2,007
91, 564
51, 016
522
1,159
76, 659
1,834
93, 677
47, 994
801
1,164
115, 736
637
711
633
689
630
605
551
674
92
128
135
142
137
133
101
132
97
119
138
110
141
105
104
90
450, 165
402, 130
455, 325
440, 476
473, 767
536, 272
445, 833
396, 958
418, 228
450, 204
393, 558
680,251
500, 165
617, 454
433, 530
457, 518
2,447
4,091
5.112
3,508
3,667
3,997
2,417
3.713
338
1,106
339
1,303
324
1,519
345
1,630
373
1,326
383
1,139
1,678
1,824
64, 736
201, 344
71,551
76,052
228,862
55,362
77, 248
178, 160
78,611
69, 202
219, 232
78, 626
52, 697
240, 081
43, Oil
73, 567
208, 713
70, 303
111,875
216, 145
79, 527
75, 303
269, 425
82,279
1,624
402
1,541
419
1,475
432
1,975
484
1,652
426
1,369
385
1,421
318
1,513
359
2
134
0
165
8
169
11
177
4
136
23
155
13
152
2
153
82.8
86.8
90.4
91.4
89.7
90.7
93.6
92.7
275
275
299
357
309
404 !
337
269
560
253
274
934
514
256
277
1,073
554
340
297
1,096
557
330
308
1,079
530
297
304
1,083
574 i
332
311
1,097 |
539
344
309
1,145
530
310
303
1,176
145
302
174
1.6
211
217
165
166
232, 672
264, 953
281, 339
312,916
289, 205
267, 232
250, 568
263, 365
92, 460
90, 747
121, 413
122, 072
143, 258
140, 080
147, 278
144, 052
132, 781
120, 723
103, 677
138, 538
87, 140
68,898
60, 798
68,330
26, 304
28, 724
28, 390
34, 188
34, 929
42, 287
31, 542
29, 579
34, 347
28,142
23, 716
25, 958
21, 657
15,915
16, 061
21, 296
101.3
291.0
96.7
90.5
93.2
90.7
102.7
99.3
96.7
97.2
85.8
93.2
299
104
105
109
109
113
110
110
110
106
98
103
104.0
128.6
112.4
129.7
135.1
126.1
109.6
131.2
123.0
123.4
127.0
128.6
117.0
122.6
112.3
121.7
111,463
17, 725
102, 197
103. 975
118,371
13,512
121, 103
115.235
118,157
12, 851
136, 858
111.832
116,914
23, 136
136, 438
93. 131
111, 165
14, 652
116,311
73.606
96, 823
15, 656
95, 937
68. 460
108, 349 109, 740
14,394 I 27, 024
107,208 ! 110,578
69.346 ' 75. 498
110,502
21, 776
102, 957
74. 660
126.1
123.9
113.0
122.2
138.3
128.2
121.7
128.6
short tonsshort tons
21, 066
short tons
short tons2 Revised.
110,715
21, 842
104,788
76. 332
106, 094
18, 750
96, 920
82. 260
100, 180
14, 433
87, 638
91. 434
'Quarter ended in month indicated.
111.8 i
125.9
39
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Novemment to the Survey
October SeptemAugust
ber
ber
1931
1930
July
June
May
April
March
February
Novemanuary December
ber
PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS-Con.
Wood Pulp— Continued
Soda:
Consumption and shipments__short tons..
Production
.
_ short tons
Stocks, end of month
short tons..
Sulphite, unbleached:
Consumption and shipments short tons _
Imports
short tons.. 67, 062
Price
dolls, per 100 Ibs .
Production
._
short tons _
Stocks end of month
short tons
Sulphite, bleached:
Consumption and shipments short tons .
35, 736
Imports
short tons
Production
_
short tons
Stocks, end of month
short tons .
Total sulphite:
Consumption and shipments short tons .
Production
short tons
Stocks end of month
short tons „
Sulphate:
Consumption and shipments.. short tons..
Production
short tons
Stocks, end of month
short tons .
Other grades:
Consumption and shipments short tons .
Production
short tons
Stocks end of month
short tons
Total chemical (all grades):
Consumption
short tons
Production
.. _. short tons
Stocks, end of month
short tons..
Paper
Box board:
Consumption of waste paper. .short tons..
New orders
short tons
Operation
_ thous. of inch hours
Operation
p. ct. of capacity..
Production
short tons
Shipments
_. .. ._ . short tons .
Stocks, end of month
short tons..
Stocks of waste paper, end of month—
In transit and unshipped
purchases
short tons..
At mills
short tons _
Unfilled orders, end of month short tons..
Newsprint:
Consumption by publishers,
United States
short tons
Exports, Canada
. ._ short tons
Imports. United States
short tons..
Price, roll, destination,
N. Y
dolls, per short tons..
Production —
Canada
_
short tons..
United States, total
short tons
Per cent of capacity
per cent .
Shipments—
Canada
- ..
short tons .
United States
short tons
Stocks, end of month—
At millsCanada
short tons
United States
short tons..
At publishers, U. S
short tons
In transit to publishers,
United States
short tons..
Other paper:
Binders' board production short tons
Book paper:
Production
.short tons..
Per cent of capacity __ .
percent
Shipments
short tons..
Stocks, end of month ._
short tons
New ordersCoated p. ct. of normal production..
Uncoated p. ct. of normal production
Unfilled orders, end of monthCoated .days' production..
Uncoated
days' production
Fine paper:
Production ..
.. short tons
Per cent of capacity
per cent..
Shipments
short tons
Stocks, end of month ._ . short tons
Wrapping paper:
Production
short tons
Per cent of capacity..
per cent-Shipments
short tons
Stocks, end of month
.. short tons
All other grades:
Production
. short tons
Shipments
short tons
Stocks end of month
short tons
? Revised.
19, 876
21, 226
4,058
21, 558
21, 528
3,598
24, 278
25, 508
4,620
23, 502
24, 362
4,502
23,572
24, 834
4,660
25, 960
27, 230
4,480
27, 412
28, 102
4,414
27, 660
29, 304
4,998
27, 884
29, 422
4,624
28, 512
29, 102
4,366
27, 128
28,560
5,118
28, 346
28, 966
4,936
21, 170
53, 014
2.15
19,814
5,724
16, 698
49, 314
2.15
19, 800
6,388
19, 026
49, 300
2.15
16, 922
5,052
17,544
52, 001
2.15
17, 924
5,578
16, 790
52, 745
2.15
19, 092
5,500
19, 020
34, 483
2.15
19, 494
4,256
21, 178
30, 724
2.15
21, 076
3,936
18,882
34, 289
2.35
18, 878
4,316
20, 554
50, 271
2.48
19, 384
4,320
20, 194
87, 600
2.48
20,354 ;
5,490
18, 272
63, 870
2.48
17, 860
5,474
18, 238
76, 850
2.48
18, 532
5,886
37, 090
29, 169
37, 080
6,156
35, 784
34, 943
36, 232
6,166
37,818
29,510
37, 736
5,718
35, 448
23, 109
35, 262
5,800
38,080
29, 558
39, 048
5,986
37, 440
28,614
38, 262
5,018
37, 272
30,511
36, 092
4,196
40, 544
32, 863
40, 600
5,376
43, 090
25, 592
40, 462
5,320
41,616
36, 095
41, 402
7,948 !
38, 844
30, 322
38, 698
9,206
40, 634
30, 595
40, 938
9,352
112,224
109, 894
24, 198
105, 666
109, 558
25, 836
108, 924
107, 430
23, 710
105, 294
107, 664
23, 626
111, 282
115, 200
21, 558
110,722
110,840
18, 698
115,960
115,974
18, 734
115,794
115,022
18, 998
117,122
112,552
19, 770
121,774 116,830
120,628 I 117, 158
24,340 | 28, 720
120, 780
121, 276
28, 392
37, 174
39, 004
3,848
35, 202
36, 866
4,604
36, 630
38, 522
5,384
38, 150
39, 228
6,050
39, 828
40, 948
7,524
39, 590
41, 870
9,076
39, 082
41, 292
9,594
34, 014
36, 542
10, 152
35, 880
38, 104
10, 092
33, 722
36, 674
10, 426
1,168
1,062
312
986
942
418
754
890
462
1,078
1,202
326
778
774
202
1,072
514
206
844
898
764
1,184
1, 188
710
1,016
1,098
706
1,258
1,190
624
170, 442
171, 186
32, 416
163, 412
168, 894
34, 456
170, 586
172, 350
34, 176
168, 030
172, 456
34,504
175,460
181,756
33, 944
177, 344
180, 454
32, 460
183, 298
186, 266
33, 506
178, 652
182, 056
34, 858
181, 902
181, 176
35, 192
209, 903
218, 527
7,840
64.8
218, 157
218, 489
79, 248
205, 084
235, 382
7,946
70.9
221,684
221, 261
79, 580
200, 138
215, 752
7,685
65.9
213,614
218, 244
79, 157
213, 686
221,048
8,114
69.6
222, 927
221, 980
83, 787
208, 513
223, 990
8,200
70.3
224,110
223, 328
82, 840
227, 125
236, 173
8,727
77.8
232, 020
231, 746
82, 058
206,511
224, 021
7,903
67.8
230, 537
227, 806
81, 784
210, 590
222, 511
8,175
70.1
226,011
224, 023
79, 053
36, 055
151, 658
61, 365
45, 386
149, 029
61, 327
47, 549
148, 042
47, 206
47,052
166, 006
49, 698
50, 558
169, 570
50, 630
39, 209
182, 812
49, 968
25, 026
167, 478
45, 541
174, 092
171, 151
173, 852
171, 031
180, 230
152, 422
161, 171
159, 946
146, 249
160, 175
157, 037
157, 119
157,205
173, 457
161, 265
189, 739
188, 919
179, 836
185, 432
192, 688
174, 325
152, 360
175,242
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
57.00
62.00
62.00
175, 643
94, 149
66
184, 252
97, 117
63
178, 412
91,241
64
165, 124
88, 344
59
182, 731
99, 548
67
193, 971
101, 086
68
202, 607
101, 202
69
205, 838
102, 450
70
187, 005
100, 590
68
164, 552
88,788
65
182, 657
101, 990
69
184, 755
99, 276
69
201, 703
92, 337
68
173, 601
93, 723
191, 725
98, 616
178, 181
90, 303
162, 303
89, 047
175, 350
97, 225
194, 144
100, 087
202, 280
102, 555
205, 752
101,819
187, 730
101, 044
162, 350
90, 901
180,027
100, 440
188, 845
99, 062
213, 673
93, 631
48, 735
32, 398
187, 839
42, 963
31, 953
190, 367
50, 451
33,517
197, 716
49, 128
32, 007
202, 121
47, 288
33, 616
203, 944
39, 832
33, 906
189, 990
39, 962
32, 956
178, 333
39, 754
34, 289
185, 500
39, 850
32, 254
190,728
42, 259
33, 627
211,142
38, 708
32, 903
217,889
36, 777
32, 001
217, 651
40, 372
31, 818
198, 151
42, 064
38, 022
34, 379
30, 879
34, 566
39, 041
44, 859
45, 352
44,011
39, 486
39, 022
38, 821
50, 539
1,323
1,695
2,069
1,535
1,486
1,809
1,401
1,543
1,515
1,477
1,317
102, 111
66
103, 379
85, 594
98, 563
69
101, 323
89, 440
106, 439
71
104, 097
92, 684
106, 015
71
107,075
89, 984
113,022
111,327
90, 985
117, 609
78
113,140
92,464
117,374
79
118,782
87, 395
117,904
80
119,026
89,088
114, 306
85
117, 849
90,353
125, 335
79
127,466
94, 413
100, 188
75
101,090
114,302
93, 897
73
93, 428
115,340
56
57
57
59
53
61
58
60
52
65
70
67
76
68
64
74
76
76
66
75
65
69
63
67
4
5
5
5
5
5
6
5
5
6
7
6
7
6
6
6
8
6
6
6
7
6
7
5
27, 793
56
29, 071
54, 490
26, 443
55
27, 606
57, 489
26, 386
55
27, 441
58, 658
26, 408
55
27, 728
59, 723
29, 364
59
28, 395
62, 725
30, 793
32, 451
64
67
31, 501 ! 33,100
62, 459
61, 758
35, m
33, 981
62, 905
32, 534
73
32, 339
61, 340
32, 835
66
34, 707
61, 148
25, 485
52
24, 873
68, 310
29, 085
04
28, 387
67, 701
73. 347
79
72, 027
81,318
272,107
81
69, 151
2
80, 021
78, 360
90
76, 479
77, 047
78, 074
88
78, 777
75, 146
78, 174
87
76, 845
76,051
78, 377
88
76, 888
78, 107
79, 261
91
80, 371
76,582
75, 404
85
76, 083
77, 718
72,281
88
71, 920
78,404
71, 826
82
71, 970
78,047
74, 554
78
73, 137
72, 333
76, 628
83
77, 701
70, 881
77, 934
80, 425
64, 500
77, 505
79, 574
66, 020
2 78, 271
81,315
68, 192
74, 728
74, 062
70, 755
75, 655
75, 895
69, 174
78,509
83, 882
68,734
80, 983
81, 268
71,545
74, 123
74, 186
69,540
70, 054
69, 735
67, 618
78, 378
72, 122
65, 594
75,094
71,717
65, 777
77, 846
78, 349
62, 400
33, 190
36, 204
10, 006
34,110
37, 208
9,494
185, 266
187, 594
39, 756
177, 272
182,014
43, 872
183, 346
187, 572
42, 882
191, 331
198, 296
7, 345
71.2
205, 785
203, 202
77, 065
199, 229
211,782
7, 520
64.5
211,691
209, 660
74, 482
162, 528
173, 258
6,261
53.1
176, 483
175, 170
72, 451
190, 502
200, 199
7,114
65.3
203, 381
202, 042
71, 138
51, 301
167, 846
49, 326
35, 229
191, 507
50, 838
34, 510
197, 699
55, 744
34, 292
201, 597
53, 622
30, 649
184, 598
55, 534
179, 340
200, 545
169, 345
150, 403
144, 236
148, 388
160, 660
153, 362
172, 110
166, 645
225, 495
194, 144
184, 615
173, 149
195, 953
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
40
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober SeptemAugust
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
PAPER AND PAPER PRODUCTS-Con.
Paper— Continued
Total paper (including newsprint and box
board):
Production
.
short tons..
Per cent of capacity
per cent..
Shipmeuts
short tons..
Stocks, end of month
short tons..
596, 459 2587,543
67
70
604, 007 2589, 218
397, 109 2406, 067
591,414
67
596.623
408,345
1930
1931
July
June
May
April
607, 700
70
606, 847
413, Oil
621,411
71
615,877
415,681
638, 510
72
639, 712
416, 077
643, 056
74
643, 146
414, 054
March
F
tryU~ -^ary
^n'
November
551, 080
65
545. 049
425, 234
573, 174
69
573, 538
419, 278
60
58
60
70
57
67
283, 933
75, 507
359, 440
66
347, 876
80, 360
428, 236
79
69,004
47, 878
D
629, 233 583, 748 622, 055
66
73
71
628, 343 585, 946 621, 365
410, 558 408, 407 406, 587
Paper Products
Abrasive paper and cloth:
Shipments —
|i
Domestic
reams.. 38, 272 53, 348 53, 373 54, 721 51, 948 54, 431 62, 268 65, 452 64, 910 56,004 53, 752
6,942
Foreign
reams
6,552
7,832
2 7, 119
8,705 2 8, 218
9,525
5,323
9,528
9,290
8,261
Paper-board shipping boxes:
Operating time—
81
81
82
Corrugated
p. ct. of normal
70
80
78
84
81
79
63
78
Solid fiber
p. ct. of normal..
71
66
71
68
68
65
62
61
57
67
54
79
77
Total
p. ct. of normal..
77
76
79
79
78
67
61
75
74
ProductionCorrugated.thous. of sq. ft.. 346, 527 438, 296 448,910 449, 285 402, 031 416, 282 417, 407 401, 874 391, 043 382, 305 305, 274
Solid
fiber
..thous. of sq. ft.. 82, 788 101, 997 103,740 106, 800 95, 582 99, 754 100, 301 102, 609 93, 875 91, 966 77, 921
Total
- -thous. of sq. ft._ 429, 315 540, 293 552, 650 556, 085 497, 613 516, 036 517, 708 504, 483 484, 938 474, 271 383, 195
69
Rope paper sacks, shipments. .rel. to 1921-22..
64
65
44
55
75
67
60
65
77
84
PRINTING
Blank forms, new orders
thous. of sets.. 48, 309
Book production:
New books
no. of titles..
New editions
no. of titles..
Printing activity
rel. to 1923..
Sales books:
New orders
. thous. of books
9,974
Shipments
. _ . -thous. of books.. 9,546
57, 819
47,351
45, 455
50, 357
48, 322
55,266
48, 877
52, 887
48, 751
50,587
1,070
157
79
735
147
83
770
194
76
568
150
77
586
117
84
708
178
96
640
220
97
746
107
98
678
136
96
625
150
95
95
91
10, 663
10, 664
10, 275
11,241
10, 511
10,501
10, 321
9,997
10, 514
10, 382
11,587
10,585
10, 284
11, 079
11,204
10, 669
10, 054
10, 652
10, 735
10, 454
9,455
10,893
11,053
10, 723
RUBBER AND RtfBBER PRODUCTS
Production index (Fed. Res.
Bd ), auto tires and tubes rel. to 1923-25..
Production index (elect, energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25
Stocks end of month
rel. to 1923-25
93.5
94.5
74
79
90
112
126
123
107
98
94
88
73
77
82.8
96.4
88.0
294.3
98.5
102.4
97.4
112.8
121.0
121.0
122.3
120.6
109.0
118.1
109.6
118.4
112.9
113.0
99.0
107.4
84.3
110.6
86.1
115.5
34, 374
36, 598
3 66, 258
352 284
37, 370
29, 733
. 082
.089
.089
Crude Rubber
Consumption, quarterly:
Total
long tons..
For tires . . .
_ . .-_ -long tons .
Imports (including latex)
long tons
Prices, wholesale, smoked sheets,
New York
dolls, per Ib ..
Stocks, domestic, end of quarter:
Afloat
. . . .
long tons..
Dealers
long tons..
Manufacturers
-long tons_.
Total, dealers and manufacturers
long tons
World shipments, plantation . long tons..
World stocks, end of month:
Afloat
long tons..
Europe
long tons
Producing countries
long tons
United States
long tons..
World total
long tons
Reclaimed rubber:
Production
. . . long tons
Stocks
long tons
Scrap rubber:
Consumption by reclaimers
long tons..
Stocks at reclaimers, end of
quarter
long tons
45, 103
.046
3 76, 941
3 61, 283
41, 398
38, 933
.050
"::::::::
:: ::: ...
72, 000
87, 000
132 695
42, 415
296, 305
558, 345
.050
39, 033
.054
399,135
« 83, 894
44, 052
46, 939
.063
8
35, 844
44, 908
480
68 593
40, 788
.064
.064
.077
» 52, 658
» 43, 711
1
139, 613
46, 770
3 43. 525
3171,296
3 214,821
66, 529
.063
3
82,
3
. 076
» 49, 471
» 49,613
3 138,140
3
3 44, 286
8
58, 804
3 129. 575
!|3 188 27Q
65, 392
66, 600
'183,324
62,090
68, 628
63, 395
187 753
71, 218
65, 719
86, 465
84, 644
84, 156
136, 638 2137,597 140, 192
41, 054
39, 253 2 42, 779
275, 750 258, 352 244, 627
539, 907 519, 846 2511,754
90, 768
139, 261
43, 364
235, 746
509, 139
86 867
140,265
43, 760
225, 346
496, 238
93, 379
143,747
41, 176
219, 405
497, 707
78, 159
142, 520
42, 806
224,211
487,696
88, 959
137, 452
45, 782
215, 523
487, 716
86, 469
130, 247
43, 958
210, 611
471, 285
13,082
14, 804
12, 535
14,431
12,338
14, 685
12, 032
14, 700
10,110
15,102
9,728 !
16,373 i
10, 175
10, 220
9,161
9,769
8,424
8,582
71, 511
8,818
14, 273
6,338
8, 955
13, 781
9,402
13, 732
10, 596
14,176
6,967
7,778
8,929
3 60, 406
3
» 59, 103
65,714 !
65, 661
63, 065
82, 687
81, 479
127, 553 121, 131
43, 154
36,118
207,085 ! 201, 000
460,479 439, 728
80,236
119,010
37, 564
190, 617
427, 427
3
57, 198
9,469
17, 526
10,117
17,525
6,759
7,053
59, 464
Tires and Tubes
Pneumatic casings:
Production
Shipments —
Domestic
Exports
Stocks, end of month
Solid and cushion tires:
Production,.
Shipments —
Domestic
Exports
Stocks, end of month
Inner tubes:
Production
Shipments —
Domestic
Exports
Stocks, end of month
Raw material consumed:
Fabrics
Crude rubber
thousands
2,379
2,538
3,125
3,941
4,538
4,543
3,955
3,730
3,188
2,940
thousands..
thousands i
thousands
2,185
96
6,640
3,034
111
6, 527
3,845
123
7,117
4,244
125
7, 936
4,320
137
8,358
4,197
135
8,250
3,894
142
8,025
3,143
155
8,012
2,580
142
7,629
2,855
140
7, 166
thousands., i
11
10
12
13
12
11
12
11
11
thousands.. ._
thousands
thousands
13
1
43
12
1
46
15
14
51
15
1
55
57
14
1
61
14
1
64
15
1
69
12
1
73
2,251
2,123
2,550
139
7,203
2,119
148
7,676
13 |
13
13
12 I
1 !
75 j
12
1
76
13
1
76
;
thousands
2,462
2,759
3,548
3,964
4,286
4, 330
3,693
3,560
3,133
2,898 |
2,448
2,144
thousands.. ..
thousands.. . .. _ _
thousands
2,187
63
6, 657
3,247
73
6,476
4,158
82
7,019
4,569
96
7,672
4,228
89
8,403
4,135
89
8,439
3,610
99
8,330
2,922
109
8,380
2, 619
101
7,937
3,147
102 !
7,552
2,634
96
7,999
2,147
84
8,250
9. 263
9, 585
29, 854
11,745
36, 232
15, 140
46, 697
17. 085
51,280
18. 010
53, 418
15, 244
45, 016
14, 041
41,851
12,002
36, 651
12, 738
36, 319
8,358
25, 537
8,418
26, 253
23, 966
22, 728
21, 580
27, 080
17, 932
14, 431
21,161
15,419
19,380
18, 094
16, 846
16, 803
19,380
19,220
16, 361
18, 276
21,884
13,059 i
12, 881
20, 791
15, 493
22, 623
thous. of Ibs
thous. of lbs_.
28,372
Miscellaneous Rubber Products
Calendered rubber clothing:
Net orders
no. coats and sundries.. j 14, 341 20, 925
Production
no. coats and sundries..! 23, 225 j 19, 773
2
Revised.
3
Quarter ended in month indicated.
SUKVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
41
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemAugust
October Septemment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
July
1930
June
May
April j March
Febru- January Decem- Novemary
ber
ber
RUBBER— Continued
Miscellaneous Rubber Products— Con.
Mechanical rubber goods, shipments:
Belting
_.
thous. of dolls..
Hose
thous. of dolls _
All other
-thous. of dolls..
Total
thous. of dolls
Rubber bands, shipments
thous. of lbs__
Rubber flooring, shipments___thous. of sq. ft—
Rubber and canvas footwear:
TennisProduction
thous. of pairs..
Shipments, domestic— thous. of pairs..
Exports .
.
thous. of pairs Stocks
thous. of pairs..
Waterproof, totalProduction.
thous. of pairs. _
Shipments, domestic— thous. of pairs. _
Exports
_
thous. of pairs _
S tocks
thous. of pairs. _
Grand totalProduction
__ thous. of pairs _
Shipments, domestic. -thous. of pairs
Exports
thous. of pairs
Stocks
. ... thous. of pairs _
Rubber heels:
Production
. thous. of pairs .
ShipmentsExports
thous. of pairs
Repair trade .
thous. of pairs _
Shoe manufacturers— thous. of pairs..
Stocks, end of month
thous. of pairs..
Rubber-proofed fabrics, production:
Auto fabrics
, -thous. of yds..
Raincoat fabrics
thous. of yds..
All other..
thous. of yds..
Total
thous. of yds
Rubber soles:
Production
thous. of pairs
ShipmentsExports
thous. of pairs I
Repair trade
thous. of pairs -|
Shoe manufacturers— -thous. of pairs
Stocks end of month
thous. of pairs '
601
972
1,105
2,678
225
550
788
1,041
1,186
3,015
201
595
802
1,161
1,393
3,356
195
595
914
1,436
1,356
3,706
246
577
798
1,650
1,431
3,879
209
576
790
1,857
1,584
4,231
215
569
832
2,129
1,656
4,617
259
569
889
1,892
1,631
4,412
231
496
722
1,611
1,378
3,711
222
366
759
1,440
1,400
3,599
211
365
675
1,337
1,326
3,338
165
597
779"
1,276
1,345
3, 400
165
432
1,231
589
44
6,076
1,012
1,263
72
5,473
1,021
1,223
29
5,704
836
1,520
125
5,957
1,999
2,657
100
6,766
2,142
3,316
121
7,523
2,591
4,049
150
8,833
2,609
3,107
236
10,328
2,492
2,688
200
11,047
, no
2,409
2,377
ft, 447
1,875
871
175
11,633
1,940
319
148
10, 712
3,131
4,318
153
13, 804
2,922
4,185
186
15, 141
2,361
2,842
151
16, 366
1,570
1, 510
117
16, 978
1,922
1,229
108
17, 024
1,261
626
50
16, 357
1,102
1,070
72
15, 733
874
944
53
15,803
958
1,015
92
16,030
1,272
1,549
74
16, 179
2,214
3,888
63
17,172
2,736
4,212
135
18, 449
4,363
4,907
197
19, 880
3,934
5,448
258
20, 615
3,382
4,065
180
22, 070
2,407
3,030
242
22, 935
3,921
3,886
208
23, 789
3,402
3,942
171
23, 881
3,693
5,119
222
24, 566
3,483
4,050
288
26, 130
3,450
3,704
292
27, 077
3,681
3,926
184
27, 627
4,089
4,759
237
28, 806
4,675
4,531
282
29, 160
14, 567
15, 827
16, 293
15, 361
17,093
15,474
15,408
14, 661
13, 156
12, 973
13, 101
11,083
617
5,924
7,484
24, 652
501
6,994
9,724
23, 952
614
5,355
11, 653
25, 832
540
4,058
11, 177
27, 006
630
4,946
10, 522
27, 898
612
3,975
9,693
28,491
578
4,038
10, 112
27, 764
577
4,868
10, 991
26, 708
658
4,854
8,397
29, 335
748
3,939
8,471
30, 302
838
3,450
6,618
29, 741
880
4,473
4,578
29, 130
445
2,476
1,191
4,112
596
528
2,988
2,226
1,176
965
4,692 . 3,787
531
1,843
963
3,337
701
1,355
1,156
3,212
982
1,066
1,002
3,050
710
1,040
1,271
3,381
738
863
1,168
2,769
644
567
973
2,184
577
738
891
2,206
476
697
736
1,909
532
1,426
864
2,822
2,610
2,880
2,933
2,864
3,177
2,885
2,692
2,292
2,724
2,481
3,021
1,426
45
370
2,273
2,153
90
290
2,604
2,264
67
234
2,790
2,395
67
196
2,569
2, 475
59
225
2,899
2,461
62
330
2,651
2,655
69
255
2,474
2,764
14
408
2,145
2,876
36
290
2,259
3,167
11
287
2,090
3,032
58
243
2,305
2,917
60
280
1,011
2,390
197
462
:::::::::
394
1,267
868
2,529
STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS
New orders
re] to 1923-25
Production index (elect, energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25 .
Stocks end of month
rel. to 1923-25
Unfilled orders, end of month rel. to 1923-25 .
113.8
154.5
44.0
50.0
46.7
49.0
60.0
52.3
48.7
55.3
48.0
53.3
48.7
53.3
113.4
140. 2
24.5
113.9
150.9
25.0
105.9
143.9
25.5
104.8
154.5
25.0
118.7
164.2
26.5
132.0
174.9
27.3
116.5
175.5
23.7
105.1
179.4
25.5
102.6
173.4
24.2
75.3
165.0
28.0
100.6
166.0
33.8
106.2
162.9
41.3
422
479
3,516
534
434
454
3,577
587
425
477
3,602
639
540
521
3,660
669
540
574
3,652
733
549
569
3,684
781
533
579
3,698
784
395
522
3,734
685
338
369
3,836
708
310
303
3,856
778
494
365
3,823
778
543
536
3,677
821
6,521
977
4,657
12, 347
11,437
6,943
872
4,922
10,866
11, 532
5,989
805
5,506
10, 698
10, 838
5,518
529
5,424
10, 199
10, 710
6,664
494
5,758
8,975
9,960
5,084
1,595
4,375
10, 724
6,513
3,999
1,698
3,330
11, 119
5,232
4,869
1,466
3,743
12, 566
7,070
4,140
1,493
3,306
12,545
6,720
3,718
910
3,367
11,594
5, 245
6,053
1,846
4,277
12, 070
9,125
7,126
3,044
4,659
12, 730
8,183
1,779
1,941
5,709
1,820
2,310
5,536
1,859
2,213
5,930
2,102
2,180
5,887
2,465
2,491
6,086
2,119
2,545
6,003
1,952
2,291
6,078
2,250
2,479
5,974
2,342
1,972
6,307
2,634
2,041
6,696
1,894
1,486
7,022
2
2
2
2,128
64.2
6,713
1,948
62.0
6,860
2,239
68.6
7,591
2,268
69.5
8,268
2,565
75.9
8,625
2,481
73.4
9,127
2,404
71.4
9,785
2,166
64.4
10, 340
1,777
57.2
10, 913
1,776
52.8
10, 761
1,698
50.5
9,628
2 21, 861
59. 6
« 9, 325
2
Brick
Face brick (average per plant)'.
*
Production
-thousands _
325
318
Shipments
- - thousands-Stocks end of month
thousands
3,521
Unfilled orders, end of month-thousands—
457
Sand-lime brick:
Production
- -thousands
3,190
634
Shipments by rail
thousands-Shipments by truck
thousands
3,350
Stocks end of month
-thousands _ 10, 035
Unfilled orders, end of month. thousands .. 10, 485
Glass Containers
Net orders.
thous. of gross.. 1,814
1,537
Shipments - thous. of gross __
Stocks, end of month
thous. of gross.. 5,872
Production:
Total
thous. of gross. . 1,692
Per cent of capacity _ _
._ 55.1
Unfilled orders, end of month, thous. of gross.. 6,745
Illuminating Glassware
New orders
p. ct. of capacity _
Production:
Total
no. of turns..
Per cent of capacity
.
Shipments
p. ct. of capacity-Stocks end of month no of weeks' supply
Unfilled orders, end of
month
..no. of weeks' supply. .
Plate Glass
Plate glass, polished, produc3,385
tion.
_—
thous. of sq. ft—
2, 172
1, 641
6, 523
26.6
26.3
24.8
24.3
29.3
27.3
28.6
32.4
27.0
30.7
26.5
30.5
2,276
30.4
30.1
.4
1,679
22.4
26.0
.9
1,607
21.4
21.6
.9
1,492
19.9
24.0
3.9
2,161
28.8
28.2
4.1 !
2, 037
27.2
26.8
4.1
2,086
27.8
28.8
4.1
2,108
28.1
28.7
4.1
1,818
24.2
25.9
4.2
2,183
29.1
28.7
1.1
1,912
30.9
27.6
5.1
2,059
33.2
30.6
4.9
.8
.2
.2
.8
.9
.8
.8
.8
.2
.7
.7
4,532
4,611
6,088
7,216
7, 554
9, 466
10, 174
10, 593
8,882
7,321
4,941
7,103
2,918
2,544
19, 597
3,142
3,683
21, 957
4,740
4,533
23,450
4,571
5,761
25, 236
5,796
5,577
24, 641
6,213
5, 237
27,850
4, 824
4, 665
28,394
6,898
4,093
28,248
6,163
4,178
30, 259
5,570
3,699
30,004
4,559
4,597
29, 347
4,586
3,259
29, 598
4,451
5, 634
30, 370
6,072
94.15
5,887
96.12
7,104
96.32
7,697
97.77
11,387
10, 804
10, 476
98.91 : 98. 96 | 99. 16
32,541
98.84
31, 497
97.86
30,526
96.49
29, 863
99.26
30, 400
98.52
29, 869
96.68
135, 931 182, 938
125, 891 155, 404
501, 972 506, 901
199, 009 188, 969
116, 794
127,954
529, 531
161, 435
64,260 150, 451 250,183
133, 802 184, 563 172, 334
583,099 552, 403 594,886
233,504 303, 046 337,158
131, 807
108, 065
623, 125
259,309
113, 710
121, 259
582, 675
235, 567
1
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Plumbing Fixtures
Porcelain:
Net new orders
number of piecesShipments _
number of pieces _
Stocks, end of month—number of pieces. .
Unfilled orders, end of
month
_ __ number of pieces _
Wholesale price, 6 pieces
dollars..
Vitreous china plumbing fixtures:
New orders
piecesShipments
piecesStocks, end of month
piecesorders, end of month
pieces..
Digitized forUnfilled
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122, 977 121, 324 j 136,285 ! 119,922 93, 108
139, 005 135, 292 134, 549 128, 574 117, 105
533, 305 554, 939 574, 304 ! 593,268 597, 476
172, 595 188, 623 202, 591 200, 855 209, 507
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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
1931
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemAugust
October Septemment to the Survey
ber
ber
1930
July
June
May
April
March
Febru- January Decem- Novemary
ber
ber
STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS— Continued i
Portland Cement
37.2
47.4
1,310
1.318
8,161
10, 762
7,156
12, 360
22, 223 2 21, 218
6,212 2 6, 021
55.3
1.331
12, 092
13,671
22, 736
6,918
60.2
1.331
13, 549
15, 172
24, 313
8,468
62.0
1.331
13. 899
15,545
25, 934
10, 209
65.4
1.364
14, 118
16, 077
27, 602
11,837
62.8
1.399
14, 010
14,200
29, 554
13, 087
52.1
1.422
11, 245
11, 184
29, 715
13, 854
36.9
1.477
8,245
7,192
29, 676
13, 318
29.4
1.543
5,920
5,074
28, 612
11, 946
29.5
1.586
6,595
4,692
27, 759
10, 384
38.2
1.591
8,480
5,688
25, 883
8,809
51.7
1,599
11,098
8,784
23, 056
7,758
1,997
194
4,290
386
3,955
361
5,117
480
7,547
719
4,180
412
2,598
291
3,138
315
3,226
335
3,231
324
3,799
350
3, 373
329
thous, of sq. ft._
3,690
4,145
4,346
4,120
4,090
3,861
3,535
2,656
2,866
3,342
3,134
thous. of sq. ft__
thous. of sq. ft..
3,587
15, 261
3,542
15, 158
4,308
14, 556
4,316
14, 518
3,998
14, 715
3,744
14,623
2,923
14,506
3,656
13, 895
2,541
14, 895
2,937
14, 570
3,791
14, 166
99.0
62.9
89.5
64.2
86.7
65.4
90.9
65.4
96.6
66.3
96.8
67.6
101.0
69.2
91.4
70.4
86.7
71.0
61.4
72.4
73.9
73.3
Per cent of capacity
Prices, wholesale, composite dolls, per bbl._
Production
thous. of bbls._
Shipments
thous. of bbls..
Stocks end of month
thous of bbls
Stocks' clinker, end of month.. thous. of bbls..
Terra Cotta
Terra cotta, new orders:
Quantity
net tons
Value
- - thous. of dolls. Tile
Floor and wall tile:
Production...
Shipments—
Quantity
Stocks, end of month
1,269
115
TEXTILES
New orders
.
rel to 1923-25
Prices, wholesale..
_rel. to 1926..
Production index (Fed. Res.
Bd )
rel to 1923-25
Production index (elect, energy
consumed)
rel. to 1923-25..
Stocks, manufactured goods,
end of month
rel. to 1923-25. .
Stocks, raw materials, end of
month
rel. to 1923-25..
Unfilled orders, end of month._rel. to 1923-25..
Imports:
Burlaps
Fibers
2 102. 4
61.5
60.7
90
93
100
100
102
97
98
98
97
93
86
87
93
93.4
98.2
98.7
95.0
98.2
100.5
103.7
100.0
97.3
99.3
86.4
89.8
87.0
90.5
86.8
86.5
90.3
88.9
90.8
90.7
93.4
94.1
92.4
100.0
109.2
9,3
289.9
250. 2
34.9
169.8
36.5
133.2
42.2
133.5
44.9
148.9
44.7
161.2
46.5
176.8
46.4
196.3
46.5
212.2
44.8
229.9
38.9
241.8
34.3
237.6
37.3
35, 432
17, 320
37, 504
17, 118
45, 618
18, 277
35,604
21, 993
42, 942
18, 622
37, 732
14, 102
30, 481
21, 719
34,945
19, 574
42, 176
21, 326
35, 062
19, 162
44, 591
20, 429
36, 656
14,681
4,902
4,790
4,020
5,058
5,115
4,743
4,716
4,941
4,521
4,278
4,540
4,188
4,279
3,777
4,069
4,654
4,561
4,572
5,029
4,772
4,719
4,808
4,925
4,627
4,919
4,982
4,486
4,534
4,360
4,199
4,297
3,898
4,134
9,107
9,408
9,730
9,869
10, 177
9,990
9,864
9,914
10, 120
10, 579
10, 704
2,641
2,637
2,814
3,139
3,511
3,200
3,225
3,042
3,260
3,420
3,355
1,402
984
1,027
1,195
967
1,017
1,008
1,077
1,015
1,050
1,169
1,088
Burlaps and Fibers
_
_ . .thous. of lbs_.
long tons
Clothing
Hosiery:
New orders
thous. of doz. pairs..
Net shipments
thous. of doz. pairs..
Production.
thous. of doz. pairs..
Stocks, end of month
thous. of doz. pairs..
Unfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of doz. pairs. .
Knit underwear:
Net shipments ...thous. of doz. garments..
New orders
.thous. of doz. garments..
Production
thous. of doz. garments-Stocks, end of
month
thous. of doz. garments-Unfilled orders, end
of month
-thous. of doz. garments..
Men's and boys' garments cut:
Overcoats
thous. of garments .
Separate trousers
thous. of garments ._
Suits
thous of garments
Overalls:
Cut
thous. of doz. garments..
Net shipments thous. of doz. garments..
Unfilled orders,
end of month. -thous. of doz. garments..
521
1,764
1,313
1, 226
1,562
1,509
1,488
1,201
1,631
1,869
1,805
639
2,363
1,662
573
2,436
1,926
464
2,187
1,849
299
2,336
1,702
*
132
2,157
1,749
191
2,017
1, 87S
303
1, 845
2,370
]
251
1,708
2,028
160
1,580
1,714
159
1,232
1,222
444
1,183
1,100
234
223
222
218
161
137
207
191
41
36
433, 376
84.4
405, 117
87.7
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36
Cotton
Consumption by textile mills
bales
Consumption by textile mills __rel. to 1923-25 ._
Exports, unmanufactured:
Exclusive of linters
thous. of bales. .
Total
thous. of dolls
Qinnings.
thous. of bales. .
Imports, unmanufactured
._ . bales
Machinery, activity of spindles:
Activity spindles
thousands
Activity per spindle
.hours..
Total activity
mill of hours
Per cent of capacity
- per cent
Prices:
To producer
dolls, per lb-_
In New York, middling
dolls, perlb..
Production, crop estimate
thous. of bales_.
Receipts into sight thous of bales
Stocks, domestic, end of month:
Mills
thous of bales
Warehouses
thous. of bales
Total, mills and warehouses
thous of bales
Total, mills and warehouses
_.
rel. to 1923-25 Stocks, world visible, end of month:
American _ _
thous. of bales
Total
i
-thous. of balss.-
428, 870
83.6
462, 025
90.0
463, 704
90.4
425, 819
83.0
450, 884
87.9
453, 901
88.4
465, 363
90.7
508, 691
99.1
1,071
1,014
39, 838
12, 130
2,636
558
23, 457
5,408
5,426
211
9, 898
565
7,236
259
13, 525
7
9,305
255
13,517
15, 023
5 986
336
18,928
392
22, 948
14, 134
15, 189
24, 861
186
6,014
85.8
25, 188
203
6,596
85.1
25,237
201
6,540
88.1
25, 623
190
6,193
81.8
25, 826
200
6,528
86.0
25, 898
202
6,630
86.8
26,379
204
6, 733
89. 6
.061
.065
16 918
3, 035
.053
.064
16. 903
4,082
.059
.065
.063
.072
.085
.093
.077
.090
1, 623
333
277
103
341 I
358
1,441
10,696
1,116
9,450
776
6, 297
840
4, 426
996
4,524 :
1,131
4,971
1,258 !
5,490 •
1,371
6,033
10, 566
7, 072
5, 266
5,520
6,102
6,748
7,404
8, 136
281.0
188. 1
140. 1
146.8 ;
162.3
179.5 I
196.9
216.4
7 299
9,184
5, 275
7, 1 13
4, 498
6, 435
4,775 |
6,899
5,236
7,572
5,861 i
8,346 ;
6,302
8,883
6,826
9,332
63, 014
78, 027
70, 138
76, 245
65, 983
71, 615
12, 137
322.8
1
490, 509
95.6
405, 518
79.0
415,315
80.9
17, 258
605
433
35, 961
25, 402
13, 756
10, 266 ! 11, 165
533
31, 198
13,593 !
11, 299
766
47, 230
13,258
4,461
908
59, 307
12, 837
3,410
i 26,669
i
216
i 7, 125
i
94. 1
26,504 \ 25,798
211 !
184
7, 000
6, 122
91.0
87.3
25, 628
191
6,365
80.7
25, 550
176
5,924
75.9
25, 797
173
5, 825
79.7
.086
.102
.096
.110
2,749
.088 i
. 093
.093
. 102
.096 !
.109 j
.091
.110
447 :
513
729
.087
.101
• 14, 243
1, 627
1,478
1,550
6,658 i -7,314
1,618
7,939
1,656
8,376
1,564
8,398
8, 864
9,557
10, 031
9,962
235.8
254.2
266.8
264.9
7,381
9,958
7,576
9,897
7,841
9,897
7,676
9,437
87,318 ! 76,847
65, 145
64, 546
68,380
65, 704
70, 301
68,420
62, 005
68, 817
Cotton Finishing
Printed only (mills and outside) :
Production
_.
thous. of yds
Stocks, end of month
thous. of yds_.
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59, 501
81,606
* As of Dec. 1.
56,153
57,412
67, 704
86, 612
74,662 ! 77,335 | 74,436 ! 72,973
5 Final estimate for 1930.
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
43
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual SuppleNovem- October SeptemAugust
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
1930
July
June
May
April
March
February
NovemJanuary December
ber
TEXTILES— Continued
Cotton Finishing— Continued
White, dyed, and printed (outside mills):
Billings, finished goods
thous. of yds_- 40, 516
New orders, gray yardage. -thous. of yds.. 38, 304
43
Per cent of capacity
- per cent
Shipments, finished goods
cases.. 22, 828
Stocks, finished goods, end of
month
.. .cases. _ 18, 887
1.6
Unfilled orders, end of month
..days..
Abrasive cloth. (See paper products.)
Cotton Goods
Cotton cloth:
Imports
thous. of sq. yds_.
Eiports.thous. of sq, yds..
Cotton textiles:*
New orders
thous. of yds._
Production
thous. of yds_.
Shipinents
thous. of yds_.
Stocks, end of month
thous. of yds_.
Unfilled orders, end of
month
thous. of yds
Elastic webbing shipments thous of dolls
Fabric for tire manufacture,
consumption
thous. of lbs-_
Prices:
Print cloth 64 x 60
.dolls, per yd_.
Sheeting, brown...
dolls, per yd..
Cotton goods (Fairchild)-.rel. to 1911-13..
48, 237
44, 515
48
26,811
49, 252
45, 782
49
27, 207
44, 982
44, 372
48
24, 483
45,831
45,233
47
24,916
51, 577
41,119
45
27,221
52, 537
45,937
51
30, 109
60,590
50, 394
52
31,176
61, 803
57,872
58
35, 334
50, 166
49, 679
56
30, 593
43, 642
46,370
47
29,031
47, 566*
39, 749
40
23,888
40, 249
38, 541
44
23, 743
18, 321
1.5
17, 467
1.6
18, 095
1.7
16, 404
1.5
16, 433
1.5
17, 141
1.9
16, 677
2.7
17, 641
2.7
17,071
2.6
20,134
2.6
23, 593
2.6
21, 803
2.5
1,958
29, 897
2,185
25, 599
1,692
30,309
4,326
35, 272
3,937
34,370
3,920
30, 961
2,810
30, 776
2,530
33, 392
2,148
25,188
2,641
31,488
1,658
29,388
1,763
29, 273
224, 207
231, 446
213, 889
273, 390
333, 679
227, 116
216, 207
255, 833
287, 708
272, 118
278, 049
244, 924
167, 555
209,050
227, 644
250,855
158, 353
192, 545
211,331
269,449
355, 902
260, 163
273,871
288,235
160, 029
225, 392
205, 603
301,943
137, 749
225, 955
217, 582
282, 154
295, 334
271, 638
317, 185
273, 781
326, 691
212, 168
248,354
319, 328
239, 106
202, 149
210, 597
355, 514
182,656
234, 052
226,951
363,962
183, 067
206, 633
200, 661
356, 861
354, 957
344, 639
969
227, 167
1,031
217, 508
969
277, 597
1,015
330, 575
1,018
248, 544
1,124
294, 118
1,199
373, 9H
1,363
395, 802
1,180
317, 465
1,041
288,956
921
333, 251
1, 000
9, 263
9,585
11,745
15, 140
17,085
18, 010
15, 244
14,041
12,002
12,738
8,358
8,418
.041
.050
95
.043
.052
100
.049
.056
111
.048
.054
112
.050
.058
115
.053
.059
119
.055
.059
121
.053
.065
119
.052
.062
120
.053
.065
122
.057
.066
124
.036
.047
87
. 038
.046
91
Cotton Yarn
Carded sales yarn:
Production
thous. of Ibs
Stocks, end of month
thous. of lbs_.
Unfilled orders, end of month
thous. of Ibs
Prices:
22/i cones, Boston
dolls, perlb..
40/ls southern spinning
dolls, per lb_.
11,574
9,832
14, 703
9,461
10, 858
9,382
10, 295
10, 023
11,800
10, 181
10,067
11, 195
13,377
11,212
11,081
12, 240
11,536
12, 537
10,968
13, 420
12, 665
13, 795
9,582
13, 531
11,787
12,548
32, 519
32, 943
29,819
31, 351
32,951
34,017
34,914
38,825
40, 979
42,407
39,963
38,920
38, 926
.192
.312
.189
.315
.212
.336
.225
.352
.215
.352
.223
.353
.231
.369
.240
.382
.239
.390
.247
.390
.254
.405
6,432
6,463
7,944
5,626
8,228
5, 621
4,810
9,012
5,577
13, 662
10, 389
13, 383
11, 368
6,960
10, 169
9, 215
6,400
8,575
7,901
6,757
8,239
6,850
6,387
7,043
7,925
5,076
7,295
6,621
5,261
5, 749
1,725
1,792
1,627
1,619
],605
1, 492
1,471
1,826
1,496
2,257
1,817
2, 306
1,932
1,845
1,912
2,002
1,901
2,112
2,459
1,945
2,375
2,837
1,303
2,602
2,048
1, 364
2,173
2, 278
1,285
1,697
3, 760
6,609
5,465
6,033
4,474
5,324
5,615
6,693
6,049
4,496
3,048
4, 520
2,333
2,184
2,822
2,419
2,667
2,412
2,621
2,375
4,001
2,815
4,060
3,186
4,273
3,301
4,081
3,394
3,044
2,724
2,565
2,333
2,353
2,126
2, 417
2, 075
2,180
2,400
2,751
2,615
2,656
2,810
2,962
3,358
3,058
2,735
2,031
2, 424
Floor Covering
Felt base:
New orders
thous. of sq. yds._
Production
thous. of sq. yds..
Shipraents
thous. of sq. yds._
Linoleum:
New orders
.__
thous. of sq. yds. .
Production
thous. of sq. yds._
Shipments
thotis. of sq. yds..
.201
. 326
.248 !
.390
Fur
Sales by dealers
thous. of dolls..
Pyroxylin-Coated Textiles
Pyroxylin spread
_
thous. of Ibs..
Shipments billed
thous. of linear yds
Unfilled orders end of
month.
.
thous of linear yds
Rayon
Imports.
Price, 150 denier, "A" grade,
New York
_
thous.'of lbs_-
107
239
299
276
202
225
295
439
274
154
0
216
dolls, per lb_.
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.75
.95
.95
Deliveries (consumption)
bales..
Imports, raw
thous. of lbs_.
Prices:
Raw, Japanese 13-15, New
York...
dolls, per lb._
Silk goods, composite
.dolls, per yd_Silk machinery activity:
Broad looms
p. qt. of normal-Narrow looms _
p ct. of normal
Spinning spindles
p ct of normal
Stocks, end of month:
At warehouses
bales. _
At manufacturing plants
bales
50, 645
9, 639
56, 668
9,524
53,819
7 331
46, 454
7,167
44, 746
6,724
42, 161
6,409
45, 073
6,520
41, 356
4,823
55,383
7,725
54, 242
7,318
55, 910
7,405
55, 424
9,877
57, 333
7,000
2,315
98
2.266
2.315
.98
2.512
.98
2.364
.98
2. 463
.99
2.266
.99
2.266
.99
2.561
.99
2.709
1.00
2.807
1.02
2.709
1.02
2, 463
1. 02
83.9
42.4
56.4
93.0
38.0
56.4
90.5
48.3
53.4
79.4
38.2
48.7
76.4
35.3
44.6
75.6
43.9
42.8
76.3
42.5
49.5
90.9
44.6
51.8
93.8
44.2
58. 6
96.5
51.7
58.9
94.0
39.2
55.2
94.0
35.8
65.8
96.5
60.8
75.1
67, 275
23, 435
49, 921
23, 176
36,099
20,044
41, 878
21, 122
29, 921
16,990
37, 352
18, 706
32,688
18, 206
35, 497
20, 425
47, 407
22, 231
45, 399
23, 124
51,814
23, 588
58, 430
24, 242
49, 23S
24, 929
45, 805
96.7
52, 199
110.2
47, 710
100.7
40, 373
85.2
38, 420
81.1
33, 856
71.5
30,007
63.3
31,237
65. 9
16, 868
14, 168
21, 258
15,348
11, 687
13,767
10, 920
8, 546
107
97
82
76
75
67
67
65
40
46
61
60
46
45
58
60
44
42
54
57
44
34
59
66
39
30
59
60
29
28
49
47
29
26
46
43
3i>
37
47
50
61
73
60
fifi
55
57
57 '
57 1
66
48
52
45
52
v>
SHk
Wool
Consumption at textile mills,
42, 990
grease equivalent
thous. of ibs..
47, 548
51, 140
53, 886
Consumption at textile mills... rel. to 1923-25..
107.9
90.7
100.4
113.7
Iinports:
In condition, imported
thous. of lbs._
13, 463
9,679
12, 987
11,677
Machinery activity, hourly:
Combs
_p. ct. of hours active86
74
115
109
115
Looms—
Carpet and rugs.p. ct. of hours active-30
38
38
38
40
31
Narrow
_p. ct. of hours active-39
44
45
43
Wide
_ p ct. of hours active
45
49
63
70
64
Set of cards
p. ct. of hours active. _
48
53
61
65
64
Spinning spindles46
Woolen
p. ct. of hours active
53
63
66 !
64
51
Worsted..
D. ct. of hours active..
49
70
78 i
83
* Months of March, June, and September, 1931, contain 5 weeks, other months 4 weeks.
54
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January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- K ovemOctober Septemment to the Survey
August
ber
ber
1931
July
June
1930
May
April
March
Decem- November
ber
Febru- January
ary
TEXTILES-Continued
Wool— Continued
Prices:
.62
.62
.62
Raw, territory, fine, scoured .dolls, per lb—
.58
.58
.63
.63
.65
.72
.66
.66
.68
Raw, Ohio and Penn. fleeces, K blood,
.22
.21
.21
.20
.22
.21
.23
.20
.22
combing, grease
dolls, per lb__
.23
.26
.27
1.494
1.400
1.400
1.494
1.494
Suiting, 13-oz
dolls, per lb—
1.400
1.490
1.494
1.543
1.601
1.601
1.601
Women's dress goods, French
.925
.925
.925
.925
.925
.925
.925
serge, 54-in. at factory
dolls, per yd—
.968
1.050
1.050
1.050
1.050
.950
1.00
.950
.950
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
1.00
Worsted yarns
dolls, perlb..
1.17
1.10
1.10 |
Receipts at Boston:
6,567
53, 779
16, 595
34, 445
76,046
26, 151
6,741
6,163
8,215
3,363
7,574
10, 376
Domestic
thous. of lbs._
2,112
2,964
4,190
2,405
3,335
5,064
7,432
863
3,061
7,399
4,000
6,528
Foreign
thous. of lbs_.
9,628
18, 707
56, 743
7,026
30, 341
36, 850
79, 381
17, 775
13, 279 13, 269 10, 795
11, 574
Total
thous. of Ibs.TOBACCO
Unmanufactured :
Production, crop estimate _. mills, of lbs_. 4 1, 610
• 1, 635
20, 574
38, 737
48, 911
49, 170
44, 826
23, 113
45,006 i 39,908
46,879
50,440 | 62,148
Exports, leaf
thous of Ibs
StocksChewing, smoking, snuff, and export
» 1,453
3 1, 492
31,419
types, quarterly
mills, of Ibs
» 1 698
3
;
3341,905
3370, 142
Cigar types, quarterly, thous. of Ibs » 354, 18*
- ; 277, 850
Total, including imported
8
8 2 1M
» 1,915
1, 841
! * 1, 853
types, quarterly
mills, of Ibs _
Manufactured products:
!
Consumption (tax-paid withdrawals)—
Large cigars
- thousands 477, 458 534, 371 449, 330 463, 256 478, 901 517, 514 487, 300 459, 982 440,472 362, 839 362, 939 349, 635
9,695
9,520
11, 508
10, 448
9, 802
8, 675
7,850
10, 700
9,471
8,836
Small cigarettes
"
- millions 8,956
9,368
Manufactured tobacco
34, 139
33, 278
31, 086
30, 780
31, 558
25, 815
27, 935
30, 661
and snufi
thous. of Ibs
30, 781
31, 049 29, 562 31, 697
Manufacturing
133
137
112
118
118
122
132
1.14
134
131
121
128
operations -rel. to 1923-25 191, 385 257, 854 254,049 243, 233 244, 201 250, 858 241, 703 324, 808 256, 706 229, 697 338, 808
Exports, cigarettes
thousands MISCELLANEOUS PRODUCTION
Buttons
Fresh-water pearl buttons:
Production, ratio to capacity ..per cent..
Stocks end of month
thous. of gross
Imports:
ButtonsProduct of Philipptnes.thous. of gross-.
76
All other
thous. of gross. _
10
Shells—
Mother-of-pearl.
_ -thous. of lbs._
All other
thous. of Ibs..
Tagua nuts
-thous. of lbs-_
FUELS
Coal
Anthracite:
Exports...,
thous. of long tons..
PricesRetail, composite, chestnut
dolls, per short ton.. 14.96
Wholesale, composite chestnut
.
dolls, per long ton.. 13. 083
Production ._
thous. of short tons4,141
Stocks, end of month, in yards
of dealers
no of days' supply _.
Bituminous:
Consumption—
By coke plantsCanada
thous of short tons
United States
thous. of short tons__
3,442
By electric power
plants
thous. of short tons. .
By railroads
thous. of short tons..
By vessels clearing
ports
..
thous. of long tons..
Exports
thous. of long tons..
PricesMine average (spot)
dolls, per short ton..
Prepared sizes (composite)
dolls, per net ton.. 3.962
Retail, composite .dolls, per short ton..
8.23
Wholesale, composite
dolls, per short ton..
3.705
Production —
Canada
thous of short tons
United States.. -thous. of short tons.. 30, 110
Production index
rel to 1923-25
67
Stocks, end of month, held
by consumers
thous of short tons
Coke
Exports
thous. of long tons..
Price, furnace, Connellsville
2.38
.__
dolls, per short ton..
Production:
Canada
thous. of short tons_.
United States98
Beehive
thous. of short tons .
2,276
By-product
thous. of short tons.-
.72
.29
1.601
1.050
1.20
4,576
1,664
6, 240
57, 964
528, 128
7, 952
25, 976
119
251, 507
46.9
8,640
42.9
8,583
45.0
8,689
31.3
8,803
45.0
9,252
44.7
9,224
45.2
9,408
47.5
9,518
44.6
9,807
35.5
10, 154
40.6
8, 842
42.0
8,756
50
11
62
5
95
6
68
10
118
446
61
11
55
2
94
2
59
3
59
4
82
9
65
9
445
479
2,025
451
83
2,014
399
467
1,527
256
134
2,025
202
527
1,999
272
43
901
395
48
1,720
289
95
592
273
369
1,329
475
22
270
896
15
858
402
458
331
157
121
101
110
146
148
120
79
159
207
j
178
;
182
14.97
14.93
14.73
14.59
14.31
14.19
14.39
14.85
14.85
14.88
14.88
14.90
13. 083
6,551
13. 083
4,353
12. 796
4,314
12. 614
3,954
12. 413
4,544
12. 270
5,005
12. 202
5,700
12. 608
4,745
12. 732
5,391
12. 732
6,157
12. 751
» 6, 050
12. 751
2 5, 176
75
60
45
21
31
43
75
191
179
186
193
213
229
230
2i7
235
236
246
3,616
3,459
3,634
3,795
4,027
4,629
4,682
4,902
4,408
4,686
4, 737
3,426
5,776
3,281
5,268
3,233
5,419
3,168
5,463
2,954
5,314
2, 953
5,821
2,963
5,885
3,410
6,414
3,286
5,810
3,688 I
6,598
3,837
6,622
3,670
6,642
183
1, 078
163
1,163
165
1,217
186
1,087
209
994
195
926
168
671
136
665
141
645
187 !
700
201
803
204
1,287
1.62
1.58
1.58
1.56
1.60
1.64
1.69
1.77
1.77
1.77
1.78
3.954
8.22
3,954
8.17
3. 907
8.11
3.856
8.09
3.816
8.00
3.838
8.04
3.845
8.4b
4.001
8.71
4.223
8.83
4.268
8.87 I
4.317
8.94
4.336
8.94
3.703
3.705
3.704
3.706
3.692
3.723
3.760
3. 791
3.814
3.829
3.898
3. 900
1,204
35, 700
71
1,005
31, 919
70
760
30, 534
70
826
29, 790
74
888
29, 185
74
902
28, 314
75
888
28,478
77
1,028
33, 870
76
963
31,408
73
1,164
38, 542
77
1,275
2 40, 222
85
1,315
2 38, 609
86
30, 900
30, 100
26, 900
29,500
34,200
37,200
34, 500
249
8
4, 770
50
52
87
50
45
86
43
54
67
71
70
69
2.45
2.45
2.45
2.45
2.45
2.48
2.50
2.50
2.53
2.55
2.55
2.58
140
126
132
139
155
169
169
179
165
171 I
181
185
105
2,389
78
2,310
70
2,443
76
2,569
87
2,716
94
3,126
109
3,146
149
3,256
163
2,898
163 I
3,092 |
170
3,055
2 168
» 3, 137
Petrolcum
Asphalt:
1
12
14
Imports
. . thous. of short tons..
312
210
314
326
Production
thous. of short tons..
332
299
340
299
Stocks, end of month. thous. of short tons..
» Quarter ended In month indicated*
• Revised.
4
314
349
10
315
393
9
304
380
7
248
360
3
168
308
3
217
295
« As of Dec. 1.
7
3
0
190
166
147
354
332
295
«Final estimate for 1930,
January, 1932
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MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
'Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober
ment to the Survey
ber
1931
Septem- August
ber
July
June
1930
May
April
March
Decem- November
ber
Febru- January
ary
FUELS—Continued
*
Petroleum— Continued
Coke:
159
168
180
Production
thous. of short tons
178
173
180
1,393
1,391
1,439
Stocks, end of month.thous. of sbort tons..
1,516
1,451
1,315
-Crude petroleum:
Consumption (run to stills) -thous. of bbls._ 71, 367 75, 675 I 75, 094 80,672 79,758 76,237
4,106
3,426
2,702
3,588
Imports
thous. of bbls.. 3,604
3,978
874
445
441
599
Oil wells completed
number..
705
603
.434
.238
.710
.560
.560
.300
Price, Kansas-Oklahoma.—dolls. per bbl..
Production
thous. of bbls._ 72, 851 73, 079 63, 636 68,418 77, 961 75, 116
124
102
122
2 116
122
Production index
_rel. to 1923-25 _
107
64
65
69
68
66
Refinery operations
p. ct. of capacity _.
67
162
161
161
165
Refinery operations index rel to 1923-25
161
Stocks, end of monthCalifornia —
Heavy
thous. of bbls . 95, 470 95, 566 2 95, 749 97,809 98, 098 99,015
Light.
_
thous. of bbls.. 40, 471 40, 328 M0,841 40, 495 39, 621 40,043
East of California39, 021
36, 566
36, 705
38,358
41,007
41, 734
Refineries
thous. of bbls
Tank farms and pipe
lines
_ .
thous. of bbls 284, 222 283, 201 284, 840 294, 831 305, 009 305, 876
Total
thous. of bbls 320, 788 319, 906 323, 198 333, 852 346, 016 347, 610
Mexico—
3,129
2,841
Production
thous. of bbls..
2,628
2,960
1,864
2,183
1,488
Exports
thous. of bbls..
2,716
Venezuela9,274
9,401
9,420
8,561
Exports.
thous. of bbls..
9,796
9,913
9,412
9,181
Production
_
thous. of bbls
•Gas and fuel oils:
Consumption—
712
726
702
622
By electric power plants.thous.of bbls.
691
3,286
3,567
3,554
3,236
3,440
By railroads—
thous. of bbls..
3,442
3,839
3,643
3,095
4,053
By vessels
thous. of bbls._
Price, Oklahoma 24-26,
.280
.294
.350
.338
.319
.385
refineries
dolls per bbl
Production
thous. of bbls.. 27, 126 28, 709 28, 749 30, 292 29, 488 29, 512
Stocks at refineries at end of
month
thous. of bbls._ 45, 434 44, 883 45, 239 44, 551 41,416 38, 581
Oasoline:
39, 459
35, 051 2 36, 670
39, 459
Consumption
.thous. of bbls..
38, 375
3,325
4,036
4,166
3,074
3,093
Exports
thous. of bbls..
8,758
9,007
7,180
7,178
Fxports
thous of dolls "~8»~366~
7,234
.133
.143
.143
.133
,143
Prices, wholesale, New York.dolls per gal..
.133
Prices, retail, filling station,
.125
50 cities
dolls, per gal
Production3,179
3,405
3,345
3,521
3,062
3,521
Natural gas (at plants) .thous. of bbls._
Raw (at refineries) .....thous. of bbls.. 36, 137 38, 582 37, 469 39, 283 38,440 37, 024
Retail distribution—41 States-mills, of gals.
Stock, end of month641
722
361
614
855
860
Natural gas (at plant). thous. of bbls..
Raw (at refineries)
thous. of bbls.. 38, 696 36, 356 * 35, 105 36, 405 40, 332 44, 296
Kerosene:
3,906
2,678
3,042
2,341
2,114
2,104
Consumption
thous. of bbls
1,267
1,131
1,057
1,214
Exports
thous. of bbls._
720
.039
.038
.039
.038
.042
Price, 150° water white
dolls, per gal._ """"."oil"
3,701
3,239
3,685
Production
thous. of bbls.. 3,815
3,696
3,404
Stocks at refineries, end of
5,924
6,734
6,558
6,869
month
thous. of bbls.. 5,618
6,521
Lubricating oil:
1,211
1, 639
1,753
1,549
1,969
Consumption
thous. of bbls-.
1,615
Price cylinder oil
dolls, per gal
2,164
2,267
Production
thous. of bbls
2,143
2,306
2,337
2,088
Stocks at refineries, end of
9,422
9,113
9,289
month
thous. of bbls
9,224
9,597
9,763
Wax:
Production
thous. of Ibs.. 46, 760 46, 200 42,000 37, 520 37,800 34, 160
183, 938 189, 167 191, 158 192, 198 198, 407 200, 836
Stocks end of month
thous. of Ibs
178
1,250
168
1,158
170
1,089
151
1,053
159
1,032
166
1,069
158
1,097
78, 521
4,512
498
.530
77, 164
122
67
163
74,706
4,162
519
.530
73, 101
121
67
161
73,596
3,715
383
.594
69, 397
112
64
152
65,249
4,789
450
.850
60,645
110
63
149
70,026
4,353
487
.850
65, 991
110
61
144
71,581
4,727
540
.850
66, 972
111
63
149
70, 310
4,467
657
.850
67, 957
114
64
151
100, Oil
40, 805
100, 578
40, 840
100, 531
41,016
101, 442
40, 651
102, 368
40, 389
103,421
40, 325
103, 253
40, 472
41, 785
41, 136
43, 457
317,854 320,740
359,639 ! 361,876
323, 151
366, 608
2,890
1,263
2,922
1,690
2,89a
1,895
9,516
9,486
10,877
10,384
10,704
10,492
11,134
10,911
643
3,644
3,667
637
3,181
3,622
800
3,599
3,544
845
3,705
3,868
790
3,806
3,794
.488
30, 073
.510
30,754
.588
26, 536
.600
29, 174
.610
29,704
.650
29, 054
36, 579
33,854
32, 105
32, 159
33,977
37,007
40, 427
35, 716
4,792
12, 540
.133
33,400
3, 988
10, 705
.133
31,037
2,841
8,426
.133
26, 133
3,586
10, 604
.138
26,844
4, 662
13,765
.135
29, 213
4,225
13, 728
.141
30, 882
3,549
12, 387
1.41
.122
,124
.137
.149
.148
41,819
41,413
40, 786
42,027
306, 287
348, 106
368, 752
350, 165
310, 377
351, 163
313,310
355, 337
3,080
2,808
2,761
2,392
2,819
1,528
2,564
1,463
9,049
9,515
8,586
9,263
10, 362
10, 283
541
3,606
4,286
552
3,536
4,043
.463
29, 949
.146
.150
!
4,271
34, 472
890
4,317
33, 572
929
3,814
39, 019
3,824
36, 601
962
4,048
35, 246
874
3,631
31, 328
4, 140
32,708
835
996
47, 948
1,006
48,587
884
48, 225
692
45, 355
606 ;
42,818 |
578
40, 541
596
38, 705
2,895
1,145
.045
3,389
2,804
753
.048
3,397
2,691
1,151
.051
3,676
2,272
974
.053
3,171
2,596
1,275
.054
3, 560
2,786
1,310
.054
3,575
2,841
970
.053
3,590
5,960
6,129
6,300
6,477
6,535
6,883
7,379
1,865
1,850
.145
2,316
1,950
.145
2,293
1,583
.146
2,036
1,715 I
.165
2,441
1,459
.172
2,509
1,573
.184
2,409
2,264
111
10, 119
10, 463
10, 710
10, 911
35, 840
205, 803
33,040
205, 105
37, 520
208, 620
38, 640
229, 414
1
i
i
1
10, 971
10, 536
42, 560 i 36,120
233,044 j 232, 592
35, 840
237, 027
« 2, 230
2 2, 483
15, 352
1,505
446
749
»395
336
2,510
367
2,301
49
3 1, 217
479
211
274
88
430
759
239
275
17, 359
1,536
823
717
554
382
3,105
322
2,912
60
1,430
501
229
223
168
471
713
273
288
577
231
635
815
464
82,467
872
158
567
616
439
89, 260
11,013
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT
Advertising
Magazine advertising
.thous. of lines.. 1,882
1,911
Magazine advertising, total
14, 234
14, 007
cost
thous. of dolls
Automotive industry
thous of dolls
1,469
1,311
Building materials
_. thous. of dolls
631
564
Cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco. thous. of dolls..
619
676
Clothing and dry goods
thous. of dolls
399
445
Confectionery
thous. of dolls..
335
342
Drugs and toilet goods.
thous. of dolls.. 2,729
2,665
Financial
thous. of dolls..
251
237
Foods
. . . ._ thous. of dolls
2,634
2,685
Garden..,.
thous. of dolls..
42
32
House furnishings
thous. of dolls
1,231
984
Jewelry
thous. of dolls..
378
246
Machinery
thous. of dolls..
91
72
Office equipment
thous. of dolls..
124
167
Paints and hardware
thous. of dolls
123
116
Petroleum products. . _
thous. of dolls
404
374
Radios
thous. of dolls..
308
313
Schools.
thous. of dolls
232
217
Shoes
thous. of dolls
149
186
Soaps and housekeepers' supplies
thous. of dolls
889
806
Sporting goods
thous of dolls '•
117
118
Stationery and books.
thous. of dolls. J
434
410
Travel and amusement
...thous. of dolls !
333
231
Miscellaneous
thous of dolls '•
560
562 !
Newspaper advertising
thous. of lines.. 81, 891 87, 208
»Revised
1,603
1,316
1,613
2,191
2,375
2,421
2,203
1,992
1,585
11, 967
1,604
397
547
354
328
2,277
187
2,001
41
842
90
50
98
88
463
174
305
95
10, 008
1,304
295
428
180
378
2,210
180
1,805
28
453
77
55
88
45
422
114
317
41
12, 314
1,393
515
422
531
426
2,658
253
1,904
59
630
159
102
170
88
445
141
291
98
16, 692
1,886
682
486
481
553
» 3, 221
294
2,408
121
1,324
*390
190
252
183
526
128
315
208
16, 959
1,886
742
478
412
387
3,417
274
2,418
196
1,462
308
157
246
216
458
116
294
209
17, 173
1,632
749
542
494
301
3,552
319
2,665
210
1,536
168
191
216
232
471
209
274
206
16,002
1,418
651
507
436
304
3,421
294
3,098
266
1,269
123
160
198
111
348
246
276
168
15, 307
1,801
519
519
316
302
3,194
267
3,200
222
967
]03
191
181
79
384
348
363
95
10,820
1,001
338
536
270
292
1,687
255
1,988
119
619
292
151
210
64
282
422
Sll
169
963
201
241
171
450
77, 208
782
683
245
334
160
180
172
320
413
328
67,169 j 66,877
1,091
522
366
614
451
79, 772
1,260
438
345
711
529
88, 443
1,246 !
1,101
309 I
166
380
354
769
577
502
510
88, 737
90,244
849
131
360
480
436
72, 282
471 i
252
406 !
362
403
75,823 i
!
!
'
j
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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
46
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1930
1931
August
Novem- October September
ber
July
j June
May
April
March
*arT~ | January
Decem- November
ber
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT— Con.
Advertising— Continued
Radio broadcasting, total cost. thous. of dolls..
Automotive industry
thous. of dolls
Building materials
thous. of dolls ..
Cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco.thous. of dolls. Clothing and dry goods . . _thous. of dolls
Confectionery
thous. of dolls..
Drugs and toilet goods
thous. of dolls
Financial
_ . -thous. of dolls
Foods
thous of dolls
House furnishings
thous of dolls
Jewelry
_ thous. of dolls
Machinery
thous of dolls
Paints and hardware
thous. of dolls
Petroleum products _ _ _ . .thous. of dolls
Radios
thous. of dolls. .
Shoes, trunks, and bags
thous. of dolls
Soaps and housekeepers' supplies
thous. of dolls..
Sporting goods
thous. of dolls _
Stationery and publishers
thous. of dolls..
Travel and hotels.
thous. of dolls..
Miscellaneous
thous. of dolls .
2,527
68
25
467
32
106
2396
98
652
65
0
37
72
90
18
51
2,764
89
32
476
38
135
453
112
730
239
0
29
81
96
10
86
2,835
99
19
476
44
112
452
126
748
44
8
39
72
289
84
95
3,036
91
30
425
68
100
463
136
762
71
18
72
74
95
104
131
3,164
122
39
434
66
90
471
155
788
85
17
76
69
103
118
95
3,141
117
37
412
51
86
465
125
781
93
16
276
56
91
142
112
153
33
84
2
278
146
34
92
2
284
129
29
86
22
262
110
37
107
27
115
115
29
128
30
134
133
23
122
31
2172
;
672
50
11
88 ,
15
99
130
98
2, 718
140
39
217
52
97
384
110
620
46
63
85
13
110
203
97
2,577
113
61
196
67
97
322
107
568
41
90
85
17
113
202
91
71 ,
3
130
24
2145
61
0
134
93
154
60
0
126
87
134
76.3
105.0
142. 8
96.4
103.4
96.2
95.0 j
25.3
94.7 i
92.7
98.9
93.9
137. 8
57.1
97.8
77.8
146.2
88. 0
121. 6
34. 5
88. 5
144.9
67.1
79.8
79.4
105.8
240.6
109. 0
72.3
89.6
148. 8-
112,250 ! 150, 349
1,065
1, 089 |
2 96, 462
868
66.4
117.7
50.7
299.9
256 .6
60.8
112. &
57.4
2
90. 4
261.5
687,560 ! 767, 229
637, 062
3, 505
172
31
578
53
173
687
128
806
75
12
72
60
115
50
144
23,253
95
37
513
49
128
2650
136
790
59
10
53
72
107
49
141
22,739
64
28
479
27
2109
2489
116
665
84
3
31
57
89
22
124
122
16
120
2
89
122
13
130
2
97
129
24
118
2
79
123.3
2207.1
116.6
84.9
103.2
61.4
66.4
57.9
67.3
68.7
87.1
121. 1
95.5
104. 4
46.5
93.2
92.6
140.5
104. 2
75.4
49.5
96.6
90.5
160.1
88.3
88.4
125.1
91.5
96.3
189.3
82.5
88.0
259.6
94.3
123.6
161.2
72.6
88.6
573.2
105.2
156.6
144.5
77.9
115.6
405.4
118.0
130.9
138.5
80.2
125.6
197.1
106.7
113.1
174.3
82.6
137.0
78.2
101.2
102.9
169.4
79.6
121.8
61.9
94.0
91.3
116.2
79.8
94.0
50.8
85.5
189.5
96.8
66.2
79.1
122.6
366. 7
191. 1
284.0
131.9
2219.2
152.1
129.2
79.8
103.2
119.3 !
29.2
154.6
130.0
64.1
83.9
22.6
139.3
182.9
103. 4
103.0
9.1
88.8
68.6
165.8
55.2
28.3
102.2
69.0
135. 6
62.0
29.8
70.6
63.9
93.3
53.1
38.6
75.1
80.0
104.3
64.4
45.1
68.1
84.6
91.1
66.8
64.0 ;
70.2 i
81.0 i
98.0
74.3
73, 165
877
95, 414
987
78,534
786 ]
70, 681
780
98, 621
933
111, 183
948
91, 332
941
112, 843
1,258
138,592
1,228
132, 609
1,141
31.1
97.2
54.3
89.1
58.1
30.0
114.0
260.4
282.1
263.1
22.1
17.2
141.5
63.2
263.5
264.3
20.4
186.7
61.1
276.1
264.6
27.5
189.9
62.1
293.9
267.2
34.7
136.5
62.8
2 105. 6
266.7
44.6
98.3
59.1
2112.5
263.6
68.9
39.7
55.4
2100.5
259.3
63.7
25.5
51.6
287.0
254.4
796, 703
804, 455
779, 105
781, 419
750, 960
750, 638
724, 617
642, 484
3,379
33, 800
3,368
33, 370
3,501
34, 224
3,729
36, 315
3,766
36,006
3,828
37, 803
4,015
37, 250
3,567
33, 240
3,749 i
36, 352
4,165
39, 627
3, 525
34, 525
9,124
74, 679
4,496
9,074
71,622
3,958
9,930
76, 365
4,412
10, 734
79, 311
4,348
10, 902
81, 956
4,073
11,562
90, 646
4,442
11, 132
81, 747
6,014
9,701
70, 935
4,032
10, 590
78, 273
4,893
11,716
91, 923
10, 443
10, 248
79, 934
o, 178
;
2,591
98
36
262
48
84
445
110
690
46
10
86
36
84
121
91
63
15 i
105
24 :
137
2, 637
134
38
238
48
94
433
2116
Agricultural Products (Marketing)
Agricultural, total
rel. to 1923-25..
Animal products:
Dairy products
rel to 1923-25
Fish
rel. to 1923-25
Livestock
_
rel. to 1923-25 .
Poultry and eggs
rel. to 1923-25..
Wool
rel. to 1923-25
Total
rel. to 1923-25 .
Crops:
Cotton
rel to 1923-25
Fruits
rel. to 1923-25
Grains
rel. to 1923-25
Vegetables
rel to 1923-25
Total
rel. to 1923-25
Collections
Delinquent accounts, electrical trade:
Amount .__
. . dollars
Delinquent firms... .
number..
Forest Products (Marketing)
Distilled wood
rel to 1923-25
Gum
rel. to 1923-25 .
Lumber
rel to 1923-25
Pulpwood _
rel to 1923-25
Total
.
rel. to 1923-25
Postal Business
Air mail, weight dispatched. _
pounds..
Money orders:
Domestic, issued (50 cities) —
Quantity
thousands
Value
_
thous. of dolls
Domestic, paid (50 cities)—
Quantity..
thousands. _
Value
.
thous. of dolls
Foreign, issued
thous. of dolls..
Postal receipts:
Total index..
.
rel. to 1923-25
50 selected cities
thous. of dolls
50 industrial cities.
_ thous. of dolls
Retail Sales
Department store sales, value of:
United States, adjusted.. ..rel. to 1923-25..
United States, unadjusted. rel. to 1923-25..
Department store stocks, end of month:
United States, adjusted . rel. to 1923-25.
United States, unadjusted rel. to 1923-25
Installment sales in New England
dept. stores, ratio to total sales
per cent..
Mail-order houses:
Total sales, 2 houses
thous. of dolls..
Total sales, 2 houses
rel. to 1923-25
Sears, Roebuck & Co
thous. of dolls
Montgomery Ward & Co. -thous. of dolls. _
Restaurant chains:
Childs Co.—
Sales
thous. of dolls
Stores operated _
number
J. R. Thompson Co.—
Sales
thous of dolls
Stores operated
. number
Waldorf System (Inc.)—
Sales
thous of dolls
Stores operated.
number-Total sales, 3 chainsTotal.
thous. of dolls..
Stores operated
number
Grocery chains:
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co.—
Total sales
thous. of dolls. .
Weeks in month . .
. number
Weekly average .. _ _ thous. of dolls
Tonnage sales
tons..
Weekly average.
tons. .
Revised.
836, 603
2111.9
256.6
256.1 '
267.5
72.9
37.1 !
50.5
295.1 !
254.5
95.2
25, 355
2,809
107.4
28,618
3,150
98.8
26, 335
2,897
88.8
23,389
2,869
92.9
24, 578
2,903
99.4
26, 442
2,957
104.5
27, 844
3,047
109.9
29,257
3,268
113.1
30, 178
3,284
100.1
26, 405
3,215
110.3
29, 172
3,466
145.3
38, 572
4,418
106.2
28, 379
3, 02&
85
97
86
293
84
87
88
67
91
65
95
90
97
97
106
101
97
92
98
80
97
79
94
165
98
113
80
88
81
84
79
76
81
75
82
80
83
85
83
87
84
87
86
81
88
78
91
85
92
104
11.0
8.9
11.9
6.7
4.7
7.0
6.5
8.4
10.6
120
8.5
7. 4
45, 898
140
27, 495
18, 403
52, 280
160
30, 246
22, 034
45, 955
141
28, 450
17, 505
43,004
132
26, 597
16,407
45, 093
138
29, 773
15, 320
49, 480
151
30, 261
19, 219
50, 070
153
31, 523
18, 547
52, 078
159
31, 520
20, 558
43,008
132
25, 407
17, 601
39, 422
121
24, 177
15, 245
41, 459
127
24, 839
16, 620
72, 486
222
43, 814
28, 672
55, 713
170
33, 312
22, 401
1,980
106
2,208
107
2,164
108
2,030
108
1,858
108
1,847
109
1,957
108
2,059
110
2,064
111
1,889
111
2,083
112
2,277
112
2,075
111
1, 187
116
1,325
115
1,278
117
1,301
117
1,086
118
1,093
117
1,202
116
1,175
117
1,208
117
1,082
120
1,192
120
1,246
120
1,186
121
1,252
156
1,359
156
1,308
156
1,246
154
1,244
165
1,245
162
1,337
162
1,360
160
1,351
160
1,210
160
1,295
152
1,379
152
1,338
147
4,419
378
4,892
378
4,745
381
4,577
379
4,188
391
4,185
388
4,496
386
4,594
387
4,623
388
4,181
391
4,570
384
4,902
384
4, 599
379
74, 642
74, 411
4
4
18,660
18, 603
411,883 399, 779
102,971 99, 945
95,528
5
19,106
513, 095
102, 619
80. 851
4
20,213
454, 268
113, 567
102, 946
5
20, 589
563, 223
112, 645
85, 160
4
21,290
454, 479
113, 620
82,719
4
20,680
435, 292
108, 823
82, 385
4
20,596
439, 545
109,886
97, 559
81, 347
4
20,337
416, 673
104, 168
2 79, 824
4
2
19, 956
400, 203
100, 051
74, 703
4
18, 676
418, 762
104, 691
95, 498
5
19,100
524, 743
104, 949 !
19, 512
508, 490
101, 980
47
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober Septemment to the Survey
August ! July
ber
ber
DISTRIBUTION MOVEMENT— Con.
Retail Sales— Continued
Chain stores, sales:
F. W. Wool worth & Co.—
Sales
thous of dolls
22, 005
Stores operated
number
1,906
F. & W. GrandSales _. - thous. of dolls. .
Stores operated
.number.G. C. Murphy Co.—
Sales
thous. of dolls
1,578
Stores operated
- number
172
Isaac Silver & Bros.—
Sales
_thous. of dolls..
Stores operated
number..
J. C. Penny Co.—
Sales
thous. of dolls . 16, 493
Stores operated
number
1,458
McCrory Stores Corp.—
Sales
thous. of dolls.. 3, 469
Stores operated
- number .
244
Metropolitan—
Sales
thous of dolls
565
Stores operated _
number..
83
S. H. Kress & Co.—
Sales
-. thous. of dolls. . 5,587
Stores operated
number
221
S. 8. Kresge Co.—
Sales
thous. of dolls.. 11,220
Stores operated
number
710
W. T. Grant Co.—
Sales
thous of dolls
6, 485
Stores operated
number
400
Five and Ten— chain group:
Actual
_ rel. to 1923-25
148
Adjusted for seasonal, _rel. to 1923-25. _
146.6
1931
1930
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
Decem- November
ber
26, 150
1,906
21, 732
1,902
21, 712
1,895
21,079
1,889
21,978
1,889
24, 117
1,896
23, 830
1,896
21, 724
1,894
19, 386
1,888
19, 240
1,886
42, 320
1,890
-' 24, 078
1,890
2,134
121
1,699
121
1,565
119
1,628
119
1,833
119
1,825
118
2,004
117
1,664
116
1,431
114
1,371
112
3,545
112
1,894
112
1,715
172
1,490
172
1,519
172
1,475
170
1,569
169
1,549
168
1,588
168
1,329
166
1,204
166
1,221
166
3,170
166
1 , 579
2
160
832
45
607
44
589
45
594
45
692
45
695
45
723
45
596
45
513
45
476
45
1,421
45
673
45
17, 968
1,458
14, 577
1'457
13,257
1,456
12, 779
1,454
14,832
1,453
15,450
1,453
15,380
1,454
12, 443
1,454
9,640
1,453
9,725
1,452
23,703
1,452
2 18,940
1,452
3,881
244
3,260
244
3,214
243
3,004
242
3,240
243
3,412
243
3,703
243
3,381
242
2,946
242
2,903
242
643
83
571
83
518
83
558
83
702
83
713
84
722
91
508
93
445
94
487
95
1,606
95
724
95
5,706
222
5,295
220
5,286
218
5,104
218
5, 467
217
5,469
216
5, 761
216
5,259
213
4,487
211
4,400
211
12, 061
213
o, 528
213
12, 498
705
10, 957
703
10, 976
699
10, 722
696
11,896
694
12, 123
690
12, 590
688
11,035
684
9,770
683
9,825
681
23, 982
678
12,503
676
7,423
400
5,570
386
5,395
381
5,227
375
6,289
371
6,606
367
6,402
364
5,334
354
4,347
350
4,110
350
11, 797
348
ft, 677
346
2 169
2 152. 0
2 142
2 156. 3
2 143
2 160. 0
2 140
2 148- 5
2 148
2 161.7
2 156
2 168. 0
160
167.9
144
158.7
127
162.5
2 125
2 161.8
2300
2 154. 3
2
160
- 159.3
65.1
65.7
64.6
63.9
64.7
65.8
65.9
66.8
67.9
68.9
70.4
09. 9
56, 534
45, 933
49, 909
45, 379
49, 894
47, 308
50,671
48, 379
55, 320
52, 508
60, 845
73, 457
34, 674
51, 189
56,296
75, 348
44, 914
50, 994
45, 634
50, 414
68,053
60, 338
74, 592
76, 325
193, 554
204, 904
180, 220
164, 822
180,570
187,190
203, 991
214, 888
235, 881
224, 413
249, 646
275, 193
289, 021
3,598
5,376
4,140
6,162
5,070
4,648
6,129
4,925
4,923
4,954
5,514
5,635
6, 588
41, 227
14, 259
37, 221
13, 131
34, 548
12, 370
28, 996
8,357
34, 660
10, 885
30, 277
8,798
33, 420
11, 201
36, 202
14, 230
38,913
17, 995
33, 252
11, 257
35, 431
14, 743
42, 279
12, 593
39, 219
12,425
100,826
8,681
15. 694
4.1«8
46, 280
111,983
8,802
17, 352
6, 158
50, 559
90, 361
7,726
12, 837
3,986
34, 589
74, 567
8,106
7,873
3,239
27, 815
79, 977
7,392
8,286
3,757
32,564
88, 149
8,688
10, 819
3,622
30, 915
89, 576
10, 121
13, 153
3,887
34,238
94, 320
11, 329
12, 282
3,884
33, 344
113, 838
12, 456
19, 195
5,691
39, 706
117,938
13, 564
16, 960
4,168
38, 626
131, 699
16, 676
17,015
5,260
49, 744
141, 621
19, 172
20, 326
8,625
53, 871
155,227
22, 094
23, 686
7, 582
61,094
38. 550
25, 760
40, 072
26, 621
40, 941
28, 002
44, 328
30, 579
48, 018
32,677
51, 247
35, 030
59, 581
41, 664
62, 974
44,851
63,068
41,860
52, 762
35,305
56, 952
33, 657
61, 921
36, 326
64,471
41 , 689
9,354
2,701
10, 252
3,435
10, 230
3,658
10, 770
4,420
12, 945
4,706
12, £ §9
4,295
15, 286
5,583
16, 467
5,803
15, 139
4,512
15, 508
4,922
20,049
5,467
23, 737
8,801
23, 516
8,728
161, 494
25, 502
176, 980
28, 378
182, 987
29, 070
199, 205
36, 484
210,061
40, 149
231,077
56, 428
220,666
47, 660
245, 771
58,625
270, 810
76, 735
285, 441
90, 930
6, 783'
242
3,617
242
Warehouses
Public merchandising warehouses,
space occupied
p. ct. of total..
FOREIGN TRADE
Total trade:
Exports
Imports
Canadian
thous. of dolls
58, 430
thous. of dolls.. 46,911
United States
Exports:
Grand total, including
reexports
thous. of dolls. .
By grand divisionsAfrica, total
thous of dolls
Asia and OceaniaTotal
thous of dolls
Japan
thous. of dolls..
Europe—
Total
.thous. of dolls..
France
thous. of dolls
Germany
thous. of dolls. Italy .. _ _ _ _ _ thous. of dolls
United Kingdom_.thous. of dolls..
North AmericaTotal
thous. of dolls..
Canada
thous. of dolls..
South AmericaTotal
thous. of dolls..
Argentina
thous. of dolls. .
By economic classes—
Total domestic exports
only
thous. of dolls. _
Crude materials
thous. of dolls.Foodstuffs, crude, and
food animals
thous. of dolls-Manufactured foodstuffs
thous. of dolls. _
Finished manufactures.thous. of dolls. .
Semifinished manufactures
-thous. of dolls.Agricultural exports (quantities)—
All commodities
rel. to 1910-14
All commodities (except
cotton)
rel. to 1910-14
Imports:
Grand total
thous. of dolls..
By grand divisions—
Africa, total
-thous. of dolls..
Asia and OceaniaTotal
thous. of dolls.,
Japan
--thous. of dolls..
EuropeTotal
—.thous. of dolls..
France
_
thous. of dolls..
Germany
...thous. of dolls..
Italy
thous. of dolls..
United Kingdom.. thous. of dolls. _
2 Revised.
190, 392 2201,381
68, 042
63, 624
2
177,
1
383
44, 390
13, 754
13, 967
10, 289
9,981
13, 999
11, 119
10, 546
8,626
9,583
7,316
8,487
13, 462
15,592
20, 807
66, 948
25, 349 » 18, 124
77, 255
83,188
18, 075
84, 069
18, 306
88. 348
17, 531
97, 736
18, 868
103, 416
19, 593
110, 768
23,381
110, 256
22,165
116, 110
27, 039
117,053
27, 033
119,670
29, 992
115,802
21, 186
2 21, 391
23,868
27, 949
27, 451
29,891
30, 925
31, 429
27, 415
34, 567
33, 910
33, 125
139
86
53
63
58
66
68
87
71
85
109
126
127
92
83
97
86
89
81
86
82
95
105
110
168, 707
170, 368
166, 679
174, 460
173,673
179, 694
185, 706
210, 200
175, 108
183, 132
208, 721
203,713
20, 841
149, 719
2
2,141
1,697
3, 096
2,400
2,384
2,773
4,337
3,778
3,052
2,344
3,500
3,353
3, 938
44, 366
20, 408
48, 413
19, 474
42, 494
17, 256
45, 581
16,052
48, 772
16, 057
52, 767
14,988
49, 964
15, 580
53, 180
12, 183
59, 552
18, 454
50, 183
16, 255
56, 024
19, 711
64, 941
27,208
53, 032
19, 620
49,306
6,415
8,274
6,519
8,547
56, 302
8,971
12, 071
5,648
11, 278
60, 788
7,799
12, 203
5,635
13, 379
50, 776
6,551
11, 373
4,351
11, 509
51, 359
5,459
11, 734
4,138
10, 951
47, 480
5,516
8,937
4,269
11,000
51, 841
6,143
9,512
4,627
12,354
53,387
6,250
11, 249
5,741
11, 561
62, 174
6,598
13, 434
6,192
13, 033
51, 172
6,880
9,486
5,128
11, 970
52, 940
5,881
10, 682
3,724
10, 913
56, 661
7,275
11,619
5,252
11, 468
56, 560
8,227
11,166
6,353
15,289
SUEVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
48
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober SeptemAugust
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
1930
July
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
Decem- November
ber
FOREIGN TRADE—Continued
United States—Continued
Imports—Continued
North America—
Total
thous. of dolls._
Canada
thous. of dolls _.
South America—
Total
thous. of dolls..
Argentina
thous. of dolls..
By economic classes—
Total
thous. of dollsCrude materials
thous. of dolls..
Foodstuffs, crude, and
food animals
...thous. of dolls..
Manufactured foodstuffs
thous. of dolls..
Finishe-ld manufactures.thous. of dolls..
Semifln shed manufactures
thous, of dolls..
34, 142
20,464
40, 608
21, 281
41,608
21, 928
45, 346
20, 529
47, 827
22,341
44, 456
22, 854
45, 177
24, 110
46, 484
23,757
50,230
24, 148
42, 294
21, 454
43,858
23,534
53, 257
26, 139
54, 526
30, 279
19, 763
2,431
21, 687
3,309
22, 380
4,753
22, 567
3,595
24, 133
3,042
26, 068
2,645
28,844
3,215
26, 917
2,638
34, 599
3,506
29, 115
2,849
26, 928
2,356
30, 509
2,519
26, 657
2,370
149, 719
47, 863
168, 707
52, 377
170, 368
52, 927
166, 779
47, 686
174, 460
49, 978
173, 673
52, 416
179, 694
54,160
185, 706
54, 702
210,200
64, 607
175, 108
56, 357
183, 132
59, 318"
208, 721
69, 079
203, 713
59, 243
19, 534
20, 355
18, 649
21, 820
25, 930
27, 435
30, 774
28,912
33,020
28,314
27, 363
30, 029
27, 337
13, 464
41, 271
16, 468
50, 484
16, 483
52, 012
25, 541
45, 295
21, 120
47,442
19, 744
44, 276
18, 850
45, 527
22, 985
45, 734
23,558
49, 226
17, 737
41, 168
14, 644
22, 312
44, 947 1 49,172
21, 045
57, 826
27, 587
29, 023
30, 295
28, 336
29, 990
29, 803
30, 382
33,373
39, 789
31, 532
36,860
38, 262
38, 129
EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES
Employment
factory employment, adjusted (Fed. Res. Bd.):
74.1
80.1
69.3
70.3
77.8
78.3
76.0
77.9
72.8
78.0
77.8
Total
rel. to 1923-25..
75.1
60.1
55.9
64.4
64.4
65.4
65.2
57.6
59.4
62.7
65.2
65.0
68.6
Cement, clay, and glass....rel. to 1923-25..
Chemicals—
83.1
85.4
86.6
89.4
89.6
93.0
89.8
96.6
91.7
94.5
97.9
85.7
Qroup_—
ril. to 1923-25..
82.2
99.7
83.2
90.2
94.5
87.2
97.4
84.8
100.8
82.9
87.1
94.0
Petroleum, refined
rel. to 1923-25..
66.2
70.3
77.5
79.1
76.6
65.3
67.4
74.8
75.9
72.1
72.6
76.5
Iron and steel
rel. to 1923-25..
70.1
77.1
76.4
84.3
84.2
82.2
78.4
84.8
83.9
84.0
76.6
80.9
Leather and its products..rel. to 1923-25..
47.4
48.4
55.7
56.3
51.1
55.4
52.0
54.4
56.3
49.4
55.4
58.8
Lumber and its products..rel. to 1923-25..
64.6
65.6
67.7
73.4
76.3
79.3
81.9
84.2
70.3
67.3
78.0
80.8
Machinery
rel. to 1923-25..
61.4
63.1
69.2
61.7
65.4
71.2
62.5
64.2
66.6
66.6
66.8
66.5
Nonferrous metals
rel. to 1923-25..I
91.0
94.7
96.7
89.7
93.0
95.3
95.0
93.0
94.9
95.6
Paper and printing
rel. to 1923-25..
93.6
91.1
73.3
68.4
73.7
70.3
70.5
75.7
74.0
71.4
74.7
69.8
73.8
70.5
Rubber products
rel. to 1923-25..
80.9
73.6
79.7
77.4
76.0
80.0
81.2
77.2
75.5
80.2
Textiles
rel. to 1923-25..
79.6
78.6
79.1
74.8
75.8
83.4
81.3
80.4
82.1
83.5
77.2
81.4
82.1
84.6
Tobacco production
rel. to 1923-25..
Transportation53.4
67.1
58.3
64.3
51.7
63.2
64.9
09.4
57.2
60.2
62.4
Group
rel. to 1923-25..
63.8
64.2
70.2
72.3
56.1
50.5
70.7
62.0
70.9
68.8
78.9
Automobiles....
rel. to 1923-25..
67.6
70.3
'Nonmanufacturing industries:
80.3
99.1
83.8
67.3
82.0
89.5
90.6
86.8
80.0
76.1
85.2
Anthracite mining
rel. to 1929..
65.1
77.0
93.9
81.1
81.3
78.4
82.4
88.8
80.4
76.4
91.5
92.5
85.9
Bituminous coal mining
rel. to 1929..
52.8
63.5
68.3
62.4
65.3
70.1
53.8
55.5
55.8
56.2
60.0
Metalliferous mining
rel. to 1929..
63.9
Quarrying and nonmetallic mining.
64.4
70.0
59.3
68.9
70.2
rel. to 1929..
64.5
71.0
72.3
75.0
76.1
66.6
66.6
72.2
57.6
62.4
73.2
74.8
77.4
60.4
67.8
65.3
65.0
Crude petroleum producing..rel. to 1929..
69.8
61.2
84.1
90.5
83.5
85.9
87.4
88.6
89.2
86.9
88.1
91.6
Telephone and telegraph
rel. to 1929..
85.0
86.6
96.7
99.2
91.3
92.7
95.9
97.1
103.2
96.7
97.2
Power, light, and water
rel. to 1929..
94.7
97.6
97.8
Operation and maintenance of electric
86.4
86.9
81.5
82.7
84.8
85.3
85.9
86.6
88.8
84.0
86.8
85.6
railroads...
rel. to 1929..
84.1
87.4
89.5
85.2
87.1
88.2
92.0
86.5
87.1
87.4
86.8
Wholesale trade
rel. to 1929..
88.1
90.9
87.1
90.0
115.1
89.1
89.9
90.1
87.8
89.8
81.8
83.9
86.6
Retail trade
rel. to 1929..
85.9
95.0 i
92.8
96.8
93.3
92.5
93.5
Hotels
rel. to 1929..
88. 5
90.6
95.9
96.8
91.6
60.8
108.1
142.9
53.9
48.9
48.3
180.1
102.2
56.0
Canning and preserving
rel. to 1629..
70.6
61.6
59.6
Employees on pay roll, unadjusted:
77.1
90.0
76.0
81.3
90.0
89.8
87.9
80. 3
86.9
Cleveland
rel. to Jan., 1921..
75.6
83.8
88.8
74.9
83.2
87.1
86.7
84.4
86.3
88.1
74.5
86.9
87.6
81.2
85.6
Delaware—
rel. to 1923-25..
52.7
81.2
76.5
80.4
83.5
83.0
40.0
Detroit
rel. to 1923-25..
51.0
50.0
73.2
41.7
61.8
62.3
70.1
76.3
65.7
76.6
76.5
68.3
70.5
72.3
74.5
77.5
Illinois
rel. to 1925-27..
75.6
109.1
112.5
113.8
137.2
105.0
108.7
110.1
110.1 111.0
114.6
Iowa
..rel. to 1923.. 102.2
106.3
60.2
69.4
69.1
63.1
71.9
71.2
70.8
72.2
69.9
Massachusetts..
rel. to 1925-27..
68.6
69.0
67.6
67.2
72.3
76.2
Maryland
rel. to 1924..j
70.6
72.0
75.9
76.2
73.6
76.7
72.5
73.8
75.5
71.0
72.4
77.0
77.9
73.0
75.3
77.4
82.2
75.7
New Jersey.
rel. to 1923-25..
73.2
72.6
73.6
61.5
63.7
67.5
64.0
64.2
69.6
68.5
66.3
New York State
..rel. to 1923..!
65.8
67.6
69.0
65.6
340,
494
352,
453
384,
983
373,
304
362,
885
382,
045
379,
089
383,
518
364,
265
353,
895
355,
504
373,
993
New York State
number..!
82.4
71.0
74.3
76.9
78.2
81.3
79.8
75.5
82.7
80.9
81.9
Ohio
..rel. to 1926—
83.0
71.9
72.9
77.4
78.9
72.7
72.5
79.8
80.2
81.7
Pennsylvania
rel. to 1923-25..! 71.5
74.8
79.4
68.2
76.9
75.0
75.6
78.2
Wisconsin...
rel. to 1925-27._|
79.6
76.7
70.7
78.1
77.9
77.6
77.5
81.2
65.5
88.3
84.4
74.2
78.3
79.9
87.1
.Anthracite mines, employment.rel. to 1923-25..!
63.4
77.8
82.9
96,5
Applicants per 100 jobs, employment agencies:
237
147
133
206
151
141
156
151
195
266
165
Canada
number..
221
205
179
224
181
202
218
196
217
209
177
United States.
number..!
261
215
232
250
273
247
199
233
246
206
Central States
number..!
269
212
231
202
254
235
221
181
209
239
187
Eastern States
number. J
191
293
264
411
345
215
287
265
237
314
Southern States
number..)
277
265
94
94
91
103
84
75
89
66
80
118
91
Western States.
„.number.J
244
331
251
250
215
228
250
270
208
220
245
218
Illinois
number..!
232
230
212
172
197
191
199
186
197
250
Wisconsin
._.
number..!
249
Employment Trade Unions:
|
84.0
84.2
83.8
85.1
84.5
83.8
83.7
84.4
83.0
Canada
p. ct. of total membership..
81.9
73.0
73.0
74.0
74.0
74.0
75.0
75.0
73.0
77.0
74.0
74.0
75.0
United States .p. ct. of total membership..!
100.2
101.7
105.2
102.2
100.7
108.5
107.1
103.8
103.6
99.7
Employment, Canada
rel. to 1926— j
103.9
factories, time operated:
{
89
91
91
90
88
89
90
90
89
89
Total
p. et. of full time.-!
88
Chemicals and other
i
92
95
95
94
97
96
95
93
95
96
93
products
p. ct. of full timeFood and kindred prod|
97
96
97
95
96
96
95
96
96
ucts
p. ct. of full time..!
96
96
Leather and its
finished
I
89
92
91
92
91
92
87
93
83
90
90
products
p. ct. of full time..!
Lumber and its manu!
83
84
85
82
83
85
84
84
83
85
86
factures
p. ct. of full time—j
Iron and steel and their
j
79
80
74
80
80
80
74
76
76
77
80
products
p. ct. of full time..!
86
84
84
85
87
87
82
84
86
86
83
Nonferrous metals
p. ct. of full time..!
95
92
95
92
96
95
96
93
94
95
93
Paper and printing
p. ct. of full time..!
Stone, clay, and glass
j
91
90
91
90
88
90
91
90
90
90
88
products
p. «t. of full time..!
81.1
70.0
98.3
100.8
80.2
77.4
60.4
85.7
71.8
97.0
75.2
79.4
82.0
68.6
76.4
97.2
92.5
72.8
78.3
83.6
93.0
103.4
89.3
92.6
98.4
95.2
96.7
87.4
87.9
75.8
77.7
117.7
73.2
78.8
85.8
72.0
398, 424
82.1
84.7
78.5
94.7
189
227
251
231
344
123
280
210
86.2
78.0
112.9
90
95
97
84
85
80
87
96
91
49
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Novemment to the Survey
October
ber
EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES-Con.
Employment— Continued
Textiles and their products
. p. ct. of full time..
Tobacco manufactures p ct of full time
Vehicles for land transportation
p. ct. of full time..
Miscellaneous industries
p. ct. of full time-Federal Civilian Employees (Washington)
numberHours of work in factories:
Actual
hours per week
Nominal
hours per week
Labor disputes:
Disputes
number
Man-days lost in month
number
Workers involved
number
Labor turnover:
Accessions
p. ct. of no. on p&37 roll-Separations—
Total
p. ct. of no. on pay roll..
Discharges. -_p. ct. of no. on pay roll—
Lay-olTs
p. ct. of no. on pay roll-Voluntary
quits
p ct of no on pay roll
Ohio construction, employment
rel. to 1926..
Railways, employees on pay roll thousands
Wages
Anthracite mines, payroll
rel. to 1923-25..
Factory pay rolls (Fed. Res. Bd.):
Total...
rel. to 1923-25..
Cement, clay, and glass
rel. to 1923-25..
ChemicalsGroup
rel. to 1923-25
Petroleum refining
rel. to 1923-25. J
Iron and steel
.... rel. to 1923-25..
Leather and its products.. .rel. to 1923-25..
Lumber and its products.-rel. to 1923-25..
Machinery
rel. to 1923-25..
Nonferrous metals
rel. to 1923-25
Paper and printing..
rel. to 1923-25..
Rubber products
rel. to 1923-25
Textiles
rel to 1923-25
Tobacco products
rel. to 1923-25
Transportation —
Group
rel. to 1923-25
Automobile
rel. to 1923-25..
Nonmanufacturing industries:
Anthracite mining
.rel. to 1929..
Bituminous coal mining
rel. to 1929—
Mf-talliforous mining
rel to 1929
Quarrying and nonmetallic
mining
rel to 1929
Crude petroleum producing ..rel. to 1929..
Telephone and telegraph
rel. to 1929..
Power, light, and water
rel. to 1929. .
Operation and maintenance of
electric railroads
rel to 1929
Wholesale trade
rel. to 1929..
Retail trade
rel. to 1929—
Hotels
.
rel. to 1929_.
Canning and preserving
rel. to 1929..
Farm wages, without board
dolls per month
Industrial pay rolls:
Total, monthlyDelaware
rel. to 1923-25
New Jersey. _
rel. to 1923-25 .
New York
...rel. to 1923Pennsylvania
_.rel. to 1 923-25 ._
Wisconsin
rel. to 1925-27
WeeklyNew York State
..thous. of dolls .
Road building, wages of common labor:
By Geographic sectionsUnited States average_cents per hour..
East North Central— .cents per hour-East South Central— .cents per hour..
Middle Atlantic
cents per hour..
Mountain section
cents per hour..
New England
cents per hour_Pacific section
cents per hour..
South \tlantic
cents per hour .
West North Central. .cents per hour-West South Central ..cents per hour-Railways, average hourly wages
dollars..
U. S. Steel Corpn., wage rates .cents per hour-Weekly earnings of factory labor:
United States, totals, 23 industriesGrand total
dollars-Grand total
rel. to 1923MenTotal
dollarsTotal
rel. to 1923Skilled
..dollarsSkilled
rel. to 1923Unskilled
dollarsUnskilled
rel. to 1923..
Women
dollars..
Women _.
rel. to 1923..
'Quarter ending in month Indicated.
1931
Se
berm"
August
July
1930
June
May
April
March
Decem- November
ber
Febru- January
ary
i
91
84
42.7
46.1
2.0
35.7
91
85
92
88
92
87
92
87
93
87
93
86
94
87
93
85
90
88
90
91
91
89
88
89
90
89
91
92
92
91
91
89
91
91
85
85
85
85
86
88
88
87
87
88
88
70, 056
70, 5SO
70, 885
71,658
71,693
72,417
72,297
71,917
71, 162
38.2
48.0
39.2
48.1
39.9
48.2
39.9
48.0
40.9
47.9
42.7
48.0
41.7
48.0
41.8
48.2
42.3
47.9
71,252 i 71,189
'
40.2
41.6
48.0
48.3
88
W
71, 052
89
54
58
695, 963 1,217,397 666, 309
58, 995
46, 029
21, 667
51
506, 097
17, 071
49
402,437
15,735
39
769, 720
22,604
27
34
422, 545 228, 329
28, 139 12, 512
20
181,031 i 194,455
2,927
5, 144
29.3
32.8
37.2
32.4
73.2
2.5
59. 0
43.6
68.4
2.9
51.4
30.6
43.2
2.6
28.2
35.5
54.9
2.9
39.1
61.9
2.8
46.7
45.1
3.3
28.6
43.2
41.6
3.8
23.9
34.8
3.1
20.6
29
273, 608
7,759
36.8
35.0
44.6
47.6
35.0
2.6
22.8
33.9
2.2
23.0 :
25.1
2. 5
32. 2
24.9
2.9
33.7
8.5
11.8
14.1
12.4
12.9
12.4
13.2
13.9
11.1
9.6
8.7
9.9
11.0
45.4
54.2
58,3
1,254
60.0
1,288
62.8
1,310
63.3
1,317
61.3
1,337
60.0
1,331
53.7
1,319
51.9
1,316
49.4
1,334
59.8
1, 357
72. 0
1,394
62.3
77.3
65.0
47.8
45.6
56.6
64.6
63.8
55.7
79.8
75.8
85.0
83.2
56.2
40.9
59.4
43.9
61.8
46.1
64.3
48.1
64.4
49.4
67.6
54.4
72.1
56.7
73.6
55.7
74.9
54.0
73.2
61.4
68.4
46.6
73.7
56. 3
75.1
60.9
76.4
77. 3
41.2
47.0
34.4 !
48.3 !
48.8
90.6
50.1 '
59.3
64.5
80.8
80.8
43.9
56.4
38.2
50.2
49.9
91.4
53.7
66.0
64.8
80. 8
83. C
45.2
67.7
40.3
51.2
50.2
90.4
54.6
71.0
62.7
80.4
85.6
50.6
75.5
41.3
54.9
52.9
93.1
62.2
70.2
66.3
82.9
89.6
52.4
72. 6
41.7
67.4
54.5
93.6
64.0
65.9
67.5
84.1
91.1
57.6
66.7
44.6
62.4
59.1
96.6
72.4
66.7
68. 6
88.4
96.1
64.9
68.7
45.7
67.8
63.4
100.0
71,0
71,7
68.3
92.0
96.7
69.1
70.6
44.9
69.7
65.4
100.6
66.8
76.8
65. 7
89.8
90.8
70.0
73.4
46.2
72.0
66.3
101.9
63.2
81.9
68.3
92.9
100.8
67.5
68.8
45.6
71.9
64.4
100.7
63.8
76.9
65.3
90.4
99.3
62.4
60.6
44.0
69.9
64,1
101.3
63.8
68.4
64.3
94.7
101.4
66, 7
58.1
50.4
75.0
67.9
105.7
62.6
72.2
77.7
96.1
103.2
68.9
55.0
54.7
75.1
67.3
105.0
58.7
73.4
76.8
45.2
42.3
45.3
41.4
45.6
41.5
50.9
50.4
52.7
53. 2
58.8
62.1
66.1
75.6
65. 3
70.8
64.1
67.7
82.2
61.1
51.8
40.0
60.8
55.5
60.8
57. 4
79.9
54.6
35.1 1
91.1
56.2
37.4
64.9
53.6
40.0
56.4
50.6
40.2
53.7
50.4
41.3
66.7
52.4
46.1
76.1
54.4
49.3
75.2
58.6
51.4
71.3
65.2
62.8
101.9
68.3
54.6
89.3
73.3
55.0
100. 0
77.7
59. 9
98. 0
79.1
63.4
43.3
52.0
89.7
93.3
48. 7
54.4
91. 6
93.2
51.2
55.2
92.1
94.3
55.1
56.3
92.3
96.2
57.3
69.2
93.3
97.4
60.1
62.7
95.0
98.3
62.3
64.7
94.1
98.7
62.6
66.3
95.0
97.6
58.2
73.2
97.9
102.4
54.4
70.0
94.8
99.7
50.4
71.5
96.3
98.6
59.9
77.2
101.3
106. 3
66.8
80.0
97. 7
103.7
79.7
79.7
85.4 !
77.1
48.1 j
79. 0
79.9
84.6
79.7
77.6
81.2
81.4
83.5
81.9
129.4
81.9
82.1
80.3
83.8
104.7
83.3
83.3
83.3
85.2
74.2
84.8
84.1
87.6
85.4
58.6
85.1
84.7
88.0
87.7
56.0
86.6
85.2
88.3
89.9
57.1
88.1
89. 1
87.5
93.4
50.3
87.1
88.4
86.7
93.7
48.fi
85.6
87.5
89.4
91.0
46.1
88. 6
yi.3
107.7
91.5
57.4
87.7
91. 0
96. 8
93.6
82.9
i 34 22
54.7
65.8
56.2
51.3
50.0
61.0
68.9
59.0
53.9
52.8
8,479
8,897
34
38
18
37
46
43
51
21
36
23
35
37
19
37
46
42
51
21
35
24
---
45~
1
•37 00
* 39. 04
38. 37
77.0
77.5
66.7
66.2
60.0
78.1
78.7
83.4
69.7
71.3
63.9
72.2
74.8
66.2
10,048 ' 10, 513
10, 883
36
37
21
40
44
48
51
20
37
26
.670
50
37
37
22
41
45
51
51
22
37
28
.670
50
38
37
24
40
47
50
52
22
35
26
.679
50
24.29
91.3
23.07
86.7
24.03
90.3
25.83
90.1
26.91
87.3
20.89
93.8
15.33
88.9
24.45
85.3
25.89
84.0
19.77
88.7
14.79
85.8
25. 55
89.1
26.71
86.7
20.46
91.8
15.64
90.7
68.9
70.7
61.6
56.1
58.9
68.7
70.8
62.0
55.6
61 0
78.0
72.0
63.2
60.6
64.2
81.1
76.3
66.6
64.9
67.2
79.7
76.1
69.1
69.5
68.2
81.7
77.3
71.1
68.4
68.8
79.9
78.6
68.8
68.3
65.8
9,493
9,279
9,347
9,524
10,046
10, 414
10, 723
10,365
34
36
18
36
46
43
50
20
35
24
.669
45
36
35
19
37
47
44
50
20
35
22
.662
50
36
35
20
36
45
45
51
22
35
20
.660
50
37
36
20
36
46
44
51
21
36
20
.659
50
37
37
21
38
45
45
50
21
36
22
.664
60
35
36
20
38
43
47
51
22
36
21
.664
50
37
41
21
41
44
48
52
24
37
23
.669
50
36
33
22
39
42
48
51
24
36
28
.689
50
21.21
79.7
21.75
81.7
22.49
84.5
22.34
84.0
23.07
86.7
24.25
91.1
23.82
89.5
23.93
89.9
22. gO
78.8
23.10
75.0
18.05
81.0
13.85
80. 3
23.08
80.5
23.95
77.7
18.19
81.6
14.57
84.5
23.81
83.0
24.76
80.4
18.86
84.6
14.78
85.7
23.65
82.5
24.89
80.8
18.92
84.9
14.79
85.8
24.42
85.1
25.71
83.4
19.55
87.7
15.17
88.0
25.76
89.8
27.04
87.8
20.75
93.1
15.37
89.2
25.35
88.4
26.49
86.0
20.46
91.8
15.22
88.3
25.32
88.3
26.49
86.0
20.78
93.3
15.62
90.6
64.1 !
66.6 1
63.0
53.7
55.6
87. r
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
50
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- IS ovemAugust
October Septemment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
July
1930
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
Decem- N ovember
ber
EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES— Con.
Wages— C ontinued
Totals bv StatesDelaware
rel. to 1923-25..
Illinois
dollarsIllinois
...rel. to 1925-27New Jersey
rel. to 1923-25 ._
New York
dollars..
New York
_.rel. to 1923Pennsylvania
rel to 1923-25
Wisconsin
dollars..
Wisconsin
. rel. to 1 925-27. .
Youngstown district, wages of
steel workers
p. ct. of base scale.-
80.2
21.12
74.4
97.0
24.91
91.4
72.9
17.95
70.8
90.0
22.16
78.1
99.4
25.26
92.7
76.3
18.13
71.7
87.0
22.52
79.4
95.1
26.07
95.7
75.3
18.24
72. 2
91.2
23.70
83.5
101.4
26.23
96.3
78.4
19.43
76.4
89.9
23.86
84.1
102.2
26.30
96.5
78.3
19.37
75.7
100.5
23.93
84.3
102.2
26.25
96.4
82.3
21.16
82.8
103.6
24.54
86.5
105.8
26.87
98.6
85.6
21.65
84.9
101.3
24.99
88.1
105.1
27.27
100.1
89.2
22.26
86.7
102.4
25.13
88.6
105.0
27.87
102.3
87.5
22.69
88.1
100.8
25.29
89.1
106.2
27.35
100.4
86.8
21.64
84.3
97.9
24.25
85.5
104.1
26.92
98.8
85.6
19.70
76.5
100.6
25.09
88.4
106.0
27.42
100.7
87.8
20.84
81.1
98.4
25.31
89.2
106.6
27.32
100.3
89.8
21. 33
84.1
107.5
107.5
107.5
107.5
107.5
107.5
110.5
115.0
115.0
113.5
113.5
116.5
116.5
CONSTRUCTION
Building Costs
Building costs (A. 0. C.}, 1st of
month
rel. to 1913..
Building costs (E. N. R.) 1st of
month
rel. to 1913Building materials:
Brick house, 1st of month
rel. to 1913..
Frame house, 1st of month
rel. to 1913..
Construction costs (Am. Appraisal) :
Brick, steel frame
rel. to 1913 .
Brick, wood frame
rel. to 1913..
Frame
rel. to 1913..
Reinforced concrete
rel. to 1913..
Factory costs (Aberthaw)
rel. to 1914..
Building volume (A. 0. C.)
rel. to 1913..
192
192
193
195
195
196
169.3
169.8
171.4
171.4
174.4
187.2
163
158
162
156
161
154
163
156
164
155
166
158
161
172
157
162
163
176
160
165
165
177
162
166
126"
163
174
159
164
• 174
135
144
49
55
59
7,014
20, 519
151, 196
8,701
30,700
242, 094
992
271
47, 410
197
199
199
200
199
199
199
191.6
194.5
196.6
194.5
196.9
198.5
167
160
167
157
170
163
171
165
170
163
174
168
172
165
166
180
166
169
172
186
172
176
179
194
179
182
87
99
95
179
196
182
184
»185
123
180
196
183
185
107
178
192
178
181
•181
78
179
194
179
182
140
166
179
165
168
»176
137
173
59
61
64
66
73
77
79
71
73
76
9,105
30, 068
251,110
9,242
30, 631
233, 106
10, 663
33, 812
285, 997
10, 806
35, 001
331, 880
11,506
38,941
306,079
11,888
39, 380
336, 925
10, 788
37, 955
369, 981
7,629
28,339
235, 405
6,911
24, 635
227, 656
7,391
29,055
249, 436
9,127
33, 099
253, 574
1,288
171
82, 462
1,800
353
85, 139
1,719
737
72, 964
2,048
1,233
116, 265
2,030
2,367
154,512
2,141
387
108,948
1,907
785
132,993
1,681
522
151, 722
1,080
246
78, 643
978
393
95, 211
1,009
697
78, 621
1,292
468
76, 378
4,257
10, 958
45, 290
24, 642
5, 268
15, 217
60, 540
28, 789
5,096
12, 992
54, 553
33, 658
5,141
14, 124
60,203
26, 143
5,658
15, 889
63, 893
28, 055
5,972
18,913
72, 745
29,793
6,652
21,911
88, 900
36, 896
7,221
22, 633
95, 896
22, 708
6,486
22, 090
100, 913
27, 312
4,520
16, 559
77,918
25, 930
4,056
12, 235
54, 376
20, 299
4,340
14,705
70, 911
24, 542
5,368
18, 844
80, 782
39,311
82, 031
3,316
7, 590
6,561
642
18, 992
22, 224
8,400
14, 306
56, 727
8,837
24, 022
800
23, 068
106, 113
3,038
5,176
15, 817
1, 024
28, 703
18, 821
8,108
24, 826
119, 060
19, 141
86, 128
450
13, 341
129, 157
6,390
7,733
9,948
2, 365
29, 840
41,637
4,753
26, 491
47, 799
10, 021
25, 446
944
11,388
82, 453
1,153
6,059
6,909
1,711
31,088
10, 839
5,990
18, 704
66, 448
11, 801
33, 256
137
21, 254
148, 784
5,536
5,697
28, 520
1,180
56,511
22, 560
4,129
24, 651
121, 326
38, 663
55, 242
2,250
25, 171
125,737
8,016
5,370
5,786
1,419
62, 471
20, 158
3,965
18, 552
70, 589
13, 901
40, 986
25
15, 677
122, 036
5,248
3,254
11,801
4,198
63, 167
10, 340
5,422
18, 606
95, 797
12, 606
54,413
6,248
22, 530
176,075
10, 219
7,727
9,916
1,143
81, 623
26, 389
8,214
30, 844
140, 830
22, 965
67, 444
50
50, 371
168, 925
2,542
11, 300
9,752
1,122
53, 388
66, 225
10, 247
14, 349
78, 421
16, 566
46, 128
25
15, 702
83, 837
3,110
3,043
2,477
1,768
36, 682
14, 571
5,633
16, 553
94, 705
14, 119
50, 432
0
30,154
116,535
5,431
5,079
11, 428
2,908
39, 620
10, 576
16, 134
25, 359
120, 660
14, 135
54,316
230
51, 979
99, 616
2,237
5,669
6,289
3, 762
25, 650
12, 300
22, 915
20, 794
73, 199
11,746
51, 742
100
9,611
87, 188
4,008
4,647
7,149
8,523
25, 798
8,723
11, 805
16, 535
102, 146
20, 401
73, 447
1,997
6,301
thous. of dolls . 35, 288
thous of dolls
2,307
35, 502
3,510
33, 203
2,905
31,918
2,819
33, 025
1,999
33, 368
12, 427
37, 835
3,867
41, 424
3,602
44, 074
3,488
41, 776
4,689
44,090
4,053
42, 670
4,689
35, 683
3, 175
63.2
60.3
59.8
61.1
58.4
61.3
62.0
61.7
66.7
66.0
68.9
64.6
4,009
2,482
8,702
6,182
7,675
5,437
12, 470
9,309
15, 957
13, 536
12, 303
10,038
24, 671
21, 982
19, 467
17, 573
9,403
8,321
10, 107
9,218 :
8, 808
5, 081
6,293
4,790
65, 340
2,113
9,028
53, 415
1,887
10, 659
26, 799
943
11, 884
26, 164
1,018
12, 207
13, 994
651
12, 306
5,059
225
11, 229
9,100
254
9,569
5,826
205
8,277
9,654
188
7,489
17, 416 ! 42, 751
423
1, 071
6,957 s
7, 030
40, 418
1,138
7,785
Average fares (272 cities)
cents. .
8.069
8.072
8.096
8.072
8.096
8.069
8.064 i
8.066
8. 050
Passengers carried (232 co.'s) -thous. of persons- 740,461 794, 798 734, 056 712, 660 739, 617 787, 453 831, 183 843, 669 861, 501 782, 034 860, 458 ! 898,062
Operating revenue (all railways)
60,232
64,332
56, 981
55, 966
63, 718
thous. of dolls..
55, 835
66, 028
60, 370
66, 839
70, 165
8.050
828, 905
189.3
Construction Contracts Awarded
Total construction,
F. R. B. adjusted
.rel. to 1923-1925Total construction, all types:
F. W. Dodge Corp.—
Projects ..
number..
Floor space
thous. of sq. ft..
Valuation
..thous. of dolls..
Public works and utilities:
Projects
number..
Floor space
thous. of sq. ft—
Valuation
thous. of dolls..
Residential buildings, all types:
Projects
number..
Floor space
thous. of sq. ft—
Valuation
thous. of dolls
Contracts awarded, Canada... thous. of dolls..
Engineering construction (E. N. R.):
Total public
thous. of dolls .
Water works
thous of dolls
Sewers
thous. of dolls
Bridges, public
thous. of dolls..
Excavation
thous. of dolls..
Street and roads
thous. of dolls..
Federal Government. -thous. of dolls..
Unclassified, public., thous. of dolls..
Buildings, public
thous. of dolls..
Total, private
thous of dolls
Buildings, industrial. -thous. of dolls..
Buildings,commercial. thous. of dolls..
Bridges, private
thous. of dolls _
Unclassified
thous of dolls
Fire Losses
United States
Canada
Real Estate
Market activity
...rel. to 1926—
Highways
Conerete pavements, new contracts:
Total
_
thous. of sq. yds.. 4,361
Road
thous. of sq. yds.. 3,559
Federal-aid highways:
Completed —•
Cost
thous. of dolls.. 42, 087
Distance
. miles.. 1,435
Under construction, end of month. miles.. 7,928
PUBLIC UTILITIES
Electric Railways
65,415
Gas and Electric Power
Electric power companies, gross
revenue
thous. of dolls..
Quarter ending in month indicated.
172. 240
167. 380
187. 190
168. 510
171. 550
176. 210
175. 840
182. 280
196.170
191. 920
187.340
51
SUEVEY OF CUKKENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- Novemment to the Survey
ber 0 ctober
1931
berem"
July
June
1930
May
April
Febru- January
ary
March
Deceir • November
ber
Se
August
7, 708
5,667
2,041
2
7, 530
'5,339
2,191
7,628
5,165
2,463
7,766
5,022
2,744
7,526
4,642
2,884
7,639
4,500
3, 139
7,643
4,520
3,123
7,876
5,243
2,633
7,160
5,001
2,159
7,947
5,597
2,350
8,108
5,746
2,362
7, 693
5, 502
2,191
418
7,290
445
27, 085
470
7,158
506
7,260
509 ;
7,017
447
7,192
454
7,189
452
7,424
410
6,750
460
7,487
502
7,606
465
7,228
1,425
1,398
95
1,288
1,263
93
1,256
1,234
100
1,251
1,231
95
1,290
1,268
89
1,366
1,343
87
1,411
1,388
98
1,418
1,392
128
1,339
1,311
145
1,489
1,456
162
1,542
1,513
149
1,515
1,488
142
27, 820
30, 195
25, 985
28, 681
23, 527
26, 046
24, 741
27, 337
28, 310
30, 654
29, 865
31, 827
30, 731
32, 356
30, 945
32, 386
31,110
32, 504
33, 478
34, 947
31, 320
32, 963
29, 757
31, 751
37, 628
15, 276
33,823
13, 490
31, 661
12, 813
32, 834
13, 482
36, 821
16, 159
43, 340
20, 108
52, 568
24, 225
54, 729
26, 031
56, 242
27, 124
63, 338
31, 037
56, 529
26, 816
49, 386
22, 426
73, 414
17. 523
73, 337
16, 621
74, 802
16, 320
75, 919
17, 977
76, 804
18, 046
77, 098
19, 051
77, 214
18, 650
73, 277
16, 864
76, 824
17, 892
77, 820
16,070
76, 139
17, 148
8,441
11,012
567
8,359
10, 825
387
8,774
11,370
461
9,212
11,875
1,737
9,133
11, 744
1,426
9,391
11,963
1,513
9,346
12,024
1,406
8,326
10,806
724
8,943
11, 528
609
10, 012
12, 973
1,517
8, 647
11,348
735
134
9,428
139
9,773
105
10, 151
107
10, 493
129
10, 196
119
10, 113
134
9,687
128
9,884
102
10, 826
124
10, 474
294, 720
186, 414
104, 266
1,042
425
237, 024
211, 172
104, 300
1, 331
506
143, 627
203, 230
86, 016
1,257
385
169, 760
216, 559
99, 901
1,508
457
134, 854
203, 085
82, 465
1,518
349
52, 700
163, 186
82, 970
1,535
0
49, 620
165, 789
69, 572
1,359
0
56, 740
233, 890
75, 512
1,571
0
64, 170
225, 021
107, 507
1,547
0
230, 423
225, 322
83, 480
1,811
390
PUBLIC UTTILIIES
Gas and Electric Power
Electric power production:
United States—
Total
mills, of kw. hrs
By fuels
mills, of kw. hrs
By water power
mills, of kw. hrs
In street railways, manufacturing
plants, etc
mills, of kw. hrs_.
In central stations ..mills, of kw. hrs..
Canada—
Total
mills, of kw. hrs -.
By water power
mills, of kw. hrs..
Exported
.
mills, of kw. hrs
Manufactured gas:
Sales
mills, cu. ft..
Revenue
thous. of dolls.Natural gas:
Sales
.- _ .mills, cu. ft._
Revenue
thous. of dolls
Rate of manufacturing operations (based on
consumption of electric energy for power purposes). (See under Industrial production.)
Telephone
Telephone companies:
Operating revenues _ _
thous. of dolls. .
Operating income
thous. of dolls..
Telegraph
Commercial telegraph tolls
thous of dolls
Operating revenues
thous of dolls
Operating income
thous of dolls
Transportation
Express earnings:
Operating income
.thous. of dolls..
Operating revenue
thous. of dolls..
Inland waterways:
Allegheny River
short tons.. 156, 642
Cape Cod Canal
short tons 209, 864
Mississippi River Govt. barges short tons.. 86, 400
998
Monongahela River. thous. of short tons..
New York canals
thous. of short tons
Ohio RiverCincinnati district
thous. of short tons.Huntington district
thous of short tons
Louisville district
thous. of short tons
Pittsburg to Wheeling
short tons.. 548, 040
Pittsburg district
thous of short tons
Panama Canal—
1,578
Total cargo traffic-thous. of long tons..
676
II. S. vessels
thous. of long tons-_
371
In British vessels -thous. of long tons—
664
St. Lawrence Canal. thous. of short tons_Sault Ste. Marie Canal
thous. of short tons.. 3, 049
Suez Canal
thous. of met. tons..
Welland Canal
short tons.. 954, 773
Ocean traffic:
Clearances, vessels in foreign trade —
5,605
Total
thous. of net tons.2. 296
American
thous. of net tons..
3, 309
Foreign
thous of net tons
Passenger travel:
Arrivals from abroad—
Immigrants
number
United States citizens
number
Departures abroad —
Emigrants
number
United States citizens. .. number _.
Passports issued
number
Pullman Company operations:
Revenue
thous of dolls
Passengers carried
thousands
Trend of business in hotels:
3.56
Average sale per occupied room. —dollars ..
56
Room occupancy
p. ct. of capacity-Steam railways:
EquipmentFreight carsIn bad order, end of month —
Quantity.
cars.. 196, 324
9.0
Ratio to total cars... per cent—
New orders
cars-28
Owned, end of monthQuantity
thous. of cars-Capacity
mills, of Ibs
ShipmentsTotal
cars-.
150
Domestic
cars
150
Unfilled orders (railroads)—
Total
cars-.
O f manufacturers
. cars - .
In railroad shops
cars..
Locomotives (Am. Ry. ASK.)—
Exports, steam
number-.
J
Revised.
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Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
I
213, 562
221, 308
2 104, 873
1,135
505
246, 551
197, 997
106, 931
962
587
3
3
603, 544
315
3
3
1, 193
3
856
635, 571
3
3290
661,514
849,277
942
3
969
736, 187
3
2, 135
3
685, 526
1,755
884
318
711
1,789
859
378
714
6,248
2,019
821, 454
7,126
1,813
968, 763
8,385
1,860
972, 976
6,461
2,420
4,041
26,837
2,478
24,359
7,463
2,734
4,729
7,536
2,742
4, 794
6,543
2,241
4,302
6,539
2,525
4,014
3, 913
32, 427
5,017
62, 581
4,090
69, 372
3,174
30, 944
3, 531
25, 588
10, 857
35,016
7,345
8.733
42, 247
8,812
9,541
65, 895
10, 749
7,428
46, 961
17, 667
1,674
5,409
1,969
5,564
2,091
3.51
60
3,55
58
194, 948
9.0
798
3
765
3
464
545, 900
3
2 120
1,763
930
827
795
1,867
820
466
717
713, 200
3
65
428, 499
504, 700
3
951
500, 211
3
1, 484
83
1, 268
926, 013
2, 440
2,011
929
436
319
1,916
910
429
o
1,930
864
448
0
2,107
958
540
0
2,167
953
536
38
2, 203
1, 009
615
563
7,611
4,335
922
6,645
1,963
2,403
2,027
2,396
871,513 1,015,469 1,165,853 370, 003
0
2,440
0
0
2,474
0
0
2,744
0
312
2,246
68, 400
5,130
2, 186
583, 907
5,907
2,092
3,815
5,044
1,773
3,271
4,972
1, 695
3,277
5,414
1, 843
3,571
5,505
1,991
3,514
6,224
2,501
3,723
3,799
22, 518
3,470
28, 281
3, 577
34, 861
3,147
27, 508
4,091
19, 844
6,439
28,535
9, 209
22, 381
5, S93
29, 579
27,689
5, 616
23, 242
28, 513
5,647
24. 418
21,466
4,693
32, 278
14, 328
4,720
33, 172
7,255
4,397
24, 885
7,445
5,450
21, 140
6,565
4,951
24, 420
7,496
5.413
2,023
5,470
2,051
5, 055
1,900
5,238
1,986
4,894
1,966
5,346
1,919
6,072
2,203
5,418
2,180
5,305
2, 031
3.64
54
3.55
54
3.58
56
3.50
61
3.73
63
3.63
61
3.84
64
3.80
66
3.72
60
3. 96
05
194, 127
8.9
3
187,585
8.6
534
181, 702
8.3
443
172, 776
7.9
972
170, 165
7.7
46
162, 966
7.4
2,768
162, 117
7.3
2, 166
153, 606
6.9
24
147, 650
6.7
0
147, 334
6.6
2,691
155, 883
7.0
2,862
2,211
207, 259
2,216
207, 638
2,220
207. 947
2,224
208, 207
2,229
208, 579
2,244
209, 645
2,249
209, 958
2,251
210, 102
2,253
210, 235
2,254
210, 229
2,258
210, 426
2,271
211,788
404
404
780
776
524
499
341
341
615
555
648
646
1, 082
1,082
762
657
633
533
845
735
607
436
1,182
1,139
4,610
314
4,296
5,100
534
4,566
5,746
866
4,880
6,466
1,336
5,130
7,179
2,070
5,109
6,585
1,599
4,986
7,542
2,176
6,366
7,484
1.569
5,915
8,637
2,207
6,430
8,799
2, 681
6,118
9,780
3,376
6,404
3,716
1,125
2,591
1
11
0
2
1
3
5
0
Quarter ending in month indicated.
2
2
3
0
3
1,759
828
453
920
1,925
937
421
1,166
52
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1&31 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1931
1
°berm" 'October ^bef " August
N
July
June
1930
May
April
F
March | ^' January! De«m. Noven,
•
PUBLIC UTILITIES-Continued
Locomotives
In bad order, end of monthAwaiting classified repairs
6,830
6,310
6,173
Dumber
6,485
"Ratio to total locomotives
12.7
12.0
per cent
11.7
11.4
Installed.
number
53
61
51
95
0
20
New orders
number
1
6
81
139
Retired..
number
113
122
Owned, end of month —
Quantity.
number
54, 889
54, 861
54,967
55,029
2,509
Tractive power __. mills, of lbs._ 2, 509
2,512
2,514
Shipments, manufacturers (Census)—
9
4
13
Total.,,
.number..
0
Electric, domestic
number..
0
1
6
8
Steam. domestic
..number
4 j
2
Shipments, electric locomotivesIndustrial (quarterly) number. »3
Mining (quarterly). . .number. _
»37 !
Unfilled orders (railroads), end of mo..0
15
15
16
Of manufacturers
.number-10
4
12
13
In railroad shops _
number. .
Unfilled orders, manufacturers' (Census)—
130
112
120
74
Total
number
105
105
105
55
Electric, domestic number
21
7
14
18
Steam, domestic
number-Passenger cars—
In railroad hands, end of quarter
number.. .........
- 350,958 —
New orders
_.
cars
0
0
Shipments21
0
Total
cars
0
8
0
0
Domestic
cars..
0
8
Unfilled orders, end of quarter
5,913
5, 938
5,910
5,958
5, 987
5,734
5,522!
5,216
5,102
10.9
66
3
108
10.9
114
2
291
10.8
10.9
67
10^9
151
8
161
10.4
86
8
128
10.0 j
80
2
182
9.5
92
60
390
9.2
96
4
268
55, 056
2,513
55, 098
2,513
55, 278
2,518
55, 366
2, 520
55, 450
2,522
55, 534
2, 525
55,576
2,525 ;
55,678
2,528
55,985
2,538
13
19
0
19
26
0
26
15
2
12
10
5
15
5
10
49
7
37
43
6
37
11
64, 020
16
6
10
s 17
»60
84
*82
»23
» 7fi
18
14
20
16
31
20
57
24
60
26
57
29
64
30
90
30
59
33
86
55
20
95
54
30
58
0
47
80
0
69
95
2
81
103
7
85
91
12
78
104
18
86
93
25
63
6"
4
* 51, 489
0
38
38
37
37
24
24
6"
2
2
3 16
Financial operationsNet operating income thous of dolls
Operating revenues —
Canada
thous. of dolls
United StatesTotal
thous of dolls
Freight-.
thous. of dolls
Passengers
thous, of dolls
Operating expenses thou*. of dolls
Net operating revenue, Canada
---thous of dolls
Freight cars—
Carloadings*—•
Total...-.
thous. of cars.. 2,620
507
Coal and coke
thous. of cars..
87
Forest products
thous. of cars-Grain and grain products
145
thous. of ears..
104
Livestock
.thous. of cars-25
Ore.
„_. thous. of cars. _
SOG
Merchandise, 1. c. 1 .thous. of cars..
946
Miscellaneous
thous. of cars-.
Car surplus (daily average, last week
of month)-—
Total
cars 659, 346
Box
cars 340, 502
Coal
cars 249, 193
Operation resultsFreight carried 1 mileCanada
mills, of tons..
United States mills of tons
Passengers carried 1 mile millions
Receipts per ton-mile
cents
94
151
182
» 51, 136
0
13
13
"
6"
30
30
o" ;
361,644
2
10
33 !
33
8
8
67
67
? 12s)
»24
3 264
55,319
55,859
56, 535
50,163
41, 264
39,074
45,906
27,264
33,849 i
49, 372
6?, 069
30, 158
28, 265
29. 352
30, 480
30,934
30,912
30, 613
26, 788
28,141
33, 450
3.", 474
350, 335
270, 239
44,757
258, 223
364, 525
280, 103
49,183
269, 463
377, 146
290. 348
50, 272
280, 127
369, 810
281,261
50,957
280, 145
369,020
283, 161
46, 981
288, 067
369, 652
283, 711
47,272
290, 618
376, 149
291,289
47,150
291, 582
336, 632
257, 521
46, 455
272, 116
365,900 ! 377,933
277,014 1 280,909
55,443
53, 349
294,082 297,606
398,786
311,042
48,710
299.301
5, 036
1, 871
2,049
1,898
2,166
3,840
3,112
121
424 !
3, 813
755
123
2, 908
616
104
3, 747
617
138
2,931
452
106
2,992
465
125
3,736
611
165
2,986
486
130
2,940
555
138
2,836
584
138
193
145
102
1, 081
1,415
149
96
121
841
1, 081
228
106
175
1,069
1, 413
220
71
139
830
1,113
140
75
119
876
1,192
180
106
80
1,097
1,496
151
85
29
899
1,208
153
79
23
886
1.105
165
88
22
842
997
535, 254
290, 369
185, 442
564,284
293,424
209,765
573,680
302.887
206,240
564, 068
288, 414
211,044
599, 282
306, 443
224, 120
615, 924
306, 319
238, 504
602, 832
282,315
251, 679
621, 509
298, 837
252.825
650,964
324,938
253, 515
2,057
1,636
27,847 ! 29.348
1,900 1 2,077
1.049
1.041
1,770
30,276
2,116
1. 051
2,207
28, 258
2,034
1.090
2,178
30,014
1,870
1.054
2,136
28,710
1,831
1.093
2,104
29,960
1,758
1.074
1,951
27, 079
1,747
1.049
1,178
1,179
1,182
1,184
1,185
1,187
133
548
137
551
137
532
131
536
138
540
138
544
363, 206
289, 1<;3
38, 202
261,247
5,910
7,579
3,491 :
817 i
156
2,784
638
121 :
4,127
852
174
196
124 i
26
&97 '
1, 175
143
94
22
820
946
190
140
92
1,133
1,546
646, 750 706,538
336. 577 380,603
240, 292 j 251,358
580,498
304,100
213,752
2,016
30, 314
1,915
1.015
2, 239
29,026
2,015
1.052
2, 633
32,295
1,828
1.050
L187
1,187
1, 187
1, 188
128
548
128
550
130
553
132
567
FINANCE
Agricultural Finances
Leans outstanding, end of month:
Federal land banks
mills, of dolls_.
Federal intermediate credit banks
mills of dolls
Joint-stock land banks
mills of dolls
1,167
1,171
124
535
12*
540
1,174
130
545 l
Banking
Acceptances and commercial paper:
Bankers acceptances outstandingTotal
mills, of dollsHeld by Federal reserve banks—
For own account
mills, of dolls
For account of foreign correspondents
mills of dolls
Held by group of accepting banksOwn bills
...mills, of dolls..
Bills bought
mills of dolls
Held by others
mills of dolls
Commercial paper outstanding
mills, of dolls..
Bank debits:
Canada
mills, of dolls
New York City
mills of dolls
Outside New York City. ..mills, of dolls..
Outside New York City.. .rel. to 1923-25—
1,002
1,040
1,090
1,228
1, 368
1,413
1,422
1,467
1,520
1,520
1,556 ;
418
647
420 i
70
39
95
124
162
123
85
89
323 !
143
126
99
100 |
228
243
341
380
409
431
456
447
439
429
125
171
162
112
118
63
162 1
248 !
66 j
168
439
185
232
436
278
196
357
379
171
293
444
125
285
441
131
341
441
151
398
430
134
437
412
90
282
417
180
313
507
248 !
271
289
292
305
307
311
315
327
14, 464
14, 605
74.0
2,587
20, 678
18, 125
91.9
2,451 j 2,244
20,073 ! 17,501
16,627
16,526
84.3 !
83.8
2,400
21,007
18,444
93.5
2,694
25, 893
19,406
98.4
3,172
25,072
18,858
95.6
2,786
26,821
19,620
99.5
2,570
27. 589
19, 421
98.4
2,535
20, 948
17, 084
86.6
2,668
24, 557
21,697
110.0
210
996
J• Data for January, May, and October, 1931, are for 5 weeks, other months 4 weeks.
Revised.
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/ 1 Quarter ending in month indicated.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
358 !
3, 012
29,001
22,113
117. 2
1,571
448
1
2, 974
! 22,490
i M9.685
i
2 99. 8
53
SUKVEY OF CUREENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the Survey
1930
1931
October SeptemAugust | July
ber
June
May
FINANCE—Continued
Banking—Continued
Brokers' loans, end of month:
^ By N. Y. F. R. member banks
869
mills, of dolls..
720
1,172
1,390
1,479
1,539
2.33
3.04 !
Ratio to market value
...per cent—
2.35
2.93
3.37
3.03
3.23
1,354 | 1,344
P* Total
mills, of dolls..
730
796
1,044
1,391
1,435
Federal reserve banks:
728
255 I
149
174
Bills discounted
mills, of dolls..
718
195
328
Member bank reserve account
2,167
_
mills, of dolls.. 2,051
2,381 ! 2,389
2,364
2,373
2,367
2,429
1,723
1,580
Notes in circulation
mills, of dolls..! 2,480
1,963
1,765
2,098
2,184
Reserve bank creditmills, of dolls.J 1,931
943 i
917
976
1,578
1,255
2,380
2,504
1
2,442
Total deposits
mills, of dolls.. 2,252
2,632
2,527
2,506
1,408
773
724
Total investments
mills, of dolls.. 1,169
1,211
751
943
2,903
Total reserve
mills, of dolls..! 3,080
3,619
3,597
3,576
3,413
3,301
Federal reserve member banks:
1
Net demand deposits
mills, of dolls..; 12,199 12, 449 13, 227 13,244 | 13, 473 13,688 13,605
7,700
7,795
7,807
Total investments...
mills, of dolls..j 7,508
7,665 j 7,810
7,916
Total loans and discounts—mills, of dolls..! 13, 350 13, 521 14, 191 14,398 i 14, 486 14,691 14,730
Interest rates:
j
2.10
Call loans, renewal
per cent._[
1.50 i
1. 50 i
1. 45
1.50
2.50
1.50
5.63
Federal land banks
per cent..
5.63 i
5.63
5.63
5.63
5.63 I
5.63
4.06
3. 90 1
4. 00
Intermediate credit banks
per cent-.,;
3.81
4.50
3.81
3.81
New York Federal Reserve
i
1. 50
* 1. 50
Bank (discount rate).—
per cent..
1.50
3.50 ! *3.50
1.50
1.50
Prime bankers' acceptances
per cent..
2.50
. 88 |
2. 00
3.07
.88
1.07
Prime commercial paper (4-6 months)
3.13
2. 00 i
2. 13
^
...per cent-.
2.00
4.00
2.00
2.00
3.25
Time loans, 90 days
per cent..
1. 50 |
1. 75
3.50 I
1.38
1.
1.38
Savings deposits:
New York State
mills, of dolls.. 5, 213
5, 156
5, 083
5,149
5,217
5,231
5,173
United States postal savings system—
43, 505 j 31, 822
Deposits
thous. of dolls_.
62, 047
Withdrawals
thous. of dolls..
21,117
20,568
27, 007
Balance to credit of depositors
2
thous. of dolls.. 555,560 527,130 | 460,915 i 414,986 - 372,
372, 457 347,417 325,028
Balance on deposit in banks
-.
I
!
.thous. of dolls.. 464,841 ! 447,300 i 401,200 ! 368,000 2329,655
329,655 306,120 289,034
Business Failures
i
Firms (United States):
2
522
167
89
Banks
number..;
169
93
305
258 •
2, 362
1,993 i 2,248
1, 936
Total commercial
number._ 2, 195
1,944 ! 1,983
614
449 |
552
Manufacturers
,
.number..
519
520
427 |
449
1,605
1,435 i 1,570
1,322
Trade establishments
number..! 1, 545
1,374
1,381 i
143 :
109 |
126
141
Agents and brokers..
number...
113
138 !
131
By groups—
\
Manufacturers614 i
449 i
552
520
Total..
number..
519
449
427
7 i
12
Chemicals..
number..!
12
13
11
9
13
50
64 !
43
Foodstuffs..
number..!
34
40
40
30 |
18
Leather
number..!
11
26 !
14
14
16
10
4
14
Liquors and tobacco
number..!
15
10
ll 396
54
57 i
65
Lumber
number.. |
62
52 I
49
32 i
Printing and engraving-number..
21 !
27
24
17
14 i
23
9
7 i
9
Stone, clay, and glass.—number..j
13
18
6 i
6
81 1
53 !
Textiles
number..;
82
78
75
64
61 !i
37
55 j
50
Metals
number..!
64
49
49
32
167 j
290 I
258
250
All other
—number..!
191
198
181 I
Traders—
|
1,435 ! 1,570
Total..
number..' 1,545
1,322
1,374
1,381 i
20 i
Books and paper
number..!
18 1
19
19
19
12
15
84 !
112 i
Chemicals and paints...number..I
108
114
86
109 i
90
284 |
235
I
Clothing
number..!
295
257
289
273
220 !
360 i
401
Foods and tobacco
number..
447 !
363
441 !
411
353
General stores
number. _!
105 !
89 I
88
124
66
78 !
87
243 i
357
Household furniture
number..
260 |
239
260
235 !
234
404
i
302
292
All other
number..:
379 i
328
286
:
322
174 I
Firms (Canada)
number..j
223
196
256
164 I1
275
230
Liabilities (United States):
!
Banks
_
thous. of dolls. J 83, 409 2493,751 12236,511 185,902 ': 41,334 195,951 | 43,963
Total commercial
thous. of dolls..! 60, 660 70,660 j 40,256 53,025 i 60,998 51,656 ! 53, 371
Manufacturers
thous. of dolls. J 26, 112 26, 334 14, 857 16,967 I 20,586 21,909 | 18, 506
Trade establishments.
thous. of dolls..! 27, 229 29, 486 24, 658 25,848 i 28,091 25,934 25. 069
3,813
9,796
Agents and brokers..
thous. of dolls..j 7,318 14, 841
7, 741 10,210 | 12, 321
3,504
2,775
Liabilities (Canada)
thous. of dolls..i 6,300
3. 200
2,138 i 3,345
4, 539
Dividend and Interest Payments
;
Grand total
mills, of dolls..
762
946
560
747
558
533 I
490
Dividend payments:
Total.
_
mills, of dolls..
346
292
387
288
233 j
245
Industrial and miscellaneous
mills, of dolls..
237
213
225
267
183
174 i
170
Steam railroads
mills, of dolls. .
33
32
38
42
34
2
Street railways
mills, of dolls..
11
l\
11
8
9
6
Interest payments
mills, of dolls..
416 !
268
307
459
559
245
300 1
i
Foreign Exchange Bates
i
j
|
America:
Argentina.
dolls, per gold peso.703 i
.588 I
. 520 .597 ]
.699
.707
.646
Brazil
dolls, per milreis—
.062 i
.075
.072
.067
. 056
.059
.004
Canada
dolls, per Canadian doll.890 i
. 891
.997
.997
I
.963
.997
Chile
dolls, per paper peso.121 |
. 121
.121
.121
.121
.120 ,
.121
Asia:
Japan
dolls, per yen..
.494
.494 !
.494
.493 I
. 493 .493
.494
India
dolls, per rupee..
.361
.280 |
. 287
.360
.359
.360 |
.339 |
Europe:
Belgium
dolls.per belga..
.139 I
. 140
.140
. 139
.139
.139
.139
England
dolls, per Ib sterling..
3.72 |
3.89 j
4.86
4.86
4.53
4.86
4.88
France
dolls, per franc..
.039
. 039 .039
.039
.039
.039
Italy.
—dolls, per lira..
.052
. 052 .052
.052
.052
.052
.052
Netherlands
dolls, per guilder.402
.403
. 404
.402
.403
.403
.402
Sweden
dolls, per krone.207
.268
.268
.268
.
231
.261
Digitized forSwitzerland
FRASER
dolls, per franc..
.195
.194
.194
.193
.195
. 196 .195
http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/
• Rate changed Dec. 24,1930, May 8,1931, Oct. 9, to 2.50, and Oct. 16 to 3.50.
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
April
1,730
3.40
1,651
March
1,875
3.58
1,909
February
January
VS
1,840
1,734
3.30
1,720
Decem- November
ber
1,926
3.86
1,894
2,111
4.06
2, 162
157
250
198
232
251
275
2,371
1,535
937
2,434
761
3,334
2,428
1,486
990
2,506
723
3,296
2,343
1,478
925
2, 399
708
3,244
2,398
1,494
980
2,448
735
3,243
2,471
1,664
1,373
2,517
1,100
3,082
2,373
1,455
1,079
2,422
780
3,115
13, 664
7,903
14, 993
13, 748
7,551
15, 382
13, 614
7,183
15, 464
13,680
6,843
15, 753
13, 999
6,693
16, 263
13, 908
6,800
16, 516
1.52
5.63
4.00
1.55
5.63
4.00
1.50
5.63
4.00
1.57
5.63
4.00
2.23
5.63
4.00
2.00
5.63
4.00
2.00
1.50
2.00
1.50
2.00
1.44
2.00
1.56
* 2.00
1.88
2.50
1.88
2.38
2.00
2.50
2.13
2.63
1.88
2.88
2.13
2.88
2.25
2.88
2.13
5, 059
5,018
4,928
4,888
4,792
4,666
32, 061
20, 944
29, 337
18, 638
31, 353
17, 648
51, 585
18,611
58, 879
14, 167
20, 197
12, 072
313, 775
302, 658
292, 059
278,353
245, 379
200, 668
278, 304
267, 790
255, 268
240,216
209, 509
170, 131
64
2,386
515
1,710
158
86
2,604
582
1,843
179
77
2,563
583
1,831
149
202
3,316
611
2,541
164
344
2,525
537
1,834
154
254
2,031
448
1,447
136
515
9
38
12
6
75
582
5
37
23
9
61
448
5
27
8
10
71
18
14
71
34
190
10
5
78
55
227
27
7
79
52
282
583
13
37
14
9
72
15
4 I
96 I
54 i
269 |
1,710
18
98
351
451
109
297
386
204
1,843
28
107
400
441
152
358
357
213
1,831 '
19 i
93 i
381 I
438
131 !
407 I
362 !
253 |
42, 417
50, 868
18, 719
6,763
3.638
35,285
60, 387
24,072
30,348
5,967
3,752
35,323
59,608
25,304
30,852
3,452
3,014
611
10
32
17
6
76
537
9
34
14
6
77
21
11
124
44
270
15
12
85
34
251
2,541
15
117
633
476
220
571
509
296
1,834
15
444
461
138
290
372
295
1,447
11
111
261
393
104
245
322
2246
78, 130 367, 119
94, 608 83,683
19, 948
47,633
43, 071 28,853
35, 382
3,904
6,994
4,215
186, 306
55, 261
19, 438
21,217
14, 606
«3, 111
114
749
594
524
1,121
2720
2595
314 I
311
285 |
521
2291
*293
236
38
9
435
236
46
7
284
217 I
45 i
9 j
239
386
56
16
601
2216
39
2209
39
12
302
.765
.073
1.000
.121
.780
.079
1.000
.121
.719
.086
1.000
.121
.697
.091
.998
.121
.494
.361
.494
.361
.494
.494
.359
.496
.496
.360
4.88
.039
.052
.401
.139
4.86
.039
.052
.401
.139
4.85
.039
.052
.402
.140
4.86
.039
.052
.403
.268
.194
.139
4.86
.039
.052
.102
.468
.194
.139
4.86
.039
.052
.401
.268 I
.193 !
.192
.193
• Revised.
.194 !
429
.756
.999
.121
.781
0
1.001
.121
54
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemSeptem- August
October
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
1930
1931
July
June
May
April
March
95, 133
628
93, 612
27
85,091
26
Febru- January
ary
Decem- November
ber
FINANCE— Continued
Gold and Silver
Gold:
Domestic receipts at mint fine ounces.. 134, 775
Exports .
thous. of dolls.. 4,994
Earmarked for foreign
account
. thous. of dolls__ 435, 621
Imports
-thous. of dolls.. 94, 430
Monetary stocks of U. S., daily
average
.mills, of dolls.. 4,363
Rand output
fine
ounces..
Silver:
Exports
thous. of dolls..
871
Imports
-thous. of dolls.. 2,121
Price at New York
dolls, per fine oz_.
.322
ProductionUnited States
thous. of fine oz_. 2,012
Canada.. .
thous. offineoz__ 1,659
Mexico
thous. of fine oz
Stocks, end of monthUnited States
..thous. of fine oz—
5, 035
Canada
. . thous. offineoz— 1,471
118, 123 114,651
40
1,009
87, 717
14
94, 476
54
109,907
36
113,430
5,008
123, 795
50, 258
127, 795 120, 295 123, 295
49, 543 25,671 16, 156
125, 795
34, 426
137, 695
32, 778
2 122, 536
40, 159
4,865
897,000
4,767
910, 279
4,682
4,711
882, 237 910, 998
4,656
839,937
4,622
914, 576
4,583
908, 492
4,553
884, 735
2,305
1,663
.283
1,895
2,364
.273
2,099
2,636
.277
3,249
2,439
.283
2,323
1,821
.292
1,638
1,877
.268
3,571
2,896
.294
3,472
2,660
. 326
4.102
2,652
.359
2,419
1,610
6,814
2,176
2,133
6,390
2,433
731
7,041
2,762
1,836
7,374
2,831
1,139
9,535
3,528
1,431
6,510
3,187
1,772
6,944
3,480
1,932 !
8,751
3,713
2,043
8,481
3,738
1,412
8,712
2,240
1,363
2,077
754
1,611
958
1,485
1,423
713
1,509
2,714
796
1,851
702
792
694
960
179
956
216
123, 748
398, 604
128, 928
28, 708
115, 343
39
463, 931
2 60, 919
356, 321
49, 269
77, 231
57, 539
61, 231
20, 512
31, 531
63, 887
4,447
945, 000
4,948
916, OCO
4,975
916, 425
4,958
916, 843
2, 1 58
2 2, 573
.295
2,183
2, 355
.282
2, 024
2,685
.275
2 2, 181
2, 117
2,101
1,403
7,510
4,066
1,110
4,082
989
Net Corporation Profits
Grand total
.
mills, of dolls. _
Total industrial and mercantile
.mills, of dolls ._
Automobile parts and accessories, exclusive of tires
. ..mills, of dolls..
Food
.mills, of dolls..
Oil
mills, of dolls..
Metals and mining.
mills, of dolls..
Machinery
mills, of dolls.
Miscellaneous
mills, of dolls ._
Steel and railroad equipment
- .mills, of dolls..
Class I railroads
mills, of dolls..
Other public utilities
mills, of dolls..
Telephones
mills, of dolls. .
390
3441
97
3159
14
29
5
0
3
48
365
335
30
33
35
0
167
59
67
|!
._
353
39
"
3 504
382
3 132
378
372
1
1
j
3125 ~ ~ ~
330
331
3
0
34
3
5
» 47
3
330
!
30
34
39
343
3
16
3226
3
94
368
39
3107
« 81
369
1
116
3 10
Life Insurance
(Association of Life Insurance Presidents)
Admitted life insurance assets (40 cos.):
Grand total
.. .
mills, of dolls..
16, 070
15, 871
16, 135
15, 978
16, 227
Mortgage loansTotal
mills, of dolls,.
6,359
6,379
6,356
6,363
6,353
1,533
Farm
mills, of dolls..
1,537
1,530
1,527
1,535
4,826
All other
mills, of dolls..
4,819
4,852
4,833
4,818
Bonds and stocks (book value):
1,292
1,258
1,189
Government
mills, of dolls..
1,283
1,213
1,667
1,644
Public utility
-mills, of dolls
1, 665
1,663
1,662
2,669
2,663
2,653
2,687
Railroad
- mills, of dolls _
2,657
504
524
504
519
All other
mills, of dolls..
503
6,092
6,159
6,143
Total
mills, of dolls..
6,035
5,990
Policy loans and premium notes
mills, of dolls..
2,409
2,508
2,446
2,363
2,388
Amount of new insurance (44 cos.) :
41
37
46
81
29
Group
..mills, of dolls..
46
214
251
199
247
Industrial
mills, of dolls..
230
253
563
484
547
588
673
606
Ordinary
mills, of dolls__
818
839
720
Total insurance
.
mills, of dolls _
1,005
847
905
Policies and certificates, new (44 cos.) :
18
22
26
19
22
45
Group
thous. of certificates ..
723
995
761
994
926
951
Industrial
thous. of policies. _
256
223
233
259
285
Ordinary
thous. of policies..
260
1,254
1,035
968
Total policies and certificates ..thousands. . 1,229
1,256
1,276
Premium collections (44 cos.) : *
10,
125
9,304
9,019
13,868
Annuities
thous. of dolls
17, 979
7,521
7, 484
7,895
8,117
8,114
Group
thous. of dolls. .
58, 3Cu
55, 319
62, 874
55,612
60, 654
Industrial
thous. of dolls. _
165, 587 150, 450 154, 579 178, 398 173, 947
Ordinary
thous. of dolls..
241, 561 222, 309 234, 652 260, 103 256, 586
Total
- thous. of dolls..
Sales of ordinary life insurance (Life Insurance
Sales Research Bureau):
Canada total, 15 cos
thous. of dolls. „ 38, 860 36, 006 30, 066 35, 738 39, 977 46, 227
United States, total
thous. of dolls.. 629, 760 599, 855 535, 353 589, 497 634, 902 734, 614
Eastern manufacturing district
thous. of dolls.. 278, 665 258, 245 221, 440 242, 920 267, 378 321, 403
Far western district... thous. of dolls.. 64, 140 61, 492 56, 553 60, 607 63, 112 70, 226
Southern districtthous. of dolls.. 66, 626 64, 470 61, 076 69, 047 73, 714 84, 055
Western agricultural district
thous. of dolls- 80, 794 80, 224 75,004 84, 197 91, 959 100, 752
Western manufacturing district
......thous. of dolls.. 139, 535 135, 424 121,280 132, 726 138, 739 158, 178
Ordinary life insurance, lapse rates (Life Insurance Research Bureau):
3 124
3111
United States total
rel to 1925-26
3 140
3123
East North Central
rel to 1925-26
3 123
3 117
East South Central
rel to 1925-26
a 127
3 140
Middle Atlantic
rel to 1925-26
3 113
3 95
Mountain
rel to 1925-26
3 122
3105
New England..
rel. to 1925-26—
8
3 116
103
Pacific
rel to 1925-26
i
3100
3 107
South Atlantic
rel to 1925-26
I
3 120
« 107
West North Central rel to 1925-26
3 123
3 110
West South Central... rel. to 1925-262 Revised.
' For earlier data see table on page 21 of the October, 1931, issue.
15, 769
15, 662
15, 573
15,474
15,392
15, 293
15,217
6,345
1,541
4,804
6,332
1,544
4,788
6,330
1,547
4,783
6,323
1,555
4,768
6,312
1,555
4,757
6,303
1,554
4,749
6,270
1.561
4', 709
1,164
1,611
2,653
499
5,927
1,134
1,605
2,660
495
5,894
1,120
1,578
2,651
487
5,836
1,108
1,572
2,648
485
5,813
1,106
1,545
2,633
478
5,762
1,104
1,531
2,637
475
5,747
1,101
1, 526
2,640
469
5, 736
2,331
2,300
2,273
2,241
2,212
2,169
2,127
72
236
672
980
99
225
691
1,025
62
247
720
1,028
104
209
599
912
78
214 !
596
888
131
229
753
1,112
59
208
503
861
35
845
288
1,168
59
865
301
1,225
28
881
321
1,230
60
731
247
1,039
44
750
231
1,026 I
59
794
319
1,172
28
741
253
1,022
25, 175 12, 682
8,037
8,398
59, 884 53,854
175, 562 183, 992
268, 658 258, 926
11,919
8,790
62, 920
186,452
270, 081
12, 430
8,748
56,388
166, 759
244, 325
10, 741
10, 108
62, 659
170,497
254,005
19, 615
9,591
112, 666
191, 871
333, 743
7,094
7,269
58, 108
154, 473
226, 944
41,314 45, 648
724, 206 754, 002
46, 945
770,440
40, 180
647, 140
41, 188 ! 49,874
628,607 i 795, 642
46, 868
653, 131
313, 038 327,077 343, 745 289, 757 280, 066
68, 663 70, 943 73, 579 60, 094 61, 589
81, 955 82, 930 77,628 64, 009 65, 329
324, 635
86. 291
91, 922
86, 439
82, 754
117, 117
90, 178
146, 841
138, 869
175, 677
146, 102
98, 861 102, 396
161, 689
170, 657
101, 945
173, 543
127
139
139
143
125
141
114
121
3 113
3 116
3128
3 128
3 108
3 114
3
98
3109
3 108
3119 i
!
3 112
i
2 124
Quarter ending in month indicated.
279, 651
65, Oil
72,189
55
SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober SeptemAugust
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
July
1930
June
May
April
March
Febru- January
ary
Decem- November
ber
FINANCE— Continued
Public Finance
35,500
35, 175
27, 445
Customs receipts
thous. of dolls
Expenditures chargeable to ordinary
receipts
thous. of dolls.. 292, 652 416, 472 356,630
Government debt, gross, end of
month .
mills, of dolls.. 17, 310 17, 292 17, 321
106, 304 134, 649 368, 792
Total ordinary receipts
thous. of dolls
United States money in cir5,478
culation
mills, of dolls
5,133
5,518
38, 240
34, 480
28,986
27, 463
31, 798
31, 807
28,107
28,808
30, 764
36, 365
323, 838
330, 661
375, 153
285,892
432, 366
720, 236
191, 425
413, 796
364, 540
244,651
16, 864
122, 141
16, 802
131, 706
16,801
512, 894
16, 527
124, 405
16,655
148, 208
16,583
433, 301
16,231
118, 614
16, 163
125, 605
16,026
717,092
16, 185
120, 362
4,947
4,836
4,750
4,679
4,647
4,590
4,598
4,695
4,823
4, 528
Stockholders
American Telephone & Telegraph Co.:
Domestic
number..
Foreign
number
Pennsylvania R. R. Co.:
Domestic
number
Foreign
number
U. S. Steel Corporation (common stock):
Domestic
number
Foreign
number-Shares held by brokers
p. ct. of total
3
8
605, 885
36,870
3 241, 391
33,284
_
.
595,322
• 6, 735
3574,905
3 6, 383
»560,424
3 240. 734
3235,306
33,272
3233,414
• 153, 718
3 147, 440
3 2, 451
3 15 68
3 143, 221
3 2, 345
i 3 16 20
i
33)29! L
s 166, 316
32,701
8
13. 16
»2,520
114 37 !
-
3 6, 184
3 3, 190
Stocks and Bonds
BONDS
Bond prices:
Combined price
index__ .__
p. ct. of par, 4% bond _
Highest-grade rails.p. ct. of par, 4% bond__
Industrial
_ _ _ p. ct. of par, 4% bond
Public utility
p. ct. of par, 4% bond-Second-grade rails.p. ct. of par, 4% bond..
Bond prices, 1st of following month:
60 domestic bonds
p. ct. of par..
40 representative issues
p. ct. of par..
6 Liberty bonds
.p. ct. of par..
Bond yields:
Industrial (15)
.per cent
Liberty and Treasury bonds
per cent,.
Municipal (15)..
percent
Municipal bond yield (20)
per cent
Railroads (15)
per cent
U. S. Treasury notes and certificates,
3-6 mos
per cent
Utilities (15)
per cent-Total, 60 high grade
per cent
Long-term real-estate bonds issued:
Grand total
thous. of dolls
Interest rates
_
per cent
Kind of structure—
*
Apartments
thous. of dolls
Hotels.
thous. of dolls..
Office and commercial .thous. of dolls..
Purpose of issueAcquisitions and improvements _ __
thous. of dolls
Finance construction.. thous. of dolls..
Real-estate mortgage. -thous. of dolls..
64.08
83.73
65.06
84.35
55.48
56.31
72.15
71.93
53.02
56.49
91.72
92.96
72.24
92.70
61.60
78.40
64.11
77.05
95.14
65.82
82.81
70.76
80.99
97.70
67.75
83.68
80.34
79.07
97.73
64.36
82.76
80.48
97.68
66.70
80.91
78.51
82.54
80.06
84.03
99.98
71.02
106.04
100. 38
99.89
100. 12
106. 09
100. 25
83. 84
106. 30
81.01
106. 84
80.86
82.29
96.31
70.83
79.59
86.58
82.06
96.41
70.72
79.00
86.39
105. 77
100. IS
88.03
105. 37
100. 27
86.67
104.86
104. 23
81.53
105. 53
96.11
68.15
81.98
96.59
70.98
78.14
86.54
78.96
92.89
68.61
75.54
82.78
81. 10
94.63
70.53
77.32
85.85
50.20
100.86
56.10
100. 37
96.32
53.98
103. 76
6.08
3.69
4.62
4.45
5.17
6.21
3.71
4.51
4.34
5.14
5.64
3.42
4.00
4.06
4.66
5.26
3.34
3.88
3.85
4.47
5. 13
3.32
3.88
3.86
4.32
5.26
3.30
3.76
3.84
4.32
5.24
3.31
3.76
3.74
4.27
5.10
3.38
3.80
3.85
4.33
4.98
3.39
3.89
3.90
4.27
5.01
3.40
3.95
4.03
4.27
4.99
3.33
3.92
4.05
4.25
5.12
3.34
4.05
4.12
4.41
106. 41
M
4.97
3.32
4.00
4.06
4.32
1.77
4.89
5. 19
1.70
4.77
5.16
.45
4.50
4.70
.42
4.40
4.50
.41
4.42
4.44
.55
4.46
4.45
.88
4.44
4.43
1.49
4.46
4.43
1.38
4.48
4.41
1.06
4.64
4.44
1.24
4.56
4.43
1.48
4.61
4.55
1.40
4.57
4.46
2,619
5.71
9,125
5.00
66,785
6.80
2,100
5.76
775
6.78
3,425
9,485
7,235
6.68
3,590
6.36
29, 877
6.75
9,965
6.43
2,015
6.66
4,520
6.69
0
500
1,979
0
0
9,125
0
0
66, 445
0
0
1,985
0
0
175
0
0
2,700
0
265
8,660
260
0
4,400
0
0
1,476
0
0
2,000
0
1,250
1,200
0
725
1,894
0
500
0
565
635
0
600
0
0
1,000
425
265
0
9,220
0
1,700
3,135
210
1,000
630
0
1,600
1,090
2,850
8,625
0
395
66, 090
142. 97
114.2
146. 65
117.2
193. 83
154.9
64. 88
92.8
33. 35
158.6
193. 76
154.8
215. 74
172.4
23.85
190. 59
152.3
57.87
82.7
32.48
198.56
54.1
21.27
156. 80
125.3
46.44
66.4
22.90
97.4
35.81
94.2
31.39
36.38
237.52
189.8
84.55
120.9
40.49
71.7
46.0
114.7
69.7
48.4
111.9
81.7
56.1
131.9
95.5
66.2
154.0
98.2
75.3 I
157.6
95.1
74.0
153. 0
98.0
76.8
156.4
109.2
87.3
169.8
67.5
98.1
122.2
75.4
64.8
80.1
121. 5
70.4
75.8
94.0
158.1
84.7
88.5
115. 0
194.1
103.4
89.8
130.7
196.3 !
104.9 !
86.5
129.2
189. 7
101. 2
202.3
100.3
150.6
33.0
69.3
45.0
89.2
31.3
69.7
43.0
84.3
41.1
80.0
50.0
96.7
49.1
91.6
61.0
112.0
50.2
89.2
65.8
112.2
46.7
88.5
62.0
111.9
60.7
59.3
71.6
84.2
88.0
56.7
41.5
46.0
44.6
33.7
53.1
41.2
42.6
41.7
35.9
60.0
46.4
45.9
54.8
40.4
69.9
54.5
48.4
65.2
44.7
67.4
57.2
48.9
71.8
45.8
72.32
85.30
99.57
84.56
5.81
99.54
0
340
99. 68
84.05
5.74
110
0
28,972
9,300
850
530
0
27,945
0
1, 595
5, 120
235.29
188.0
92.03
131.6
44.00
214. 18
171.1
212. 34
169.6
227. 60
181.8
40.69
38.09
117.2
129.0
42. 12
121.6
97.2
188.9
119.8
104.7
177.9
112.3
100.4
163.4
109.4
93.5
157. 9
116.7
102. 1
167. 4
110.3
174.0
237.3
120.4
202.5
117.4
111.8
178.6
268.2
128.6
103.4
161.7
227.6
106.2
101. 9
169. 7
177. 0
100.3
108.5
195.8
214.9
101.2
46.4
88.8
66.7
117.7
50.0
86.2
79.4
127.1
57.5
89.9
96.7
136.9
54.4
86.4
90.8
133.2
50.6
78.4
82.1
127.2
54.9
78.1
79.9
123.0
56.0
81.7
90.8
126. 4
83.4
88.7
109.4
125.1
125.8
120.4
116.9
120.3
63.1
54.6
48.6
68.2
45.0
63.2
57.1
48.6
72.1
47.4
74.1
67.5
52.6
86.1
52.2
84.5
78.2
51.5
102.9
58.2
90.7
77.4
52.2
101.2
55.3
89.1
74.1
53.8
89.8
52.5
1,250
STOCKS
Stock prices, average daily closing:
25 industrials, average dolls, pershare..
25 industrials, average.—., rel. to 1923-25-.
25 railroads, average
dolls, per share
25 railroads, average
rel to 1923-25
103 stocks, average
dolls, per share
Stock prices, average weekly closing:
All groups (404)
rel. to 1926..
All railroads (33)
_rel. to 1926All utilities (34)
rel. to 1926—
Industrials, rails and utilities
(337).
rel. to 1926Agricultural implements (4)._rel. to 1926—
Airplanes (10)._
rel. to 1926Automobiles and trucks (13).. rel. to 1926—
Automobile tires and rubber
goods (7)
rel. to 1926
Chain stores (17) _ _
.rel. to 1926Copper and brass (9)__
.rel. to 1926—
Food, other than meat (20)... rel. to 1926..
Machinery and machine equipment (10)
rel. to 1926
Oil producing and refining
(16)
rel. to 1926Railroad equipment (9)
rel. to 1926—
Rayon (5)
rel to 1926
Steel and iron (9)..
rel. to 1926..
Textiles (30)
rel. to 1926Theaters, motion pictures and
amusements (7)
rel. to 1926
Tobacco and tobacco products
(10).
rel. to 1926
Traction, motor transportation
(9)
rel. to 1926]
Quarter ending in month indicated.
37.82
44.72
63.9
68.09
!
!
I
!
65.89
89.4
140.3
110.0
74.97
107.2
90.38
129.2
82.00
87.8 !
72.9 i
58.2
91.6
51.0 !
90.23
96.9
70. 8
f>7. 9
99. 5
54.9
27.7
28.3
37.9
43.4
44.5
44.6
44.3
61.3
76.1
80.2
69.4
66.7
77.7
106.2
104.7
117.5
136.9
141.0
133. 5
137.3
144.3
143.8
137.4
131.5
125.6
129.2
43. 6
43.6
51.1
59.8
62.7
63.2
60.8
61.9
67.1
66.3
63.1
63.3
67.9
56
SURVEY OF CUERENT BUSINESS
January, 1932
MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued
Earlier data for items shown here may
!
be found in the 1931 Annual Supple- NovemOctober | SeptemAugust
ment to the Survey
ber
ber
1931
July
FINANCE-Continued
1930
Febru- January
ary
June
May
April | March
58,719
46,661
54, 335
65,494
64,145
5.85
5.96
6.26
4.47
7.76
5.71
5.95
6.23
4.42
7.91
5,59
5.43
5.69
4.04
7.12
5.54
4.95
5.17
3.60
8.75
5.81
5.12
5.35
3.89
6.29
Decem- November !
ber
I
Stocks and Bonds— Continued
STOCKS— Continued
Stock sales, N. Y. Stock Exchange
thous. of shares.. 37, 369
Stock yields:
Preferred high-grade industrial
(20)
- .per cent
6.45
Total common (90)__
per cent .
7.07
Industrials (50)
• per cent
7.32
Public utilities (20) .. - per cent
5.50
9.88
Railroads (20)
per cent
47, 895
6.40 !
7.28 !
7.49
5.74
10.07
51,140
24, 890
6.03
8.51
6.63
5. 11
9.59
5.80
5.74
5.94
4.36
8.15
33, 540
5.77
5.68
5.89 i
4.33
7.54
52, 543
5.66
5.50 i
5.73
4.26
6.56 i
58, 764 |
51, 946
5.77 !
5.62 !
5.79
4.37
7.05 ;
5.62
5.43
5.69
4.10
6.46
New Security Issues
Bond sales, Canada:
Total
-thous of dolls
Corporation
thous. of dolls
Dominion and provincial
thous of dolls
Municipal - _
thous. of dolls
Railways
thous of dolls
Bond sales (U. S.):
CorporationTotal
thous of doils
Class of industryIndustrial - - thous of dolls
Land and buildings
thous. of dolls
Oil
thous of dolls
Public utilities
thous. of dolls-.
Railroads
thous. of dolls
Shipping and miscellaneous
thous. of dolls..
Purpose of issueNew capital
thous of dolls
Refunding _. _ _ .. thous of dolls
Type of securityBonds and notes
thous. of dolls ;
Stocks
thous of dolls
Bond sales on N. Y. Stock Exchange:
Miscellaneous
thous. of dolls '
Liberty— Treasury
thous. of dolls.
Total
thous of dolls i
Foreign governments, excl. Canada
.thous. of dolls.Foreign loans in the United
States
- .
thous, of dolls. _
States and municipalities:
i
Permanent loans
thous. of dolls..
Temporary loans
thous. of dolls._|
150, 033
0
436
150
51, 073
240
1,923
400
7,133
683
62,240
5,085
666, 340
9,660
57,994
3,975
44,958
17, 054
39, 834
19, 300
109, 864
2,685
48, 839
12,355
69, 563
7,000
150, 000
33
0
0
286
0
0
833
50, 000
0
1, 523
0
5,000
1, 450
0
33, 650
13, 505
0
850, 141
7,039
0
25,764
28, 254
0
8,057
18,097
1,750
8,000
12, 534
0
35, 444
1,735
70,000
7,714
2,520
24, 250
CO, 000
2, 563
0
70, 202
17, 891
176, 264
51,997
155, 934
252, 918
250,590
456, 678
401, 229
88, 226
580, 706
187, 644
141,855
583
2,160
4,550
9,197
15, 439
6,350
4,850
96, 932
82, 400
2,925
69, 173
21, 889
10, 562
5, 784
0
51,285
12, 550
9, 625
0
2, 000
0
67,009
0
42, 080
60, 000
2, 650
400
27, 456
12, 295
1,651
0
138, 800
0
3,813
5,000
220, 416
16, 113
10. 415
2,000
210, 025
22,500
7,577
4,940
305, 661
6,000
3, 765
2,053
101, 393
200, 018
6,405
0
64, 266
12,000
8,021
30, 002
1,500 i
0
324, 108 116, 778
175, 004
14, 250
15,365
4,250
89, 738
7,600
0
4,106
2,625
0
2,044
35, 568
11, 600
2,630
4,725
14, 340
17,391
500
156, 381
19, 883
46,197
5,800
115, 070
40,864
1,226
'
131, 343
121, 575
800
50, 123
20, 079
169, 360
81,230
267, 471
189, 207
269, 030
132, 199
74, 251
13, 975
399,848 ! 180, 872
6,772
180,858 !
137, 622
4,233
46, 347
23, 855
14, 285
3,606
163, 399
12, 865
39,835 153, 814
12, 162 1 2,120
247, 034
5,884
190, 065
60, 525
354, 969
101, 709
391, 758
9,471
61, 460
26, 766
535,404 114,135
45,302 i 73, 509
123,417
18,438
199, 228
37,389
236,617
290, 822
56, 157
346, 979
267, 323
38, 493
305, 816
191,035 ! 219, 615
8,675 ! 8,284
199, 710 i 227, 899
252, 585
15, 167
267, 752
221, 256
14, 431
235, 687
215, 661
12, 127
227, 788
238, 298
8,723
247, 021
174, 535
19, 911
194, 446
247,308 i 250, 707
16.809
15, 055
264017 1 265, 762
182, 906
6,640
189, 546
9,500
2,900
0
0
0
o
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
» 23, 602
0
1,900
38, 800
69, 184
44, 303
13, 791
8,707
95,657
22,377
5, 662
51,351 ! 2 18, 343
67,925 i » 50, 122
121, 392
102, 129
120, 336 3169,094 » 111, 386
30, 892 » 24, 772 196, 598
279, 443
64,979
119,589
238,436*
49, 977
81, 697
97, 703
76, 531
93, 982
80,422
275,618 ! « 85, 327
91,522 j 45,802
* Revised,
U. 5. G O V E R N M E N T P R I N T I N G O F F I C E : 1932
EXPLANATORY
The Survey of Current Business is designed to present
each month a picture of the business situation by setting
forth the principal facts regarding the various lines of
trade and industry. The figures are very largely those
already in existence. The chief function of the Survey
is to bring together those data which, if available at all,
are scattered in hundreds of different publications. A
portion of these data are collected by Government
departments, other figures are compiled by technical
journals, and still others are reported by trade associations. The Survey of Current Business computes
the indexes on total stocks, new orders, agricultural
marketings, crop marketings, and unfilled orders based
on available data.
SOURCES OF DATA
The sources and inclusiveness of the data appearing
in the table "Monthly Business Statistics" will be
found noted in the 1931 Annual Supplement to the
Survey of Current Business, and the sources of the
weekly data are given on page 4 of the February 5,
1931, issue of the Weekly Supplement to the Survey of
Current Business.
HISTORICAL DATA
Monthly data on all the various series carried in the
Monthly Survey will be found in the 1931 Annual
Supplement to the Survey, running back seven years
and in some cases eight years. Data previous to that
included in the 1931 Annual Supplement will be found
in the monthly Surveys prior to 1924.
RELATIVE AND INDEX NUMBERS
To facilitate comparison between different important
items and to chart series expressed in different units,
relative numbers (often called "index numbers," a
term referring more particularly to a special kind of
numbers described below) have been calculated. The
monthly average for 1923-1925 has usually been used
as a base equal to 100.
The relative numbers are computed by allowing the
monthly average for the base year to equal 100. If
the movement for the current month is greater than
the base, the relative number will be greater than 100,
and vice versa. The difference between 100 and the
relative number will give at once the per cent increase
or decrease compared with the base period. Thus, a
relative number of 115 means an increase of 15 per
cent over the base period, while a relative number of
80 means a decrease of 20 per cent from the base.
Relative numbers may also be used to calculate the
approximate percentage increase or decrease in a
movement from one period to the next. Thus, if a
relative number for one month is 120 and for a later
month is 144, there has been an increase of 20 per cent.
When two or more series of relative numbers are
combined by a system of weightings, the resulting
series is denominated an index number. The index
number, by combining many relative numbers, is
designed to show the trend of an entire group of industries, or for the country as a whole, instead of for the
single commodity or industry which the relative
number covers. Comparisons with the base year or
with other periods are made in the same manner as
in the case of relative numbers.
TO INDEXES
Seasonal variations are found in most series of economic statistics for which monthly values are obtainable. Consumption and production of commodities,
interest rates, bank clearings, railroad freight traffic,
and many other types of data are marked by seasonal
swings repeated with minor variations year after year.
These, in so far as they exist at all, are definitely
periodic in character, with a constant 12-month period.
In cases where an adjustment is noted for a series carried in the Survey, the index has been corrected for
number of working or business days in the various
months and then adjusted for seasonal variation.
The index figures thereby become comparable throughout the series.
METHODS OF USE
Methods of using and interpreting current business
statistics have been collected by the Department of
Commerce from many business concerns and are
described in a booklet entitled "How to Use Current
Business Statistics," together with methods of collecting statistics. This booklet may be obtained from the
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Office, Washington, D. C., at 15 cents per copy.
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