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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE OFFICE OF BUSINESS ECONOMICS Avoiloble only with subscription to the monthly magazine SURVEY OH CURRENT BUSINESS * * • * October 15, 1954 This Supplement provides selected weekly data and monthly data subsequent to those published in the latest monthly SURVEY * * * * WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS1 1953 1954 1953 1954 1 TPM 1 TPM Oct. 10 Commodity prices, wholesale: A 1 1 commod i t i e s 1 947-49= 1 00 Farm products do. . Foods, processed do. . A 1 1 other . . ^ do. . 22 commodities 21 do. . Department store sales do Insured unemployment, total thous State programs .do. . Fai lures, ind & comm. . . .number Bond y i e l d s domestic corpo— rate (Moody 's) 3/ percent Sept. 25 *l 1 1 0 *98. 1 *I06.6 *l 14 7 85.6 **l 12 109 9 92.8 105.8 1 14 . 4 90.7 1 17 **804 **756 186 #1 701 # 1 , 535 212 3 48 3 14 Oct. 2 Oct. 9 109 7 92.7 104 5 1 14 5 90.4 1 10 109 6 91.4 104 0 1 14 6 90.7 192 230 3 (4 3 14 Stock prices (480), Standard and Poor's 1935-39-100 Industrials (420) do.. Product i on : Bitum coal 3/.. thous sh tons Electric power, by u t i l i t i e s mi 1 kw -hr Motor vehicles (Ward's) No. Petro leum, crude 3/ thous bb 1 Steel (ingots & for castings, quantity) 4/ 1947-49-100 Freight carl oad i ngs thou s car s M i see 1 laneous do Oct. 10 Sept. 25 Oct. 2 180 8 194.2 242.3 269.2 244.8 272.8 ** 1,535 1,356 1,332 **8,4I4 140,402 **6,353 9,072 69,944 6,089 9, 158 81,027 6,050 135.2 **8I3 **400 101 .9 710 352 104.5 722 358 Oct. 9 246.6 275. 1 79,858 105.3 \_l Data do not always cover calendar weeks. 2/ Tuesday prices. 3/ D a i l y average. _4/ Week ended October 16, 107.3. * Monthly index for September 1953. ** For week corresponding to latest for which data are shown. # Data for preceding week: Total, 1,777,000; State programs, 1,605,000. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1953 1 TCM September July August DOMESTIC TRADE A 1 1 retai 1 stores : Sales (unadjusted), total I/ mi 1. dol. Durab le goods: Automot i ve group do. . Furniture & app 1 iances.do. . Nondurab le goods: Apparel group do.. Drug & prop, stores. .. .do. . Food group do. . Gasoline serv. stations. do. . Genera l-merch. group... do.. Inventories (adj ), total do Durable-goods stores. ..do.. Nondurab le-goods stores do Retail firms with I I or more stores, estimated sales: Unadjusted mi 1. dol. Adjusted do. . Dept. store sales, U.S. total: Unadjusted index. . 1947-49= 100 Adjusted index .do EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES Labor force (Bureau Census): C i v i l i a n labor force. .. .thous. Emp 1 oyed,. do. . Agr i cu Itura 1 do. . Nonagr i cu Itura 1 do.. Unemp loyed do. . July August September EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES - Con. 583 639 601 521 574 417 591 640 624 530 595 429 594 642 625 539 596 430 595 649 629 539 596 431 14,082 14,390 13,914 14,047 2,737 724 2,747 733 2,672 730 2,530 727 681 396 3,374 1,026 1,442 22 451 10,286 12, 165 842 401 3,426 956 1,548 840 377 3,350 908 1,551 *22,775 * 10, 624 *I2, 151 722 407 3,689 1,052 1,334 r 22, 403 rlO, 190 r 12,213 *2,50I *2,572 2,643 2,652 2,470 2,655 112 107 88 rill P97 p i 12 el!3 elOS r63,627 62,306 7,262 55,044 1,321 65,494 62,148 7,486 54,661 3,346 65,522 62,276 6,928 55,349 3,245 65,243 62, 144 7,527 54 617 3,099 r/ Revised. £/ Preliminary, £/ Estimated. and transportation equipment. September September CONSTRUCTION AND REAL ESTATE Construction cost indexes: The American Appraisal Co.: Avg 30 cities 1913-100 At 1 ant a do. . New York do. . San Francisco do.. St. L o u i s . . do. Assoc. Gen. Contractors. .do. . 1954 1953 1954 1 TFM * August 1953 data. Emp loyees i n nonage estab 1 . , total, unadj thousands Manufacturing do Mining do. . Contract construction do.. Transp. & pub. u t i l do.. Wholesale & retai 1 trade do Finance, ins.& real est..do.. Service & mi see 1 laneous. .do. . Government do. . Prod, workers i n mfg. ind.: Tota 1 thousands Durab le goods do. . Ordnance & acces do. . Lumber & wood prod do. . Furniture & f i xtures. . .do. . Stone, clay, etc do.. Primary metal ind do.. Fab. metal products 2!/.dc. . Machinery (exc. e lee.). do.. Electrical machinery .. .do. . Transportation equip... do.. 1 nstruments etc do M 5 see 1 mfg ind . do.. Nondurable goods do.. Food & kindred prod., do.. Tobacco manufactures do T e x t i l e - m i l l products. .do. . Apparel, etc.. do.. Paper & a l l i e d prod.... do.. Pr i nt i ng , etc do. . Chemicals, etc. do.. Prod, of petro. & coal. do.. Rubber products do. . Leather & leath. prod.. do.. Mfg. prod. -worker indexes: Emp 1 oyme nt : Unad j . 1 947-49= 1 00 Adj do. . Payrolls, unadjusted. ... .do. . 50,200 17 510 839 2,866 4,265 10,523 2,041 5,566 6,590 47,808 15,627 735 2,795 4,043 10,377 2,126 5,638 6,467 p48,03l p48,5l 1 ' p 1 5 , 860 p!6,007 p736 p726 p2,840 p2,807 p4,028 p4,028 p 10, 353 p 10, 483 p2, 1 1 1 p2, 125 p5,635' p5,605 p6,744 p6,454 14,061 8, 161 194 721 315 467 1, 129 939 1,262 941 1,520 242 430 12,212 6,917 1 17 604 272 424 969 809 1, 108 765 1,277 210 363 p 12,448 p 12, 593 p6,979 p6,936 p 1 13 p i 13 p609 p657 p288 p295 p434 p432 p969 p969 p8!9 p8!9 p i , 097 p i , 101 p783 p807 p i , 237 p 1 , 1 83 p2l 1 p2!6 p376 p388 5,900 1,326 1 12 1,088 1,099 450 521 555 188 221 341 5,295 1, 142 83 953 980 430 513 513 181 173 327 p5,5!2 p i , 222 p!02 p987 p i , 045 p436 p5!2 p5!5 p!80 p!74 p338 p5,6!4 p i , 264 p i 14 p988 p i , 054 p442 p520 p528 p!79 p!95 p33l 1 13.7 I I 1.7 153.4 r98.7 r 100.0 H32.2 plOO.6 p99.7 PI35. 1 plOI.8 p99.9 p!38.2 J,/ September figures are advance estimates. 2/ Except ordnance, machinery, MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS —Continued 1953 1953 1954 September EMPLOYMENT AND WAGES - Con. Hours and earnings, a l l mfg: Average weekly hours per 39.9 worker hour s 40.6 Durab le goods do. . 39.0 Nondurab le goods do. . Avg. week ly earnings. . .dol lars 71.42 77.14 Durab le goods do. . 63.57 Nondurable goods do.. .79 Avg. hour ly earnings do.. .90 Durab le goods do. . .93 Ordnance & acces do. . .67 Lumber & wood prod do. . Furniture & f ixtures. . . .do. . .55 .76 Stone, clay, etc do.. 2. 13 Primary metal ind do.. .86 Fab. metal prod. J_/ do.. .98 Machinery (exc. e lee.).. do.. .78 E lectr i ce 1 mach do. . Transportation equ ip. . . .do. . 2.09 .80 Instruments, etc do.. .58 Mi seel. mfg. ind do.. Nondurable goods do.. Food & kindred prod do.. Tobacco manufactures do Texti le-mi 1 1 products. . .do. . Appare 1 etc do Paper & a l l i e d prod do.. Printing, etc do.. Chemicals, etc do.. Products of petro.&coal .do. . Rubber products do.. Leather & leath. prod... do.. .63 .60 .20 .37 .35 .73 2.24 1.88 2.29 *l.94 1.38 July £/ Preliminary. August 39.4 39.7 39.0 70.92 75.83 64.74 1.80 1.91 1.99 1.56 1.57 1.77 2.11 1.90 2.01 1.82 2.12 1.83 1.60 p39.7 p40. 1 p39.3 p7l.06 p76.59 p64.45 pi. 79 pi. 91 p2.00 pi. 58 pi. 57 p i . 77 p2. 10 p i . 89 p2.02 p i . 81 P2.I3 p i . 83 p i . 60 1.66 1.68 1.37 1.36 1.34 1.75 2.26 1.93 2.29 1.95 1.37 FINANCE Federal Government finance: Gross debt (direct), end of month m i l . dol. 272,937 270,984 Interest-bearing, total.. do. . 270,744 268,681 Public issues do.. 229,785 226,528 40,958 Special issues do.. 42, 152 2,303 Non i nterest bear i ng do. . 2,193 Obligations guaranteed by 64 21 U. S. Government. .. .mi 1 . dol. Bonds (S&P Corp. ) : Dom. municipal (15 bonds): 116.9 126.9 Price dol per $100 bond 2.31 2.88 Yield . . . percent Stocks : Dividend yields, preferred Stocks, 1 1 high-grade 4.04 4.30 (SAP Corp ) percent Prices: Dow-Jones & Co., Inc. (65 100.98 127.66 stocks) dol. per share 26 1 . 90 341.27 Industrial (30) do.. 59.43 49. 16 Publ ic uti lity (15) do. . 94.46 Rai I road (20) do.. 1 16.65 r_/ Revised. p i . 64 p i . 65 p i . 29 p i . 36 p i . 34 p 1 . 76 p2.27 p i . 92 p2.27 p i . 96 p i . 37 p i . 66 p i . 66 p i . 22 p i . 37 p i . 36 p i . 78 p2.28 p i . 93 p2.30 p i . 39 27 29 128.4 2.23 127.2 2.29 4.01 3.98 130.40 352.71 61.04 1 16.03 FINANCE - Con. Stocks, prices - Con. S&P Corp., combined index (480 stocks) 1935-39= 100 Industrial (420) do.. Publ ic uti lity (40) do.. Rai Iroad (20) ..do.. LUMBER AND MANUFACTURES Lumber (NLMA) : Prod , total. .mil. bd. ft. Softwoods do. . Shipments, total do.. Softwoods do. . Stocks, gross, total do.. Softwoods do. . July August 17.9.2 192.6 119.6 156. 1 231. 1 254.5 139.5 184. 1 236.4 260.6 142.3 187.2 *3,429 *2,664 *3,238 *2,577 *8,034 *5,326 2,671 2,023 2,797 2,257 8,959 5,213 2,887 2,295 .2,913 2,396 8,929 5, 108 13,214 1 1,016 9,555 *6,499 *750 *I48 *252 *778 *586 *I50 * 1,921 *I88 *I95 *39I *390 *378 4,490 444 168 1 16 674 376 80 1,347 74 95 350 242 322 4,68! 446 152 142 715 365 71 1,331 95 109 326 342 351 September 238.5 264.4 140.7 182.0 METALS AND MANUFACTURES Iron ore, shipments (Lake Superior d is. ). .thous. l.tons Steel products, net shipments: Total thous. sh. tons Bars: Hot rolled do.. Reinforcing do. . Semimanufactures do. . Pipes and tubes do., plates do. . Rai Is do Sheets do Strip: Cold rol led do.. Hot rol led do.. Structural shapes do.. Tin plate & ternep late. .do. . Wire & wire prod do.. Zinc, slab: Product i on short tons Shipments, total do.. Domest i c do . . Stocks, end of month do.. 81,21 1 57,547 55, 167 141,561 r7l,8IO 70,749 r 76, 584 73,846 58,188 59, 157 198,027 r 193, 253 RUBBER AND RUBBER PRODUCTS Natural rubber: *43,732 r 37, 894 Consumption long tons Stocks, end of month do.. *II9,332 r 109, 564 Synthetic rubber : *68,299 46,964 Production do r4 1,552 Consumpt i on do. . *59,24I Stocks, end of month do.. *I69, 152 r 162, 944 Tires and tubes: Pneumatic casings: 6,360 *7,398 Production thousands *8,797 r8,885 2,782 *3, 129 Original equipment do.. 12,640 *I3,550 Stocks, end of month. .. .do. . Inner tubes: 4, 132 *5,675 Production .do.. r6,257 *6,523 S h i omeruts do .. 8,429 Stocks, end of month. .. .do. . * 10, 226 7,951 60,092 77,863 64,526 175,482 37,831 124,984 48,807 40,771 170,709 5,427 8,080 2,527 9,985 3,773 5,748 6,628 * August 1953 data. J_/ Except ordnance, machinery, and transportation equipment. PENALTY FOR PRIVATE USE TO AVOID PAYMENT OF POSTAGE. $300 FIRST CLASS WASHINGTON 25, D. C. OFFICIAL BUMNEM Permit No. 1009 WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS p39.7 p40. 1 p39. 1 p7l.86 p76.99 p64.9l p i . 81 p i . 92 p i . 98 p i . 70 pi. 57 p i . 79 p2. 12 p i . 90 p2.02 p i . 81 p2. 14 p i . 84 p i . 62 274,810 272,440 230,033 42,407 2,370 129.76 346.06 61.01 118.29 September September 274,955 272,693 230,214 42,479 2,262 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE DIVISION OF PUBLIC DOCUMENTS 1954 ITEM ITEM
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