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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES D E P A R T M E N T OF C O M M E R C E BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE OCTOBER 24, 1947 AVAILABLE ONLY WITH SUBSCRIPTION TO SURVEY OF CURRFNT BUSINFSS SELECTED BUSINESS INDICATORS STEEL INCOT PRODUCTION ELECTRIC POWER PRODUCTION BY UTILITIES (1935- 3»«100) 260 200 W££KIY WCCKir ;=r^^~^~-_ V^»4S OATA HOT PtOYTE J \ r "V ^ 100 50 -i-J_J.i I I U - J J A , : : •ill : DATA N 1945 ——p-^ > 150 (BILLIONS OF KILOWATT HOURS) OATA ^ /\/^Y^\ !.._ . : * : ; : : : 1 . . •, ! 1,1, i, ' ,1, i ,i, J_L_J_JLJU ±JULLX~IX.LA-L M I t > I 1 I I -I II I I I t 1, I u PRICES OF 3 5 4 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS COTTON CONSUMPTION (DAILY AVERAGE- T HOUSAN0S OF B A L E S ) (»35-39-100) mimsoAr aoss *r\\ / " i Y^^ yw*^ L.L..t J._L.L_J_J_.L_.I. i . L . . 1944 II "'X 1L i L . L I 1 II 1 1945 !945 WEEKLY I, I I M I I M I. M n I M I I I t BUSINESS P^yr 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I Commoaity prices, wholesale * Ail commodities 2/ 1926«100.. Farm product a do.... Jfood do.... All other £/ , ... do 2B eoiamoditYes %J August 1939*100.. n Cotton, middling, 15/l6 , 10 markets 'V dol. per lb.. Wheat9 So. £, Hard Winter (Kansas Gityj jjj/ dol. per bu.. Department store sales 1935-39*100.. Insured unemployment, total GJ thous.. State programs......._. .do.... ? Veterans programs * * -.. .do.... finances Currency in circulation kj mil. of dol.. federal Eeserve bank credit, total. .... do.... Member bank reserve balances .. — .do.... Excess reserves, estimated * do.... federal Eeserve reporting member banks in leading cities; Jj Bank debits, total.... mil. of dol.. Hew York City .do.... Deposits, demand, adjusted .do.... Loans and investments, total.......... do.... U. S. Government obligations... do.... Commercial, industrial and agricultural loans do...* failures, commercial. .. • number.. Bond yields, domestic corporate (Moody's) percent.. Stock prices, 402 stocks (Standard and Poor's).1935-39*100.. Industrials, 354 stocks .....do.... Production* Bituminous coal k/ thous. of short tons.. Electric power, "by utilities mil. of kw-hr.. Motor vehicles (Wards) 8/ number.. Petroleum **/... • thous. of bbl.. Steel %/ ,. .1935-39*100.. freight carloadings, total. thous. of cars.. Miscellaneous do.... 335-9 .316 3.00 28,635 22,807 17,229 I.265 6,777 L 1 1 1. 1 . 1 - 1947 STATISTICS1 Oct. 11 Oct. 4 1946 Sept. 27. Sept. 20 Oct. 19 Oct. 12 158.0 190.1 180.0 139.0 33^-7 .312 2.87 303 157.1 187.5 178.3 138.6 33*-5 .307 2.86 327 1,250 769 438 156.2 18U.7 177.6 138.2 326.9 .310 2.67 316 1,309 787 *79 158.1 189.8 182.3 138.0 324.8 .321 2.72 301 l,h25 835 551 135*1 160.1 175.6 112.8 252.8 .36k 2,05 295 1.990 912 1,020 126.0 160.2 137.7 112.6 21*3.8 .388 2.02 281 2.039 922 1,061 28,642 22,852 17,142 1,138 28,585 22,931 17.03* i 9 oi+i 28,561 22,573 16,831 953 28,631 22,391* 17.128 1,1*5 28,609 24,152 16,11*2 855 28,609 2l*,Ol*8 16,019 766 18,929 7.1*36 1*6,744 64,710 22,139 9,119 U7,056 64,796 38,400 13.116 81 2.92 122.9 128.3 19.043 7,061* ^7,303 64,566 38,680 12,935 77 2.89 121.9 127.2 20,389 7,710 1*7,1*98 6i*,7iU 39,022 12,858 73 2.S5 124.0 129.6 19,07* 6,9*6 U5.757 66,733 **,513 10,591 23 2.82 126.8 130.8 18,010 6,923 H5.723 66,607 i*H,50i* 10,1*12 25 2.82 117.8 121.1 2,032 *.935 101,608 5,208 I85.O 9*3 429 2,050 *,956 106,891* 5.196 IS4.5 938 1*21 2,01*0 *,977 109,73* 5,200 175.2 931 1*13 38.37* 2.95 126.2 132.5 1 1 ...1 L 1 . 1 . 1 1946 1947 Oct. 18 A** V/**> 13.200 62 2.93 123.2 128.9 2,086 2,131 4,540 >*,*95 86,330 89.5*0 *.737 *.733 189.8 178.5 178.7 899 932 390 1*01 957 1/ Data do not always cover calendar, weeks. 2/ See note i n January 1," 1947 i e s u434 e . %J Thursday p r i c e s , kj Daily average. 5 / Data f o r 1947 include dark hard winter not included p r e v i o u s l y . j$/ For d e s c r i p t i o n see note in J u l y 13, I9U6 i s s u e , jj Shown on a r e v i s e d b a s i s beginning i n Supplement for J u l y 18, 1947. 8 / Data a r e f o r U. S. and Canada and include passenger c a r s , commercial c a r s , and t r u c k s . 2 / Week ending October 25, I9O.3. 87,893 2,125 *.958 98,978 5.245 188 .4 z MONTHLY BUSINESS Earlier date are available in Monthly issues of the Survey and toe 1942 Supplement STATISTICS 1947 September August 191+6 July June September COMMODITY PBICSS Wholesale pricee of selected commodities: Coal, bituminous, mine run, compoelte..dol. per short ton. Coffee, Santos, Mo. 4 (Mew York) dol. per lb. Cotton, middling, I5/I0", average, 10 markets do... Cotton cloth: Mill margins cente per lb. Print cloth, 64 x 60 dol. per yd. Butte*, 92-ftCore (Hew York) dol. per lb. Eggs, U. 3. standards (Chicago) dol. per doz. Grains and grain products: Corn, weighted average, 5 markets dol. per bu. Wheat, weighted average, 6 markets do... Wheat flour,standard patents (Minneapolis) .dol. per bbl. 1 Hides, packers , heavy, native eteere dol. per lb. Livestock and meats: Beef steers (Chicago) dol. per 100 lb. Bogs, all grades (Chicago) do... Beef, fresh, native steers (Chicago) dol. per lb. Pork, fresn, loins, 8-10 lb. (lew York) do... Lumber: Douglas fir, dim.,No. 1,com.,2"x 4"-l6*..dol.psr M bd.ft. Southern pine,boards,Mo.2,common,l"x 6"or 8 N x 12'..do... Ponderoea pine. Bo. 3, common, 1" x 8" do... Metals and manufactures: Pig iron, composite dol. per long ton. Steel, composite, finished dol. per lb. Structural eteel (Pittsburgh) do... Steel scrap (Chicago) dol. per long ton. Copper, electrolytic (Hew York) dol. per lb. Lead, refined, pig, deeilverised (Sew York) do... Zinc, prime, Western (St. Louis) do... Petroleum, crude (Kansas-Oklahoma),at wells..dol. per bbl. Gasoline, tank wagon (Mew York) dol. per gal. Sugar, refined, granulated (Mew York) dol. per lb. Wool, raw, territory, fine, ecoured do... 7-^1 .272 .3156 57.91 .255 .802 .U50 7.429 .264 .3434 53.96 .251 .745 .422 7.119 .256 •3752 49.49 .242 .674 .434 6.368 .253 •3718 46.46 .228 & 5.976 .221 .3688 27.40 .140 .768 .406 2.370 2.801 13.57 .301 2.295 2-472 12.72 .295 1.995 2.400 13.27 .262 1.948 2.563 12.60 .231 1.829 2.048 9.25 .155 28.84 •a 27.85 22.11 .434 .552 25-87 22.06 .408 •529 17.99 16.25 .235 •333 62.23 S3 42.63 46.08 40.35 .1*82 •622 67*82 1/ 59-01 .593 64.19 56.23 62.23 64.47 55-23 37.21 .O36O .0280 38.75 .2123 .1500 .1050 1.810 .176 .082 1.220 37.21 .0360 .0280 39.88 .2123 •.I5OO .1050 1.810 .174 .082 1.220 35.O8 .0329 .0256 36.95 .2123 .1500 .1050 1.810 .174 .081 1.225 33.81 .0329 .0250 30.88 .2135 .1500 •1050 1.810 .172 .081 1.225 1913*100.. 307 300 295 294 267 do..., do... 320.6 424.4 317.1 417.8 313.0 415.O 81 273-0 360.9 r42,547 rl5.537 r895 rl,890 4,145 r8,571 rl,602 r4,6l9 5.288 153.8 177.1 158.5 215.6 222.2 191.3 247.2 1J0.9 161.5 131.9 144.0 135.4 102.5 142-5 IO3.8 152.0 91-6 143.0 129.8 191.1 154.1 178.2 r42,175 rl5.209 864 rl.847 r4,l40 r8,558 42.361 15.327 893 1.768 4.115 8,581 1.567 4,711 5.399 151.4 179.7 157.5 221.5 224.2 196 291 175 158 129 144.8 129.1 103 131 99 130 90 143.4 129.1 I88.5 150.8 180.7 41,848 15.035 884 1.747 4,064 8.523 1.53* 4.456 5.605 149.5 173.1 152.7 217.3 210.3 196.0 286.8 179.5 138.6 123.5 142.5 130.9 105.2 132.9 103.1 137.5 93.5 140.0 122.3 184.0 147.8 I89.I 81.4 88.1 89-5 IO6.3 97.3 78.7 81.8 89.1 106.0 97.2 8O.3 88.7 90.4 105.7 95.5 82.2 90.5 83.5 102.5 93-9 28.73 .0305 .0235 18.75 .1415 .0825 •0825 1.460 .159 .067 •995 CONSTRUCTION AND BlaL ESTATE Construction cost indexes: Associated General Contractors (all types) Engineering News-Record: Building cost Construction cost (all types) , EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS AND WAGES Employees in noaagricultural establishments: UnAdjusted, total thous. . Manufacturing do... hining do... , Construct ion do.. • Transportation and public u t i l i t i e s do. • • Traae do. •., financial do... Service do... Government do..., Production workers,all manufacturing,unadjusted 2 / . 1939*100. Durable goods industriee do.. • Iron and e t e e l and their products do..., Electrical macninery do. • • Machinery, except e l e c t r i c a l do... Automobiles d o . . •. Transportation equipment, except automobiles do..., Nonferroue metals and products do. • •, Lumber and timber basic products do... furniture and finished lumber products do... Stone, clay, and g l a s s products do... Nondurable goods industries do. • . . T e x t i l e - m i l l products,and other fiber manufactures.do..., Apparel and other finished t e x t i l e producte do..., Leather and leather products do.... Pood and kindred producte do... Tobacco manufactures do.... Paper and a l l i e d producte do..., Printing, publishing, and a l l i e d Industries do... Chemicals and a l l i e d products do..., Prooucts of petroleum and coal do..., Rubber producte do.... Nonmanufacturing employment, unadjusted: Mining: Antnracite do..., Bituminous coal do... < Metalliferous do.... Quarrying and nonmetallic do. Crude petroleum and natural gas do..., £ / Bevieed. 1/ No quotation. wcwOoer £f, AJT*TI . 893 1.924 U, 141 8,700 1.585 ^.633 5,^25 155.6 178.6 222 224 .8 198.2 251.2 172.6 159.9 133-2 142.8 137.4 104.0 146.5 103.1 152.7 92.8 143.5 131.5 194.2 153.6 180.2 89.O 88.4 4J686 5.281 149.9 174.7 156.1 215.0 217.9 195.0 248.9 168.2 156.5 127.8 140.2 130.3 101.2 131.7 100.6 140.8 89.8 140.7 128.8 189.8 153.7 175.2 2 / for data for the individual Industries for August (the l a t e s t available) see Weekly Supplement dated MONTHLY BUSINESS S TATI S TICS' 3 Continued W Earlier data axe available in monthly iesuee of the Survey and the 1942 Supplement September 1946 Jul, August June September Angust MPL0XMSVT COBDITHWS A S ) WAGES - Continued Payrolls, nonmanufacturing, unadjusted - Continued. Public utilities* SLeotrie light and power 1939*100. Street railways and bueeee do... Telegraph do... Telephone do... Service*: Dyeing and cleaning do... Power laundries do... Tear-round hotels do... Retail trade do... Wholesale trade do... Labor turn-over in manufacturing establishments! Accession rate monthly rate per 100 employees. Separation rate, t o t a l do. • , Discharges do... Lay-offs do... quits do... Military and miscellaneous do... 110.1 130.0 194-5 110.2 rl30.7 100.5 193-8 109.3 130.9 101.5 193-3 107.5 130.4 102.3 190.4 101.9 129.9 112.0 181.0 118.5 109.4 116.6 112.7 113.7 117. 4 110.2 117.6 109.3 112.2 123.4 112.8 118.3 110.2 111.1 127.7 112.2 119.4 111.4 110.5 125 109 119 109 109 5-5 .1 r4.9 r4.6 .4 1.0 r3-l .1 yiKANCS Public finance: Expenditures, total 1/ War and defence activities 2 / Intereet on debt Receipts, Treasury, total Receipts, net Customs Internal revenue, total Income taxee Social security taxee h 1.1 3^1 .1 J'1 6.9 •4 1.0 5.3 .2 ail. of dol. do... do... do... do... do. •. do... do. • • do... fQODSTUWS AND TOBACCO Stocks, cold storage, end of month: Applee, fresh .thous. of bu. Butter, creamery thous. of lb. . Choeeo, total do... Eggs, shell thous. of cases. Eggs, fro-en thous. of lb. Fruits, frozen do.. • Vegetables, frosen do... Total meats 2/ mil. of lb. Beef and veal thous. of lb. Lamb and mutton do... Pork, total * do... fresh and cured . .do.., Lard do... Poultry do... Sugar, V . S., deliveries and supply (raw value): Deliveries, total short tons. lor domeetic coneuoption * do... Production, domeetic, ana receipts: Entriee from off-shore areas do... Production, domestic cane and beet * do... Stocks, raw and refined tnous. of ahort tons. 2,932 1.002 668 4,884 M72 3.060 908 103 2,865 2.536 3.669 979 245 2.469 2.397 4,2^7 3.435 133 2,662 1,668 352 10,219 76.748 195.869 2,815 216,520 409.174 r26M r88,364 r202,597 r3,807 r234,434 r408,119 r326,603 r636 rl06,179 2,126 1,382 80 5.540 1.493 1.396 5.480 5.473 35 3.993 3.270 121 2.755 1,100 648 4,481 4,478 42 4,291 3.550 85 426,089 264,124 162,565 183,024 219 83,286 185,202 4,268 2^1,573 37^,363 307.574 743 101,732 8,085 525.482 331.746 193.736 174,627 329 51,625 161,363 4,203 237.303 332.345 251.687 772 114,568 9,348 528,083 352,814 175.269 171.260 721,464 711,841 r800,184 r792.920 826,310 776,978 -998,180 986,411 10,145 73.931 157.180 5.73? 207,244 501.914 317,691 258 79.051 8,844 129.880 99.859 30,021 184,841 r529.047 r519.275 465,489 605,075 36,749 1,001 719.956 38.992 1.105 544,243 34,590 1,148 297.275 94,691 r523 I.O69 2,262 2.995 3.095 r887 r2,106 r3.302 2,426 1.049 r2,239 3.2S3 r2,472 832 1.909 1.739 3.702 r6,982 r90.1 6.570 84.Q 6.969 92.8 6,556 12,340 2,208 2,212 22 '13.255 2,188 2.185 13.612 2,244 2,242 23 12,202 2.039 2.036 30 I.925 1.346 1,646 1,682 5,264 501 4,590 452 446 397 199 1.076 505 93.440 6,802 320,067 194,096 125,971 206,487 > rJ'?37 LEATHER AND PRODUCTS Leather production: Calf and kid Cattle hide Coat and kid Sheep and lamb .thoue. of skins.. thoue. of hides.. thous. of skins.. do.... METALS AND MAHTOACTURES Steel ingots and eteel for castings: Production thcu«u or r*-"»rt tone.. Percent of capacity s.... Barrels and drums, eteel t heavy types: Ordere, unfilled, end of month thousands«. Production do.... Shipments do.... Stocks, end of month do.... B o i l e r s , s t e e l , new ordere: Area thoue. of eq>. f t . . Quantity number.. S t e e l products, net shipments: Total thoue. of short t o n s . . Merchant bare do.... Pipe and tubee do.... Platee do.... Baile do.... Sheets do.... 6,775 90.5 £ / Revised. 1/ See noVe on corresponding item i n the October 1947 Survey, id sausage room producte not shown separately. 1,426 1.453 5.278 53* 517 540 190 1.199 s rl,6i 4.975 493 480 464 199 1,181 5f 563 205 1.225 86.9 2/ Includes edible offal, canned meats and meat products, and 4 MONTHLY BUSINESS Earlier data are available In monthly iseuee of the Surrey ttdtiM 19*2 Supplement ST AT 1ST ICS —Continued 1$46 19^7 September July August June September August METALS AND MAWUPACTUHSS - Continued Steel products, net shipments - Continued. Strip — Cold r o l l e d thous. of short tone. Hot rolled,..., do... Structural ahapee, heavy *o.*« Tin plate and terneplate. do... Wire and wire products do... Copper* 1/ Production! Mine or smelter ihort tone. Refinery *>••• Deliveries, refined, domestic. do... Stocks, refined, end of month. do... 136 135 3 §7 1?8 141 115 3& 335 308 407 244 365 79.135 9^,605 109,8X7 77,773 82,308 103,448 116,652 82,542 69.7*8 67,803113,158 98,619 6,790 7.441 1.97* 5,838 2,130 6,670 6,947 1,636 3,372 5.179 6,1*99 6,937 4,542 6,216 7,909 5,1*40 5.775 9.413 M33 17.380 20,362 10,555 4,818 16,342 20,099 13,337 5.51* 15,971 18,188 17,096 5,736 16,450 17,153 8,612 3.898 336 393 $3,784 92,088 95,582 80,113 116 131 r83,307 88,052 96,301* r77,212 3* RUBBER AND RUBBER PRODUCTS Tires and tubes* Pneumatic casings* Production. Shipments Original equipment. Stocks, end of month. Inner tubes* Production Shipments Stock*, end of month. .thousands. do... do... do... 7,165 7,520 88 .do. .do. .do. 7,148 6,702 STONE, C U T , AMD CLASS PRODUCTS Portland cement* Production Shipments Stocks, finished, end of month Stocks, clinker, end of month thous. of bbl. f .do... do... do... TEXTILE PRODUCTS Cotton* Consumption Spindle activity* Active spindles •••••....• Active spindle hours, total Average per spindle in place. Operations Rayons Consumption* filament yarn Staple fiber Stocks, producers1, end of month* Filament yarn Staple fiber.. . .uales.« 727.**S 710,601 677,^89 728,251 r819,058 thousands., all. of hours.. hours.. ...percent of capacity.. 21,410 9.^27 396 114.3 21,197 9.034 379 112.9 21,415 8,531 358 101.7 21,324 9.103 382 113.6 21,639 9.037 379 114.4 ail. of lb.. do.... 60.1 20.4 r62.6 18.6 62.4 18.4 5^.7 16.5 54.2 14.0 do.... .....do.... 8.0 6.4 r7.8 6.4 8.6 7.7 June May 38.305 12,685 T37.864 '13,192 38,412 13.668 52.970 15.995 60 1,860 39 78 r2,242 *3 91 2.3?2 *7 131 U7 70,879 79,010 179 137 122 85,0§2 115,568 230 81 2,186 *5 130 117 82,113 112,268 223 118,4a 236 56,715 5.750 38,680 12,28*3 r56,704 r5.764 r37.824 rl3,ll6 55,732 6,328 36.892 12,512 8,845 49,425 15,085 July Vooli 2/ Consumption (scoured basis)* £/ thous. of lb*. Apparel class do..., Carpet claes Machinery activity (weekly average)* Loome* Woolen and worsted* Pile and Jacquard 4/ thoue. of active hours Broad... do.. marrow.. .• • ....do.. Carpet and rug* Broad • • ...do.. .Marrow. do.. Spinning epindlee* Woolen.. do.. Woreted., do... Worsted combs do.. Wool manufactures* Wool yarn! Production, total thous. of lb. Knitting. •..•••.»«•*•«.*»....«..»«. .••••.•••.•••. .do* • • Weaving•.••.••.•.•.....•.•••«•••••••.....••••....do.•. Carpet and other... • do.. H 2.6 98 92 April 88,402 73.355 July r49,855 r9,130 2,159 68 78 70 98,191 89,145 177 r73.330 rl2,945 r50,780 r9,605 ll Bevieed. %J Beginning April 1947, data include copper from a l l eourcess e a r l i e r data r e l a t e t o domestic and duty-free foreign copper except that d e l i v e r i e e Include d e l i v e r i e e of duty-paid foreign copper for domestic consumption. 2 / Data for July 1946 and April and July 1947 are for 5 weeks? other monthe, 4 weeke. U Data cover consumption only on woolca and worsted eyeteme. Data -prior t o March 1*47 show shown i n the monthly Survey include a l s o wool consumed on the e i l k , cotton, and ether systeme, which i s no longer reported; coneumption of theee systems averaged 1.4 percent of t o t a l coneumption of wool i n 1946. 4 / Included in data for broad and narrow spindlee prior to April 1947
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