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SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS i WEEKLY SUPPLEMENT UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE WASHINGTON, D. C , SEPTEMBER 7, 1939 SUMMARY OF BUSINESS TRENDS ened; copper prices were raised one-half cent to 11 cents per pound and zinc and tin quotations advanced. Speculative commitments in commodities were actively placed in the last 2 days of the week. Purchasing of important raw materials by consuming interests also increased. Aside from the sharp decline in petroleum output in the latter half of the month, industrial operations in August showed about the usual seasonal fluctuations. Manufacturing production, on an adjusted basis, was little changed following the material improvement in June and July. Available data for the textile industries indicate that operations since July have generally been in line with seasonal expectations. While automobile assemblies were at a seasonal low last month, steel-ingot production made the usual gain and output in other of the durable goods industries was increased. Petroleum refinery operations were not impaired by the fortnight curtailment in midcontinent oil fields. While stocks of crude petroleum were reduced substantially gasoline stocks remained larger than a year ago. Bituminous coal production increased somewhat less than seasonally following the substantial gain in July. security markets absorbed the impact of the DOMESTIC German invasion of Poland in active trading on Friday and Saturday. Stock prices fluctuated widely on Friday with shares of companies likely to benefit from war demands recording large gains. Representative "averages" of industrial share quotations were somewhat higher at the Saturday close than a week earlier though railroad and utility "averages" were lower. In the bond market price declines were general on Friday; issues of European governments fell sharply. Quotations of United States Government securities, which have been selling on a very low-yield basisL declined ^ongwith^other high-grade issues. Foreign exchanges last week were unsettled and irregular; the pound sterling moved between $4.42 and $4.19 after dropping from $4.68 to $4.40 in the preceding week. The Canadian dollar closed the week at a discount of 5 percent. Prices of a number of major commodities advanced sharply on September 1 and 2, following the opening of hostilities. Compared with a week earlier, spot quotations at New York of wheat, corn, rye, oats, cocoa, raw sugar, and rubber showed gains of around 10 percent. Quotations of nonferrous metals strength- SELECTED BUSINESS INDICATORS STEEL INGOT PRODUCTION ELECTRIC.POWER (PERCENT OF CAPACITY) BITUMINOUS COAL PRODUCTION (MILLIONS OF SHORT (MOOPY/S INDEX- DEC. 31, 1931= I Q O ) PRICES OF 3 5 0 INDUSTRIAL STOCKS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACTS - E W . DODGE TONS) (INDEX. (DAILY AVERAGE AWARDS" MILLIONS Of DOLLARS) AUTOMOBILE PRODUCTION (THOUSANDS SPOT COMMODITY PRICES PRODUCTION (BILLIONS OF KILOWATT HOURS) YIELDS OF 120 CORPORATE BONDS FREIGHT CAR LOADINGS OF VEHICLES) (PERCENT) (THOUSANDS OF CARS) I CRUDE OIL RUNS-TO-STILLS . • . . - . . COMMERCIAL FAILURES MISCELLANEOUS CAR LOADINGS (MILLIONS OF BARRELS - DAILY AVERAGE) (THOUSANDS (NUMBER) OF CARS) 400 rS^V^—^n V 4- 2.6 -tt-i—I—1—'—•— i 174120—39 1926= 100) , /V \ , • i , _J— 50 WEEKLY BUSINESS INDICATORS' [Weekly average, 1923-25^100] 193d 1 Sept. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Aui Sept. Aug. 28 26 19 Business activity: 1 1 New York Timesld Barron'sc? Business Week Commodity prices, wholesale: Dept. of Labor, 1926=100: Combined index (813) Farm products (67) Food (122) All other (624) Fisher's index, 1926=100: Combined index (120) Copper, electrolytic? Cotton, middling, spot Construction contracts^ Distribution: Carloadings Employment: Detroit, factory. Finance: Failures, commercial Bond yieldst Stock prices* 74.8 61.1 66.7 80.4 74.6 60.4 66.2 80.4 74.8 61.4 66.7 80.5 75.1 62.5 67.2 80.5 Finance—Continued. Banking: Debits, outside N. Y. C 4 — Federal Reserve reporting member banks: Loans, total Interest rates: Call loanst— Time loanst Currency in circulation! Production: Automobiles Bituminous coalf Cotton consumption! Electric powerf.— --Lumber ___ Petroleumt Steel ingots© Receipts, primary markets: Cattle and calves. Hogs Cotton Wheat 86.5 77.8 67.1 67.3 84.6 85.0 73.0 73.0 85.7 85.3 81.5 81.6 85.9 85.8 78.4 78.1 77.8 78.1 78.6 80.6 80.4 91.0 91.7 74.6 74.6 74.6 74.6 73.2 71.7 71.7 100.0 100.0 32.7 33. 34.2 34.6 35.3 30.5 31.3 34.6 35.3 71.8 86.2 67.6 70.3 G9.4 65.0 107.9 67.6 56.8 64.7 83.6 1937 Sept. Aug. Aug. Aug. Aug. Sept. Aug Sept. Aug. 28 12 27 26 92. 91.5 91.3 91.1 8S.3 84.6 109.3 109.4 93.5 94.0 94.2 95.6 79.7 79.0 110.1 111. 3 101.7 101.3 101.1 101.1 88.0 85.8 120.4 120.4 7.5.3 62.7 68.5 80.4 1938 1939 1937 1938 61.4 81.7 83.6 50.4 54.3 56.0 51.6 51. J 57.7 60.7 38.6 65.2 64.3 63.3 62.9 62.7 71.1 70.9 67.8 67.6 100.6 102.6 103.3 105.5 101.3 104.1 127.5 131.8 78.3 82.1 89.0 79.4 95.1 75.9 72.8 92.6 87.1 65.7 65.4 65.5 65.3 65.3 66.2 65.7 80.2 79.7 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 24.2 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6 28.6 147.8 146.4 146.2 145.8 145-6 134.5 133.4 135.0 134,0 17.0 32.6 37.0 29.1 24.5 84.1109.2 75.2 72.6 72.5 71.5 67.3 63.9 83.2 78.4 127.2 127.2 124.5 106.5 109.3 120.8 122.6 141.4 142.1 140.0 139.6 129.0 128.1 139.3 137.8 51.0 53.2 51.8 55.2 45.3 49.3 51.9 55.5 81.2 119.1170.4 187.7 160.8 162.7 177.3 179.8 108.2 106.8 106. 103.: 101.9 74.3 72.: 138.1 137.6 33.1 22.9 70.4 67.6 67.0 34.3 30.7 109.2 78.1 51.9 55.4 154.3 155. 96.8 104.9 66.9 92.3 85.5 92.1 87.3 35.6 40.1 37.2 27.8 31.1 58.1 99.2 55.0 150.0 109.6 110.3 173.3 187.3 144.7 150.1 • Data do not cover calendar weeks in all cases. §Computed normal 100. JDaily average. 1 Weekly average, 1928-30=100. ISeasonally adjusted. ©Index for week ended Sept. 9 is 100.7. <^For description of these indexes, see p. 4 of the Dec. 16,1937 issue. WEEKLY BUSINESS STATISTICS 1939 1938 Sept. 2 Aug. 20 Aug. 19 Aug. 12 Aug. 5 July 29 0.103 .089 2.15 35.98 .67 0.103 .091 2.14 35.98 .67 0.103 .093 2.13 35.97 .64 0.103 .094 2.15 35.93 .63 0.101 .096 2.17 35.90 .67 0.100 .096 2.14 35.87 .62 2,555 3,629 2,622 3,812 3,371 4,128 2,538 3,685 4,412 2,448 2,426 10,951 4,799 2,441 2,423 10,829 4,741 2,453 2,423 10,633 4,590 2,462 2,443 10, £09 4,533 18,096 5,247 14,233 8,565 17,835 5,250 14,162 8,533 17,641 5,245 14,151 8,544 2,286 8,209 2,274 8,178 3,996 1.00 1.25 Sept. 3 1937 1936 Aug. 27 Sept. 4 Aug. 28 0.099 .083 2.41 36.50 .67 0.099 .085 2.42 36.50 0.138 .094 2.87 40.27 1.08 0.138 .096 2.87 40.36 1.08 0.095 .120 2.81 34.10 1.19 3,296 3,977 2,744 3,521 2,670 3,378 3,534 4,297 2,805 4,038 4,056 4,052 2,476 2,453 10,413 4,462 2,512 2,488 10,436 4,485 2,585 2,564 8,179 2,941 2,579 2,564 8,156 2,975 2,579 2,526 6,731 750 2,565 2,526 6,730 761 2,463 2,430 6,441 1,958 17,551 5,251 14,118 8,530 17,462 5,243 14,078 8,515 17,601 A 237 13,941 8,514 15,388 5,210 12.591 7,789 15,214 5,217 12,496 7,724 14,924 5,268 12,292 8,193 14,950 12,357 8,232 14,867 5,032 13,809 9,263 2,267 8,186 2,259 8,156 2,241 8,166 2,168 8,194 1,655 8,270 1,653 8,217 1,130 10,027 1,134 9,958 1,236 8>454 3,938 1.00 1.25 3,912 1.00 1.25 3,917 1.00 1.25 3,887 1.00 1.25 1.00 1.25 1.00 1.25 3,890 1.00 1.25 4,638 1.00 1.25 4,606 1.00 1.25 1.00 1.25 2.453 4.293 205 7,179 2.625 4.636 221 7,110 2.649 4.681 228 7,101 2.649 4.681 210 7,079 2.649 4.681 . 208 7,068 2.649 4.681 227 7,020 2.723 4.856 235 6,531 2.734 4.878 247 6,477 3.734 4.963 157 6,554 3.748 4.979 160 6,507 6.583 5.034 173 6,248 42,950 3.7G 5,865 97.71 84.3 98.4 84.5 24.2 29,790 3.71 5,012 96.32 81.6 95.0 82.8 23.3 21,310 3.65 3,414 99.68 86.3 100.3 87.4 25.4 22,060 3.63 3,093 100.30 87.4 101.8 88.0 25.9 27,120 3.62 4,267 102.46 90.0 104.9 89.9 27.1 31,350 3.63 5,0f>3 102.59 89.9 104.9 88.5 27.4 22,240 4.10 3,760 98.35 87.2 105.1 73.4 26.6 26,840 4.09 4,707 101.11 90.5 109.2 75.6 28.2 28,220 3.91 3,903 123.81 112.7 134.1 92.1 46.0 35,670 3.90 3,751 127.95 118.1 140.6 95.1 49.6 63,250 3.82 6,582 131.70 113.6 129.2 108.6 52.6 25,240 17,465 1,280 2,355 1,691 62.2 12,955 1,236 2,368 2,481 62.1 13,840 24,875 1,235 2,333 3,550 60.1 10,859 28,250 1,217 2,325 3,909 59.3 40,595 1,230 2,342 3,539 60.6 11,838 22,165 1,146 2,149 3,349 44.0 17,322 18,700 1,089 2,134 3,389 42.8 64,200 1,417 2,321 3,693 84.1 83,310 1,336 2,295 3,746 83.8 31,001 1,397 2,099 3,009 71.5 688,591 130,861 31,953 43,604 13,061 154,170 49,743 265,199 674,237 125,505 31,371 43,965 12,566 153,373 48,004 259,453 665,197 124,681 31,222 40,103 11,234 153,117 49,077 255,763 661,136 122,276 31,933 42,270 11,158 154.657 44,890 253,952 659,764 123,739 32,451 40,822 11,591 152,324 43,564 255,273 648,039 121,678 30,093 42,022 14,645 155,143 26,593 257,865 620,557 109,164 30,884 45,387 13,789 151,000 25,517 244,816 801,539 145.700 37,620 37,267 14,545 172,112 72,415 321,880 783,476 137,868 38,243 40,638 13,979 169,524 72,906 310,318 765,131 139,963 34,344 32,662 16,952 172,182 56,093 312,930 222 223 203 12,384 214 199 135 7,702 212 224 144 8,343 212 231 151 8,773 221 243 114 11,819 292 260 258 13,784 270 241 143 14,899 291 181 390 11,510 276 202 285 11,944 331 265 364 2,586 .Sept. 5 COMMODITY PRICES, WHOLESALE Couper, electrolytic, New Yorkt. Cotton, middling, spot, New York Food index (Bradstreet's)__ Iron and steel, composite... Wheat ,No. 2 hard winter (Kansas City) dol. per lb_. do do... dol. per ton. dol. per bu. FINANCE Banking: Debits, New York City ;.mil. of doU Debits, outside New York City (140 cities) do. Federal Reserve banks: Reserve bank credit, total... do U. S. Government securities __ do. Member bank reserve balances _ do Excess reserves, estimated.. do Federal Reserve reporting member banks: Deposits, demand, adjusted do.. Deposits, time do Investments, total§.__ do U. S. Government direct obligations... do Obligations fully guaranteed by U. S. Government mil. of dol.. Loans, totalj... do Commercial, industrial, and agricultural loansg mil. of dol.. Interest rates, call loanst percent... Interest rates, time loanst do Exchange rates: French franct cents.. Pound sterling! dollarsFailures, commercial numberCurrency in cireulationt mil. of dol— Security markets: Bond sales, (N. Y. 8. E.) thous. of dol. par value.. Bond yields (Moody's) (120 bonds)t percentStock sales (N, Y. S. E.) thous. of shares.. Stock prices (2V. Y. Times)t dol. per share.. Stock prices (standard Statistics) (420) 1926=100Industrials (350)... do. Public utilities (40) do Railroads (30) do PRODUCTION, CONSTRUCTION, AND DISTRIBUTION Production: Automobile^.. number.. Bituminous coaltthous. of short tons— Electric power mil. of kw.-hr.. Petroleumt thous. of bbl.. Steel ingots® pet. of capacity.. Construction-contract awards! thous. of dol Distribution: Freight-car loadings, total cars.. Coal and coke do Forest products do Grains and grain products do . . . Livestock do . . . Merchandise, 1. c. 1 _ "do Ore _ ___ "do I Miscellaneous . do"" Receipts: Cattle and calves thousands.. Hogs do Cotton into sight thous. of bales" Wheat, at primary markets thous. of b u " 63.0 284 12,276 i-NTft T ™ * , . c & R « ! ? f o r w e e k 1 ?, I l d , e d SePt-fl[is 58.6tDaily average. • Data do not cover calendar weeks in all cases. t $N0 longer strictly comparable; for an explanation, see the corresponding data on p. 30 of the April 1939 issue of the Survey. ISource: Ward's Automotive Reports. MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS Monthly statistics through Decemher 1937, to- 1939 gether with explanatory notes and references to the sources of the data may be found in the August 193S Supplement to the Survey COMMODITY PRICES Page 11 Prices received by fanners (U. St Department cf Agriculture): Combined index 1909-14=100Chickens and eggs do Cotton and cottonseed.. ...do Dairy products do Fruits do. Grains do. Meat animals. _ do. Truck crops do. Miscellaneous do. 88 90 71 100 70 64 101 101 100 1938 1939 Decem- January August SeptemOctober November ber ber 92 105 69 102 78 62 115 92 99 95 118 69 104 75 63 117 107 95 124 72 107 70 60 111 107 107 94 131 73 109 71 60 111* 102 95 96 127 70 112 73 63 109 108 108 94 97 71 109 76' 66 112 96 109 F *Jruary 92 91 70 107 78 66 116 108 92 March 91 88 71 100 SI 66 116 114 83 April May 90 85 72 92 85 72 112 110 83 87 70 95 82 67 114 102 June 83 73 94 93 73 107 105 81 July 89 89 73 66 107 101 89 EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONS AND WAGES Page 38 Trades-union members employed: All trades percent of totalBuilding do... Metal _ _ do... Printing do... All other.. do... On full time (all trades) do.... 88 '76 84 90 91 70 84 65 FINANCE Pages 54, 62, 75, 76 Federal Reserve banks, condition, end of month: Assets (resources), total mil. of dol.. 17,823 14,261 14,573 14,861 15,293 15,581 15,639 15,862 16,186 16,766 16,922 17,172 Reserve bank credit outstanding, total 2,579 2,573 2,595 2,598 2,584 2,587 2,607 2,601 2,446 2,586 2,600 mil. of dol.. 2,585 1 1 1 1 1 1 Bills bought .do 5 4 3 4 4 4 5 5 7 8 Bills discounted do 7 2,551 2,564 2,564 2,564 2,564 2,564 2,426 2,571 United States securities do 2,574 2,564 2,563 2,564 Reserves, total d o — 14,661 11,026 11,295 11,639 11,970 12,166 12,382 12,561 12,951 13,476 13,673 13,874 11,798 11,948 12,125 12,653 13,103 13.326 13,624 14.321 Gold certificates do 10,640 10,918 11,272 11,613 15,581 Liabilities, total do.... 17.823 14,261 14,573 14,861 15,293 15,639 15,862 16,186 16,766 16,922 17,172 Deposits, total d o — 12,247 9,672 9,406 9,935 10,088 10,420 10,571 10,919 11,376 11,535 11,701 9,212 Member bank reserve balances, total 9,900 10,029 10,018 .724 9,157 8,936 8,876 9,215 8,713 8,198 mil. of dol.. 10,918 8,179 4,140 4,218 4,098 3,659 3,644 3,387 2,941 3,227 2,869 Excess reserves (estimated) do— 4,758 Federal Reserve notes in circulation 4,511 4,458 4,477 4,353 4,380 4,452 4,339 4,385 4,315 4,253 mil. of dol.. 85.6 85.4 85.1 84.2 84.7 83.9 83.7 83.6 83.2 82.7 82.4 869 Reserve ratio— .percentMonetary statistics: Foreign exchange rates: .312 .312 .312 .312 .312 .311 .311 .314 .311 .318 .325 .320 Argentina dol. per paper peso.. .170 .170 .168 .168 .169 .168 .169 .169 .170 .169 .169 .169 Belgium •_ _ __dol. per belga.. .996 .995 .996 .995 .992 .991 .992 .994 .995 .991 .996 Canada...* dol. per Canadian dol.. .026 .026 .026 .026 .026 .026 .026 .027 .026 .027 .027 France __dol. per franc. .401 .401 .401 .401 .401 .401 .401 .400 .400 .399 .400 .401 Germany dol. per reichsmark., .532 .536 .531 .531 .542 .536 .539 .544 .543 .535 .544 .546 Netherlands dol. per guilder.. .241 .241 .241 .240 .241 .248 .241 .241 .243 .240 .246 .252 Sweden dol. perkrona.. 4.682 4.669 4.681 4.681 4.685 4.804 4.686 4.670 4.708 4.611 4.768 4.881 United Kingdom.. _ dol. per £.. Security markets: Stocks: Dividend declarations (N. Y. Times): Total thous.of dol.. 310,284 240,965 185,428 180,506 509,160 247,569 194,118 303,839 186,095 154,076 377,394 220,175 486,396 229,916 181,480 289,412 182,522 147,635 358,417 200,698 Industrials and miscellaneous,..do 296,168 230,994 182,735 6,440 18,976 19,477 3,573 Railroads. do 2,693 10,605 22,765 17,653 12,638 14,427 14,116 9,970 Prices: Dow-Jones & Co., Inc. (65 stocks) 45.66 44.43 42,68 48.68 48.99 49.13 49.32 50.32 49.64 43.98 46.47 dol. per share46.13 150.12 146.87 144.60 145.06 127.73 132.56 136.52 150.36 151.96 Industrials (30 stocks). do—. 137.88 140.97 137.04 23.66 22.05 23.05 24.84 24.94 22.92 23.30 21.94 23.35 Public utilities (15 stocks) do.... 18.49 25.68 20.01 27.59 25.75 27.02 31.07 30.31 30.62 31.20 30.52 Rails (20 stocks) . d o . . . . 27.67 31.29 25.62 28.49 96. 95 90.46 100.59 94.19 106.81 105.29 105.36 102.73 102.22 New York Times (50 stocks) do 95.68 99.44 99.74 173.12 161.51 178.01 167.73 181.21 181.82 Industrials (25 stocks).... do,... 178.21 177.53 171.70 186.99 186.99 20.79 19.41 20.67 23.18 23.24 23.64 23.74 Railroads (25 stocks) do—. 23.59 23.95 19.68 20.68 21.95 FOODSTUFFS Pages 106,108 Grains and grain products (principal markets): Corn: Receipts ___.thous. ofbu.. Shipments do Oats: Receipts do.... Wheat: Receipts _ do Shipments __ do 17,240 9,942 18, 625 24,669 10,128 7,707 4,199 43,924 22,791 61,080 25,258 38,477 23,291 27,345 23,797 19,110 21,696 July 32,698 16,356 17,419 18,061 July August 12,562 8,656 10,216 5,398 5,658 14,373 8,827 6,221 4,304 5,769 4,461 14,892 18,252 11,900 12,758 0,512 9,251 13,748 11,113 16,000 11,174 20,262 10,969 13,085 8,473 1933 1939 EMPLOYMENT CONDITIONSJAND WAGES Page 39 Labor conditions: Labor turn-over in mfg. establishments: Accession rate-mo, rate per 100 employees. _ Separation rate: Total do. Discharge do. Lay-off do Quit do—. 'Revised, 45,157 18,994 9,880 12,077 17,348 2,486 1 5 2,48S 14,230 13,878 17,348 11,952 10,507 4,553 4,530 86.3 .312 .170 .998 .026 .401 .533 .241 4.6S1 181,033 167,167 13,866 46.82 139.26 24.96 28.29 99.74 178.03 21.45 11,864 12,759 6,303 17,381 17,042 4,540 25,525 16,851 44,016 14,423 99,006 30,840 May Juno 23,333 20,170 6,673 1939 Novem- Decem- January FebruSeptemOctober ary ber ber ber March April 4.39 4.81 5.29 4.51 5.19 4.24 3.22 4.09 3.06 3.34 2.95 3.29 3.92 2.72 .12 1.91 3.81 3.08 .10 2.33 .65 3.56 .12 2.62 3.30 .12 2.40 .78 3.14 .10 2.44 .60 3.88 3.19 .10 2.24 .85 2.61 .10 1.87 .64 3.18 .13 2.23 .82 3.46 .10 2.60 .76 3.48 .13 2.67 .68 3.31 .12 2.46 .73 3.13 .59 .09 3.21 .58 MONTHLY BUSINESS STATISTICS—Continued Monthly statistics through December 1937, together with explanatory notes and references to the sources of the data, may be found in the 1938 Supplement to the Surrey CHEMICALS AND ALLIED PRODUCTS Page 98 Paints, varnish, lacquer, and fillers: Total thous. of dol. Classified, total do._. Industrial do Trade. do..,. Unclassified do ELECTRIC POWER Page 99 Production, totalf mil. of kw.-hr.. By source: Fuel do Water power ^ do By type of producer: Privately and municipally owned public utilities mil. of kw.-hr__ Other producers do July July 29,472 20,769 8,199 12,569 8,703 26,730 18,512 6,603 11,909 8,218 August 28,821 19,747 7,249 12,499 9,074 Se &erm" October 20,114 7,879 12,235 9,655 28,773 20,486 8,481 12,006 8,287 25,280 18,367 8,397 9,970 6,914 ber Decem- January ber " March April May 20,515 15,036 7,417 7,619 5,478 24,229 17,828 8,180 9,648 6,401 24,415 17,395 7,982 9,413 7,021 31,555 23,003 9,626 13,377 8,551 23,830 9,469 14,360 8,836 40,138 28,546 9,611 18,935 11,592 36,8S6 26,197 9,781 16,416 June 10,651 10,246 10,270 10,303 10,882 10,641 9,654 10,567 9,955 10,341 r 10,529 7,175 3,476 6,377 3,520 6,868 3,402 6,760 3,543 6,976 3,906 6,899 3,742 5,828 3,708 6,402 3,845 6,116 4,450 5,562 4,393 6,176 4,165 r 6,743 ' 3,786 9,846 805 8,963 633 9,586 661 9,238 660 9,615 655 9,660 643 10,205 677 9,965 676 9,043 611 9,900 667 9,321 634 655 ••709 16,905 16,630 20.2 17,500 25,752 25,799 31.3 21,102 29,061 29,460 34.8 26,941 32,770 29,970 36.4 28,717 36,643 35,351 43.0 35,563 35,633 38,802 46.0 36,434 38,105 35,372 43.5 36,403 33,234 34,786 42.9 34,698 35,997 39,615 47.5 39,807 29,183 31,640 38.8 33,666 27,702 30,840 37.8 32,657 29,041 30, 781 37.0 32,566 50,377 14,279 51,900 52,251 30,903 57,721 15,414 56,595 68,337 18,016 65,622 65,735 108,427 46,832 77,563 79,561 28,677 70,862 37,170 83,716 80,574 31,819 47,882 20,626 70,232 64,426 37,625 61,003 15,026 64,094 66,603 35,317 50,876 12,604 56,476 53,298 38,495 57,928 10,145 60,421 60,387 38,463 69,772 19,442 53,454 60,475 31,442 68,191 20,638 67,610 f>6,995 32,057 59,277 16,245 r 63,670 31,472 378,675 445,310 766,374 783,592 48.7 47.6 771,283 759,188 35,7^6 60,160 374,454 841,653 52.3 865,572 36,241 351,203 277,719 257,961 709,252 800,292 814,298 44.4 50.1 51.1 710,228 799,404 812,843 29,610 30,498 31,867 208,000 833,378 52.3 822,658 42,587 METALS AND MANUFACTURES Pages 131,132, 134, 136 Pig iron and iron manufactures: Castings, malleable: 29,892 Orders, new short tons. Production. do—35.3 Percent of capacity Shipments short tons.. 26,169 Boilers, range, galvanized; Orders: New number of boilers._ 64,022 19,671 Unfilled, end of month, total do 47,494 Production do. 50,596 Shipments do 28,370 Stocks, end of month do Steel, manufactured products: Barrels and drums, steel, heavy type: Orders, unfilled, end of month...number- 235,772 Production do. 719,055 45.1 Percent of capacity Shipments number... 725,669 33,025 Stocks, end of month do... Boilers, steel, new orders: 772 Area thous. of sq. ft.. 1,033 Quantity number.. Nonferrous metals and products: Babbitt metal (white-base antifriction bearing metals): Consumption and shipments, total 1,613 thous. of lb_. Consumed in own plants do 517 Shipments _do. 1,096 STONE, CLAY, AND GLASS PRODUCTS Pages 150,152 Portland cement: Production __ thous. of bbL. Percent of capacity Shipments __thous. of bbl_. Stocks, finished, end of month do Stocks, clinker, end of month do Glass containers: Production., thous. of gross.. Percent of capacity Shipments _ thous. of gross.. Stocks, end of month.. do.... Plate glass, polished, production thous. of sq. ft_. 1939 1033 1939 361,750 629,448 39.1 622,155 41,287 30,912 248,376 519,375 438,746 421,037 788,040 830,979 749,070 552,189 35.0 47.5 51.7 49.0 799,678 822,746 746,510 556,069 24,603 32,696 34,717 30,586 691 783 1,063 579 1,124 717 1,125 635 947 468 837 1,538 508 1,030 1,474 453 1,021 1,366 509 857 1,596 597 10,559 49.9 11,716 21,374 5,506 11,556 52.9 12,357 9,820 892 1,012 1,131 1,264 817 892 617 660 765 834 877 1,032 1,098 648 958 1,725 644 l,0S0 1,460 359 1,101 1,783 531 1,252 1,380 338 1,042 1,602 425 1,177 1,749 611 1,137 8,066 36.9 6,281 23,954 5,282 5,301 24.3 5,640 23,611 5,563 5,506 27.9 5,043 24,092 8,171 37.4 8,467 23,786 6,447 9,674 45.7 9,654 23,837 6,568 11,185 50.9 12,748 22,251 5,728 11,953 56.5 12,715 r 21,477 r5,788 12,644 57.9 11,755 22,366 5,939 10,968 50.2 10,164 6,089 11,007 50.4 11,823 22,534 5,902 4,927 10,184 48.2 8,573 22,179 4,963 4,581 73.6 4,136 8T586 3,506 61.0 3,847 8,354 4,031 65.0 4,178 8,149 3,653 63.6 3,971 7,641 3,866 64.7 3,954 7,493 3,709 64.6 3,491 7,643 3,515 58.8 3,042 8,02^ 3,539 55.8 3,473 8,179 3,389 55.7 3,323 8,192 4,129 61.4 3,933 8,318 4,0.71 65.4 3,978 4,51.6 69.7 4,485 8,293 4,662 72.0 4,618 8,209 6,212 5,506 7,676 8,873 12,869 12,883 12,691 12,209 10,165 11,867 7,268 8,036 9,289 27,489 7,984 22,746 4,996 23,136 6,025 19,619 6,386 24,619 23,512 7,716 29,688 9,501 25,941 9,784 22,449 8,776 21,110 9,856 19,567 8,159 20,244 5,852 23,772 6,291 1,759 69 155 1,174 58 106 1,499 80 143 1,339 77 164 1,335 86 167 1,529 89 171 1,759 81 177 1,924 79 186 1,942 78 209 75 213 62 198 1,573 69 175 1,791 73 178 73,739 71,306 132 57,438 55,663 119 74,710 69,644 145 66,022 62,851 117 66,840 70,205 120 71,110 85,954 146 73,277 97,019 149 73,4S0 87,770 129 73,130 82,226 137 60,041 77, 747 124 55,704 67,613 95 63,248 79,174 117 72,489 82,819 136 TRANSPORTATION EQUIPMENT Page 160 Automobiles: Production: Canada, total number.. 9,135 Passenger cars do 5,112 United States (factory sales), total..do.... 209,343 Passenger cars.. _ .do 150,738 Com'l cars, trucks, road tractors..do 58,605 9,007 5,273 141,443 106,841 34,602 6,452 3,063 90,494 58,624 31,870 4,290 83,534 65,159 18,375 5,774 17,992 18,614 14,794 17,549 16,891 15,706 14,300 5,412 15,423 14,193 11,404 12,689 12,791 11,585 10.914 342,156 • 342,156 371,940 337,372 297,508 209,512 372,413 187,494 320,344 326,006 281,415 • 213,000 299, 703 273,409 237,870 22,018 52,069 62,340 ' 60, 741 ' 60,217 72,237 63,963 59,638 14,515 10,585 309,720 246, 704 63,016 TEXTILE PRODUCTS P l " Consumption (scoured basis): Apparel class... thous. of Ib.. Carpet class do.... Operations, machinery activity (weekly averages): Looms: Woolen and worsted: Broad.. thous. of active hours.. Narrow.. do. Carpet and rug do Spinning spindles: Woolen. do.. Worsted do.. Worsted combs do.. Wool* 'Revised. §See note marked with a "V* on p. 41 of the July 1939 Survey. IData for July, October, and December 1938 and January and April 1939 are for 5 weeks; other months 4 weeks. U. 5 . GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1939
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