JULY 1934 SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE WASHINGTON VOLUME 14 NUMBER 7 SUMMARY OF CHANGES IN STATISTICAL SERIES SINCE PUBLICATION OF THE 1932 ANNUAL SUPPLEMENT For convenience there is listed below a tabulation of the changes which have been made in the past 2 years. If back data have been presented for the new series, a reference to the monthly issues in which such statistics appeared may be found in the footnotes which are included on pages 22 to 56, inclusive. NEW SERIES ADDED JUNE 1934 JUNE 1933 DECEMBER 1932 Agricultural loans outstanding (six series). Bond prices, domestic, United States Liberty (New Agricultural products, cash income received from York Trust Co.). Auto accessories and parts, composite index of ship- marketings of. Brick, face, production (brick drawn from kilns). ments. Beverages: Building costs, by types of construction (American Fermented malt liquors: Appraisal Co.). Canadian statistics, electric-power production index. Production, consumption, and stocks. Cotton textiles, production, shipments, stocks, etc. Chain-store sales index (Chain Store Age). Distilled spirits: Farm products—price index of dairy and poultry Civil service employment, United States. Production, consumption, and stocks in bonded products (combined index). Convection type radiators, new orders. warehouses. Glass containers, net new orders. Department-store sales, Philadelphia. Cotton cloth (bleached, dyed, and printed), pro- Gold, held under earmark for foreign account. Factory employment, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Mary- duction and stocks. Hours of work per week in factories, nominal or land, and Massachusetts. Factory employment (Bureau of Labor Statistics). full-time week (National Industrial Confer- Factory pay rolls, Baltimore, Milwaukee, Philadel- Factory pay rolls (Bureau of Labor Statistics). ence Board). phia, Maryland, and Massachusetts. Imports for consumption. McLellan 5- and 10-cent stores (sales and stores). Fairchild retail price index. Index of new-passenger-car sales. Rope paper sacks, shipments. Gas oil and distillates, production and stocks. Indexes of variety-store sales (new index). Rubber, scrap, stocks at reclaimers. Gypsum, imports, production and shipments. Milk, receipts, Greater New York. Unemployment, applicants, at employment agencies. Hourly earnings, factory (National Industrial Registrations, commercial truck. Wool-machinery activity, sets of cards. Conference Board). Silk machinery activity (Silk Code Authority). Illuminating glassware, new orders, production, Sugar, refined, imports and receipts from Hawaii DECEMBER 1933 shipments and stocks. and Puerto Rico. Animal glues, production and stocks. Mechanical stokers, new orders. Vacuum cleaners (hand type), shipments. Building cost index of electric light and power con- Net gold imports, including gold released from ear- struction (Richey). $• mark. JULY 1934 Building material costs, frame and brick house. Pyroxylin rods, sheets and tubes, production and Castings, gray iron, orders, production, receipts, and shipments. Hosiery (Hosiery Code Authority). stocks. Plumbers' brass, shipments. Restaurant, total sales and stores (three chains). Explosives, production, shipments and stocks. Plumbing fixtures, wholesale price. Silk spindles (machine activity), Code Administra- Fabricated structural steel, orders and shipments Residual fuel oil, production and stocks. ^ tion Committee for the Throwing Industry. with percent of capacity. Rubber heels and soles, total shipments. Federal-aid highway, work approved for construc- Tin consumption in the manufacture of tin and tion and balance of Federal-aid funds available terneplate. for new construction (new work now paid for by Tin and terneplate production. funds appropriated under N.R.A.). Trade union members employed, by groups. SERIES DROPPED Weekly earnings, factory, Massachusetts. F. W. Grand, stores and sales (merged with H. L. Green Co., Inc.). World prices, foodstuffs and raw materials. DECEMBER 1932 Hoists, electric, orders and shipments. Index, new orders. JUNE 1933 Applicants at employment agencies, Western States. Index, unfilled orders. Binders' board, production. Illuminating glassware, percent of full operation of Airplane travel, passengers carried, passenger miles Construction volume (A.G.C.) orders, production, and shipments. flown. Copper: Isaac Silver & Bros., stores and sales (merged with Bond prices, United States Government (Standard Production, all series. H. L. Green Co., Inc.). Statistics). Shipments, domestic, refined. Paper board, production and shipments. Building costs, all types (American Appraisal Stocks (North and South America), blister and Plumbers' woodwork, orders, shipments, and stocks. Co.). refined. Pyroxylin products, production and shipments of Enameled sanitary ware, baths, lavatories, sinks, sheets, rods, and tubes. Employment, miscellaneous—Federal and State miscellaneous, all series. United States Steel Corporation, unfilled orders. highways, construction and maintenance. Enameled sheet-metal ware, shipments. Yarn, carded sales, all series. Face brick, machine production. Factory operations, proportion full time worked, Factory employment, Chicago. miscellaneous group. JUNE 1934 Factory pay rolls, New York and Chicago, Galvanized sheet-metal ware, all series. Bank suspensions. Farm products, price indexes of dairy and poultry Gas and fuel oil, production and stocks (combined Cotton cloth finishing. products. series). Delinquent accounts, electrical trade. Household furniture, plant operations, all districts. Glass containers, unfilled orders. Factory employment (adjusted and unadjusted) Lard compound, wholesale price, tierces, Chicago. Hides and skins, stocks, all series. Federal Reserve Board. Lard, refined, wholesale price, tierces, Chicago. Illuminating glassware, orders, production, ship- Factory operations, proportion of full time worked. Leather production (Tanners' Council). ments, and stocks. Factory pay-roll indexes (Federal Reserve Board). Nonmanufacturing employment—banks, brokerage Industrial production indexes: Copper (mined), Highway construction under the Federal Highway houses, etc.; dyeing and cleaning; and laundries. 1> metals, nonferrous. Act. Nonmanufacturing pay rolls—banks, brokerage Iron and steel, boilers (round and square) and Indexes of five-and-ten (variety) stores sales (old houses, etc.; dyeing and cleaning; and laundries. radiators, new orders. index). Rope paper sacks, shipments. Leather, sole and belting, production, stocks, all Marketings, forest products. series. Milk, receipts, Greater New York. DECEMBER 1933 Leather, upper, production, stocks, all series. Nonmanufacturing employment, canning and pre- Lumber, walnut, orders, production,, shipments, and serving. Cellulose plastic products, production and ship- stocks. Nonmanufacturing pay rolls, canning and pre- ments of nitrocellulose and cellulose acetate Methanol, stocks: serving. sheets, rods, and tubes. / At crude plants. Paper, stocks, all grades, book paper, writing paper, Construction wage rates (E.N.R.). ^ At refineries and in transit. wrapping paper, and all other grades of paper. Highway construction under the National Indus- Milk, condensed and evaporated, total exports, Restaurant sales and stores operated: trial Recovery Act. production, and stocks. ,„ Childs Co. Home Loan Bank, loans outstanding. Newsprint, production, percent of capacity. J. R. Thompson Co. H. L. Green Co., Inc., stores and sales. Paints, varnish and lacquer products, unclassified Waldorf System, Inc. Paper board, production and shipments. sales, 315 establishments. Rope paper sacks. Pittsburgh employment index. Pine, North Carolina, production arid shipments. Sugar, Cuban, raw, receipts at ports and exports. Pittsburgh pay-roll index. Pine-oil stocks. Silk machinery activity (Silk Association of Purchasing power of the dollar. Plumbing fixtures, wholesale price (six pieces). ^America). Reconstruction Finance Corporation, loans out- Porcelain, nail knobs, tubes, shipments. Wood-pulp stocks. standing. Stock indexes, world copper stocks. JULY 1934 United States Steel Corporation, shipments of Stokers, mechanical, large (see new series), new finished products. orders. Hosiery, Census Bureau series. Volume 14 JULY 1934 Number 7 WEEKLY DATA THROUGH JUNE 23, 1934 MONTHLY DATA THROUGH MAY SURVEY OF CURRENT BUSINESS PUBLISHED B\ UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE BUREAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMERCE WASHINGTON CONTENTS SUMMARIES AND CHARTS STATISTICAL DATA—Continued p Page Business indicators 2 Weekly business statistics 21 Business situation summarized 3 Monthly business statistics: Comparison of principal data, 1930-34 4 Business indexes 22 Commodity prices 5 Commodity prices 23 Domestic trade 6 Construction and real estate 24 Employment 7 Domestic trade 25 Finance 8 Employment conditions and wages 27 Foreign trade 9 Finance 30 Real estate and construction 10 Foreign trade 34 Transportation 11 Transportation and communications 35 Survey of individual industries: Statistics on individual industries: Automobiles and rubber 12 Chemicals and allied products 36 Forest products 13 Electric power and gas 39 Iron and steel 14 Foodstuffs and tobacco 39 Textiles 15 Fuels and byproducts 43 Leather and products 44 STATISTICAL DATA Lumber and manufactures 45 New series: Metal and manufactures: Factory employment indexes, adjusted for seasonal variations Iron and steel 46 (Federal Reserve Board) 16, 19 Machinery and apparatus 48 Combined