Survey of Current Business May 1924

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United States Government: Debt, receipts, and expenditures. 205 Postal receipts 176 United States Steel Corporation: Earnings and unfilled orders 72 Stockholders— 204 Vegetable oils: Exports and imports 131 Production, consumption, and stocks 132 Vegetables, car-lot shipments 137 Vessels, cleared and entered, lost or abandoned. 158 Wages, labor 172 Waldorf system, restaurant sales 184 War Finance Corporation, loans 202 Ward, Montgomery & Co., sales 182 Water transportation 1G0 Webbing, elastic, sales G5 239 IN D E X—Continued [See note at head of Index, p. 235] Wheat: Exports 140 Exports from Canada _ 210 Exports and visible supply, Argentina 130 Production (crop estimate) 13G Receipts, shipments, and visible supply.. 133 Wholesale price 134 World production 229 Wheat flour: Production, consumption, and stocks 138 Wholesale price 134 Wholesale sales 1S5, 18G, 187 Wisconsin, employment and earnings 169 Wood consumption, and stocks, chemical plants -_ 127 Wood-pulp imports—_ 103 o Wool: Consumption, imports, receipts, and stocks r>9 Machinery, active 60, 07 Price, wholesale 68 Woolens, exports, United Kingdom 220 Woohvorth, I;\ W., Co., Fiiles 1S2 Workers, registered and placed 174 World production: Cotton and wheat. 229 FJaxsccd, rice, and sugar „. 2'2S Worsted yarn, wholesale price OS Yields, bonds 198 Zinc: Price, production, receipts, shipment, and stocks 82 Production in Belgium 224 Stocks in United Kingdom 221
PUBLICATIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMEECE Recent publications of the Department of Commerce having the most direct interest to readers of the SURVEY OF CUBSBNY T8INE88 are listed below. A complete list may be obtained by addressing the Division of Publications, Department of Commerce, Washington. Copies of the publications may be purchased from the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Bee, Washington, at the prices stated. If no price is mentioned, the publication is distributed free. OFFICE OF THE SECKETAEY Milk and Cream Bottles and Bottle Caps: Simplified actlce.—This constitutes recommendation No. 10 of the imination of Waste Series and contains the standards recommded in respect to sizes of milk and cream bottles and bottle ps. Price, 5 cents. Minimum Live Load Requirements for Use in Design Buildings.—This is a report of the Department of Comjrce Building Code Committee. The subject is discussed der three general headings: Description of organization and ocedure of Building Code Committee; recommended limita- *ns for safe loads as the basis of design; appendix containing ta and reasoning upon which recommendations are based. Standard State Zoning Enabling Act, by the Advisory >mmittee on Zoning.—The purpose of the act is to provide a indard to guide municipalities in the adoption of zoning adulations without injustice and without violating property £hts. Price, » cents. BUKEAU OF THE CEN$US Children in Gainful Occupations, 1920, 27C pages; price, cents. State compendium^, 1920.---Connecticut, 108 pages; price, cents; Colorado y 145 pages; price, 25 cents. JEEAU OF FOREIGN AND DOMESTIC COMMENCE Commerce Reports.—A weekly survey of foreign trade, ible summaries of world conditions and articles on situation various commodities in foreign countries. Quarto, 72 pages. ice, 10 cents per copy; $3 per year ($5 for foreign). Monthly Summary of Foreign Commerce of the llted States.—Parts 1 and 2. Gives total values by imtries and by customs districts, movements of gold and vet in foreign trade, merchandise remaining in warehouse, d trade with noncontiguous territories of the United States. ice, 10 cents, including both parts; $1 per year. Index to Commerce Keports, Nos. 40-53, Vol. 4, Octor-November, 10*43.—Price, 5 cents a copy; subscription ice, 20 cents a year- Trade and Economic Review for 1923: Panama. iment to Commerce Reports, No. 52; 8 octavo pages. Rumania: An Economic Handbook, prepared in the .stern European and Levantine Division of the Bureau. Spe- 1 Agents Series, No. 222; 167 pages. The study discusses imania's geographical conditions, political history and goviment, financial development, transportation, agricultural d mineral wealth, industrial conditions, trade, and trade praces. Price, 65 cents. Sisal, by Louis Crosette, special agent. Trade Information illetin No. 200; 7 pages. The survey of production, prices, d marketing of sisal in this bulletin has been prepared as rt of the raw material investigation authorized by Congress. International Trade in Cement, by Reigart M. Santmyers, >n and Steel Division. Part I (Trade Information Bulletin ). 205, 36 pages), which is devoted to North and South Amer- ,, contains a report on United States production and trade, E. F. Burchard, of the United States Geological Survey, rt II (Trade Information Bulletin No. 213, 38 pages) takes the countries of Europe in the same manner as that indiied for tho countries dealt with in Part I. British Financial Conditions in 1923, by Charles E. on, trade commissioner, London. Trade Information Bulin No. 206; 21 pages. The first part of this review pertains financial conditions in Great Britain during 1923, with icial reference to the money market, and the second part %]& with the sale of American securities to British investors. Packing for Foreign Markets, by J. F. Keeley, assistant ief, Transportation Division. Trade Information Bulletin K 208; 29 pages. This bulletin contains some of the main ints to be considered in packing and marking export packages d is introductory to a comprehensive handbook which the ansportation Division now has in preparation. International Competition In the Production of Wheat j • Export, prepared under the direction of Frank M. Surface. I ade Information Bulletin No. 210; 25 pages. This bulletin, « 3 third of a series dealing with world irade in agricultural ' products, outlines the more significant changes that have taken place in the world wheat movements since the war. Related bulletins are No. 177 (Distribution of Agricultural Exports from the United States); No. 183 (Buying Wheat for Export); No. 185 (Selling American Wheat Abroad). mi Plans for Machinery Exports, by W. H. Rastall, chief, Industrial Machinery Division. Trade Information Bulletin No. 212; 28 pages. The aim of the report is to furnish the American exporter of industrial machinery with information regarding conditions in foreign countries. BUREAU OF FISHERIES Limnological Observations in the Upper Mississippi, 1921, by P. S. Galtsoff. Document No. 958; 82 pages. This paper deals with the result of the hydrobioiogical investigation of the section of the-Upper Mississippi between Hastings, Minu., and Alexandria, Mo. Price, 25 cents. BUREAU OF STANDARDS Equalizer Apparatus for Transverse Tests of Bricks, by H. L. Whittemore, mechanical engineer. Technologic Paper No. 251; 7 pages. A new apparatus for transverse tests of buiiding bricks is described, and the results are given for com* parative tests with clay, cement, and sand-lime bricks. Six pages of illustrations. Price, 10 cents. Summary ©i* Technical Methods for. the Utilization of Molasses, collated from patent literature. Circular No. 145; 72 pages. The report sets forth the necessity for the recovery of valuable subsinnces in beet molasses, sums up the efforts that have been made to this end in this country and in foreign countries. Price, 15 cents. United States Government Specifications.—The following specifications adopted by the Federal Specifications Board for use of the Government in the purchase of materials can be obtained at 5 cents each: White Floating Soap; Circular No. 123, Standard Specification No. 31. Hand Grit Soap; Circular No, 132, Standard Specification No. 3.5. Coal-Tar Saturated Hag Felt for Roofing and Waterproofing; Circular No. 156, Standard Specification No. 81. Asp]i ah-Saturated Rag Felt for Roofing and. Waterproofing; Circular No. 161, Standard Specification No. 86. Titanium Pigment, Dry and Paste; Circular No. 163, Standard Specification No. 115. BUREAU OF NAVIGATION Radio Service Bulletin, March 1, 1923, No. 83.—This monthly publication contains a, list of new stations, changes in preceding lists, information concerning radio regulations, current publications, and other matters. Price, 5 cents a copy; annual subscription price, 25 cents. NOTE.—All orders for radio publications listed by the Bureau of Navigation, and inquiries concerning these publications should be addressed to the Superintendent of Documents, Government Printing Office, Yv r ashington, D. C. Do not make remittances to the Bureau of Navigation or to radio inspectors. UNITED STATES COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY United States Coast Pilot, Atlantic Coast, Section E, Gulf of Mexico from Key West to the Rio Grande. Price, 75 cents. Current Tables: Atlantic Coast of North America, 1925. Price, 15 cents. Some Elementary Examples of Least Squares, by Oscar S. Adams, mathematician. Serial No. 250; 17 pages. LIGHTHOUSE SERVICE Light Lists.—Atlantic Coast of the United States (corrected to December 15, 1023); Pacific Coast of the United States (corrected to January 1, 1924); Upper Mississippi River and Tributaries (corrected to January 15, 1924). The first two can be obtained at 30 cents each, and the latter at 20 cent.'?.
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BUSINESS INDICATORS The following t
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5 WHOLESALE PRICE COMPARISONS—MAX
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BUSINESS SUMMARY (Index numbers bas
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increased in March over both the pr
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elow tlie figures for the same peri
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FUEL AND POWER Bituminous-coal prod
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LEATHER GLOVES AND MITTENS COT (IN
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Production of face brick increased
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Paper production and sfocTcs, month
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WHOLESALE PRICES—continued Portla
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EXPLANATION All index numbers are r
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