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United States yearbook - 1940 (1)

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Broomcorn:<br />

Page<br />

Acreage, production, and value.......................<br />

Exports...........—................. 532<br />

Brooms:<br />

Exports........................................................... 532<br />

Manufacture, summary................................. 836<br />

Persons employed in Industry------------ 64,66,836<br />

Brushes:<br />

Eoroign trade.................. ........................... 674,613<br />

Manufacture, summary............... 836<br />

Persons employed in industry________ 64,66,836<br />

Buckwheat:<br />

Acreage, production, and value________ 696,700<br />

Consumed in flour mills___ ____________ 137<br />

Exports___________ ------ 626<br />

Farm income from,____ _______________ 069<br />

Farm prices........................................ ......... 700<br />

Flour manufactured..................................... 737<br />

Building and loan associations:<br />

Employees and pay roll..................................... 303<br />

Failures of................................-..................... 271<br />

F. H. A. loans by........................................... 274<br />

Loans to, by Reconstruction Finance Corporation......................<br />

— 286<br />

Number, membership, assets, and loans,. 272,277<br />

Building construction and trades:<br />

Average hourly wage rates paid common<br />

labor............................................................ 339<br />

Average hours and earnings.......................... 338<br />

Industrial and commercial failures..............311,312<br />

Union wage rates.............. 353<br />

Indexes.............. 349-351<br />

Building materials:<br />

Cost of, used in construction............... 904,906,907<br />

Foreign trade___________________ 474,475<br />

Retail trade.......................................... 876-878,881<br />

Wholesale prices—........... — 327<br />

Indexes.............................................. 323,324,907<br />

Wholesale trade.......................................... 872-876<br />

Building operations....................................... 893-907<br />

Buildings. See Building operations and<br />

Residential buildings.<br />

Bulgaria:<br />

Foreign exchange rates................. 291<br />

Immigration and emigration............... 101,102,104<br />

Trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>................... 470,610,611<br />

Bunker coal for vessels in foreign trade.. 544,785,786<br />

Bunker oil for vessels in foreign trade.......... 544,791<br />

Burglary and theft insurance....................... 301<br />

Burlap, imports............................................. 494,591<br />

Import prices.................................................. 336<br />

Burma, trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>_____ 507,510,611<br />

Bus transportation:<br />

Electric railway operations........................ 453-450<br />

Employment, pay rolls, and average weekly<br />

wages........................................................... 348<br />

Public and private carriers........................ 454-456<br />

Trolley-bus lines, summary........................... 453<br />

Business concerns, number.............................310,313<br />

Business failures..............................................310-313<br />

Business-license taxes..............................215,210,222<br />

Busses, motor:<br />

Foreign trado............................................... 663,607<br />

Number operated...................................... 454,450<br />

Production...................................................... 858<br />

Busses, trolley, numbor...................... 453<br />

Butter (see also Dairy products):<br />

Cold-storage holdings.................................. 687,690<br />

Foreign trado............................................... 522,576<br />

Manufacture:<br />

Indexes of employment and pay rolls....... 343<br />

Milk utilized.................................. 688<br />

Production in factories.............. 686,687,691,694<br />

Production on farms................ 686,691<br />

Summary................................. 805<br />

Prices:<br />

Export......... — .......................................... 333<br />

Farm...................-............................ 687<br />

Retail................................................ 332<br />

Wholesale......................................... 325,684,087<br />

Indexes..................... 684<br />

Receipts at leading markets.............. 687<br />

Revenue freight carried by railroads...................... 442<br />

Buttcrfat..............-....................... 686,687<br />

Buttons:<br />

Foreign trado............................................... 573,613<br />

Manufacture, summary................................. 835<br />

Persons employed in industry_______ 64,66,836<br />

INDEX 931<br />

Page<br />

Cabbage, acreage, production, and value------ 720<br />

Retail prices..................................... - .............. 632<br />

Oablo systems.................. “99<br />

Cable transfers, exchange rates.................... - 291,292<br />

Cadmium, production............................... 164<br />

Calcium-magnesium chloride production------ 705<br />

Calculating machines, etc.:<br />

Exports.................... “61<br />

Manufacture:<br />

Indexes of employment and pay rolls------ 344<br />

Production, value...........-................... 852<br />

Summary............. ........................ 831<br />

Call money. Interest rates, New Y o rk ....----- 293<br />

Calves:<br />

Farm Income from........................ 669<br />

Inspected and slaughtered-------------------- 684,094<br />

Number and value of, on farms---------------- 677<br />

Prices:<br />

Farm______ ____________________ 682,683<br />

Wholesale............................................... - 682, 683<br />

Receipts at stockyards....................-.......... 081,082<br />

Revenue freight carried by railroads........................ 441<br />

Oameroons, trade w ith <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>.............. 471<br />

Canada:<br />

Capital Issues................................................... 309<br />

Foreign exchange rates................— ........... 291,292<br />

Immigration and emigration................101,102,105<br />

Shipments through <strong>United</strong> S tates.......................... 014<br />

Trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>---- 471, 607-509, 731, 774<br />

Canal Zone:<br />

Area, dateof accession, and population. 1,2,918,920<br />

Banks................... 200<br />

Educational statistics........-................. 100-112,116<br />

Federal Housing Administration- - ........— 276<br />

Trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>---------------- 470<br />

Canals, freight carried___ ________ — 460-462,466<br />

New York State........................................... 400,482<br />

Panama (see also Panama)------ --------------- 466<br />

Principal........................................ 462<br />

St. Marys Falls...... ..................................... 401,462<br />

Canary Islands, trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>___ 470,<br />

512,513<br />

Candles, exports.............................. 674<br />

Manufacture, summary................................. 820<br />

Candy and candy stores. See Confectionery.<br />

Cane (sugar):<br />

Acreage, production, yield per aero, and<br />

value............................................. 090,098,723-726<br />

Farm income from............................... 009<br />

Cane sugar. See Sugar.<br />

Canes. See Umbrellas and canes.<br />

Canned goods (see also Canning and preserving<br />

industry):<br />

Foreign trade........................... 521, 627, 628,575,583<br />

Prioes:<br />

Of Alaska salmon......................................... 750<br />

Retail............................................................. 332<br />

Indexes....................................................... 331<br />

Wholesale...................................................... 325<br />

Production..................................... 094,738,754-756<br />

Revenue freight carried by railroads............. 443<br />

Wholesale trade............................................... 872<br />

Canning and preserving Industry:<br />

Average hours and earnings........................... 337<br />

Corporation income-tax returns..................... 196<br />

Indexes of employment and pay rolls...................... 343<br />

Persons employed............................. 63,05,805,800<br />

Products............... 694,738,754-756<br />

Summary---- ----------------------- 805, 806<br />

Cantaloups, acreage, production, and value..- 720<br />

Capital issuos................................................ 308-310<br />

Capital stock:<br />

Dividends on................................. 181-184,198-201<br />

Of all corporations................ 202,203<br />

Of railroads__________ 431,432<br />

Taxes on............... 178,179<br />

Car and railroad shops:<br />

Persons employed..................................... 62,63,05<br />

Car loadings, railway........................ 444<br />

Carbon and manufactures, foreign trade___ 647,601<br />

Production, value........................— --------- 853<br />

Carbon black, bone black, etc.:<br />

Exports........................................— _______ 608<br />

Manufacture, summary..................... 820<br />

Production-------- -------- 848<br />

Carbon paper and Inked ribbon, exports------- 672<br />

Manufacture, summary_____ ____________ 835<br />

Cargo tonnage. See Tonnage.

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