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United States yearbook - 1940 (1)

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Wheat—Continued.<br />

Page<br />

Prices—Continued.<br />

Wholesale................................................. 325,736<br />

Receipts at ports and markets...................... 735<br />

Rovenue freight carried, by railroads..................... 441<br />

By vessels..................................................... 461<br />

Supply, distribution, and disappearance.. 733,734<br />

Volume of future sales___ ______ 304<br />

Wheat flour:<br />

Foreign trade.....................-......... 492,526,681,734<br />

Prices:<br />

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

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

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

Production..............................-............. 737<br />

Whiskey, foreign trade................................... 529,585<br />

White population. See Population, by color<br />

or race.<br />

Wholesale dealers, etc___________ 68,868,870-875<br />

Wholesale prices....................................... 325-327,673<br />

Indexes............................ 322-324,328<br />

Wholesale trade:<br />

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

Commercial failures.................................... 311,312<br />

Corporation income-tax returns................... 197<br />

Employment and pay rolls................ 348,868-S75<br />

Indexes................ 347<br />

Summary..................................................... 868-875<br />

Widowed persons...................... -............. 42-45<br />

Willow ware. See Baskets, etc.<br />

Wind velocity, in selected cities................ 136-148<br />

Windmills, exports............................................ 562<br />

Production................... 851,852,854<br />

Window shades and fixtures, manufacture,<br />

summary.................. . . . ............................. 838<br />

Wines (see also Liquors, etc.):<br />

Imports....................... 586,862<br />

Internal revenue taxes.................................. 179<br />

Manufacture, summary............................... 808<br />

Production and tax-paid withdrawals.................... 862<br />

Wire:<br />

Export prices.................................................. 333<br />

Foreign trade........................... 549,552,553,603,774<br />

Manufacture:<br />

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

Production................................................ 771,772<br />

Summary..................................................... 829<br />

Wholesale trade.............................................. 873<br />

Wire nails:<br />

Exports........................................................ 549,774<br />

Prices:<br />

Export___-............................ -................... 333<br />

Wholesale.................................................... 326<br />

Production................................................... 769,772<br />

Wire rods, iron and steel:<br />

Foreign trade.................................. 547,603,770,774<br />

Production................-........... -................... 769-771<br />

Wholesale prices...........................-................ 775<br />

Wireless telegraph systems. See Radiotelegraph<br />

carriers.<br />

Wood and wood manfuactures (see also Lumber<br />

and Timber):<br />

Foreign trade___ 474,476,493,495,540-542,596, 597<br />

Dutiable imports and duties...................... 519<br />

Manufacture, summary................................816-818<br />

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

Wood distillation, summary............................. 822<br />

Wood preserving, summary............................. 818<br />

Wood pulp (see also Paper and pulp):<br />

Foreign trade........................... 474,475,495,543,598<br />

Manufacture, summary................................. 818<br />

Prices:<br />

Import.................................... 335<br />

Wholesale.................................................... 327<br />

Production................ 749<br />

INDEX 9 6 3<br />

Page<br />

Woodworking machinery, exports.................... 560<br />

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

Wool:<br />

O<br />

Consumption.................... 693<br />

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

Foreign trade....... 474,475,495,537, 593, 673,674, 692<br />

Dutiablo imports and duties...................... 520<br />

Prices:<br />

Farm................ 692<br />

Import..................................................... 335<br />

Wholesale.................................................. 325,692<br />

Production and value........................... 686,092-694<br />

Receipts at Boston.......................................... 692<br />

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

Wholesale trade........................................... 871<br />

Wool manufactures industry:<br />

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

Corporation income-tax returns..... ............... 198<br />

Foreign trade in products.............. 495,537, 593, 594<br />

Dutiable imports and duties...................... 520<br />

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

Products, by classes.................... 843<br />

Summary.................................... 811<br />

Wholesale prices of products_____________ 326<br />

Indexes.............. 324<br />

Wool pulling industry, summary..................... 838<br />

Workmen’s compensation insurance.--........... 301<br />

Work projects, Federal..................... 358,377-381,900<br />

World statistics:<br />

Exchange rates......... -........................ 291,292<br />

Merchant marine.......................................... 465<br />

Vessels launched.......................... 465<br />

Petroleum production........................ 792<br />

Rubber production..................................... 728<br />

Sugar production.................. 720<br />

Wrecks and casualties of vessels..................... 467<br />

Wringers, clothes, and washing machines,<br />

manufacture, summary............................... 833<br />

Production, value................... 862<br />

Tarns:<br />

Artificial silk (rayon), foreign trade.<br />

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

Cotton:<br />

Foreign trade.................................<br />

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

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

Wholesale prices.............................<br />

Jute and linen, foreign trade............<br />

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

Silk, manufacture, summary...........<br />

Wool:<br />

Foreign trade..................................<br />

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

Production................................—<br />

Wholesale prices............................<br />

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

Yeast, baking powder, etc., exports...<br />

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

Yugoslavia, debt to <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>__<br />

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

Immigration and emigration.......... .<br />

Trade with <strong>United</strong> <strong>States</strong>...............<br />

... 538,595<br />

......... 811<br />

. . . 533,590<br />

....... 809<br />

......... 842<br />

......... 326<br />

537,591,592<br />

......... 844<br />

....... 811<br />

.... 537,593<br />

.... 808,811<br />

____ 843<br />

......... 326<br />

......... 873<br />

.... 527,566<br />

......... 820<br />

......... 209<br />

......... 291<br />

101,102,104<br />

470,510, 511<br />

Zinc (see also Lead and zinc mines):<br />

Consumption................................................... 780<br />

Deliveries to domestic consumers.................. 780<br />

Foreign trado........................................ 553,605,780<br />

Manufacture...... ........................................... 770,820<br />

Mino employees............................................. 62,762<br />

Hours of labor___________ 762<br />

Production (mine and smelter)________ _ 765,780<br />

Stocks............... 780<br />

Wholesale prices----- ------- ------------------- 320,757

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