TABLE 1.-Strategic and critical materials inventories (all grades), March 1963 (showing by commodity net changes during the month in terms of cost value and quantity, and excesses over maximum objectives in terms of quantity as of the end of the month)—Continued

1 Maximum objectives for strategic and critical materials are determined pursuant to the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98-98b). The present objectives represent quantities of materials estimated to be necessary in the event of a 3-year war in which oversea sources would not be available.

No present objective.

3 Not in excess of maximum objective.

Source: Compiled from reports submitted by the General Services Administration and the Department of Agriculture.

TABLE 2.-Agricultural commodities inventories, March 1963 (showing by commodity net changes during the month in terms of cost value and

1 Transferred from General Services Administration pursuant to Public Law 85-96 and Public Law 87-548. (See appendix, p. 20.)

Source: Compiled from reports submitted by the Department of Agriculture.

Inventory transferred from national stockpile: 1

TABLE 3.-Civil defense supplies and equipment inventories, March 1963 (showing by item net changes during the month in terms of cost value

and quantity)

1 Composite group of many different items.

Source: Compiled from reports submitted by the Department of Defense and the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.