Domestic Commerce, Volume 23U.S. Government Printing Office, 1939 - Commerce |
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... comparable period of 1937 , the demand for new cars during the last quarter advanced automobile sales decidedly for the final months of the year . The pronounced gain over the last quarter of 1937 , however , was due in part to the ...
... comparable period of 1937 , the demand for new cars during the last quarter advanced automobile sales decidedly for the final months of the year . The pronounced gain over the last quarter of 1937 , however , was due in part to the ...
Page 11
... compared with $ 45 billion on the earlier date . In the same period the percentage of de- posits insured increased from 43. to 45 . Of the 61 million accounts in the insured commercial banks on September 21 of this year , 98.4 percent ...
... compared with $ 45 billion on the earlier date . In the same period the percentage of de- posits insured increased from 43. to 45 . Of the 61 million accounts in the insured commercial banks on September 21 of this year , 98.4 percent ...
Page 12
... compared with 1936 was the result of a substantial increase in private work , while public expenditures for construction projects declined . Al- though the increase for the year 1938 was the fifth consecutive yearly gain , total expendi ...
... compared with 1936 was the result of a substantial increase in private work , while public expenditures for construction projects declined . Al- though the increase for the year 1938 was the fifth consecutive yearly gain , total expendi ...
Page 16
... compared with November of the previous year and with the first ten months of 1938. Other durable goods likewise recorded improvement , lumber and building materials and furniture and household appliances going forward in good volume ...
... compared with November of the previous year and with the first ten months of 1938. Other durable goods likewise recorded improvement , lumber and building materials and furniture and household appliances going forward in good volume ...
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... compared with Bovember of the previous 798 and with the first ten months of 1938. Other durable goods likewise recorded improvement , Busey and Building materials and furniture and musehold appliances going forward in good volume ...
... compared with Bovember of the previous 798 and with the first ten months of 1938. Other durable goods likewise recorded improvement , Busey and Building materials and furniture and musehold appliances going forward in good volume ...
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76th Congress ACCESSIONS IN DOMESTIC Administration advertising Agricultural Adjustment Act Agricultural Economics amend American annual areas Assn automobile Available Bureau of Agricultural Bureau of Foreign cars Census cents Chain Stores Chamber of Commerce Chicago City Comm on Agriculture Commission Committee commodities companies consumer cooperative Copies cost dealers decline Department of Commerce distribution dollars DOMESTIC COMMERCE FIELD Drug East North Central Electric estimates families farm Federal Federal Power Commission Federal Trade Commission figures Finance Foreign and Domestic Government Printing Office Grocery important income increase INDEPENDENT STORES industry interest issued January kinds of business Labor laws Marketing Research Division merchandise million National Ohio operating percent Percentage population Price problems Progress Administration published purchasing RECENT ACCESSIONS ref to Comm RETAIL SALES South South Carolina Statistics tion United volume Washington wholesale York
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Page 154 - An act to promote the mining of coal, phosphate, oil, oil shale, gas, and sodium on the public domain...
Page 109 - AN ACT To protect trade-mark owners, producers, distributors and the general public against injurious and uneconomic practices in the distribution of competitive commodities bearing a distinguishing trade-mark, brand or name, through the use of voluntary contracts establishing minimum resale prices and providing for refusal to sell unless such minimum resale prices are observed.
Page 85 - The interfering and unneighborly regulations of some States, contrary to the true spirit of the Union, have in different instances, given just cause of umbrage and complaint to others ; and it is to be feared, that examples of this nature, if not restrained by a national control, would be multiplied and extended, till they became not less serious sources of animosity and discord, than injurious impediments to the intercourse between the different parts of the Confederacy.
Page 154 - An Act authorizing associations of producers of aquatic products" approved June 25, 1934 (15 USC 522); review of orders of petroleum control boards under section 5 of the Act entitled "An Act to regulate interstate and foreign commerce in petroleum and its products by prohibiting the shipment in such commerce of petroleum and its products produced in violation of State law, and for other purposes...
Page 261 - An Act to provide for the termination of Federal control of railroads and systems of transportation ; to provide for the settlement of disputes between carriers and their employees ; to further amend an Act entitled 'An Act to regulate commerce...
Page 273 - This act provides a scheme of cooperation between the Federal Government and the States for the promotion of vocational education in the fields of agriculture, trade, home economics, and industry.
Page 300 - An Act to provide conditions for the purchase of supplies and the making of contracts by the United States, and for other purposes", approved June 30, 1936 (49 Stat.
Page 244 - Strategic materials are those essential to national defense, for the supply of which in war dependence must be placed in whole, or in substantial part, on sources outside the continental limits of the United States; and for which strict conservation and distribution control measures will be necessary.
Page 201 - The practical effect of a system thus conditioned is readily perceived. One of its effects must be that retail sellers in Washington will be helped to compete upon terms of equality with retail dealers in other states who are exempt from a sales tax or any corresponding burden. Another effect, or at least another tendency, must be to avoid the likelihood of...
Page 359 - An Act making appropriations for the Legislative Branch of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1933, and for other purposes", approved June 30, 1932, as amended (USC, 1940 edition, title 5, sec.