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Of more value were the Department of Labor's employment figures for July. Index was 78.6, 2.4 below June. Some 359,000 workers lost their jobs during the month and weekly payrolls slumped off $10,460,000. The decline was more than seasonal.
Last week no depressing seasonal valleys, no troublesome style changes marred the corset curve. Warner Brothers' Chairman DeVer Howard, 65, son of the elder of the two founders, stayed in Bridgeport busily manufacturing. But proudly walking around the Warner Bros, showroom was the son of the other founder, shrewd...
Furniture is one of the first things people stop buying when Depression comes, one of the last they begin to buy again when it goes. Even before Depression, a 50% increase in the number of apartment dwellers reduced the demand for furniture in millions of families to little more than...
A good old anatomical word in England, "bum" in U. S. parlance means a down-&-outer. But not every social outcast answers willingly to the name. Many a hobo is no bum but a journeyman worker, traveling cheaply from one seasonal occupation to another. Some "jungle" inhabitants are college graduates...
The Federal Reserve Board, the Department of Commerce, trade associations and a few private agencies provide the raw figures which Economics Statistics burnishes in the light of such factors as reliability, seasonal variations, money, politics. In an industry like steel, for which no inventory figures are available, the wobbles of...