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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
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CENSUS OF AMERICAN BUSINESS: 1933
A CIVIL WORKS ADMINISTRATION PROJECT
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION
YOLUME I
SUMMARY FOR THE UNITED STATES
DETAILED STATISTICS FOR THE UNITED STATES
BRIEF SUMMARIES BY STATES, CITIES, AND COUNTIES
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U. S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Daniel C. Roper. Secretary
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BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
William L. Austin, Director
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This is one of a series of volumes presenting the findings of the 1933 Census of
American Business. The statistics were collected in 1934 by a field canvass of wholesale
establishments in every State, city, and county in the United States, with funds provided
by the Federal Civil Works Administration. They cover the operations of wholesale estab-
lishments during the year 1933.
The volumes were prepared under the supervision of Fred A. Gosnell, Chief Statistician
for the Census of American Business, by Theodore N. Beckman, in Charge of Wholesale Distri-
bution, assisted by John Albright, Administrative Assistant.
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
PLAN OF PRESENTATION
Volume I. — Contains detailed statistics for the United States, together
with brief summaries by States, cities, and counties. It
also contains a description of the wholesale census, expla-
nations of terms, classifications and tables, and an analy-
sis of wholesale trade for 1933 as compared with 1929.
Volume II. — New England States (Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachu-
setts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut).
Volume III. — Middle Atlantic States (New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylva-
nia] .
Volume IV. — Southeastern States (Delaware, Maryland, District of Colum-
bia, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina. South Caro-
lina, Georgia, Florida, K^rntucky, Tennessee. Alabama, and
Mississippi) .
Volume V. — East North Central States (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan,
and Wisconsin) .
Volume VI. — West Central States (Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North Dakota,
South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Arkansas, Louisiana, Okla-
homa, and Texas) .
Volume VII. — Mountain and Pacific States (Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colo-
rado, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah, Nevada, Washington, Oregon,
and California) .
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CONTENTS
CHAPTER I. — THE FIELD OF WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION
Page
The Distributive Process 1
The First Census of Distribution 2
The Census of American Business 2
Comparability of the two censuses 2
Wholesaling as a part of the
distributive process 3
Scope of Wholesale Distribution 4
Wholesaling in its broader aspects 4
Wholesaling in its narrov/er aspects 4
Page
Scope of Wholesale Distribution (cent.)
Census concept of wholesaling 5
Statistical Technic Used in the
Wholesale Census 5
The canvass 6
Editing the schedules 6
The problem of coding 6
Mechanical tabulation 7
Preparation of tables 7
CHAPTER II. --CLASSIFICATIONS AND DEFINITIONS IN THE WHOLESALE CENSUS
Page
laportance of Classifications and
Definitions 8
Classification by Kind of Business 8
Factors in classifying wholesale
establishments by kind of business. 8
Kind of business classifications:
1933-1929, listed and defined 10
Classification by Type of Establish-
ment 25
Bases for classifying wholesale
establishments by type 25
Number of types used in the census 25
Wholesale establishments classified,
by type of operation: 1933-1929 26
Definitions of Types cf Wholesale
Establishments 27
Wholesalers proper 27
Wholesale merchants 28
Exporters 28
Importers 28
Limited function wholesalers 28
Cash-and-carry wholesalers ,29
Drop shippers or desk
jobbers 29
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Limited function wholesalers (cent.)
Mail-order or catalogue
wholesalers 29
7/agon distributors or wagon
jobbers 29
Warehouses (distributing)., ,30
Bulk tank stations 30
Chain store warehouses 30
Manufacturers' sales branches 30
Assemblers and country buyers 31
Assemblers of farm products 31
Cooperative marketing
associations ; 31
Cream stations 31
Elevators 31
Agents and brokers 32
Brokers 32
Commission merchants 32
Export agents ; 33
Import agents 33
Manufacturers ' agents 33
Selling agents :....33
Other agents 34
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CHAPTER III.— GENERAL EXPLANATIONS
Page Page
Explanation of Tables (cont.)
Table 2B, Wholesale trade, by type
of establishment and kind of
business 39
Table 3, Receipts from sales of
merchandise and services, by kind
of business 39
Table 4, Credit sales, by type of
establishment and kind of business .40
Table 5, Distribution of sales, by
kind of business and type of
establishment 40
Table 6, Monthly employment, by
kind of business 41
Table 7, Wholesale merchants and
manufacturers' sales branches, by
size of establishment and kind of
business 41
Table 8, Summary of wholesale
establishments which began
operations 1929-1933 42
Table 9, Wholesale trade of the
United States, by States and
counties 42
Explanation of Terms 35
Establishments 35
Proprietors and firm members 35
Employees 35
Full-time employees 35
Part-time employees 35
Employment by sex 35
Monthly employment 35
Pay roll 36
Total expenses 36
Net sales 36
Stocks on hand 37
Credit sales 37
Sales to retailers 37
Sales to consumers (at retail) 37
Sales to industrial consumers 37
Sales to wholesale organizations 37
New wholesale establishments 38
Explanation of Tables 38
Table 1, Summary of wholesale trade,
by type of establishment 38
Table 2A, Number of wholesale estab-
lishments, by type of establishment
and kind of business 39
CHAPTER IV. —GENERAL ANALYSIS OF WHOLESALE TRADE STATISTICS
Page
General Summary of Wholesale Trade 43
Wholesale Distribution in Relation to
the Wholesaling Task 44
Wholesale Trade in Relation to
Retail Sales 45
Distribution of Wholesale Trade by
Geographic Areas 47
Wholesale trade by geographic divisions 47
Wholesale trade by States 47
Wholesale trade by counties 50
Wholesale trade by cities 50
Composition of Wholesale Trade 51
Wholesale trade, by type of
establishment 51
Wholesale trade by kind of business 56
Types of establishments, by kind
of business 59
Special Characteristics of Wholesale Trade 60
Sources of revenue for wholesale
establishments 60
Credit business of wholesale
establishments 62
Distribution of sales by outlets 63
Sales to retailers 66
Sales to home consumers 66
Sales to industrial users 66
Page
Special Characteristics of Wholesale
Trade (cont. ) .
Duplication of wholesale sales 67
Employment in wholesale trade 68
Inventories of wholesale estab-
lishments 69
Distribution of net salos by
size of establishmeirTT^— -T^.r-. 69
Operating Expense ; in Wholesale
Trade 71
Operating expenses in relation
to the type of establishment 71
Operating expenses in relation
to kind of business 71
Operating expenses in relation
to stocks on hand 72
Operating expenses in relation
to credit business 72
Operating expenses in relation
to type of customers 73
Size of the business unit and its
effect upon operating expenses 73
Pay roll as a part of operating
expenses 75
Changes in operating expenses
since 1929 77
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CHARTS
Page
CHART I. — Comparison of Net Sales, 1929 and 1933, by States 49
CHART II. — Wholesale Trade, by Type of Establishment 55
CHART III. — Comparison of Net Sales, 1929 and 1933, by Kind of
Business-United States 57
CHART IV. — Summary of Wholesale Sales by Type of Outlet 64
CHART V. — Wholesale Sales by Outlet and Type of Establishment 65
CHART VI. — Establishments and Sales of Wholesale Merchants by Net
Sales Size Groups, 1933 and 1929 70
MAP
Wholesale Trade in the United States by Counties with Sales of
$50,000,000 and Over, 1933 iii
SUMMARY TABLES
• I. — General Changes in Wholesaling 44
II. — Value of Principal Items Entering Wholesale Distribution:
1933 and 1929 45
III. — Wholesale Trade for the United States, by Geographic Divisions
and States, 1933 and 1929 48
IV. — Wholesale Trade of Establishments Located in Specified County
Groups Based on Volume of Business 50
V. — Wholesale Trade of Cities Having, in 1930, 100,000 Population
or More, 1929 and 1933 52
VI. — Wholesalers Proper Engaged in the Hardware Trade for the
United States, by Type of Establishment 1933 and 1929 61
VII. — Percent of Wholesale Sales for Reporting Establishments, by
Type of Outlet: 1933 66
VIII. — Operating Expenses and Average Sales Per Establishment
for Wholesale Merchants Reporting Credit Sales 74
IX. — Operating Expenses, by Kind of Business in Relation to
Size of Establishment 76
X. — Pay Roll as a Percent of Total Expenses, by Kinds of Business: 1933 77
DETAILED TABLES FOR THE UNITED STATES
TABLE 1. — United States Summary of Wholesale Trade by Type of Establishment. A-1
TABLE 2A. — Summary of Wholesale Trade for the United States: 1933, All
Types of Establishments by Kind of Business A-2
TABLE 2B. — Summary of Wholesale Trade for the United States: 1933, by
Type of Establishment and Kind of Business A-5
TABLE 3. — United States Receipts from Sales of Merchandise and Services,
by Kind of Business A-26
TABLE 4. — United States Credit Sales by Type of Establishment and
Kind of Business A-27
TABLE 5. — United States Distribution of Sales by Kind of Business and
Type of Establishment A-36
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CHAPTER III.— GENERAL EXPLANATIONS
Page
Explanation of Terms 25
Establishaents 35
Proprietors and firm members 35
Employees 35
Full-time employees 35
Part-time employees 35
Employment by sex 35
Monthly employment 35
Pay roll 36
Total expenses 36
Net sales 36
Stocks on hand 37
Credit sales 37
Sales to retailers 37
Sales to consumers (at retail) 37
Sales to industrial consumers 37
Sales to wholesale organizations 37
New wholesale establishments 38
Explanation of Tables , 38
Table 1, Summary of wholesale trade,
by typfc of establishment 38
Table 2A, Number of wholesale estab-
lishments, by type of establishment
and kind of business 39
CHAPTER IV. —GENERAL ANALYSIS OF WHOLESALE TRADE STATISTICS
Page Page
General Summary of Wholesale Trade 43 Special Characteristics of Wholesale
Page
Explanation of Tables (cont.)
Table 2B, Wholesale trade, by type
of establishment and kind of
business 39
Table 3, Receipts from sales of
merchandise and services, by kind
of business 39
Table 4, Credit sales, by type of
establishment and kind of business .40
Table 5, Distribution of sales, by
kind of business and type of
establishment 40
Table 6, Monthly employment, by
kind of business 41
Table 7, Wholesale merchants and
manufacturers' sales branches, by
size of establishment and kind of
business 41
Table 8, Summary of A'holesale
establishments which began
operations 1929-1933 42
Table 9, Wholesale trade of the
United States, by States and
counties 42
Wholesale Distribution in Relation to
the Wholesaling Task 44
Wholesale Trade in Relation to
Retail Sales 45
Distribution of Wholesale Trade by
Geographic Areas 47
Wholesale trade by geographic divisions 47
Wholesale trade by States 47
Wholesale trade by counties 50
Wholesale trade by cities 50
Composition of Wholesale Trade 51
Wholesale trade, by type of
establishment 51
Wholesale trade by l:ind of business 56
Types of establishments, by kind
of business 59
Special Characteristics of Wholesale Trade 60
Sources of revenue for wholesale
establishments 60
Credit business of wholesale
establishments 62
Distribution of sales by outlets 63
Sales to retailers 66
Sales to home consumers 66
Sales to industrial users 66
Trade (cont. ) .
Duplication of wholesale sales 67
Employment in wholesale trade 68
Inventories of wholesale estab-
lishmentj 69
Distribution of net sal3s by
size of establishmeirr~~~:rr^ 69
Operating Expense . in Wholesale
Trade 71
Operating expenses in relation
to the type of establishment 71
Operating expenses in relation
to kind of business 71
Operating expenses in relation
to stocks on hand 72
Operating expenses in relation
to credit business 72
Operating expenses in relation
to type of customers 73
Size of the business unit and its
effect upon operating expenses 73
Pay roll as a part of operating
expenses 75
Changes in operating expenses
since 1929 77
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CONTENTS
CHARTS
Page
CHART I. — Comparison of Net Sales, 1929 and 1933, by States 49
CHART II. — Wholesale Trade, by Type of Establishment 55
CHART III. — Comparison of Net Sales, 1929 and 1933, by Kind of
Business-United States .-
CHART IV. — Summary of Wholesale Sales by Type of Outlet '.;...: 64
CHART V. — Wholesale Sales by Outlet and Type of Establishment 65
CHART VI. — Establishments and Sales of Wholesale Merchants by Net
Sales Size Groups, 1933 and 1929 70
MAP
Wholesale Trade in the United States by Counties vvith Sales of
$50,000,000 and Over, 1933 iii
SUMMARY TABLES
• I. — General Changes in Wholesaling 44
II. — Value of Principal Items Entering Wholesale Distribution:
1933 and 1929 45
III. — Wholesale Trade for the United States, by Geographic Divisions
and States, 1933 and 1929 48
IV. — Wholesale Trade of Establishments Located in Specified County
Groups Based on Volume of Business 50
V. — Wholesale Trade of Cities Having, in 1930, 100,000 Population
or More, 1929 and 1933 52
VI. — Wholesalers Proper Engaged in the Hardware Trade for the
United States, by Type of Establishment 1933 and 1929 61
VII. — Percent of T/holesale Sales for Reporting Establishments, by
Type of Outlet: 1933 66
VIII. — Operating Expenses and Average Sales Per Establishment
for Wholesale Merchants Reporting Credit Sales 74
IX. — Operating Expenses, by Kind of Business in Relation to
Size of Establishment 76
X. — Pay Roll as a Percent of Total Expenses, by Kinds of Business: 1933 77
DETAILED TABLES FOR THE UNITED STATES
TABLE 1. — United States Summary of Wholesale Trade by Type of Establishment. A-1
TABLE 2A. — Summary of Wholesale Trade for the United States: 1933, All
Types of Establishments by Kind of Business A-2
TABLE 2B. — Summary of Wholesale Trade for the United States: 1933, by
Type of Establishment and Kind of Business A-5
TABLE 3. — United States Receipts from Sales of Merchandise and Services,
by Kind of Business A-26
TABLE 4. — United States Credit Sales by Type of Establishment and
Kind of Business A-27
TABLE 5. — United States Distribution of Sales by Kind of Business and
Type of Establishment A-36
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DETAILED TABLES FOR THE UNITED STATES (continued)
Page
TABLE 5A. — Sales Made by Retailers to Other Retailers by States and
Kind of Business A-45
TABLE 6. — United States Monthly Employment by Kind of Business A-46
TABLE 7. — Wholesale Merchants and Manufacturers' Sales Branches, by Size
of Establishments and Kind of Business for the United States A-47
TABLE 8. — Summary of Wholesale Establishments Which Began Operations 1929-1933 A-57
TABLE 9. — Wholesale Trade of the United States by States and Counties A-58
APPENDIX
FORM 2. — Census of American Business
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CHAPTER I
THE FIELD OF WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION
In this volume and in Volumes II to VII, inclusive, are presented basic statistics on
wholesale trade for the year 1933. The data were collected in 1934 in connection with the
wholesale census, which was taken as a part of the Census of American Business. This vol-
ume contains a series of uniform tables by functional types of operation and by kind-of-
business classifications for the United States. In it are also included brief summaries
for each of the States, principal cities, and counties. Tables similar to those for the
United States are contained in Volumes II to VII inclusive, for States, arranged by geo-
graphic divisions. Some of the material included in these volumes was first published in
semi-final form in a series of State bulletins, one for each State, supplemented by a Sum-
mary bulletin for the United States. To a more limited extent such data were also previous-
ly published in a series of city bulletins, one for each city having in 1930 a population
of 50,000 or more inhabitants.
The volumes on Wholesale Distribution were prepared under the supervision of Fred A.
Gosnell, Chief Statistician for the Census of American Business, by Theodore N. Beckman, in
Charge of Wholesale Distribution, assisted by John Albright, Administrative Assistant.
THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROCESS
In the volume of Wholesale Distribution for 1929 published by the Bureau of the Cen-
sus!/, the importance of merchandise distribution in our economic system was explained
in some detail. Even before the depression, which began in 1929, a change in national em-
phasis from production to distribution was readily discernible. The field of distribution,
as a segment of our economic system, whether measured by the number of people engaged or
employed therein, the volume of business involved, the number of enterprises, or the value
added to goods reckoned by gross margins, is becoming increasingly important. For two de-
cades it has been generally recognized by students of business that attention must be turn-
ed somewhat from production technic to the problems involved in the distribution of goods.
It has been asserted that many commodities reach the ultimate consumer at a cost sev-
eral times the selling price of such articles at points of original production. Whether
the distributive process involves the performance of unnecessary functions, results in duplica-
tion of services, or is otherwise inefficiently operated, is difficult to say in the ab-
sence of reliable, factual data relating to the structure, methods, policies, procedures,
and costs of distribution. It is recognized, however, that the distributive process must
be improved and that its outmoded methods must be supplanted in order that it may keep
pace with the constant development in production technic and efficiency. This process must
be Pltered and remolded if a satisfactory solution is to be secured to the multifarious
problems arising out of a separation, both in time and space, of ultimate consumer from
prime producer. The need for improvements in this field was further accentuated by the
economic conditions prevailing since 1929,
1/ Fifteenth Census of the United States: 1930, Distribution, Volume II, p. 3.
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THE FIRST CENSUS OF DISTRIBUTION. — To fill part of the gap in our knowledge of the
distributive process, the first Census of Distribution was taken by the Bureau of the Cen-
sus in 1930, covering the operations of wholesale establishments and retail stores during
1929. This was done in conformity with the act providing for the Fifteenth Decennial Cen-
sus, approved June 18, 1929, by Congress. As a result of this endeavor much valuable in-
formation was secured concerning the scope of activity of merchandising establishments, the
employment they afforded, their volume of trade, costs of doing business and many other
pertinent facts. This census served to clear the air of many misconceptions by supplying
the first quantitative description of the marketing structure and its functioning; also by
measuring the extent of the task and the approximate manner in which that task was being
performed. The facts issued were generally hailed as a substantial contribution to know-
ledge of the distribution mechanism. The principal flaw in the usefulness of these results
was the inability to make comparisons with other periods and to ascertain trends; also it
is now known that 1929 was not a representative year.
THE CENSUS OF AMERICAN BUSINESS. — As a remedy to some of the deficiencies mentioned in
the preceding paragraph, the second census of merchandising places of business for the year
1933 was taken in 1934, with funds supplied by the Civil Works Administration. In taking
the new census, known as the Census of American Business, approximately 15,000 white-collar
workers were furnished temporary employment as enumerators, canvassing about 2,200,000
places of business. Complete information was gathered from each of the establishments and
assembled for every city, county, and State of continental United States. The schedules
showed the number of persons employed in the business during the year, by months, by sex,
and on a full-time and part-time basis; salaries and wages paid to the employees; total op-
erating expenses incurred; net sales or operating receipts; value of stocks on hand; amount
of business done on credit, etc.
COMPARABILITY OF THE TWO CENSUSES. — Since the Census of American Business was similar
in most respects to the 1929 Census of Distribution, a comparison of the two censuses — one
during a year of prosperity and the other in a year of depression — depicts the shifts and
adjustments in business between the two years. To facilitate comparisons in the wholesale
figures every effort has been made to have classifications for 1933, both by type of estab-
lishment and kind of business, similar to those presented for 1929. The two censuses, how-
ever, are not exactly alike due largely to differences in canvass, coverage, and classifi-
cation. The differences in canvass, as in Pennsylvania, were due largely to cond-
itions over which the Bureau had no control. As to differences in coverage, establish.nents
with annual sales of less than $1,000 or less than $500 in the case of assemblers and coun-
try buyers) are not included in the 1933 figures but were included in 1929. On the other
hand, cream stations are included in the figures for 1933 but were not included in any large
extent in 1929. These latter differences would materially affect the number of establishments
although they can have little influence on the volume of business.
Differences in classification were due to the abbreviated schedule used in 1933 and to
the methods used in classifying wholesale establishments. The 1929 schedules made provi-
sion for comprehensive commodity information which was not called for on the form used in
1933. Some shifts in classification may have resulted from the fact that the establish-
ments were classified in 1933 primarily on the basis of the information contained in the
report submitted for that year; in most cases no account was taken of the classification of
the establishment in 1929. A certain latitude, therefore, must be allowed for variations
between the kind-of-business classifications which may have been caused by lack of uniform-
ity in phraseology used by enumerators throughout the country.
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WHOLESALING AS A PART OF THE DISTRIBUTIVE PROCESS.— In the movement of goods from orig-
inal production into industrial or ultimate consumption, a number of marketing functions
must be performed. In the course of time certain channels have been carved out for the
flow of goods to their destination. A most imposing array of business establishments,
whose function it is to bridge the gap between producer and consumer, operate in the whole-
sale field. The two principal functions of these establishments, particularly in the case
of wholesalers proper, are to act as purchasing agents for retailers and other customers on
the one hand, and to operate as distributors of the goods of manufacturers and processors
on the other. To discharge these major functions properly, it behooves wholesale estab-
lishments as a group to perform, among others, the following principal operations:
1. To concentrate farm products, which are generally produced on a small scale, in
quantities large enough for economical handling and shipment.
2. To assemble for retailers and for industrial consumers, a large variety of mer-
chandise from numerous domestic and foreign sources of supply, in order to facilitate buy-
ing under one roof on the part of their customers.
3. To store goods until needed by the trade. Because of the seasonal nature of pro-
duction in agriculture on the one hand, and the seasonal character of demand for many manu-
factured goods on the other, it is essential that reservoirs be provided at strategic
points throughout the Nation to carry the physical inventories which these essential re-
serves represent. The wholesaler has performed this function traditionally and still con-
tinues to do so, although frequently assisted, in modern times, by public warehouses, manu-
facturers' warehouses, chain-store warehouses, and places provided by other types of inte-
grated trading institutions, such as department stores and mail-order houses. Whoever per-
forms this task, the necessity for providing storage for surplus reserves of merchandise in
relatively close proximity to consuming centers, is an inescapable wholesale function.
4. To provide facilities for sorting, grading, and otherwise preparing goods for the
market, in compliance with requirements of the trade.
5. To study the needs of the trade, quantitatively and qualitatively, in order to
make proper goods available in suitable lots for prompt delivery.
6. To establish business connections with retailers, industrial consumers, and other
wholesale organizations to which the goods are passed on in their movement to final desti-
nation. This function involves advertising, personal solicitation, or communication by
mail, telephone, or telegraph.
7. To furnish financial assistance to sources of supply and to provide credit accom-
modations to customers.
8. To study market conditions and to gather and interpret all data affecting the
movement of merchandise and the prices of the various commodities involved.
9. To render adviee and assistance to customers in order to facilitate the flow of
goods to final destination. This often necessitates the use of much dealer help with the
aim of elevating retail merchandising to a higher plane of efficiency.
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SCOPE OF WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION
The terms "wholesaling", "wholesale trade", or "wholesale distribution" have been wide-
ly used for many years in discussions of marketing or of general business conditions, yet '^
much confusion is current as to their meaning and no clear-cut conceptions may be found on If
the subject. At the present time the term "wholesaling", for example, is used in at least j'o
three different senses.
WHOLESALING IN ITS BROADER ASPECTS. — Broadly conceived, the term "wholesaling" includes
all activities relating to the purchase or sale of goods at wholesale or in a wholesale ■■'
manner, excluding only those transactions which involve sales to ultimate or home consum- '^
ers. It matters not whether the goods are sold by original producers, by processors, by '^
wholesalers, or by any of the functional middlemen engaged in wholesale trade such as com- '5
mission men, brokers, and selling agents; nor does it matter whether the goods are sold to '^
a retailer, to an industrial consumer, or to a wholesale organization, so long as the pur- 'W
pose of the customer in buying such goods is to resell them in one form or another, or to lv>
use them in the conduct of his business.
Were an attempt made to measure the total volume of wholesale trade in its broadest, -
and theoretically most sound aspect, it would be necessary to include within the province '^
of wholesaling:
1. Sales made by manufacturers, directly or through their sales branches, to whole-
salers and other types of wholesale middlemen.
2. Sales to retailers of all kinds
3. Sales to institutions, restaurants, and hotels,
4. Sales to industrial consumers, including manufacturers, mine operators, oil well
conrpanies, fisheries, railroads, public utilities, farmers, and Government bodies, on the
assumption that the goods are purchased for business purposes and not for family consump- ' ''
tion. In this category are included sales of equipment and supplies to service and pro- '^
fessional establishments, as exemplified by sales made to barbers, beauty parlors, den- ''^
tists, and doctors, so long as such items are not purchased by ultimate consumers for their '-^
own use; also sales of building materials tc contractors.
5. All activities of wholesale iriddlemen who aid in the transfer of title to goods
which are bought for business purposes. In this group of middlemen are included agents
and brokers of all kinds.
6. All purchases of farm products for resale to others than individual consumers,
irrespective of whether such purchases are made direct from farmers or from middlemen.
WHOLESALING IN ITS NARROWER ASPECTS .-- Common usage on the part of laymen narrows the
term "wholesaling" to the activities of wholesalers who sell to retailers.- In tnis narrow
sense only wholesalers who take title to the goods and who sell the same to bona fide re-
tailers for resale to consumers are included. Usually the term is narrowed to cover the
activities of service wholesalers, thereby excluding the business of certain types of
wholesalers who take title to the goods, but who render a limited number of services as in
in the case of drop shippers and cash-and-carry wholesalers. Under all circumstances. It
excludes the business operations of functional middlemen as exemplified by agents and bro-
kers as well as these of chain store warehouses, manufacturers' sales branches, and other
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types.
CENSUS CONCEPT OF WHOLESALING. — Between these two general concepts various shades of
meaning have been injected into the term "wholesaling", depending upon the special interest
of the parties involved. For census purposes the term "wholesaling" or "wholesale distri-
bution" is confined to the operations of wholesale establishments, i.e., places of business
operating on a wholesale basis or in a wholesale manner. It does not include wholesale
sales made by manufacturers, except through branches especially maintained for that pur-
pose; nor does the term include wholesale sales made by farmers or by operators of mines,
quarries, or oil wells. Obviously, it was impossible to make the term all-incl\'sive, that
is, to use it in the broadest aspect, since the census was taken on an establishment basis.
Had the scope of the wholesale census been broadened to include such sales, it would have
been necessary to secure a separate distribution report from every producing establishment
and from every farmer and nurseryman, in addition to the report which they submit on pro-
duction activities to the Census of Manufactures, Census of Mines and Quarries, and Census
of Agriculture, respectively. It has been equally impracticable to confine the term to
service wholesalers or to any other limited type of wholesalers, inasmuch as a clear-cut
functional division as between different types of wholesale organizations is practically
impossible. Much of the wholesale business, even in the sense in which service wholesal-
ers operate, is being done by bulk tank stations, by manufacturers' sales branches and by
other types of wholesale establishments.
What The Wholesale Census Includes. — Thus, the wholesale census embraces all estab-
lishments in continental United States v/hich were engaged in 1933 primarily in the pur-
chase, sale, or distribution of goods on a wholesale basis. In addition to wholesalers of
the conventional type, the census covers limited-function wholesalers, such as drop ship-
pers and wagon distributors, and the whole range of organizations engaged in wholesale trade
and which perform wholesale functions, including brokers, commission merchants, chain store
warehouses, manufacturers' sales branches, selling agents, bulk tank stations, assemblers
and country buyers of farm products, etc. In fine, the wholesale field covers practically
all merchandising concerns whose primary function is to buy or sell goods at wholesale.
What The Wholesale Census Does Not Include. — From this census are excluded all data
on wholesale peddlers and others who maintain no definite places of business, since the e-
numeration was based on establishments consisting of physical business units. Likewise,
data are excluded on establishments engaged purely in the performance of services not
immediately related to the purchase or sale of farm, mineral, forest, fishing, or manufac-
tured products, as exemplified by advertising agencies, cotton gins, brokers in real es-
tate and securities, and those middlemen operating on the commodity exchanges whose deal-
ings were largely in futures. For emphasis it may also be reiterated that the census does
not include wholesale sales made by manufacturers directly from their plants or such sales
made by agricultural producers. Only when separate wholesale places of business were main-
tained by such producers or processors were they included in the canvass.
STATISTICAL TECHNIC USED IN THE WHOLESALE CENSUS
In the process of gathering, handling and compiling the enormous mass of data of the
wholesale census an elaborate technic had to be developed. It is believed that some under-
standing of the statistical technic involved will make possible a bettor use of the pub-
lished data. While in general the usual census technic was followed, important differences
may be noted because of the fact that this was only the second complete wholesale census
ever taken.
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THE CANVASS. — In securing reports for the wholesale census the aim was to itaka a com-
plete enumeration. A report had to be obtained for every type of wholesale establishment,
regardless of its size, method of operation, or nature of organization. For the purpose of
the canvass a wholesale establishment was defined as a place of business, the primary func-
tion of which is to buy, sell or distribute goods on a wholesale basis. It may be in the
form of a store, wholesale warehouse, a sales or brokerage office, or part of an office, as
when the office is shared with other similar organizations.
The United States was divided into a number of districts, each in charge of a super-
visor. The more technical phases of the canvass were in turn supervised by chief special
agents of the Bureau of the Census. These special agents were trained in Washington for
some time, the course of training consisting of lectures, discussions and actual schedule
preparation. The information was actually collected by individuals, taken fiom Civil
Works Administration rolls, in the various communities, who were paid largely on a piece-
rate basis for the duration of the census period. As already noted, the canvass was on the
basis of establishments rather than companies or firms, in order to facilitate the enumera-
tion and to make it possible to present data by geographic areas. Maintenance of merchan-
dise stocks was not a criterion in determining whether a place of business existed; other-
wise the census would have excluded many agents and brokers as well as manufacturers' sales
branches.
EDITING THE SCHEDULES. — In collecting the data for 1933, a uniform schedule was used
in reporting trading and service establishments, hotels, and places of amusement {see copy
of schedule at end of this Volume). Upon receipt of the schedules in Washington they were
sorted into wholesale, retail, and service and transmitted to the corresponding sections.
Definite and detailed written instructions were prepared for the editing staff. Such in-
structions were later supplemented in the light of additional experience. Every schedule
was edited, checked and verified. The editing process required that the entire schedule be
carefully examined by a single clerk for errors of statement, omissions, and inconsisten-
cies. Many errors were corrected in the process, while others required correspondence with
those furnishing the information. Schedules were checked against various trade directory
lists, telephone directories, and membership lists in order to insure complete returns. In
many cases they were also checked against schedules submitted in connection with the pre-
vious census.
THE PROBLEM OF CODING. — Due to the fact that electrical tabulating machinery was used
in compiling the statistics it was necessary to code all schedules so that the information
could be transferred to punch cards. This process required translation of data other than
actual figures into numbers in accordance with a predetermined code. Coding of wholesale
schedules was particularly complicated since it required at least two kinds of classifica-
tions, one by functional type of operation and the other by kind of business. The number
of strata or planes of wholesaling on the one hand and the high degree of specialization in
merchandise on the other added to the difficulty. The number of functional types was fin-
ally reduced to 19 and that of kinds of business to 166, for the 1933 census, as compared
with 43 and 343, respectively, used in the 1929 census. A further complication lay in the
fact that provision had to be made for presenting the statistics by geographic divisions.
A well-established census rule makes it impossible to reveal data for any one establish-
ment. Consequently provision had to be made for combining closely related types or lines
of trade, as the case may be, in order to avoid disclosure of individual operations. Thus,
every schedule had to be classified in two or more ways and then coded accordingly. The
coded schedules were checked by more expert coders and reviewed by section chiefs in order
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to insure accuracy.
MECHANICAL TABULATION. — In order to make possible the use of the mechanical devices
referred to above, the information contained in the wholesale schedules was transferred to
specially prepared machine cards. Five 45-column cards were required to each schedule.
These cards were machine punched by a separate section specializing in that work. The
punched cards were transferred to another centralized station of the Bureau, where they
were sorted and tabulated in accordance with instructions prepared for the purpose. The
information was taken from the electrical tabulating machines on large "result slips" which
showed the various area, kind-of-business, or type--of-establishment codes and the figures
contained in the schedules. After careful inspection, the result slips were forwarded to
the section responsible for the preparation of the tables.
PREPARATION OF TABLES. — The result slips served as the -basis for the data which appear
in the volumes on wholesale trade. Subject to carefully prepared instructions, the pre-
liminary draft of the tabular material was compiled, for the most part, by inexperienced
clerks. Due to the complicated nature of wholesaling and to the high degree of accuracy
required when presenting a limited amount of information for certain areas and within cer-
tain classifications, the preliminary tabulations were subject to expert inspection. By
this method it was possible not only to eliminate statistical inaccuracies and mechanical
errors, but also to detect and correct weaknesses in the field canvass and to prevent dis-
closures.
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CHAPTER II
CLASSIFICATIONS AND DEFINITIONS IN THE
WHOLESALE CENSUS
IMPORTANCE OF CLASSIFICATIONS AND DEFINITIONS. — For a clear understanding and study of
wholesale distribution, it has been necessary to classify the information, geographically,
by areas such as States, counties, and incorporated cities and towns as fixed by the laws
establishing their boundaries. It has also been necessary properly to identify each re-
porting establishment according to its functional type and according to the line of mer-
chandise handled. Only in this manner is it possible to present a statistical picture of
the wholesaling mechanism of the Nation and its various subdivisions, showing the facili-
ties existing in 1933, as compared with 1929, in each portion of the country for the whole-
sale distribution of goods of different kinds. In this wise it is also possible to present
data bearing on the relative efficiency of the different phases of the wholesaling system.
In defining and classifying establishments the first problem was to distinguish be-
tween wholesale and retail business. What was finally included in the wholesale census has
been indicated in Chapter I of this volume. In effecting a division between wholesale and
retail trade, many complexities presented themselves. In a number of instances wholesaling
and retailing functions are so interwoven and intertwined as to make the process of sep-
aration an almost insurmountable task. This situation is further complicated by the con-
cerns operating in what may be termed the "twilight zone", as in the case of lumber yards
which are conventionally designated as retail lumber yards but which in principle are
wholesale establishments, inasmuch as they sell most of their goods to contractors for in-
dustrial use. Furthermore, many business concerns do not fall clearly in either the retail
or wholesale category, since they operate in both ways. It is impracticable, however, to
classify any single establishment in more than one place. Consequently, concerns engaged
in both retailing and wholesaling have been classed as retail or wholesale in accordance
with the bulk of their business. If over 50% of their dollar volume was secured through
wholesale sales, establishments have been counted as wholesale, and vice versa. Provision
has been made, however, to compile retail sales of v;holesale establishments and wholesale
sales of retail establishments, in order that complete figures may be available on total
volume of wholesale business and total volume of retail business.
CLASSIFICATION BY KIND OF BUSINESS
Obviously, wholesale establishments handle different lines of merchandise. To be of
real value to a business enterprise, the statistics of a wholesale establishment should be
compared with those of other wholesale establishments operating in the same line of trade
and in the sane area in which the concern wishing to nake comparisons is located. More-
over, the characteristics in regard to employment, pay roll, total expenses, etc., nec-
essarily vary as between different lines of trade or kinds of business. For these and
other reasons each wholesale establishment has been classified, b^ kind of business, on the
basis of the principal line or lines of merchandise in which it dealt. But the kind-of-
business classifications, while on a commodity basis, must not be confused with commodities
themselves, since most establishments handle more than a single commodity or group of com-
modities.
FACTORS IN CLASSIFYING WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS BY KIND OF BUSINESS .--Inquiry 2 of the
schedule used in collecting information from wholesale establishments required, first, that
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th© name or designation of the kind of business be given, based on the major kind of mer-
chandise in which the reporting establishment dealt, and second, that the principal lines
of merchandise sold or handled be listed in the order of their importance as determined by-
volume of business during 1933. The information contained in the schedule in answer to this
inquiry was the basis for classifying wholesale establishments by kind of business. In
classifying a wholesale establishment, first, by kind of business ana, second, by kind-of-
business groups three distinct factors or bases were considered:
(1) The way in which the goods reported on the schedule are normally distributed, name-
ly, the channels of distribution generally used in the wholesaling of such
products;
(2) The source of supply of the commodity or commodities under consideration;
(3) The use of the commodity or goods by those who purchased the same from the report-
ing firm.
According to the first factor an establishment might be classified under dry goods,
hardware, drugs, or electrical goods, if the goods involved are normally sold through one
of those channels. On the basis of source of supply, an establishment might be classified
under such kind-of-business groups as farm products, metals, or petroleum and its products.
When utilization was the main feature, an establishment would be classified under such
kinas of business as heating, clothing, farm supplies, groceries, etc. In a great many in-
stances two or all of the three bases were used in classifying a wholesale place of busin-
ess, with the emphasis usually being placed on channels of distribution.
For the 1933 Census all wholesale places of business have been divided into 166 de-
tailed kind-of-business classifications. These, in turn, were combined and telescoped into
25 major kind-of-business groups. This compares with 343 detailed classifications used in
the 1929 census which in turn v/ere combined into 86 major classifications which were fur-
ther combined into 24 kind-of-business groups. An attempt has been made to retain com-
parability insofar as possible between the kind-of-business classifications of the two
wholesale censuses. However, since both funds and time were limited in connection with the
1933 enumeration, fewer classifications had to be developed. The following arrangement
presents the kind-of-business classifications used for 1933 and comparable classifications
for 1929.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS . . ; .
(Based on principal lines of merchandise)
1955 equivalent 1929
I. Amusement and sporting goods: Amusement and sporting goods:
1. Cameras and motion-picture Cameras and photographic
equipment and supplies. supplies.
Moving-picture apparatus.
Talking-picture apparatus.
Moving-picture films.
Moving-picture films.
3. Sporting goods (general line) .
4. Toys, novelties, and fireworks.
5. All other.
Sporting goods (general line) .
Toys, novelties, and fireworks
Amusement and sporting goods
(general line) .
Amusement, equipment, and
supplies.
Bicycles and supplies.
Billiards, bowling equipment
and supplies.
Other amusement and sporting
goods.
II. Automotive products:
1. Automobiles and other
motor vehicles.
Automotive:
Automobiles and other motor
vehicles —
Automobiles and othef motor
vehicles (general line).
Automobiles (new and. used) .
Autrmobiles (used).
Trucks and tractors.
2. Automotive equipment,
accessories and parts.
Automotive equipment — , .;,.■.,
Automobile equipment. ■' ," _ -^i-'r
Automotive equipment (general
line) .
Automotive equipment (spe-
cialty lines) .
Automobile parts (new and used) —
Automctile parts (new) (such
as pistons, pumps, gears,
shafts, axles, springs, etc.).
Automobile parte (used).
3. Tires and tubes.
III. Chemicals:
Tires and tubes.
Chemicals, drugs, and allied products
(in part) :
1. Dyestuffs.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1955
III. Chemicals (continued):
2. Explosives.
3. Industrial chemicals.
equivalent
Explosives.
Chemicals, industrial.
4. Naval stores.
Naval stores.
5. Paints and varnishes.
Paints, varnishes, lacquers, and
enamels.
6. All other
IV. Clothing and furnishings:
1. Clothing and furnishings
(general line) .
Dyes, dry-cleaning supplies,
and allied products.
Insecticides.
Other chemicals (including
grain alcohol, refined chemi-
cals, and coal-tar products).
Dry goods and apparel (in part):
Clothing (general line).
Clothing and furnishings.
2. Clothing, men's and boys'
3.. Clothing, women's and
children's.
4. Furnishings (general line).
5. Furnishings, men's and boys'
6. Furnishings, women's and
children's.
7. Hosiery.
8. Millinery and millinery
supplies.
9. Shoes and other footwear.
Clothing, men's and boys'.
Clothing (secondhand) (in part).
Clothing, women's and children's
Clothing (secondhand) (in part).
Furs, dressed, and fur clothing
(in part) .
Furnishings (general line)
(such as shirts, ties, lingerie
hosiery, hats, caps, etc.).
Furnishings, men's and boys'.
Gloves (in part) .
Hats and caps.
Furnishings, women's and
children' s.
Furs, dressed, and fur clothing
(in part) .
Gloves (in part) .
Hosiery.
Millinery and millinery supplies .
Shoes and other footwear.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1933
V. Coal.
VI. Drugs and drug sundries:
1. Drugs (general line).
2. Drugs (specialty lines)
3. Patent medicines.
equivalent 1929
Coal:
Coal (general line).
Coal, anthracite.
Coal, bituminous.
Coal and coke.
Fuel (including briquets. peat,
charcoal, and natural gas).
Chemicals, drugs, and allied products
(in part) :
Drugs and drug sundries (general
line) .
Drugs.
Patent medicines.
4. Toilet articles and
preparations .
Toilet articles and preparations-
Toilet articles.
Toilet preparations.
All other.
Drug sundries.
Rubber goods (druggists').
Sanitary supplies, insecticidss,
etc.
VII. Dry goods:
1. Dry goods (general line)
2. Knit goods.
3. Notions.
Dry goods and apparel (in part):
Dry goods (general line).
Knit goods.
Notions (in part) —
Buttons.
Laces and embroideries.
Notions (general line).
Tailors' trimmings and sup-
plies.
4. Piece j;oods.
Piece goods —
Cctton goods.-
Linens.
Piece goods (general line).
Rayons.
Silks and velvets.
Woolens and worsteds.
5. All other.
jOther dry goods (such as b]an-
kets and other specialty
lines not provided for) .
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1933
VIII. Electrical goods:
1. Electrical appliances,
equipment and supplies.
2. Radios and radio equipment.
3. Refrigerators.
IX. Farm products-raw materials:
1. Cotton.
equivalent 1929
Electrical:
Electrical goods {including
appliances) —
Electrical merchandise (general
line) .
Electrical appliances (such as
washing machines, toasters,
stoves, percolators, and irons
and ironers) .
Electi loal equipment and supplies —
Batteries.
Electrical equipment and
supplies (general line).
Motors and generators.
Radios and radio equipment.
Refrigerators (electric).
Farm products (not elsewhere specified)
(in part) :
Cotton —
Cotton.
Cotton linters.
Cotton and cottonseed.
2. Grain.
3. Hides, skins, and furs (raw)
Gr?in —
Corn.
Oats.
Rice.
Wheat.
Grain (general line).
Other grain (such as rye and
barley) .
Hides, skins, and furs (in part) —
Furs (raw) .
Hides and skins.
4. Horses and mules.
Horses and mules —
Horses and mules.
Mules.
5. Livestock.
Livestock (except horses and mules)
Calves.
Cattle.
Hogs.
Livestock (general line).
Sheep and lambs.
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1933
KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
equivalent
1929
IX. Farm products-raw materials
(continued) :
6. Silk (raw) .
7. Tobacco (leaf) .
8. Wool and mohair.
9. All other.
X. Farm products-consumer goods:
1. Dairy products (general line)
2. Butter.
3. Cheese.
4. Milk and cream.
5. All other dairy products.
6. Poultry and poultry products.
7. Dairy and poultry products.
8. Fruits and vegetables (fresh)
Silk (raw) .
Tobacco (leaf).
Wool and mohair.
Other farm products —
Bristles and hair.
Cotton seed.
Cotton, cottonseed, and fertilizer
Farm products (not elsewhere
classified) .
Feathers.
Food products (not elsewhere specified)
(in part) :
Dairy products (general line).
Butter.
Butter and cheese (in part) .
Cheese.
Butter and cheese (in part).
Milk and cream.
Ice cream.
Poultry and poultry products —
Eggs.
Poultry.
Poultry and poultry products
(general line) .
Dairy and poultry products.
Fruits and vegetables (fresh) —
Fruits.
Fruits and vegetables (general
line) .
Produce (including vegetables,
fruits, dairy products, fish
poultry, eggs, etc., with fruits
and vegetables predominating) .
Vegetables.
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KIK'D OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1933 equivalent
Farm products-consumer goods
(continued) ;
9. All other
(includes establishments deal-
ing in a combination of items
listed above, none of which
predominated, as well as spe-
cialty houses dealing in such
items as honey, peanuts, etc.).
1929
(No equivalent because in 1929
commodity information made possible
exact cxassifioation on the basis of
the major commodities).
XI. Farm supplies:
1. Feed.
Farm supplies (except machinery and
equipment) :
Feed —
Feed (exclusively, mixed and
other) .
Feed and fertilizer.
Hay, grain, and feed.
2. Fertilizer.
3. Seeds.
Fertilizer and fertilizer materials.
Seeds.
All other.
Farm supplies (general line);
Straw.
XII. Furniture and house furnishings:
1. China, glassware, and
crockery.
Furniture and house furnishings:
China, glassv/are, and crockery.
2. Floor coverings.
3. Furniture.
Floor coverings.
Furniture —
Antique goods.
Furniture (general line).
Furniture (household) .
Furniture (office) .
Furniture (secondhand).
Other furniture (specialty lines)
4. House furnishings.
House furnishings (in part) —
Art goods.
Brooms and brushes.
Curtains and draperies.
House furnishings (general line)
'.Household supplies.
Lamps and lamp shades.
Pictures and picture frames.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1935 equivalent
XII. Furniture and house furnishings
(continued) :
5. Musical instruments and
sheet music.
1929
Musical instruments and sheet music
Musical instruments, accessories,
and parts.
Pianos.
Phonographs and phonograph
supplies.
Sheet music.
XIII. General merchandise:
•^General irerchandise (establishments
handling in substantial proportions
three or more distinct and unrelated
lines of merchandise).
XIV. Groceries and foods (except
farm products) :
1. Groceries (general line)
Food products (not elsewhere specified)
(in part) :
Groceries (general line) .
2. Confectionery and soft drinks.
Confectionery and soft drinks —
Confectionery and soft drinks
(general line) .
Confectionery.
Soft drinks.
3. Fish and sea foods.
Fish and sea foods —
Fish and sea fcods (fresh and
cured) .
Fish and sea foods (fresh).
Fish and sea foods (cured).
4. Meats and meat products.
Meats and meat products —
Lard.
Meats (cured) .
Meats ( fresh) .
Meats and meet products (general
line) .
Meats and provisions (including
poultry, eggs, dairy products.
lard, etc . ) .
Other food ?nd
specialties.
grocery
Food and grocery specialties —
Bakery products.
Beans, dried.
Biscuits and crackers.
Canned fruits and vegetables.
Canned goods (general line).
Canned sea food.
Cereals.
Coffee.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1955 equivalent 1929
XIV. Groceries and foods (except
farm products) (continued) :
5. other food and grocery Food and grocery specialties
specialties (continued) . (continued) —
Coffee, tea, and spices.
Delicatessen products.
Extracts and spices.
Flour.
Flour and feed.
Fruits and vegetables (dried)
Lard substitutes.
Soaps and soap powders.
Sugar.
Other food and grocery
specialties (such as salad
dressings, pickles, jams
and jellies) .
XV. Hardware:
1. Hardware (general line)
Hardware:
Hardware (general line).
2. Hardware (specialty lines).
Hardware (specialty) —
Builders' hardware.
Heavy hardware.
Shelf hardware.
Tools and cutlery.
Other hardware (specialty
lines such as door hardware,
ornamental fencing, sign
plates, and marine hardware) .
XVI. Jewelry and optical goods:
1. Jewelry (general line)
Jewelry and optical goods:
Jewelry (general line).
Clocks and watches.
Clocks and watches.
5. Diamonds and other precious
stones.
Diamonds and other precious
stones .
4. Other jewelry specialties.
5. Optical goods.
Silverware .
Other jewelry (such as semi-
precious stones, mountings,
ornaments, and novelty
jewelry) .
Optical goods.
XVII. Lumber and building materials (other
than metal ) :
1. Lumber and millwork.
Lumber and building materials (othe:
then metal ) :
Lumber and millwork —
Lumber.
Lumber and millwork.
Millwork.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1953 equivalent 1929
XVII. Lumber and building materials (other
than metal) (continued) :
2. Asbestos products. Asbestos products.
3. Brick and tile.
Brick and tile.
4. Cement.
5. Glass.
Cement.
Glass.
6. All other.
Building stone.
Granite and marble.
Lime, plaster, etc.
Roofi g materials (non-metallic;.
Sand, gravel, and crushed stone.
Other building materials (such
as insulating and v.'allboard
materials, cork slabs, and art
stone.
XVIII. Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical):
1. Commercial machinery, equip-
ment and supplies —
Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical):
Commercial equipment and supplies
a. Office equipment and sup-
plies (except furniture) .
Office equipment and supplies
(other than furniture).
b. Store equipment and supplies.
Store equipment and supplies
(general line) .
c. All other.
Automatic vending machinery.
Butchers' equipment and supplies.
Filling station equipment and
supplies.
Florists' supplies.
Hotel and restaurant equip-
ment and supplies.
Soda fountain equipment and
supplies.
Other commercial equipment and
supplies.
Construction machinery, equip-
ment and supplies —
Construction equipment and supplies —
Construction machinery
Construction machinery (such as
concrete mixers, sanding and
polishing machines, excavating
shovels, and graders) .
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1935 equivalent
XVIII. Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical) (continued):
2. Construction machinery, equipment
and supplies (continued) —
1929
Road machinery and -equip-
ment.
Road machinery and equip-
ment.
c. All other.
Builders' supplies.
Construction equipment (such
as derricks, scaffolding,
and elevators) .
Construction machinery, equip-
ment and supplies (general line)
3. Farm and dairy machinery and
equipment .
Farm machinery and equipment —
Dairy equipment.
Farm implements (such as harrov/s,
cultivators, and walking plov/s) .
Farm machinery and equipment
(such as harvesters, binders,
hay hoists, stationary engines,
pump jacks and pumps, gang plows,
and corn listers) .
Industrial machinery, equip-
ment and supplies —
Manufacturing, mining, and drilling
machinery, equipment and supplies —
a. Bottles and bottling
equipment.
Bottles and bottling equipment.
Machine tools.
Machine tools.
c. Mechanical rubber goods.
Mechanical rubber goods (such as
belting, packing, hose, gaskets,
and recoil pads) .
d. Mill and mine supplies
(general line) .
Mill and mine supplies (general
line) .
Oil-well machinery, equipment,
and supplies.
e. All other.
Bakers' equipment and supplies.
Canning machinery.
Chemical equipment and supplies.
Conveyor and hoisting machinery.
Drilling machinery.
Foundry equipment and supplies.
Jewelers' equipment and supplies.
Power engines.
Power-house equipment (such as
boilers, condensers, injectors
(filters, and stokers).
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1933 equivalent
XVIII. Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical) (continued):
4. Industrial machinery, equipment
and supplies (continued) —
e. All other (continued).
1929
Printers' and lithographers'
supplies.
Pumps, pump parts, and supplies.
Shoe machinery.
Textile machinery and equipment.
Welding equipment.
Other industrial machinery, equip-
ment and supplies.
5. Professional equipment and
supplies —
Professional equipment and supplies —
Dental.
Dental supplies and equipment.
b. Surgical, medical, and
hospital,
Surgical, medical, and hospital
equipment and supplies.
All other.
Art supplies.
Church equipment and supplies.
Pharmacists' supplies.
School equipment and supplies.
Scientific and laboratory equip-
ment and supplies.
Other professional equipment
and supplies.
6. Service equipment and supplies-
a. Barber and beauty parlor.
Service equipment and supplies —
Barber and beauty parlor equip-
ment and supplies.
b. Laundry.
c. All other.
Laundry equipment and supplies.
Bootblack and hat cleaners'
equipment and supplies.
Dry cleaners' supplies and
allied products.
Fire protection equipment.
Janitors' equipment and supplies.
Plumbers' equipment and supplies.
Service equipment and supplies
(general line) .
Shoe repairers' equipment and
supplies .
Undertakers' supplies.
Upholsterers' supplies.
Warehouse equipment and supplies.
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
equivalent
1929
XVIII. Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical) (continued):
7. Transportation equipment
and supplies —
Transportation equipment and
supplies —
a. Aircraft and aeronautical.
b. Railroad.
c. All other.
Aircraft and aeronautical
equipment .
Railroad equipment and supplies.
Ship equipment and supplies.
Other transportation equipment
and supplies (such as tramways,
aerial hoists, motor boats
(commercial), and compressed
air tubes) .
XIX. Metals (except scrap) ;
1. Copper.
2. Iron and steel.
Metals and minerals (except petroleum
and scrap) (in part):
Copper.
Iron and steel (except scrap) —
Castings (metal) .
Iron and steel (except scrap).
Iron and steel products (not
elsewhere classified) .
3. Sheet metal products.
4. Other metal and metal works.
Sheet metal products.
Brass and brass products.
Lead and zinc.
Tin.
Other metal and metal works
(sucn as nickel, bronze, alumi-
num, and alloying materials) .
XX. Paper and its products:
1. Paper and its products
(general line) .
2. Paper and its products
(specialty lines) .
3. Stationery and stationery
supplies.
Paper and paper products:
Paper and paper products
(general line) .
Paper and paper products (specialty,
other than specified) —
Paper.
Wrapping paper and paper bags.
Other paper products (such as
novelties, papier-mache, paper
napkins, mulch papers, calendars
and art goods) .
Stationery and stationery supplies.
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XX.
KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1935 equivalent
Paper and its products (continued):
Wall paper. Wall paper.
1929
XXI. Petroleum and its products:
Petroleum and petroleum products:
Crude oil.
Fuel oil.
Gasoline and oil.
Gasoline and naphthas.
Lubricating oiis and greases.
Petroleum and petroleum products
(general line) .
Other petroleum and petroleum
products (such as kerosene,
cleaning liquids, road pre-
parations, bitumastic paints,
and asphalts) .
XXII. Plumbing and heating equip-
ment and supplies:
1. Heating equipment
(general line) .
Plumbing and heating equipment and
supplies:
Heating equipment- {general
line) .
2. Pipe, valves, and fittings.
3. Plumbing and heating equip-
ment (general line) .
Pipe, valves, and fittings.
Plumbing and heating equipment
and supplies (general line).
4. Stoves and ranges.
Stoves and ranges.
All other.
Plumbing and mill supplies.
Ventilating equipment and supplies.
Furnaces.
Oil burners.
Other plumbing and heating equip-
ment and supplies.
XXIII. Tobacco and its products
(except leaf) .
Tobacco and tobacco products
(except leaf) :
Cigars.
Cigars, cigarettes, and tobacco.
Tobacco.
Tobacco products.
XXIV. Waste materials:
1. Iron and steel scrap.
Iron ard steel scrap and other waste
materials:
Iron and tteel scrap.
2. Junk and scrap (general
line).
Junk and scrap (includes dealers
handling a general line of waste
materials) .
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KIND OF BUSINESS CLASSIFICATIONS
1935 equivalent
XXIV. Waste materials (continued) :
1929
3. Waste paper, rags, and
rubber.
XXV. All other products:
Waste rubber, rags, and paper —
Paper (waste) .
Rags.
Rubber (scrap) .
Chemicals, drugs, and allied products
(in part) :
Farm products (not elsewhere specified)
(in part) :
Forest products (except lumber):
Leather an leather goods (except
gloves and shoes) :
All other:
1. Bags_ and bagging.
2. Beer.
3. Books and periodicals.
4. Cordage and twine.
5. Flowers and nursery stock,
Bags and bagging.
(No 1929 equivalent) .
Bocks and perJodicaJs.
Cordage and twine.
Flowers and nursery stock —
Florists (flowers).
Flowers and nursery stock.
Seeds, bulbs, and nursery stocks
6. Forest products (except
lumber) .
Forest products (except lumber) :
Boxes, shocks, and cooperage —
Boxes and box shocks.
Cooperage (such as barrels,
casks, and tubs) .
Logs, railroad ties, piles, etc-
Firewood.
Logs, piles, and posts.
Railroad ties.
Other forest products (including
woodenware, pulpwocd, turning
blocks, pine needles, etc.).
7. Leather.
Leather.
8. Leather goods.
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line) .
Leather and leather belting (in
part) —
Belting (leather) .
Luggage and ]eather goods —
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1933
XXV. AH other products (continued):
8. Leather goods (continued)
9. Newspapers and magazines.
10. Oil and greases (animal and
vegetable) .
11. Rubber (crude) .
12. Rubber goods (general line).
13. Wines and spiritous liquors.
14. Yarn.
equivalent 1929
Leather goods (not elsewhere
classified) .
Luggage.
Saddlery and harness.
Shoe findings and cut stock —
Cut stock (leather).
Shoe findings.
Newspapers and magazines.
Oils and greases (animal and
vegetable) —
Animal oils (including grease
and tallow) .
Essential oils.
Vegetable oils (cottonseed,
linseed, etc . ) .
Rubber (crude) .
Rubber goods (general line).
Drugs and drug sundries (specialty)
(in part) —
Whiskey.
Other alcoholic beverages.
Yarn.
15. Miscellaneous kinds of
business.
Burlap.
Tents and awnings.
Textiles and textile materials,
other than dry goods (general
line) .
'Other textiles (exclusive of
dry goods, not specified above)
Advertising goods (such as signs,
calendars, booklets, cloth
banners, celluloid and metal
novelties) .
Artificial llowers and plants.
Baskets.
Boats.
Flour, feed, and coal.
Ice.
Novelties.
Smokers' supplies.
Miscellaneous kinds of business
(other than specified).
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CLASSIFICATION BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
In addition to being classified according to kind of business, each wholesale estab-
lishment was also classified by functional type. In the grocery trade, for example, there
rr;, in addition to v'hat may be termed "service wholesalers", a number of newer types of
vholesale distributors such as drop shippers, wagon distributors, and cash-and-carry v/hole-
salers. Among the other wholesale organizations operating in the grocery field are brok-
ers, chain store warehouses, and selling agents. Obviously, it is not sufficient to pra-
sent census data only by kind-of-business, since various characteristics such as employ-
ment, pay roll, credit sales, and total operating expenses will vary in a given kind of
business an ths basis of the functions performed. For example, such characteristics for a
sugar broker may be altogether different from those of a sugar wholesaler, because cf dif-
ferences in the functions of the two wholesale middlemen.
BASES FOR CLASSIFYING WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS BY TYPE. — In any attempt to classiry or
group types of wholesale establishments, several possibilities are encountered. Such es-
tablishments may be classified:
1. According to the ownership of goods, into those which take title to the merchan-
dise and operate as merchants and those which do not take title.
2. According to services rendered, indicating whether they render complete or limited
services.
3. On the bs-sis of whether they emphasize the buying function or the selling func-
tion, namely, a division into buying establishments and selling establishments.
4. According to the ownership of the establishments, in order to indicate single unit
establishments, branches, and chains.
5. According to the relationship of the wholesale establishment to retail outlets, as
in the case of chain store warehouses, or to producers, as in the case of manufacturers'
sales branches .
6. On the basis of the domestic territory covered, according to which they may be
divided into local, sectional, and national.
7. Accordinj to whether they are engaged in foreign or domestic trade.
Any one of these classes may be further subdivided. Thus, it is possible to classify
organizations engaged in domestic trade into buying organizations and selling organiza-
tions. Each of those may in turn be- classified en the basis of title to the goods in order
tc show m-srchant and noL-merchant establishiei.ts, as well as on the basis of who owns ths
establishments, in order to determine whether they are integrated with retail stores as in
the case of chain-store warehouses or with manufacturing establishments as in the case of
manufacturers' sales branches.
NUMBER OF TYPES USED 11! THE CENSUS. — In ordor to enhance the usefullness of the sta-
tistics, wholesale establishmsnts have been divided into six type groups, four of which
hc-vc been furthsr subdivided, so that a total of 19 distinct types of wholesale establish-
ttsnts is used in breaking down census data by type. Several of the types represent regular
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middlemen, namely, business concerns operating between producer and consumer in the pur-
chase or sale of goods. Usually they also furnish a number of marketing services related
to the buying and selling of merchandise. Some of these middlemen are of the merchant
type, because they take title to the goods, while others may be designated as functional
middlemen, since their main activity lies in the negotiation of purchases or sales, but
they do not take title to the goods involved. These functional middlemen usually perform
a more limited number of marketing functions than in the case of merchant middlemen. Some
of the types defined below are integrated with manufacturers and others are integrated with
retailers. Consequently, they can not be regarded as middlemen, although they are all in
the middleman business.
WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS CLASSIFIED, BY TYPE OF OPERATION
(Based largely on functions performed)
1933
Wholesalers proper.
equivalent 1929
I. Wholesalers only.
1. Wholesale merchants
1. Wholesale merchants, including
jobbers and semi-jobbers
2. Converters
3. Supply and machinery distributors
2. Exporters
3. Importers
4. Limited function wholesalers
4. Exporters
5. Importers
6. Cash-and-carry wholesalers
7. Drop shippers
8. Mail-order wholesalers
9. Wagon distributors
10. Warehouses (distributing)
II. Bulk tank stations
II. Bulk tank stations (also district
and general sales offices dealing
in petroleum and its products) .
III. Chain store warehouses
IV. Manufacturers' sales branches
(separately sho'ffn for branches
with stocks and those without
stocks)
III. Chain store warehouses (including
wholesale commissaries) .
IV. Manufacturers' sales branches
V. General sales offices (in part and
exclusive of those dealing in pe-
troleum and its products) .
VI. District sales offices (except those
dealing in petroleum and its
products. )
VII. Wholesaling manufacturers.
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1933
WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS CLASSIFIED, BY TYPE OF OPERATION
equivalent 1929
V. Assemblers and country buyers
1. Assemblers of farm pro-
ducts.
VIII. Assemblers and country buyers
1. Assemblers
2. Country buyers on salary or
commission
3. Packers and shippers
2. Cooperative marketing asso-
ciations
3. Cream stations
Elevators
4. Cooperative marketing associa-
tions.
5. Cooperative sales agencies (VII
in 1929)
6. Cream stations 1/
7. Milk stations
8. Elevators (independent)
9. Elevators (line)
VI. Agents and brokers
IX. Agents and brokers
1. Brokers
2. Commission merchants, includ-
ing factors
3. Export agents
4. Import agents
5. Manufacturers' agents
6. Selling agents
'7. Other agents
1/ Incomplete coverage in 1929.
1. Brokers
2. Commission merchants, including
factors.
3. Export agents
a. Export agents and brokers.
b. Export commission houses
4. Import agents
a. Import commission merchants
b. Import manufacturers' agents
c. Import selling agents.
5. Manufacturers' agents
6. Selling agents
7. Auction companies
8. Purchasing agents
9. Resident buyers.
DEFIlvITIONS OF TYPES OF WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS
The concepts contained in the definitions of wholesale types set forth below are those
used by the census in classifying the schedules. Every attempt has been made to adhere as
closely as possible to the definitions used in the 1929 Census of Distribution and to com-
mon usage among authorities in the field of marketing.
I. WHOLESALERS PROPER. — In the functional type group known as "wholesalers EXoper"
are included all wholesale establishments engaged in the buying and selling of goods on
their ov/n account, and which are largely independent in ownership. It embraces wholesale
merchants, exporters, importers, and limited function wholesalers. The term "wholesalers
proper" is not to be confused with the term "wholesale merchants" which is used in a much
narrower s:nse, as indicated below, although in some trades they may be synonymous since
there may not be in such trades any exporters, importers, or limited function wholesalers.
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(a) Wholesale Merchants. — These middlemen are usually known as wholesalers, but the
term is used here in a more restricted sense, to cover only full- function wholesalers per-
forming their functions primarily in the domestic market. They are merchant middlemen who
sell goods principally to other middlemen or to industrial consumers. They buy and sell
merchandise on their own account; carry stocks in their places of business; assemble in
large lots ard redistribute, usually through salesmen, in smaller quantities, extend credit
to customers, and render advice to the trade. In some lines of business, particularly
where the merchandise is cf a perishable nature or derived from unstandardized production,
wholesale merchants also perform the functions of grading and standardization. Although
they sell primarily to retailers, substantial quantities of merchandise are also sold by
them to industrial consumers such as restaurants, hotels, public institutions, public
utilities, ac>nufacturers, mining companies, oil well companies, and to other wholesalers.
In fact, some of the wholesale merchants specialize in the sale of goods to industrial con-
sumers when they are often designated as supply and machinery distributers, industrial
distributors, or mill supply houses. A clue to the number of wholesale merchants special-
izing in the sale of industrial goods may be gleaned from the kind-of-bu£iness classifica-
tions.
The term "wholesale merchants" is used synonymously with that of "jobbers", sirce it
was impossible to distinguish between the two on the basis of reports submitted. Further-
irore, in practically all lines of trade the two terms are used interchangeably, with pre-
ference being given to the more descriptive term "wholesaler" or "wholesale merchant".
Under "wholesale merchants" are also included "semi-jcbbers" and "converters". Semi-
■i obbers are wholesale merchants who combine wholesaling and retailing in a single estab-
lishment with the major emphasis on wholesaling. Converters are wholesale middlemen found
chiefly in the textile and paper trades. In addition to performing the usual functions of
wholesale merchants, converters also perform or have performed for them, some of the func-
tions of manufacturing in its final stages. In the case of textiles this involves finish-
ing, dyeing, printing, etc., while in the case of paper it may require cutting, ruling, and
otherwise converting the paper into finished products in tablet or other form as required
by the trade. The manufacturing functions are so insignificant in the case of converters
included in the wholesale census, as compared with all of the other functions they per-
form, that they are properly regarded as wholesale middlenen.
(b) Exporters. — Exporters are wholesale merchants selling in the foreign rather than
in the domestic market. Their sales may be largely to wholesele merchants abroad or to
industrial consumers, rather than to retailers, as is the case witn wholesale merchants en-
gaged in domestic trade.
(c) Importers. — Importers in the wholesale field are tc be largely identified with
wholesale merchants as far as functions are concerned. Tne chief distinction lies in the
source of purchases which, for importers, is in the foreign field. Furthermore, sales by
importers may be made largely to wholesalers or to industrial consuners rather than direct
to retailers.
(d) Limited Function Wholesalers. — Thi= term covers wholesalers operating in tne domes-
tic market who take title tc the goods but render a limited number cf wholesale func-
tions or perform such functions in a modified manner. Tn this group are included cash-and-
carry wholesalers, drop shippers, mail order wholesalers, wagon distributors, and distri-
buting warehouses.
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1. Cash-and-carry wholesalers buy and sell merchandise in their own name, carry stock
in storage, usually assemble in large quantities, and sell in smaller amounts to retail and
other dealers who call for the goods at their places of business and pay cash for them.
They are to bo distinguished from wholesale merchants by the fact that they usually carry a
reduced line of products, mostly staples and fast-moving items, and do not generally extend
credit to their customers, nor do they make free deliveries. As a rule, they employ no
outside salesmen, hence they reduce the wholesale merchant's emphasis upon the selling func-
tion and at the same time cut down upon the amount of market information which the full-
function wholesaler makes available for his customers. Frequently, such establishments are
operated as branches of "service" wholesalers in order to meet competition from chains,
cooperatives, and other cash-and-carry jobbers. For purposes of the census, only estab-
lishments that sell primarily on a cash-and-carry basis are regarded as cash-and-carry
wholesalers.
2. Drop-shippers or desk jobbers are distinguished primarily by the fact that they do
not perform the function of warehousing or storage, since they do not handle the goods;
neither do they perform the delivery function, for all orders solicited from retailers and
others are shipped directly from the manufacturers to the drop shippers' customers. While
drop shippers buy and sell in their own names, assume some risk, and may extend credit,
they are to be sharply distinguished from full-function wholesalers who actually handle the
goods and make deliveries from stock. Under this classification are listed only those
wholesale merchants who do all or the bulk of their business on a drop-shipment basis.
3. Mail order or catalogue wholesalers sell all or the bulk of their goods by mail.
Otherwise such establishments operate in every way as service wholesalers, extending cred-
it, making deliveries, etc. Some of them employ "good will" traveling men who tend to be-
come active in the solicitation of orders. Only a few such concerns were canvassed in the
United States in the 1933 census.
4. Wagon distributors or Wagon Jobbers perform the wholesale functions of buying,
selling, warehousing or storage, and delivery or transportation. Occasionally they extend
credit to their customers. Their chief distinction from ordinary or service wholesalers
lies in the following points:
(1) They combine the functions of salesmen with those of deliverymen. In other words,
no separate sales force is employed, the work of selling and delivery being carried out by
salesmen-drivers.
(2) They normally carry a limited assortment of merchandise, consisting of nationally
advertised specialties and fast moving items of a perishable nature.
(3) Normally they sell for cash and in original packages.
In some lines of trade manufacturers have in recent years established their own wagon
distribution systems. In this census are covered under the term "wagon distributors" only
bona-fide wholesalers operating in the manner described above, excluding systems of wagon
distribution used by manufacturers, particularly when the wagons or trucks operated direct-
ly from the plant.
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5. Warehouse (djgtribution . ) — Under this term have been included only those relative-
ly few A-arehouse companies which buy and sell goods on their own account and thus engage in
merchandising in addition to the storage service rendered to depositors of merchandise.
II. BULK TANK STATIONS. — In this classification are included wholesale places of busi
ness engaged in the distribution of gasoline, oil, and other petroleum products. While the
term covers some district and general sales offices dealing in petroleum and its products,
it comprises for the most part, *fhat is known as bulk plants, bulk stations, or bulk tank
stations. Out of these stations, tank jvagons operated by salesmen-drivers cover the ser-
vice or gasoline filling stations, both company-owned and independent. In the first in-
stance bulk tank stations resemble chain store warehouses, while in the second case they act as
wholesalers proper. Frequently, bulk stations do business on both bases. In fact, some of
the largest oil companies sell most of their products through their bulk tank stations to
independent retailers. They also supply in this manner independent wholesalers and large
consumers. Most bulk stations are Oivned and operated by producing companies, although some
of them are owned and operated by wholesale marketers of petroleum products who are not en-
gaged in refining. Most bulk tanK stations are operated as chains, i.e., in multiple unit
establishments. All of them actually handle the merchandise; consequently, brokers and
agents #ho do not handle the goods are excluded from this classification.
III. CHAIN STORE WAREHOUSES are establishments maintained by retail chains as distri-
buting stations used to supply their stores with merchandise. In some respects they are
similar in operations to establishments of wholesale merchants and are, in reality, more
than mere warehouses. They maintain stocks, break bulk, and deliver and bill the merchan-
dise to the retail outlets. Furthermore, the activities of these warehouses may include
accounting and general supervision, and chain systems often maintain branch executive of fices
■at these warehouses, which are charged with the superintendenc of the retail outlets with-
in their respective districts. Wholesale commissaries are included under this heading
because they are essentially centralized ivarehousing establishments supplying company stores
of manufacturing, mining, or other producing companies which cater to employees of such con-
cerns. Prepared-food depots and other A-holesale distributing establishments operated in
connection with bakeries and restaurants fall in the same general category.
IV. MANUFACTURERS' SALES BRANCHES. — These branches represent wholesale outlets o#ned
and operated by manufacturers, largely or entirely for the distribution of their own pro-
ducts. They do not include places of business operated by incorporated companies #hich are
not engaged primarily in the manufacture of goods. All such companies have been treated as
entities for census purposes. Consequently, sales corporations of manufacturers have been
classified as wholesalers rather than manufacturers' sales branches.
Some of the manufacturers' sales branches carry regular stocks of merchandise and op-
erate very much like A'holesale merchants, while a number of such branches are mere sales
offices and carry no stock whatever or only for display and sample purposes. In this cen-
sus, data are shown separately for the two types of manufacturers' sales branches, inasmuch
as the characteristics of each type are quite distinct. In both types the emphasis is
largely upon the selling function. The buying problem is minimized by the fact that they
act as outlets for goods turned over to them by the parent organization. For the 1933 cen-
sus district sales offices maintained by manufacturers have been treated as manufacturers'
sales branches, while data for general sales offices have been largely excluded.
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V. ASSEMBLERS AND COUNTRY BUYERS. — Establishments covered by this term engage pri-
marily in the purchase or sale of farm products at local producing points or in the cities
of producing regions. The emphasis is on the buying side, since it is the principal func-
tion of these organizations to assemble and concentrate farm products which are produced on
a relatively small scale in quantities large enough for economical shipment and handling.
Most of them operate in what may be termed the local growers' markets, and include firms
and individuals who do business on their own account, as well as those who operate on a
salary or commission basis for others. The chief distinction between some of these differ-
ent types, as indicated by their names, rests upon the commodities involved, rather than
functional performance.
(a) Assemblers of Farm Products cover independent buyers, country buyers on salary or
commission, and packers and shippers. Independent buyers of agricultural commodities, as a
rule forward or consign the goods purchased to wholesale receivers or distributors in
another and usually a larger market or to manufacturers or processors. Some of the larger
handlers of agricultural commodities also maintain assembling and packing plants at points
of concentration in producing regions. In addition to the products handled by such assemb-
lers, large quantities of agricultural commodities are purchased by local retail store-
keepers or others primarily engaged in some other business. Country buyers on salary or
commission, other than those covered by cream stations or elevators, include only those
persons and firms engaged in the buying of agricultural products as agents for others with
established places of business. Packers and shippers engaged primarily in the assembly of
fruits and vegetables and in sea foods. Under this term are included establishments main-
tained especially for the purpose of packing, shipping, and distributing agricultural pro-
ducts but it does not include the packing and shipping operations by farmers or other pro-
ducers directly from their farms or orchards.
(b) Cooperative Marketing Associations . — These associations are formed largely by pro-
ducers of farm products for the purpose of disposing of their goods at the most advantage-
ous prices for the mutual benefit of the members. In addition to the actual selling of the
products, they often grade, pack, store, finance, and in some cases advertise the commodi-
ties they handle. Such associations may also buy for the members various supplies, such as
feed, seed, fertilizer, and coal. In the 1933 census this designation covers cooperative
marketing associations, whether local, sectional, or national, as well as central marketing
associations set up as sales agencies by cooperatives. Cooperative cream and milk sta-
tions, as well as cooperative elevators, are not included in the figures for cooperative
marketing associations, but are covered instead under their respective designations.
(c) Cream Stations. — This term applies to collecting stations or depots located in
fluid milk-producing regions. They may be maintained by city milk distributors, by cream-
ery companies, by cooperative milk associations, or by independent firms. Some of the
cream station operators devote their full time to the purchase and shipping of milk or
cream. In other cases they also purchase eggs, poultry, and other farm products. However,
the majority of cream stations are operated in conjunction with some other business, which
may be a retail store, an elevator, or a general country buying business. Under these
latter conditions cream stations were not counted as separate establishments.
(d) Elevators . — The term "elevator", as used in the census, refers to those elevators
that purchase and handle grain, either on their own account (independent), or for their
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principals (line). It also includes elevators maintained by cooperative marketing associa-
tions. Storage elevators, both public and private, and grain warehouses were not included
in the Wholesale Census, but are covered instead in the service division of the Census of
American Business.
Independent elevators are, as a rule, locally owned and, in the majority of cases, are
operated as single units. Line elevators, on the other hand, consist of a group or chain
of elevators operated by a firm of grain dealers or by a mill or milling company. Strictly
speaking, the use of the term "line elevator" should be confined to those elevators whose
operations are directed from a central office. Cooperative elevators may be either inde-
pendent or line, since some farmers' cooperative elevator associations operate a number of
elevators. In addition to purchasing, handling, storage, and shipping of grain, elevators
in some sections of the country transact a greater or less amount of retail business. In
fact, in some of the older grain States the retail sales of seme elevators exceeded, in
1933, the total dollar volume of grain handled. Unless the value of the grain handled
equalled at least 50 per cent of the total sales reported, such elevators were considered
as retail establishments. As a side line many of the elevators may also handle such items
as coal, feed, or fertilizer for sale to farmers in the near-by communities.
VI. AGENTS AND BROKERS. — In this group of wholesale establishments are included func-
tional middlemen who specialize in the performance of buying or selling functions, either
in domestic or foreign trade and who do not take title to the goods involved. Their chief
additional function is in furnishing market information. For these services they receive
compensation in the form of fees or commissions.
(a) Brokers are wholesale middlemen v/hose function it is to negotiate transactions
between buyers and sellers without having direct physical control of the goods. They act
as agents for their principals who are usually wholesalers or producers, although sometimes
they represent retailers as v/ell. Brokers may represent either buyers or sellers in a
given transaction, or both, doing business in the name of their principals. They do not
take title to the goods to which their negotiations apply, nor do they finance their cli-
ents. Their power as to prices and terms of sale is usually limited by their principals.
When the emphasis is placed on the purchase of goods, such brokers are frequently designat-
ed as buying brokers.
Brokers are not bound to any set of clients but operate freely in the wholesale field.
Their relations with any one client are not continuous as they are in the case of selling
agents or manufacturers' agents. The remuneration of brokers is in the form of a commis-
sion or fee, based upon the value of the goods or upon the physical quantity of merchan-
dise involved in the transaction. In addition to performing the functions of buying or
selling, their chief function consists in advising their clients as to market conditions;
for knowledge of such conditions, of sources of supply, and of outlets is their main stock
in trade. Normally brokers do not handle the invoices and have nothing whatever to do with
the amounts invoiced. In the grocery trade it is difficult to distinguish between brokers,
selling agents, and manufacturers' agents, the three terms frequently being used in a
synonymous manner.
(b) Commission merchants are functional middlemen transacting business in their own
name, and who have direct physical control over the goods consigned to them, on a commis-
sion basis. As commission merchants they do not take title to the goods they sell for
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clients. In some few lines of trade, commission merchants, or commission houses, act
purely as shippers' agents, but in most lines of business they combine some merchant busi-
ness with commission dealing. When acting in the capacity of agents for their principals,
it is the practice of commission merchants, fthen the goods require it, to prepare them for
the market, to sell them at the best possible prices, and to remit the proceeds after de-
ducting commissions and other charges. In this capacity commission merchants always repre-
sent sellers. When the emphasis is placed, however, on outright purchasing, so-called
commission merchants become in reality wholesale merchants and are so classified for the
purpose of the census.
In this classification are also included factors which specialize in the raw-cotton
and textile trades and in the distribution of naval stores, since their operations are sim-
ilar to commission merchants. In the textile trade factors are generally commercial bank-
ers who specialize in financing the mills, a function which they originally combined with
that of selling. This is very unusual at the present time, consequently for purposes of
the census the term "factor" is applied only to operators in the ra,v-cotton trade, and to
those other factors Afho actually engage in the distribution of goods, since purely finan-
cial or service establishments are not covered in the Census of American Business. Factors
operating in the raw-cotton trade are located in central markets and receive the cotton on
consignment from producing areas. Their work consists, first, in advancing funds to the
shipper, who may be a grOA-er but who is usually a country buyer or cotton merchant ; second,
in warehousing or storing the goods; third, in grading; and, finally, in selling the goods.
Factors receive commissions for their services.
(c) Exgort Agents include export commission houses and all agents and brokers who
specialize in the sale of goods to foreign countries. Some of these agsncies may represent
foreign clients for whom they purchase goods in the United States while others represent
American exporters.
(d) Import Agents include commission merchants, manufacturers' agents, and selling
agents who represent foreign sellers in the American market. Normally a single agent rep-
resents a number of clients ,vhose individual operations are too snail to justify separate
organizations for importing purposes. They also attend to customs formalities and receive
their compensation in the form of commissions.
(e) Manufacturers ' Agents are functional middlemen who sell part of the output of cer-
tain manufacturers on an extended contractual basis. They are limited ;vith respect to
territory of operation and as to prices and terms of sale. Their principal duty is to sell
goods in accordance with the desire of their clients, although they may also warehouse some
of the merchandise. As used in this census, manufacturers' agents usually represent tv/o or
more producers whose goods are non-competitive but supplementary in nature. Such agents
are to be distinguished from salesmen in that they are in business for themselves.
(f) Selling Agents are independent business enterprises operating on a commission
basis, Afhose principal function is to sell the entire output of a given line of goods for
one or more manufacturers with ivhom they maintain continuous contractual relationships.
Selling agents differ from manufacturers' agents in the following respects: (1) They nor-
mally handle the entire output of their clients; ($2) they may sell everywhere while manu-
facturers' agents are limited in their territory of operation; (3) they have full authority
with regard to prices, terms, etc., while the authority of manufacturers' agents is limited
in this regard; and (4) they frequently finance their clients and offer assistance in con-
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nection with their advertising and other sales promotion activites.
(g) Other Agents, — Under this classification are included auction companies, purchas-
ing agents, and resident buyers. Auction companies are concerns that sell by the auction
method at wholesale. Sales are conducted under definite rules and are usually made to the
highest or best bidder. Such concerns do not take title to the goods but handle them for
clients on a commission or fte basis. They provide a place for the public inspection and
sale of merchandise consigned to them or to auction receivers and may, on their own res-
ponsibility, extend credit to purchasers.
Purchasing agents and resident buyers are "terms used to identify syndicate buyers.
They are independent organizations, as a rule, who buy merchandise for their clients and
also supply them with market information. Occasionally such organizations are maintained
cooperatively by a number of wholesalers or retailers for whom they perform the buying func-
tion. Purchasing agents as used in the census comprise independent middlemen and are to be
distinguished from so-called purchasing agents employed in manufacturing plants who are not
in business for themselves but merely work for a single employer.
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GENERAL EXPLANATION^ - - ■ -r
EXPLANATION OF TERMS; •-
ESTABLISHMENTS. — This term covers all wholesale establishments canvassed in 1934 that
were in existence during the year 1933, even though they operated but a portion of the year
for which the data were collected. It comprises places of business rather than companies
or firms, and does not include establishments that came into being after the census year or
those y/hich discontinued operations prior to the actual canvass. This term was used in the
same sense in connection with the 1930 census during which time wholesale establishments
were canvassed that were in existence during all or part of the year 1929.
PROPRIETORS AND FIRM MEMBERS. — Under this heading are included owners and part-owners
of wholesale business enterprises of the single proprietorship or partnership type, pro-
vided such owners and part-owners were actively engaged in the operation of the business.
In listing proprietors and firm members no attention was given to the method or amount of
remuneration, since their compensation has been entirely omitted from the statistics on
salaries and wages in wholesale trade.
EMPLOYEES. — Under this designation are included all paid employees, among them being
corporation officers, other executives, salesmen, and all office, warehouse, delivery, and
other employees. Proprietors and firm members are not included- under number of employees,
regardless of the manner in which they received their compensation, whether in drawing
accounts or in the form of net profits, nor are members of families of proprietors included
unless they functioned on a salary basis in 1933. In arriving at the average number of em-
ployees, the number reported for the 15th of each month during the year 1933 was added and
the sum divided by 12.
FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES. — This includes all paid employees working a full day during the
whole or the greater part of the pay roll period including the fifteenth of the month.
Since information on employment was requested for each month, employees described above are
regarded as full-time employees, regardless of the fact that the establishment operated only
part of the year because it was brought into existence sometime during 1933 or because it
operated on a strictly seasonal basis.
PART-TIME EMPLOYEES. — This term is meant to cover employees hired on a part-time
basis, involving either part of a day or part of a pay roll period. No employee has been
included in this classification if he worked a full day over a period of time more than
three days per week.
EMPLOYMENT BY SEX. — The distribution of paid employees by sex was reported for all em-
ployees, full-time and part-time combined, as of December 30, 1933. In arriving at the es-
timated average number of males and females (Table 6), the sex ratio of employees as of
December 30 was applied to the average number of employees for the entire year.
MONTHLY EMPLOYMENT. — Employment is the only item in the wholesale trade statistics
which is presented on a monthly basis. It may be taken, to^ indicate the extent of seasonal
change in wholesale activity which is quite marked in certain lines of trade. The number
of full-time and part-time employees is shown separately on the pay roll nearest the 15th
of each month.
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PAY ROLL. — The total pay roll figure covers the total compensation — salaries, wages,
commissions, bonuses, etc. — paid to salaried corporation officers, other executives, sales-
men, other salaried employees and wage earners. The income derived by proprietors and firm
members is not included in this figure. The term pay roll is synonymous with salaries and
wages used in the 1929 Census of Distribution and includes the compensation of part-time as
well as full-time employees. In addition, part-time pay roll is shown separately although
it has already been included under the total.
Full-time pay roll, which can be obtained by deducting part-time pay roll from total
pay roll, may be used to arrive at average annual earnings of full-time employees. In
following this procedure, however, account must be taken of certain qualifying considera-
tions. Full-time pay rcll represents the aggregate of salaries, commissions, and other
types of compensation paid to full-time employees in the course of 1933. The average num-
ber of full-time employees on the other hand is merely the average of the total number of
names entered on twelve pay rolls (each covering a single week, half-month or month) as
persons engaged on a full-time basis as described above. One of the factors is thus a true
aggregate while the other may or may not represent a true monthly average of full man-
months of employment. It must also be remembered that there is some variation on the part
of respondents in differentiating between full-time and part-time employees, and on account
of differences in the length of employemnt of full-time employees (varying from a little
better than 3 days per week over a period of time to full-time employment, every day over a
period of time) pay roll should not be used to compute the average wages per employee.
TOTAL EXPENSES. — This item includes all expenses paid by the reporting wholesale es-
tablishments during 1933. It covers total pay roll, as defined above, and all other expen-
ses incurred in the operation of the business, such as traveling and other expenses of
salesmen, rent paid for the premises, interest, advertising expense, credit and collection
expense including losses from bad debts, insurance, certain taxes, Jight, heat, power,
postage, etc. Neither capital investment (land, buildings, fixtures, and the ]ike) nor the
cost of goods sold are included under this or any other item covered in the census reports.
NET SALES. — The term net sales is used in the Census in a broad way so as to include
total net receipts whether those receipts are from the sale of merchandise, services, or in
the form of receipts from rentals or from other sources. Net sales are derived by deduct-
ing from gross sales the value of goods returned by, or allowances made to, customers.
Some wholesale establishments are engaged primarily in buying or assembling goods, the
selling phase being incident or non-existent irasmuch as such purchases iray be made for
parent organizations or for clients. Brokers, too, may represent buyers rather than sell-
ers. Consequently, the term net sales is used to include the purchases made by country
buyers of farm products and by other buying agents as well as the activities of agents and
brokers operating en a commission basis, irrespective of whether they represented clients on
the selling or buying end of the business. However, no transaction has been counted more
once, that is, either the purchasing end was considered or the selling end.
In the case of agents and brokers operating on a comirissicn basis it was sometimes
necessary to compute net sales on the bas.s cf average commission rates or fees charged.
These rates or fees were either reported by the agents and brokers concerned or were ob-
tained through a computation of such rates and commissions reported by other agents and
brokers for the same geographic division of the United States. This method was necessitat-
ed by the fact that many agents and brokers maintain records only of commissions received
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and do not have actual figures covering their operations in behalf of clients for whom they
either buy or sell goods.
STOCKS ON HAND. — The schedule used by the Wholesale Census required that each estab-
lishment report the value of merchandise on hand for sale December 31, 1933, or nearest in-
ventory date, on a cost or replacement basis. This inventory figure can not be used to
compute the rate of stock turnover without firet making essential adjustments. To compute
the rate of stock turnover properly, it is necessary, first, to have a true average inven-
tory or an inventory carried normally throughout thp year and, second, to reduce the sales
and inventory figures to the same basis, namely, to take both of them either at cost or at
selling prices. Neither of these conditions obtain.'^ in the census figures. The inventory
is taken in most cases as of December 31, which may or may not be representative of the
average stocks carried during the year in any given line of business. Furthermore, stocks
on hand are given approximately at cost prices while net sales are shown at selling prices.
To reduce the net sales to a cost basis it would be necessary to know the gross margin or
mark-up on the merchandise; this is not available in the census figures since no question
was asked to secure data on net profits which are r"?cessarily a part of the gross margin.
CREDIT SALES. — Each establishment was requested to report under this item in the sche-
dule, that part of its total business which was done on a credit basis; i.e., sales made on
weekly terns, on a 10-day basis, 30-day basis, end-o T-month terms, sales on tne installment
plan, or on any other basis that does not involve the immediate payment of cash upon receipt
of goods. C.O.D. sales, including all transactions which involve a sight-draft attached
bill of lading, and sales on relief orders were classed, for purposes of this census, as cash
sales. The term presucably covers, except as noted, all sales made on any basis other than
strictly cash.
SALES TO RETAILERS. — Every reporting establishnent was requested to report the actual
amount of goods sold to retailers fcr resale. This term presumably excludes purchases made
by retailers of such items as machinery, equipment or supplies which are not bought for re-
sale but merely for use in the conduct of the business.
SALES TO CONSUMERS (at retail). — This represents sales made to ultimate or home con-
sumers who bought the goods for personal use or for household consumption. While such
sales are normally aade by retail stores, a certain amount of goods is sold to consumers
also by wholesalers who may be engaged in both wholesale and retail business (see defini-
tion of Wholesale Merchants in Chapter II) or who nay sell a relatively small amount of
their goods to ultimate consumers on a retail basis merely as an accommodation.
SALES TO INDUSTRIAL CONSUMERS. — These are sales made by wholesale establishments to
manufacturers, oil well companies, mine operators, railrods, public utilities, and institu-
tions. In it may alsc be included sales made to farmers when they bought goods from regu-
lar wholesale establishments for farming purposes and not for their personal use. Such
sales consist largely of machinery, equipment, supplies, and raw materials not intended for
resale in the same form.
SALES TO WHOLESALE ORGANIZATIONS. — Wholesale establishments were required to report
the distribution of their business voluire by outlets, that is, to indicate how cuch they
sold to retailers, to industrial users, and to consumers (at retail). Most of the respon-
dents reported on this item, as shown in Table 5. When the total sales of an establishment
exceeded the amount reported by the above listed types of outlets it was presumed that the
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Jifference was due to sales made by the establishment to other wholesale organizations.
This presumption was checked through correspondence with many reporting firms and f ound- tt^.
be correct. Thus, the data under this item show the amount of duplication in wholesale
trade, i.e., the extent to which goods are sold by one wholesale establishment to another,
involving two or more wholesaling transactions relating to identical products.
NEW WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS. — This term refers to wholesale establishments which have
come into existence in the wholesale field since 1929, but prior to 1934. For a complete
explanation of the term and its significance, as well as for a complete analysis of the
business done by such establishments, see report on "New and Old Wholesale Establishments".
EXPLANATION OF TABLES
The first seven tables in the United States Summary, other than those contained in
Chapter IV, are similar in contents and numbering with the tables in the individual State
reports. To this there are tv,o exceptions. ' Table 2-A in the State reports shows the
n-:.3':er of establishments by kind of business, in detail, for as many types as possible,
v/hile Ta;le 2-A in the United States Summary presents, in addition to the number of estab-
lishments by kind of business, in detail, also essential information for all types of
wholesale establishments conbined. Table 5-A "sales mada by retailers to other retailers"
is not given in the State reports.
The United States Summary contains two additional tables (Tables 8 and 9) for which
there are no counterparts in the State reports. Table 8 presents data on new wholesale
establishments which started operations subsequent to 1929. While information on these es-
tablishments is not given in the State reports, a special study on "New and Old Wholesale-
Establishments" published separately by the Bureau of the Census contains such statistics
not only for the United States as a whole but also for each of eight States that are thought
to be representative of large and small States and of different sections of the country.
Finally, Table 9 gives information on wholesale trade by counties. All text tables
have been given Roman numerals to distinguish them from the comparable State and United
States Summary tables.
TABLE 1, SUMMARY OF WHOLESALE TRADE, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT. —This table presents a
summary of wholesale trade by functional types of wholesale establishments. For cities of
100,000 or more inhabitants, with the exception of a limited number of selected citiesl/,
these data are shown only for four major type groups. For a limited number of large cities
representative of different sections of the United States, for each of the States, and for
the United States these data are shown for each of six type groups, some of which have been
further subdivided so that information can be given for each of 19 distinct types of whole-
1/ The 21 selected cities arranged according to their 1930 population are as follows: New
York, N.Y.; Chicago, 111.; Philadelphia, Pa.; Detroit, Mich. ; Los Angeles, Calif.; Cleve-
land, Ohio; St. Louis, Mo.; Baltimore, Md.; Boston, Mass.; Pittsburgh, Pa.; San Francisco.
Calif.; Milwaukee, Wise; Buffalo, New York; Minneapolis and St. Paul (combined), Minn.;.
New Orleans, La.; Cincinnati, Ohio; Kansas City, Mo.; Seattle, Wash.; Denver, Colo.; At-
lanta, Ga.; Dallas, Texas.
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sale establishments. Data are shown in this table on the number of establishments, both
for 1933 and 1S23; net sales, for 1933 and 1929; total expenses, expressed in amounts and
as a percent of net sales, the latter for 1933 and 1929; t!:e average number of full-time
employees; total pay roll expressed in amounts and as a percent of net sales; part-time pay
roll; and stocks on hand at the end of the year.
TABLE 2A, NUMBER OF WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF
BUSINESS. — As indicated in the preceding chapter, each wholesale establishment was classi-
fied not only according to functional type but also by kind of business as determined by
the chief line or lines of merchandise in which it dealt. In this table which is presented
for each of the States and for selected cities is shov.'n merely the number of wholesale es-
tablishments by kind of business, in detail, for each of 19 functional types. This table
may be regarded as a supplement to Table 2B; it indicates at least the number of establish-
ments under given functional types for those kinds of business for which detailed informa-
tion can not be shown in Table 28 without disclosing individual operations.
For the United States Summary, Table 2A is used to show the same information by kind-
of-business in detail, as is given in Table 2B. Such information is presented in Table 2A
for all types of establishments combined, whereas in Table 2B the data are shown separately
for as many of 19 types of establishments as is possible without disclosing individual op-
erations. Conse^.uently, totals for any kind of business, regardless of type of operation
involved, can be secured only from Table 2A.
TABLE 2B, WHOLESALE TRADE, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS.— In this
table are presented the most essential statistics of the wholesale division of the census.
For this reason these data are shown for as many separate communities as possible, the de-
tail being increased with the size of the community. The table is presented for cities of
5,000 to :10,000 population in one line totals; for cities of 20,000 to 50, 000 inhabitants by
five kind-of-busihess groups, for wholesalers proper and all other types combined; for
cities of 50,000 inhabitants and over by 25 kind-of-business groups for each of four major
functional types; and for a limited number of selected cities, for States, and for the
United States by kind of business, in detail, for as many of the 19 functional types as can
be presented without disclosing information concerning individual establishments.
The data shown in Table 2B include the number of establishments; net sales; total ex-
panses, expressed in amounts and as a percent of net sales; average number of full-time em-
ployees; pay roll, total and part-time; and stocks on hand.
TABLE 3, RECEIPTS FROM SALES OF MERCHANDISE AND SERVICES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS. —In
addition to dealing in merchandise, many wholesale establishments derive a certain amount
of income from the sale of services and from other sources which are usually incidental to
their principal activity. In a few exceptional cases receipts from services constitute the
principal business of the wholesale establishment. This is true, for example, of motion
picture film exchanges whose main income is from the rental of films rather than the sale
of goods. The data in Table 3 measure quantitatively the volume of business secured
through the sale of goods and that obtained from other sources. This table is presented
only for States and for the United States by 25 kind-of-business groups, for all types of
establishments combined.
Table 3 sr.o'.vs the number of establishments in a given hind- -of- -business group, total net
sales, a term used throughout as interchangeable with reoeipts, total expenses, expressed
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in amounts and as a percent of net sales; and receipts. The last item is broken down
according to sources into sales of merchandise; receipts from parking, storage, cleaning,
etc. ; receipts from space rentals; and receipts from other sources. The "other sources"
consist, for the most part, of receipts from film rentals and from rental of machinery.
TABLE 4, CREDIT SALES, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS.— Tha extent to
which wholesale establishments engaged in selling on a credit basis is shown in Table 4.
This information is presented only for States and for the United States. For States, cred-
it data are shown by 25 kind-of-bu«iness groups, separately for wholesalers proper and for
all other types combined. For the United States as a whole these data are presented by 25
kind-of-busnoss groups, for each of 19 functional types. The statistics contained in this
table indicate the degree to which wholesale establishments perform the functions of fi-
nancing business by extending credit to retailers, industrial consumers, and to other
wholesale organizations to which they sell.
Since some of the wholesale establishments did not operate on a credit basis and
others failed to reort on this item, data on credit sales are presented in Table 4 only for
those establishments for which the credit information was available. The table shows the
number of establishments reporting credit and the percent which that number constituted of
the total for the kind of business under consideration. The same procedure is followed in
connection with net sales. In the columns that follow, credit sales are given in amounts
and as a percent of sales of establishments reporting credit sales as well as a percent of
sales of all establishments in a given group. The table also shows total expenses incurred
by establishments operating on a credit basis. These expenses are given in amounts and as
a percent of sales so that comparison may be made between the costs of doing business of
establishments selling on credit with the costs incurred by those establishments which pre-
sumably do not operate on a credit basis, if it can be assumed that all or most of the es-
tablishments not reporting credit sales sold for cash.
TABLE 5, DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT. ~A
common conception is that wholesalers sell only to retailers and that wholesalers are the
only type of organization operating in the wholesale field. That this is far from the
truth is indicated by the figures shown in Table 5. The statistics therein contained are
presented only for States and for the United States. For each of the States the data are
shown by 25 kind-of-business groups, separately for wholesalers proper and for all other
types combined. For the United States as a whole the data are presented by 25 kind-of-
business groups, for each of the 19 functional types. The table shows that wholesale es-
tablishments sell to retailers, to industrial consumers, to ultimate or home consumers, and
to other wholesale organizations. Naturally, there is considerable variation in the extent
to which different types of wholesale establishments make use of these outlets and the de-
gree to which they are used in the different kinds of business.
Here, too, not all of the establishments reported the distribution of their sales,
partly because of inadequate records at the time the census was taken. The table shows for
each type and kind-of-business group the number of establishments, net sales, and total ex-
penses of all establishments, and then presents statistics for those establishments which
reported a distribution of sales by outlets. For these establishments it shows the number
and the percent which such number consituttes of the total for the group under considera-
tion. Similar treatment is given to the net sales of establishments which reported their
sales by type of customers. This is followed by total expenses for such establishments,
expressed both in amounts and as a percent of sales. Total sales are then distributed into
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the follov/ing groups: salee to retailers (for resale); sales to home consumers (at retail);
sales to industrial users, including institutions; and sales to other wholesale organiza-
tions. From these data it should be possible, among other things, to determine the amount
of duplication in the total wholesale sales figures, due to the fact that some wholesale
establishments sell to other wholesale organizations.
TABLE 6, MONTHLY EMPLOYMENT, BY KIND OF BUSINESS. —The lignificance of wholesale trade
as a source of employment is indicated in Table 6. In this table the number of proprietors
and firm members and the number of paid employees, divided into male and female and into
full-time and part-time, are shown for each of the 25 major kind-of-business groups. The
estimate by sex is based on the sex distribution reported for the total number of employ-
ees as of about December 30, 1933; the percent of women shewn separately relates to the same
date. The table also presents the number of full-time and part-time employees as of about
the 15th of each month for each kind-of-business group, and a monthly index of employment
for wholesale trade as a whole. This information is presented for the United States, for
each of the States, and for cities of 500,000 population and over.
TABLE 7, WHOLESALE MERCHANTS AND MANUFACTURERS' SALES BRANCHES, BY SIZE OF ESTAB-
LISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS. — Two types of wholesale establishments, namely, wholesale mer-
chants (including importers) and manufacturers' sales branches with stocks, have been clas-
sified by size according to their net sales. Data by size are shown only for States and
for the United States. For each of the States information is presented by 25 kind-of-
business groups on the number of establishments, the annual average number of full-time
employees, and total expenses expressed as a percent of net sales, for each of the follow-
ing 7 size groups:
Group number
I
II
Ill
IV
V
VI
VII
I Net Sales
. junder $10,000
, |?10,000 to $49,999
|$50,000 to $99,999
j $100, 000 to $199,999
. I $200, 000 to $499,999
I $500, 000 to $999,999
|$1,000,000 and over
For the United States as a whole additional information is given on the amount of net
sales and of expenses. Moreover, for wholesale merchants data are given by kind of busi-
ness in detail rather than by 25 groups, and the number of size groups has been increased
from 7 to 11 as follows:
Group number Net Sales
I lUnder $10,000
II |$10,000 to $49,999
III j$50,000 to $99,999
IV 1$100,000 to $199,999
V j$200,000 to $299,999
VI |$300,000 to $499,999
VII |$500,000 to $999,999
VIII j$l,000,000 to $,999,999
IX |$2,000,000 to $4,999,999
X |t5,000,000 to $9,999,999
XI |$10,000,000 and over
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Table 7 permits a comparison by lines of trade of ,vholesale merchants (including im-
porters) with manufacturers' sales branches with stocks, two types of wholesale operations
which, for the most part, compete in the same market, warehouse goods, and make deliveries
from stocks. Comparison is also possible of small and large-sized establishments in a
given trade as to operating costs. It shows to what extent each size group furnishes em-
ployment in wholesale trade. It further indicates the differences existing betjveen trade
groups and between wholesale merchants and manufacturers' sales branches with stocks as to
average size of establishment, as to distribution of establishments by size, and as to op-
erating costs.
TABLE 8, SUMMARY OF WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS WHICH BEGAN OPERATIONS 1929-1933. —The
number of new establishments and their net sales are shown in this table. New wholesale
establishments are those which have come into existence after 1929 but prior to 1934 and
were still in operation when the census was taken during the early months of 1934. The
data are shown in totals for each of the five type groups regardless of the kinds of busi-
ness involved and for each of 27 kind-of-business groups irrespective of the types of es-
tablishments operating therein. The two items of information, namely, number of estab-
lishments and net sales, are also presented separately for those establishments which began
operations after 1929 but prior to 1933 and for those which have come into being in 1933
during each of the first two quarters of the year and during each month thereafter. A more
complete analysis of the business of new wholesale establishments may be found in a sepa-
rate publication of the Bureau of the Census entitled "Ne,v and Old Wholesale Establish-
ments".
TABLE 9, WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES. — This is the
only table in ^rhich wholesale statistics are shown by counties. For each county, listed
alphabetically under the proper State, the number of establishments is shown for 1933 and
for 1929, followed by net sales for each of the same two years. Other information given
for each county pertains only to 1933 and consists of the average number of full-time em-
Dloyees; pay roll for all employees and for part-time employees; and stocks on hand at the
end of the year. On the basis of this information it should be possible to ascertain
changes in the relative importance of the various counties as geographic wholesale trade
units. The data on a county basis are also valuable for sales planning and quota setting
purposes, for the determination of market potentialities, and for economic and social uses
where the county constitutes the unit of operation or control.
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CHAPTER IV
GENERAL ANALYSIS OF WHOLESALE TRADE STATISTICS
Unlike most surveys and sample studies in the field of wholesaling, the census data
for 1933, as well as those for 1929, have the advantage in that they represent complete
coverage and are of a much wider scope. Survey statistics are ordinarily confined to a
limited part of the universe studied, whereas census data cover the entire universe, the
results of which make possible a correction of the current data so that the latter may be
made more useful. Moreover, in a survey or sample study relatively few items are generally
covered. In the Wholesale Census, on the other hand, are included statistics not only on
the number of establishments and sales but also on many other phases of wholesaling, as
will be analyzed briefly in the following pages. The statistics derived from the census
are basic and fundamental : consequently, timeliness is not as important a factor as it is
in current data. In this Chapter an attempt will be made, first, to discuss and analyze
quantitatively the wholesale distribution process as a whole and, second, to analyze some-
what a few specific phases of the subject.
GENERAL SUMMARY OF WHOLESALE TRADE. — The Census of Wholesale Distribution, taken as
part of the Census of American Business in the early months of 1934, covers operations for
the year 1933 and is based upon schedules submitted for 164,170 establishments operating on
a wholesale basis, as defined in Chapter I. These establishments reported a volume of
business during the year, hereinafter generally referred to as net sales, amounting to
$32,151,373,000. Of this amount, sales to home consumers at retail totaled $585,945,000,
which must be subtracted from the amount stated above; to this must then be added the sales
made by retailers on a wholesale basis, or $461,659,000, so that the total volume of whole-
sale trade passing through merchandising establishments of all types, operating in all
kinds of business, amounted to $32,027,087,000.
Practically all of the business reported by wholesale establishments was secured from
the sale of merchandise, the remainder of the volume being obtained through the sale of
services which consisted of receipts from parking, storage, space rental, rental of ma-
chinery, rental of motion picture films, and from other sources of a miscellaneous character.
Receipts from the sale of merchandise accounted for $31,884,432,000 worth of business or
99.2 percent of the total, while all other sources of revenue contributed but $266,941,000
or 0,8 percent of the total.
In securing and transacting the volume of wholesale trade covered by the Census, the
establishments engaged in the business required an average of 1,095,977 full-time paid em-
ployees (exclusive of proprietors and firm members) and 125,943 part-time employees. Of
the total number of full-time and part-time employees, 1,003,097 were male and 219,823 or
7.9 percent were female. As compensation for their services during 1933 employees engaged,
by wholesale establishments received $1,714,109,000 in salaries, wages, commissions, and
bonuses; of this amount $59,871,000 was paid for part-time employment. In addition to
salaries and wages, other expenses were incurred in the operation of wholesale places of
business, amounting to $1,996,124,000. Thus, total expenses reported by wholesale estab-
lishments (not including the cost of merchandise, interest and amortization on the invest-
ment, salaries of proprietors and firm members, or net profit) aggregated $3,710, 233, 000;
which was 11.5 percent of net sales.
Stocks on hand at the end of 1933 for all wholesale establishments combined had a cost
or replacement value of $3,013,179,000, the equivalent of 9.4 percent of net sales for the
year. Some of the goods were sold for cash and others on time. For the establishments re-
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porting creciit sales, the proportion of business done on a creciit basis was 82.4 percent of
the total. The sale of goods was not limited to any single outlet or type of customer.
For the establishments which reported their sales by type of outlet, it was found that 52.2
percent of the business consisted of sales to retailers, 28.8 percent represented sales to
industrial users, 2.2 percent comprised sales to home consumers (at retail), and the re-
maining 16.8 percent consisted of sales to other wholesale organizations.
As compared with 1929, the number of wholesale establishments in 1933 was 3.2 percent
less and the voluae of business was 53.4 percent lower. This is significant, first, in
showing the relatively small decline during the depression in the number of wholesale
places of business, and second, in indicating the extent to which the sales per establish-
ment decreased. The following tabulation summarizes the most important changes affected in
wholesaling since 1929 (see Table I, below).
TABLE I. —GENERAL CHANGES IN WHOLESALING
1
Percent
Item
1929 1
1933
change
1929-33
Number of establishments
169,654
164,170
- 3.2
Net sales
$68,
950,108,000'
132,
151,373,000
-53.4
Average number of employees
I
(full-time and part-
1
time)
1,601,189
1,222.920
23.6
Pay roll
$3
003,555.000
$1
714,109,000
-42.9
Total expenses
Amount
$6
1
109,659.000
8.9
13
710,233,000
11.5
-39.2
Percent of net sales
-129.2
Stocks on hand (end of
year)
$5
151,228.000
$3
013,179,000
-41.6
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION IN RELATION TO THE WHOLESALING TASK. — In dealing with data for
1929 it was possible to prepare an estimate of the value of goods — manufactured products,
farm products, minerals, and the like — which were distributed in a wholesale manner, that
is. sold or transferred by their producers or importers to wholesalers, retailers, or
industrial users. The total then obtained of nearly $82,000,000,000 was an apprximate
measure of the task in terms of the total value of goods (at f.o.b. point of production or
import prices) to be distributed at wholesale. As against this figure the total volume of
wholesale trade covered by the Wholesale Census for 1929 was $68,950,108,000. The two
figures are, of course, not directly comparable. The wholesale trade figure is based on
prices charged by wholesale establishments which differ from the f.o.b. point of production
or import prices underlying the estimate of value of gocds istributed at wholesale by the
amount of the wholesale gross margin. Moreover, wholesale trade figures include an appre-
ciable amount of duplication arising from sales by one wholesale organization to another.
Nevertheless, the relationship between the two figures has some significance as a concrete
indication of the difference between the somewhat broader concepts of wholesaling measured
in terms of goods to be wholesaled and the narrower conception of wholesale trade adopted
by the Wholesale Census.
In the absence of requisite data, particularly on the break-down of manufacturers'
sales by type of outlet, it does not appear possible to prepare an estimate of the value of
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goods distributed in a wholesale manner in 1933. It is, however, feasible to estimate
roughly the change from 1929 to 1933 in the relationship between the task of wholesale dis-
tribution conceived from the standpoint of the task measured by the value of goods to be
sold at wholesale and wholesale trade as defined by the Census. The decline in the volume
of wholesale trade i£, as indicated above, 53.4 percent. The decline in the value of goods
entering wholesale distribution can be approximated by comparing the aggregate value of
output of manufacturing industries, mines and quarries, oil wells, of products sold by
farmers (farm cash income) and of goods imported in 1933 with that in 1929 (See Table II).
TABLE II.— VALUE OF PRINCIPAL ITEMS ENTERING
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933 and 1929
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
1933
1929
Manufactured products
Farm products (cash income), ,,
Products of mines and quarries
Petroleum (crude) production
Imported goods
$31,478,183 1/
4,981,846
1,959,000
606,789
1,449,559
169,960,909 2/
10,146,720
2,392,650
1,280,417
4,625,145
Total
40,475,376
88,405,841
1/ Includes motion picture industry which was covered by separate inquiry during 1933.
2/ Revised from 1929 published figures as per Summary by Industries published January 23,
1935 by the Census of Manufactures.
As is evident from Table II, above, the decline in the aggregate value cf the princi-
pal items entering for the most part wholesale distribution amounts to 54.2 percent. It
appears, therefore, that there was little or no significant change in the relation between
wholesale trade covered by the census and the total volume of goods available for distribu-
tion at wholesale during the four years of depression 1/.
WHOLESALE TRADE IN RELATION TO RETAIL SALES. —For the year 1933, the volume of busi-
ness done by wholesale establishments was 128.4 percent of the sales reported by retail
stores. When the total reported expenses of retail stores are deducted from retail sales,
in order to make the retail and wholesale figures more comparable as far as price* are con-
cerned, it appears that v/holesale trade was 173.4 percent of the retail business, despite
the fact that retail sales include several billions of dollars worth of goods purchased
directly from manufacturing plants and froir farmers, and which are, therefore, not included
in the wholesale census figures.
1/ To measure the total volume of wholesale trade on the basis of actual dollar trans-
actions, inclusive of duplication and operating margins, it would be necessary to add to the
total value of goods sold by producers at wholesale the sales reported by the various whole-
sale institutions.
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The excess of wholesale business over that of retail sales may be explained in several
ways. In the first place, the wholesale trade total includes a certain amount of export
business which naturally dos not enter domestic retail trade channels. Second, it involves
a considerable amount of duplication resulting from the sale of the same goods by two or
more wholesale organizations successively. For 1933 the amount of duplication reported,
consisting of sales by one wholesale organization to another, was 16.8 percent of the tot-
al. Finally, wholesale trade figures include a large volume of sales of industrial goods
like machinery, equipment, and raw materials. Such goods are sold even by the conventional
wholesalers but are not included in the sales reported by retail stores. As a matter of
fact, when all of these factors are considered, only approximately 52.0 percent of the
sales reported by wholesale establishments must be accounted for in the sales reported by
retail stores. It should also be pointed out in this connection that wholesale trade in-
cludes the business of establishments which are not conventionally considered as whole-
salers. Since establishments like agents and brokers operate on a wholesale basis and sell
substantial quantities of goods to retailers and to industrial users in direct competition
with regular wholesalers, they constitute a part of the wholesaling structure fully as much
as do service wholesalers.
Total sales made by wholesale establishments to retailers must not be confused with
the sales reported by the retail stores of the country. In addition to buying from whole-
sale organizations, retailers purchase substantial amounts of merchandise directly from
manufacturing plants and from farmers. Such transactions are not covered by the Wholesale
Census. Furthermore, as already indicated previously, retail sales figures are reported at
retail selling prices which necessarily include the gross margin of the retailers, whereas
the sales to retailers reported by wholesale establishment are given at wholesale prices.
Finally, many retailers included in their sales figures not only the prices secured from the
sale of merchandise, but also the value of certain services rendered in connection with
such sales, as in the case of restaurants and garages which do not sell the commodities in
the same form in which they purchase them. Retailers also included in their reported sales
receipts from repair work and other services to the extent of $567,767,000.
In relation to retail stores, the number of wholesale establishments has changed b\>t
little since 1929. At that time, the proportion of wholesale establishments to retail
stores was 10.99 percent, while in 1933 it was 10.75 percent. However, the volume of wholesale
trade dropped proportionately more than the volume of retail business. In 1929 wholesale
trade was 140.3 percent of the sales reported by retail stores, but in 1933 wholesale trade
was 128.4 percent of retail store volume.
The change in volume relationships between wholesale and retail trade may be accounted
for, principally, in two ways. As already indicated in a preceding paragraph, a large pro-
portion of wholesale sales represented business done with industrial consumers, with custom-
ers in foreign lands, and with other wholesale organizations. None of these transactions
directly affect retail store volume. Furthermore, wholesale trade involves a considerable
amount of duplication. It is possible that changes in the type of transactions just men-
tioned, since 1929, have been responsible for a considerable drop in wholesale volume,
making a close approximation between changes in wholesale and retail trade practically im-
possible.
A second factor in the situation is to be found in the relative variability in whole-
sale and retail prices, since sales volumes are expressed in terms of money. Wholesale
prices, as a rule, are more sensitive and tend to change more frequently and, over a period
of time, more radically than in the case of retail prices. For 1929 the composite index of
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wholesale prices for all commodities stood at 95.3; for 1933 this index was 65.9 and 30.8
percent lower. It is believed that the decline in retail prices for all commodities was
not as great. This would indicate that retail margins in 1933 were different from those of
1929 and varied from those of wholesale margins. As a matter of fact, operating expenses
of wholesale establishments were 29.2 percent higher in 1933 as compared with 1929, while
operating expenses of retail stores were but 23.2 percent higher in 1933.
DISTRIBUTION OF WHOLESALE TRADE BY GEOGRAPHIC AREAS
WHOLESALE TRADE BY GEOGRAPHIC DIVISIONS. — Even a cursory examination of Table III
will disclose the fact that, geographically, wholesale trad© is highly concentrated. Data
in Table III are shown for each of nine divisions which have been officially recognized by
the Bureau of the Census. Since wholesale trade is not usually confined within State bound-
aries, statistics by geographic divisions may be of greater importance in measuring mark
et potentialities of different parts of the country.
The Middle Atlantic, East North Central, and the West North Central divisions account-
ed for nearly two-thirds (65.4%) of the total volume of wholesale trade in 1933 and for ex-
actly two-thirds of the business during 1929. If the New England division is added, the
volume of wholesale business tr?nsacted by the establishments located in these four divi-
sions represented 72.1 percent of the total volume in 1933 and 72.8 percent of the volume
of wholesale trade in 1929.
WHOLESALE TRADE BY STATES. —Almost one-half (48.5%) of the total volume of wholesale
trade in 1933 was reported by wholesale establishments located in the four States of New
York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, and California. The same fcur States accounted fcr 48.4 per-
cent of the volume of trade in 1929. An additional six States, consisting, in the crder of
their importance measured by volume of wholesale trade, of Missouri, Ohio, Massachusetts,
Texas, Michigan, and Minnesota contributed approximately an additional 23.0 percent so that
the 10 leading States, from the standpoint of volume of wholesale trade, accounted for 71.5
percent of all wholesale trade in 1933 and almost a similar proportion of the total (71.8%)
in 1929. Only 8 of the 48 States reported more than a billion dollars worth of wholesale
business each during 1933. Together these States made up 65.8 percent of the total volume
of business during the year, which means that the remaining 34.2 percent of the wholesale
volume of trade was distributed among 39 States and the District of Columbia, again showing
an unusually high concentration of business, geographically.
The principal changes in rank of the various States since 1929, based on wholesale
trade volume, can be gleaned from Table III and Chart I. While the same 10 States lei in
the volume of wholesale business during both years, 7 of them have changed in rank in 1933
from that of 1929. New York, Illinois, and Texas retained their first, second, and eighth
places, respectively. Michigan and Minnesota have changed places, the latter State moving
ahead to ninth position. The most notable changes, however, are to be found in the case of
California, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Massachusetts, and Missouri. California changed places
with Pennsylvania, moving up from fourth place to third, probably because of the abnormal
decline in the volume of business in the heavy goods industries which are so important a
factor in the wholesale trade of Pennsylvania. Ohio and Massachusetts advanced from sixth
to fifth and from seventh to sixth positions, respectively, while Missouri descended from
fifth to seventh place. The loss in rank of the State of Missouri iray be explained in part
by the unusual decline in the business of farm products of the raw material type such as
live stock. Most of the remaining 38 States also changed rank during 1933, with the most
radical changes taking places in the States, a large proportion of whose business in 1929
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Cansus of
amsrlean
3u»lnes8 T,tp,j- ni— >HOLES;>LE TRADE FuR THE UNITED ST^TIS, BY GEOGfiAPHlC DIVISIONS AMI STATKS-1933 AND 1829
(All
valuea expressed In thousanda
3f dollara)
Gflograpblc DlTlalona '
Number of
Total
Average
Stocka on
establishments
Net sales
axpensas
number of
full-tlne
rty roll
hand lend
and States
=*rcen1
Part-
of year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
:hange
Amount
employees
Total
time
Total
164.170
169.654
S32.151.373
S68.950.108
53.4
&5.710.233
1.096.977
41.714.109
«59.871
13,013,179^
.lEW ENGLAND
8,633
9,793
2.144.258
4,195,261
48.9
354.477
73.699
120.295
3.120
206.248
Connecticut
1,412
1,369
336,829
520,551
35.3
45,626
13,721
21,424
645
49,573
Maine
864
987
109,495
189,975
42.4
16,768
5,460
7,825
293
13,699
Maasachuaetta
5,144
6,066
1,469,407
3,065,856
52.1
161,872
45,174
77,407
1,867
118,669
New Harapahire
334
326
38,074
61,414
38.0
6,248
2,073
2,895
75
3,844
Rhode laland
579
737
148,702
300,072
50.4
17,694
5,252
7,994
170
15,382
Teimont
300
308
41,751
57,393
27.3
6,269
2,019
2,750
70
5,081
JUDDLE ATLANTIC
34.304
38,197
11,085,704
23,360,807
52.6
1,134,161
293,235
520,800
10,958
822,170
New Jersey
2,700
2,344
561,537
1,008,881
44.3
81,715
23,380
36,613
942
61,752
New York
21,899
25,311
8,333,836
17,604,634
52.7
788,194
194,591
368,116
6,860
590,737
PenusylTanla
9,705
10,542
2,190,331
4,777,292
54.2
264,252
75,264
116,071
3,156
169,681
EAST NOHTH CiMTRAL
34,557
32.185
6.244.308
14. 028.41:
55.5
767.762
230.202
361.753
10,666
503.719
Illinois
11,924
11,587
2,816,346
6,861,067
59.0
322,441
89,344
150,174
4,231
195,134
Indiana
4,240
3,734
425,743
921,561
53.8
53,609
19,061
26,580
943
38,740
:.Ilchigan
5,803
5,272
896,582
2,172,405
58.7
114,079
35,203
53,009
1,421
75,833
Ohio
8,317
8,077
1,563,854
3,094,100
49.5
202,351
62,752
96,570
2,686
128,326
Wiaconaln
4,273
3,515
541,783
979,276
4J.7
75,282
23,842
35,420
1,385
65,686
WEST NORTH CENTRAL
29.166
28.953
3,697.515
8.577,122
56.9
398.622
133,139
188,336
6.167
390,00?
Iowa
5,252
4,954
464,433
1,057,006
56.1
53,343
19 ,376
25,393
1,179
39,911
Kanaaa
5,012
4,322
299,123
888,677
66.3
34,214
12,896
16,953
822
34,922
Minnesota
5,184
5,521
913,298
1,716,944
46.8
91,841
29,389
42,733
1,325
112,353
I^laaourl
6,107
6,674
1,444,356
3,361,721
57.0
157,999
49,522
73,693
1,726
144,389
Nebra aka
3,419
2,890
408,476
1,054,064
61.2
38,229
13,558
18,416
720
32,058
North Dakota
2,436
2,619
93,990
262,430
64.2
11,783
4,346
5,831
188
14,707
South Dakota
1,756
1,973
73,839
236,280
68.7
11,213
4,052
5,327
207
11,662
SOUTH ATLANTIC
14,590
15,652
2,517.203
4,657,675
46.0
295,618
99.940
136.535
7.360
275.069
Delaware
259
2G6
59,182
U8,086
49.9
7,183
1,783
3,244
97
7,235
District of Columbia
575
496
179,077
261,083
31.4
20,381
7,444
10,989
92
11,527
Florida
2,051
2,054
280,305
466,535
39.9
41,612
15,446
19,171
1,794
22,368
Georgia
2,275
3,183
429,242
1,016,496
57.8
49,118
15,244
21,059
470
57,442
Maryland
2,251
2,205
419,522
741,367
43.4
49,462
17,788
23,660
1,021
35,838
North Carolina
2,367
2,413
423,127
717,432
41.0
39,524
13,411
18,160
1,542
54,568
South Carolina
1,242
1,539
172,062
333,528
48.4
15,388
4,936
6,393
200
12,761
Virginia
2,382
2,344
359,784
656,309
45.2
48,105
16,232
22,237
1,824
53,992
West Virginia
1,188
1,132
194,902
346,839
43.8
24,845
7,656
11,622
320
19,338
EAST SODTH CENTRAL
6,885
7.739
1,015,974
2.550.847
60.2
124.059
43.630
55.607
2.627
150.906
Alaoama
1,603
1,743
209,397
574,145
63.5
28,911
9,525
12,510
366
31,948
Kentucky
2,007
2,027
272,895
522,495
47.8
34,447
13,017
16,564
1,318
54,113
Ulssisslppl
1,248
1,713
143,240
385,226
62.8
14,982
5,023
6,246
•291
13,448
Tennessee
1,967
2,256
390,442
1,068,981
63.5
45,719
16,065
20,287
652
51.406
WEST SOUTH CEWTRAL
15,096
17.566
1.987.060
4.787.187
58.5
231.652
76.316
103.625
3.653
288.267
Arkansas
1,294
2,052
121,504
373,074
67.4
16,969
6,U8
7,787
281
15,696
Loulaana
2,097
1,729
455,321
836,197
45.5
54,170
17,962
23,385
515
78,257
OklahcDB
4,180
4,179
312,835
773,398
59.6
38,531
12,908
17,998
742
34,012
Texaa
7,525
9,606
1,097,400
2,804,518
60.9
121,982
39,328
54,455
2,115
160,102
MOUNTAIN
5.900
5.788
562.690
1.176.215
52.2
80,823
25j774
37,379
1,935
65.374
Arizona
476
358
49,795
97,554
49.0
8,413
2,260
3,700
881
4,983 i
Colorado
1,823
2,075
239,035
539,626
55.7
32,975
10,976
15,380
531
23,358
Idaho
768
674
50,689
98,462
48.5
7,359
2,078
3,257
443
6,124
Montana
1,242
1,249
79,441
156,545
49.9
10,172
3,312
4,900
247
12,499
Neva da
141
96
9,963
13,719
27.4
1,738
436
756
36
1,100
New Mexico
448
317
27,89S
53,647
47.9
4,150
1,293
1,937
61
4,151
Utah
653
736
86,758
180,101
51.8
13,271
4,572
6,184
185
10,475
Wyoming
PACIFIC
349
15.099
283
13.781
19,117
2.896,661
34,661
5,586.581
44.8
48.1
2,745
423,059
847
121.042
1,265
189.779
51
13.385
2,684
811.424
California
U,052
9,751
2,255,256
4,159,823
48.8
328,541
92,049
145,840
11,005
236,371
uregon
1,333
1,439
202,146
466,831
56.7
31, Ul
9,705
14, 5U
643
26,402
WaahlnRton
9.711
S.$91
439,259
960,427
54.3
63,407
19.886
8«,4iM
1,737
48.651
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
CHART /.-COMPARISON OF NET SALES. 1929 AND 1933. BY STATES
BILLIONS OF DOLLARS
3 4 5
1929
1933
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was in farm products, such as grain, live stock, and leaf tobacco, or in the heavy goods
industries such as machinery, equipment, and metals.
WHOLESALE TRADE BY COUNTIES. — The tremendous concentration of wholesale trade by
counties is shown in Table IV below and in Table 9 of this Summary, as well as on the
accompanying map. Of the total volume of wholesale trade, over one-third (34.9%) was
accounted for by the four counties of Manhattan borough, New York; Cook, Illinois; Phila-
delphia, Pennsylvania; and Suffolk, Massachusetts. Each of these counties reported more
than a billion dollars worth of wholesale trade during 1933. Another 16.3 percent of the
business was contributed by eight additional counties, each reporting an annual volume of
business from one-half to one billion dollars. In this group are included, in the order of
their importance, San Francisco, California; Los Angeles, California; St. Louis City,
Missouri; Wayne, Michigan; Alleghany, Pennsylvania; Cuyahoga, Ohio; Hennepin, Minnesota;
and Jackson, Missouri. Thus, over one-half (51.2%) of the wholesale business was transact-
ed by establishments located within twelve counties, although these counties contained but
14.5 percent of the total population.
TABLE IV. —WHOLESALE TRADE OF ESTABLISHMENTS LOCATED IN
SPECIFIED COUNTY GROUPS, BASED ON VOLUME OF BUSINESS
Volume of business
County
group
Number of
counties
1933
Percent of
total
1933 1929
Amount
Percent
of total
Total 1 3.120 1 3,150 j $32,151,573,000
$1,000,000,000 1 1 1
and over \ 4
$ 500,000,000 to)
1,000,000,000 1 8
$ 100,000,000 to|
500,000,000 i 31
$ 50,000,000 tol
100,000,000 1 33
Less than | | |
$ 50,000,000 13,04412,9931 7,308,397,000
11| 11,229,689.000
1
13l 5,229,453,000
I
1
52 i 6,055,848,000
1
51 1 2,347,986,000
100.0
100.0
34.9]
1
16.3]
1
18.81
1
7.3|
I
22. 7|
51.4
12.2
14.6
5.0
16.8
1/ Includes 24 independent cities in Virginia and the independent city of St.
Louis which have the same status as counties; also the District of Columbia.
Counties in which wholesale establishments reported an aggregate volume of wholesale
trade from $100,000,000 to one-half billion dollars, numbered 31 and accounted for 18.8
percent of all v/holesale business during 1933. An additional 33 counties, each reporting
from $50,000,000 to $100,000,000 worth of wholesale business contributed 7.3 percent of the
volume. Altogether, 76 counties and independent cities in the United States, each with
business of $50,000,000 or over during 1933, contributed $24,842,976,000, or 77.3 percent
of the total volume of wholesale trade for the entire country. This compares with 127
counties and independent cities, each with business of $50,000,000 and over, which, during
1929, accounted for 83.2 percent of the total volume of wholesale trade.
WHOLESALE TRADE BY CITIES. — An indication of the unsually high concentration of whole-
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sale trade in urban centers is clearly brought out by the data in Table V. Approximately
three-fourths (75.3%) of all wholesale busir.ess was transacted in 1933 by establishments
located in the 93 cities having, in 1930, a population of 100,000 or more inhabitants.
This business was conducted by 73,879 establishments or about 45 percent of the wholesale
cn'.ablishments in th3 United States. For the year 1929 the same 93 wholesale centers
contributed 76.8 percent of the volu.r-e cf business and contained a little less than 48 per-
cent of the wholesale establishments in existence at that tine. It would appear, thtre-
fore, that regardless of economic conditions, wholesaling is concentrated in large cities
and that the relative importance of such cities has remained the same during the depress-
ion.
Since the 100,000 cities represented a little over 75 percent of the total volume of
wholesale trade for 1933, but contained only 45 percent of the establishments, it would
appear that the average size of the business unit is much greater in these cities than in
other communities. In partial explanation of this condition it should be pointed out that,
in small communities, there are a large number of assemblers and country buyers of farm
products which operate on a relatively small scale and thereby reduce the average size of
the establishment. In such small communities are also found a large number of the cream
stations and bulk tank stations operating in the petroleum trade, both of which are of re-
relatively small size.
Although the larger cities, as a group, dominate the wholesaling picture, there is by
no means perfect correlation between volume of .vholesale trade and the population within
the city. The three leading cities in population. New York, Chicago, and Philadelphia, are
also the leading wholesale centers, but thereafter notable differences are to be found.
Boston, for exa.'nple, is the fourth largest wholesale center, although it is only ninth in
population. San Francisco, which ran'.'.s eleventh in population is fifth in wholesale trade;
St. Louis vvhich ranks seventh in population is sixth in wholesale trade, while Minneapo-
lis, which is fifteenth in population, ran:.s eleventh in wholesale trade. Conversely,
there are a number of cities which have a lo^-er rank in wholesale trade than they enjoy in
population.
COMPOSITION OF WHOLESALE TRADE
WHOLESALE TRADE, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT. — Totals for wholesale trade are important
and interesting, but for "specific application to business problems totals must be broken
c'- -\ to a considerable extent. For this reason all wholesale establishments have been div-
ided into six groups, according to tho ''V?^ of establishment or the nature of functions
performed. Four of these groups have been further subdivided. Each of the types for which
data are presented in the United States Summary throughout the various tables and for each
of the States has been defined in Chapter III. In Table 1 (see page A-1) of the United
States Summary statistics are summarized for each of 19 types of wholesale establishments.
Of the total number of A-holesale establishments in the United States, 50.5 percent
were wholesalers proper and 10. 3 percent represented manufacturers' sales branches; 15.9
percent were bulk tank stations; 0.3 percent constituted chain store warehouses; 14.6 per-
cent were assemblers and country buyers; while agents and brokers accounted for 8.4 percent
of the total. The toial volume of wholesale business was distributed as follows: whole-
salers proper, 40.4 percent; manufacturers' sales branches, 23.5 percent; bulk tank sta-
tions, 5.9 percent; chain store warehouses, 4.5 percent; assemblers and country buyers,
5.5 percent; and agents and brokers, 20.2 percent.
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THOLESAL*: DISTRIBUTIOII: 1933
TABLE V -^THOLESALK TRADE OF CITIIB HAVING, IN 1930, 100,000 DEUBITAHTE OR MOTE
1933 and 1929
(All
TOluas axnressed In thousanda of doll«re
1
Nunber of
Net salaa
Average
Pay roll
eatabl^ nhmAnf.o
number
stocks on
band ( end
Cltlea
1933
1929
of
full-time
Total
Part-tine
of year
1933)
1933
1929
Percent
Percent
smployaas
1933
1933
Amount
of
total
Amount
of
total
1933
UNITED STATES
164.170
169.654
832,151,373
100.0
J68.950.108
100,0
L.096.977
tl. 714. 109,
459.871
S3.013.179
TOTAL FOR PRINCIPAL CITES
73,879
81,314
24,200,854
75.27
52,940,566
76.78
739,340
1,231,186
27,907
2,103,740
Akron, Ohio
272
201
126,638
0.39
105,532
0.15
4,189
7,751
94
6,773
Albany, N. Y.
303
243
85,675
0.27
124,335
0.18
2,864
4,836
91
6,316
Atlanta, Ca.
642
750
216,235
0.67
498,917
0.72
7,543
11,794
148
27,925
Baltimore, Ud.
1,610
1,589
365,392
1.14
651,096
0.94
15,149
20,319
598
31,181
Birmlsgham, Ala.
417
423
81,965
0.25
254,204
0.37
3,908
5,536
126
7,528
Boaton, Maaa.
2,866
3,653
1,004,899
3.13
2,357,017
3.42
26,459
48,967
1,043
76,794
Bridgeport, Conn.
212
145
59,852
0.19
74,574
0.11
2,363
3,993
105
8,840
Buffalo, K. Y.
913
1,166
262,550
0.82
671,765
0.97
10,331
15,322
399
23,396
Csmbrldge, Uaaa.
62
121
30,675
0.10
55,755
0.08
1,631
2,731
28
3,898
Camden, N. J.
119
65
14,841
0.05
19,388
0.03
895
1,298
84
1,294
Canton, Ohio
128
120
20,906
0.07
35,224
0.05
1,005
1,453
38
2,295
Chattanooga, Tenn.
156
135
29,643
0.09
62,754
0.09
1,301
1,626
40
2,585
Chicago, III.
6,108
6,702
2,315,720
7.20
5,870,166
8.51
70,294
123,901
2,888
155,983
Cincinnati, Ohio
1,258
1,326
341,343
1.06
729,814
1.06
12,784
20,330
452
24,708
Clareland, Ohio
2,015
1,968
526,606
1.64
1,106,723
1.61
18,362
31,3^4
846
44,440
Columtiua, Ohio
411
518
111,108
0i3S
228,252
0.33
4,922
6,825
90
8,596
Dallas, Texas
711
809
319,172
0.99
729,157
1.06
7,566
11,765
139
41,690
Dayton, Ohio
263
2^7
49,390
o.i:
U2,669
0.16
2,435
3,429
56
4,924
Denver, Colo.
695
934
182,285
0.57
395,958
0.37
7,710
11,050
285
16,731
Oea Ibines, Iowa
296
333
75,179
0.2:
149,075
0.22
3,457
5,264
124
7,049
Detroit, Mict.
2,175
2,136
613,854
1.91
1,540,060
2.23
20,890
34,108
548
45,484
Duluth, Minn.
169
185
62,782
0.20
171,363
0.28
2,540
3,378
99
11,211
Elizabeth, N. J.
91
75
15,835
0.05
51,161
0.07
400
631
84
2,794
El Faao, Texas
187
205
30,381
0.09
74,384
0.11
1,424
1,819
55
3,350
Erie, Pa.
146
15S
13,824
0.04
31,947
0.05
832
1,053
35
1,875
ETansvllle, Ind.
142
184
30,288
0.09
61,096
0.09
1,166
1,786
51
2,402
Fall River, Mass.
142
130
23,590
0.07
55,144
0.08
865
1,179
25
1,067
Flint, Mich.
133
102
22,209
0.07
38,519
0.06
1,001
1,370
39
1,705
Fort Tayne, Ind,
184
158
30,500
0.09
53,164
0.08
1,690
2,400
68
3,730
Fort Worth, Texas
250
240
81,878
0.25
276,844
0.40
2,432
3,519
U7
9,480
Gary, Ind.
sa
38
6,272
0.02
10,053
0.01
359
568
16
488
Gr<v>d Rapids, Mich.
306
416
54,066
0.17
152,630
0.22
8,164
3,118
94
4,827
Hartford, Conn.
283
323
49,391
0.15
128,187
0.18
3,179
4,178
98
9,686
Houston, Texas
517
506
211,610
0.66
519,913
0.75
7,167
10,622
829
41,153
Indlanapolla, Ind.
598
730
188,575
0.59
436,596
0.6S
6,417
9,698
880
14,970
Jacksonville, Fla.
£68
346
74,749
0.23
180,779
0.26
2,914
3,924
73
7,104
Jersey City, N. J.
157
169
51,935
0.19
117,769
0.17
8,023
3,219
132
4,997
Eiansaa City, Kan.
69
97
28,475
0.09
98,817
0.13
1,225
1,800
4S
3,498
Kansaa City, Mo.
1,271
1,664
513,310
1.60
1,400,782
2.03
13,083
80,938
538
51,398
Enoxvllla, Tenn.
143
13B
27,045
0.08
BS,44B
0.08
1,301
1,749
31
8,973
Long Beach, Calif.
172
127
16,495
0.08
33,893
0.08
935
1,561
41
1,41B
Los Angelea, Calif.
3,531
3,153
660,419
8.05
1,379,989
1.00
28,745
45,873
1,848
78,643
Louis vl lie, Ky.
482
828
187,251
0.40
267,679
0.39
6,861
8,847
811
83,819
lovell, Haas.
93
89
9,843
0.03
84,043
0.03
495
653
16
ac8
Lynn, Uaaa.
104
119
9,862
COS
17,831
0.08
68«
969
66
900
Uamphls, Tenn.
408
sas
178,890
0.56
688,877
0.98
6,843
8,618
Itf
17,968
Miami, Fla.
837
84T
34,764
O.U
48,789
0.07
1,708
8,383
«•
8,615
Milwaukee, Wis.
i,ao
1,059
301,526
0.94
548,650
0.79
18,942
80,189
8oe
31,370
Mlnneapolla, Mln>.
HaahTllla, ^nn.
993
1,316
818,679
1.61
Stf,4S8
1.83
15,850
81,067
449
rs.&M
300
sn
76,714
0.84
189,897
0.19
3,03S
3,736
US
6.C04
ss
CensuB of
Amarlcas
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBDTION: 1933
TABLE T — ■7H0LE3ALE; TRADE OF CITIES HAVING, IN 1930, 100,000 INHABITANTS OH MORE"
1933 and 1929
(All
values eiuresaed In
thousands of dollars
)
Number of
Net sales
Average
Fay roll
establlsbmsnts
number
Stocks OH
Cities
1933
1929
of
•rf WW V1L0 KfX^
hand (and
full— time
Total
Part-time
of year
1933)
1933
1929
Percent
Percent
employees
19SS
1933
Amount
of
tuUL.
Amount
of
total
1933
Newark, N. J.
759
643
«211,197
0.66
»393,420
0.57
8,563
♦14,191
1297
♦15,030
Hew Bedford, Mass.
126
167
15,484
0.05
35,837
0.05
670
926
30
1,252
New HaTen, Conn.
298
389
67,892
0.21
138,850
0.20
2,959
4,800
114
6,898
New Orleans, La.
871
712
323,452
1.01
601,981
0.87
11,259
14,434
236
54,663
New York City (Greater New
York)
16,836
19,618
7,376,091
22.94
15,531,148
22.67
154,714
307,561
5,051
500,558
Bronx Borough
567
375
150,087
187,913
4,487
7,390
172
9,494
Brooklyn Borough
1,418
1,818
284,763
699,107
10,869
19,130
516
20,866
Manhattan Borough
14,520
15,948
6,811,486
14,529,672
134,085
272,295
4,109
461,974
Queens Borough
266
400
124,312
202,715
4,935
8,278
235
7,745
Richmond Borou^
65
77
5,443
11,740
339
468
19
479
Norfolk, 7a.
334
319
82,933
0.26
153,754
0.22
2,711
4,078
304
9,490
Oakland, Calif.
469
390
74,547
0.23
129,170
0.19
3,924
5,790
162
7,567
Oklahoma City, Okla.
397
464
89,195
0.28
287,932
0.42
3,569
5,389
117
10,050
Omaha, Nebr.
647
647
275,598
0.86
704,088
1.02
7,338
11,295
256
18,017
Pateraon, N. J,
189
141
34,224
0.11
65,958
0.10
1,174
1,826
47
3,186
Peoria, 111.
251
215
53,795
0.17
98,759
0.14
1,860
2,819
108
3,685
Philadelphia, Pa.
3,418
4,357
1,047,178
3.26
2,280,884
3.31
33,980
55,090
1,188
81,355
Pittsburgh, Pa.
1,37D
1,849
569,721
1,77
1,484,500
2.15
14,732
23,992
769
29,136
Portlaid, Ore.
715
867
149,044
0.46
383,432
0.56
6,842
10,544
411
20,540
Providence, R. I.
412
577
115,062
0.36
246,423
0.36
4,125
6,447
149
U,948
Reading, Pa.
177
203
32,950
0.10
56,148
0.08
1,283
1,951
74
2,493
Richmond, Va.
401
416
103,989
0.32
233,611
0.34
4,737
6,995
501
24,643
Rochester, N. Y.
502
571
120,324
0.37
226,031
0.33
4,339
7,158
346
10,590
St. Louis, Mo.
1,890
1,940
721,735
2.24
1,430,981
2.08
26,737
40,542
630
76,090
St. Paul, Minn.
439
462
106,878
0.33
221,746
0.32
6,143
8,247
183
13,052
Salt T«1<B City, Utah
365
334
60,629
0.19
130,332
0.19
3,535
4,756
136
7,562
San Antonio, Texas
366
343
58,063
0.18
133,820
0.19
3,302
3,870
66
7,934
San Diego, Calif.
S49
199
40,985
0.13
56,839
0.08
2,366
3,511
94
3,889
San Francisco, Calif.
2,696
3,154
911,747
2.84
1,784,175
2.59
25,385
44,780
1,288
106,396
Scianton, Pa.
347
279
63,116
0,20
111,866
0.16
2,178
3,137
77
4,527
Seattle, Wash,
1,070
1,220
226,155
0.70
547,707
0.79
9,602
15,299
419
24,5a
Somervllle, Mass.
38
31
86,054
0.27
32,993
0.05
1,158
1,480
17
3,722
South Bend, Ind.
126
129
14,064
0.04
40,619
0.06
872
1,179
41
1,808
Spokane, Wash.
240
256
44,978
0.14
134,049
0.19
2,185
3,181
73
6,713
Springfield, liass.
296
254
72,565
0.23
115,560
0.17
2,956
4,520
103
6,282
Syracuse, N. Y.
285
460
72,931
0.23
178,536
0.26
2,777
4,447
79
5,551
Tacoma, Wash.
177
150
30,953
0.10
55,940
0.08
1,663
2,476
104
4,879
Tan5a, Florida
390
223
49,324
0.15
82,679
0.12
2,199
3,206
UO
4,394
Toledo, Ohio
428
417
109,342
0.34
187,893
0.27
4,549
6,731
162
9,C81
Tienton, N. J.
129
132
20,619
0.06
36,593
0.05
1,1S4
1,621
23
1,633
Tttlsa, Okla.
375
282
94,706
0.17
103,666
0.15
2,244
3,563
80
6,24»
Utlea, N. T.
142
184
25,856
o.oe
5«,SS9
0.09
1,078
1,556
26
2,919
Washington, D. 0,
575
496
179,077
0.56
281,083
0.38
7,444
10,989
92
11,98?
Wichita, Kans.
299
256
63,899
0.20
161,159
0.23
2,282
3,334
113
6,96>
Wilmington, Del.
157
127
52,643
0.16
102,114
0.15
1,541
2,871
50
6,839
Worcester, Haas.
222
246
45,238
0.14
68,455
0.10
2,093
3,080
77
6.48T
Yonkers, N. T.
82
74
15,539
0.05
27,695
0.04
761
1,223
9
1,B4»
"Youngstown, Ohio
198
194
36,904
O.U
100,942
0.15
1,858
2,328
70
3,060
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For all kinds of business combined, wholesale merchants of the conventional type were
the most important wholesale organization, both in the number of establishments and the
volume of business reported. They comprised 76,856 establishments, or 46 . S percent of all
establishments, doing $11,302,947,000 worth of business, or 35.1 percent of the total. Of
all wholesalers proper, wholesale merchants constituted 92.7 percent of the number of es
tablishments, doing 87.0 percent of the business, which means that as far as wholesalers
(who take title to the goods and are largely independent in ownership) are concerned, the
more or less old-fashioned type, service wholesaler, designated as wholesale merchant, is
still dominant. Limited function wholesalers, on the other hand, comprising a variety of
relatively newer types such as d"op-shippers, wagon distribut )rs, and cash-and-carry whole
salers, constituted but 4.1 percent of the number of establishments operated by wholesalers
proper and transacted but 2.8 percent of the business. When the limited function whole-
salers are vieived as a part of the entire v/holesaling structure, their importance, from the
standpoint of both number and volume of business, is still further diminished.
Second in importance, from the standpoint of net sales, A-ere manufacturers' sales
branches. Of that group, 73.8 percent carried stocks and did 68.1 percent of the business.
From the standpoint of numbers, however, bulk tank stations were second in importance,
followed by as.3emblers and country buyers operating in the agricultural field, and manu-
facturers' sales branches took fourth place. Among the agents and brokers, manufacturers'
agents were the most numerous, but commission merchants led from the standpoint of volume
of business, followed by brokers and selling agents, respectively.
The foreign trade of the United States was represented by 2,176 importers with a vol-
ume of business of $776,354,000 and 453 exporters //ith sales of $558,147,000. In addition
there ,vere 240 export agents with reported sales of $135,126,000 and 179 import agents
«hose business air.ounted to $50,541,000. The figures on foreign trade presented herein by
no means represented the entire volume of foreign trade during 1933, since the census is
based upon establishments and did not cover exports or imports made directly by manufactur-
ers and other producers, nor does the census show, separately, the volume of import und ex-
port business done by wholesale establishments which did not specialize in foreign trade.
The data by type of wholesale establishment, as shown in the several tables, indicate,
first, the relative inportance of each functional type of organization; second, the varia-
tion in employment, total expenses, and other items as affected by the type of organiza-
tion; and third, changes in the relative importance of the different types since 1929 (See
Chart II) .
In the light of the various predictions concerning the elimination of the wholesaler,
it may be interesting to note what changes have taken place since 1929 in the relative
position of that middleman, as well as of other institutions operating in the wholesale
field. Reference to Chart II and Table I reveals the fact that wholesalers proper repre-
sented, in 1933, 50.5 percent of the establishments and 40.4 percent of the volume of busi-
ness reported by all wholesale places of business, as compared with 47.0 percent of the
establishments and 42.5 percent of the volume in 1929. Thus, while wholesalers proper
showed an actual increase in number of 3.9 percent since 1929, a decline in volume of 55.6
percent, in relation to other wholesale establishments they registered an increase of 3.5
percent in the number of establishments and a decline of but 2.0 percent in the volume of
business. These figures indicate not only that wholesalers proper, consisting, for the
most part, of what may be termed old-fashioned service wholesalers, are the dominant type
of wholesaling, but also show that this institution has apparently exhibited considerable
tenacity in the face of adverse circumstances.
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Kanufactvirers' sales branches also held their own remarkably well. While they regist-
ered a decrease in the number of establishments of 1.2 percent since 1929, these branches
actually increased, in proportion to other types of wholesaling., from 11.2 percent in 1929,
to 11.5 percent in 1933. The volume of business of these branches declined 53.7 percent,
?.•? compared with an average decrease for all wholesale establishments of 53.4 percent,
which means that they maintained the sace relative position during the two periods covered
by the census.
Chain store warehouses registered a considerable increase in volume of business, 4.13
percent of total in 1933 as compared with 2.8 percent for 1929. Of the six type groups by
which wholesaling operations have been classified, assemblers and country buyers suffered
the greatest percentage decrease in business, while bulk tank stations experienced the
smallest decline in volume and showed an actual increase in the number of establisnments.
WHOLESALE TR-'^DE, BY KIND OF BUSINESS. — In addition to being classified according to
functional type, each establishment was also classified by kind of business, on the basis
of the chief line or lines of merchandise in which it dealt. Follo-.ving this basis of clas-
sification, wholesale establishments were divided into twenty-five major kind-of-business
groups, which were furtner sub-divided into 166 detailed kind of business classifications
according to the degree of merchandise specialization. For example, a wholesaler of silks
and velvets obviously deals in dry goods and must, therefore, be classified in the dry
goods group. However, it would not be proper to compare the operations of such a concern
with those of wholesalers of notions or with v,-holesalers handling a general line of dry
goods. For this reason the establishment wholesaling silks and velvets, while included in
the dry goods group total, is classified under the subdivision "piece goods" so that com--
parisons may be made of homogeneous businesses.
The importance of breaking down wholesale establishments into detailed kind-of-busi-
ness classifications becomes apparent as soon as one attempts to make specific use of the
figures. Trade associations, code authorities, economists, and statisticians may thus
determine, from the data shown in Tables 2-^ (see page A-2) and 2-B (see page .A-5), the
total number of wholesale establishments operating in a given line of business, their net
sales, operating expenses, the average number of full-time employees engaged in such trade,
the pay roll disbursed during the year 1933, and the stocks on hand at the end of the year.
These data can be compared, first, with similar information for 1929 in order to discern
changes and, second, with similar data for other kinds of business as a means of determin-
ing the relative importance, operating costs, etc. of the kind of business under considera-
tion.
Total stocks on hand in the various wholesale establishments operating in a given line
of business constitute an interesting and important item of informaticn, showing the amounts
cf merchandise in the wholesale channels at a given time. It is of utmost importance, how-
over, not to confuse kind of business information v.lth commodity data. The two are quite
different. For example, wholesale establishments are classified as electric refrigerator
concerns because the bulk of t".;air business is in such merchandise and not because they
handle refrigerators to the exclusion of all other goods. On the other hand, electric re-
frigerators are handled also by wholesale establishments in the automotive trade, by hard-
ware wholesalers, and by wholesalers engaged principally in the sale of other merchandise
than electrical goods. Consequently, it woul-^. "..e erroneous to regard the business of elec-
tric refrigerator wholesale establishments "s synonymous with the business in electric re-
frigerators as a commodity.
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CHART ///.-COMPARISON OF NCT SALES. 1929 AND 1933. BY KIND OF BUSINESS - UNITED STATES
QRpCERIES AND FOODS
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FARM PRODUCTS -
RAW MATERIALS
FARM PRODUCTS -
CONSUMER GOODS
METALS
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DRY GOODS
PETROLEUM AND ITS PRODUCTS 29.1
MACHINERY. EQUIPMENT
AND SUPt>LIES
(EXCEPT ELECTRICAL)
ELECTRICAL GOODS
AUTOMOTIVE PRODUCTS
CLOTHING AND FURNISHINGS S4.3
LUMBER AND
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PAPER AND ITS PRODUCTS 4T.0
FURNITURE AND
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FARM SUPPLIES
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59.5
HARDWARE S4.S
DRUGS AND DRUG SUNDRIES 36. 0
PLUMBING AND HEATING
EQUIPMENT AND SUPPLIES 67 6
GENERAL MERCHANDISE
WASTE MATERIALS
JEWELRY AND OPTICAL GOODS 69.9
AMUSEMENT AND
SPORTING GOODS
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The largest number of wholesale establishments operated in the petroleum buiness,
followed by those dealing in groceries and foods; farm products-consumer goods; farm pro-
ducts-raw materials; and machinery, equipment, and supplies. These five lines of trade
accounted for 104,214 establishments or 63.5 percent of the total. However, from the
standpoint of volume of business, as shown in Tables 2-A and 2-B and on Chart III, grocer-
ies and foods led all of the 25 kind-of-business groups, comprising 23.6 percent of the
total volume of wholesale trade. Next in importance were the establishments dealing in
farm products of the raw material type, with 12.1 percent of the business, followed by farm
products-consumer goods, with 9.9 percent; petroleum and its products, with 7.1 percent;
and dry goods, with 7.0 percent. While establishments dealing in petroleum and its pro-
ducts led in numbers, they contributed but 7.1 percent of the volume of wholesale trade,
thus occupying fourth place on the basis of net sales. Other lines of trade with more than
one billion dollars worth of business during the year were metals (except scrap) and mach-
inery, equipment, and supplies. Thus, the seven kind-of-business groups reporting on
annual volume of more than a billion dollars made up slightly more than two-thirds (67.4
percent) of the business.
Examination of the data in Tables 2-A and 2-B reveals the high degree to which whole-
saling permeates the various lines of trade. Instead of being confined, as has been popu-
larly believed, to so-called "jobbing" lines such as groceries, hardware, drugs, and dry
goods, there is hardly a line of trade of any importance which does not move through whole-
sale channels, regardless of the newness of the products involved. These tables also show
to what extent wholesale establishments specialized in the kind of merchandise handled.
From such data it is possible to ascertain, for example, just how many wholesale establish-
ments carried a general line of dry goods, how many of them confined themselves to knit
goods, notions, or piece goods. Similar information can be obtained for the various lines
of trade, showing not only the number of establishments carrying limited lines or general
lines of a given type of merchandise, but the relative importance of each as measured by
volume of business and their relative efficiency as measured by total operating expenses.
While it is true that kinds of business are not analogous to commodities, a rough re-
lationship between the two does no doubt exist. Grocery wholesalers do sell, for the most
part, grocery commodities, although some of the grocery commodities are also sold by whole-
salers in other kinds of business. Nevertheless, on the basis of the rough relationship
herein pointed out an examination of Tables 2-A and 2-B and Chart III yields interesting
facts relative to elasticity of demand for various classes of commodities.
According to the figure presented in those tables, it would appear that the volume of
trade in necessities such as groceries and foods, farm products-consumer goods, and the
like, increased in relative importance during 1933 as the total volume of wholesale trade
declined in comparison to 1929. It will be noted that the sales of groceries and foods
constituted 23.6 percent of the total volume of wholesale trade in 1933 and but 19.2 per-
cent of the business reported for 1929. Farm products-consumer goods increased in relative
proportion from 8.4 percent for 1929 to 9.9 percent in 1933. Other significant increases
in relative importance are to be noted for dry goods, petroleum and its products, and to-
bacco and its products, all of which have come to be regarded as necessities. On the other
hand, durable goods as well as goods intended primarily for industrial consumption, have
suffered the greatest decline as the income of the people of the United States fell pre-
cipitously since 1929. Large decreases are to be found in farm products-raw materials,
which accounted for 17.0 percent of all trade in 1929, but only 12.1 percent of the whole-
sale business for 1933; metals (except scrap) declined from 6.4 percent to 3.8; electrical
goods from 3.5 to 2.2; lumber and building materials from 3.1 to 1.6; and automotive pro-
ducts from 3.3 to 2.7. Little change had apparently taken place in certain of the semi-
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durable lines of merchandise. Evidence to that effect is sho^fn by the volume of business
in the clothing and furnishings trade, ffhich claimed 3.2 percent of the total in 1929 as
against 3.1 percent of the total during 1933. Similarly, the position of the hardware
trade was about the same, with 1.3 percent of the total in 1929 and 1.2 percent in 1933.
TYPES OF ESTABLISHMENTS, BY KIND OF BUSINESS. — Important as it is to have information
for each kind of business or line of trade in detail, it is even more significant to have
such data presented separately for each type of wholesaling organization. This has been
done in Table 2-B of the reports. In that manner the accomplishments of a wholesaler in a
given line of business may be compared with the accomplishments of all wholesalers operat-
ing therein, while the achievements of a manufacturers' sales branch can be compared with
those of manufacturers' sales branches in the same line of trade. Such comparisons are of
special interest to individual business enterprises and to the student of marketing.
Moreover, the information contained in Table 2-B is specific and pointed. To illus-
trate, under Wholesalers Proper, the classification known as "Groceries and Foods (except
farm products)" is shown to be composed of wholesalers handling a general line of grocer-
ies, .vholesalers specializing in confectionery and soft drinks, wholesalers of fish and sea
foods, wholesalers of meats and meat products, and wholesalers handling other food and gro-
cery specialties. For the entire grocery and food group the figures for 1933 show an in-
crease in the number of establishments of 18.8 percent, as compared with 1929. However,
wholesalers of general line groceries decreased in numbers during the same period by 35.0
percent, while wholesalers of confectionery and soft drinks increased in numbers by 41.0
percent. The increase in the number of establishments specializing in fish and sea foods
was 29.7 percent, in the case of meats and meat products the increase was 2.5 percent,
while wholesalers dealing in other food and grocery specialties a little more than doubled
in the number of establishments. Obviously, the figure showing a change in the total num-
ber of wholesalers dealing in groceries and foods would be of little value to a wholesaler
handling a general line of such items, or to any of the wholesalers specializing in some
limited line of groceries.
From the standpoint of business volume, a detailed kind of business analysis throws
much additional light. Illustrating again with wholesalers dealing in groceries and foods,
the decrease in business in 1933 as compared with 1929 for the group as a whole was 42.1
percent, although the number of establishments for the group as a whole increased 18.8 per-
cent. In contrast to the increase in the number of establishments for the group as a whole
it is significant to note that wholesalers handling a general line of groceries decreased
in numbers to the extent of 35.0 percent but the decline in their business was only 51.7
percent. On the other hand, wholesalers specializing in confectionery and soft drinks,
while showing a healthy growth in numbers (41.0 percent increase) reported a decline in
volume for the group of 30.0 percent. Similarly interesting is the fact that wholesalers
dealing in "other food and grocery specialties" siiov/ed an increase of 100.7 percent in the
number of establishments but a decline in volume of business of 21.4 percent. From these
figures it would appear that, on the basis of average sales per establishment, general line
wholesale grocers fared better during the depression that did specialty wholesalers in the
grocery business.
Operating expenses reveal other important differences between wholesale establishments
of the same type due largely to differences in the degree of specialization in merchandise.
Wholesalers handling a general line of groceries reported a cost of doing business of 9.9
percent of net sales, as against 14.3 percent for specialty wholesalers in the grocery
uasiness, 14.5 percent for wholesalers of meats and meat products, 18.4 percent for whole-
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salers of confectionery and soft drinks, and 19.7 percent for wholesalers of fish and sea
foods.
From the statistics presented in Table 2-B, it should be possible for every wholesale
establishment to compare its accomplishments with those of others operating on a similar
basis. It should also be possible for anyone interested in a single line of busine.>=:s to
compile from the dsta in Table 2-B a table which sets forth the relevant information by
type of establishment in detail. An example cf such a compilation for wholesalers proper
in the hardware trade is appended below. Those interested only in wholesalers proper hand-
ling a general line of hardware may exclude from the figures, concerns dealing in hard-
ware specialty lines exclusively.
SPECIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF WHOLESALE TRADE
SOURCES OF REVENUE FOR WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS .—Table 3 (see page A-26) shows the
composition of v/holesale trade by sources of revenue. It shows to what extent the reported
sales consisted of inccme from the sale of merchandise, or were in the form of receipts
from rentals cf space, machinery, etc. Of the $32, 151,373, 000 net sales reported by all whole-
sale establishments for 1933, the sale of merchandise represented $31,884,432,000. or 99.2
percent. The remaining $266,941,000 or 0.8 percent of the business was secured from the
following sources: receipts frcm parking, storage, cleaning, etc., $62,047,000; receipts
from space rental, $5,076,000; receipts from other sources, primarily rental of machinery
and motior picture films, $199,818,000,
The amusement and sporting goods trade led in the importance of income from sources
other than the sale of merchandise, principlaly because in that trade are included motion
picture film exchanges whose product is distributed on a rental basis instead of being sold
outright. Next in importance was the automotive products trade, with receipts from park-
ing, storage, cleaning, etc., consisting to a considerable extent of revenue from repair
work. For the same reason, machinery, equipment and supply concerns were third in import-
ance; also because certain kinds of machinery are distributed on a rental basis. The twc
other important lines of trade in this respect were farm products-raw materials, and elec-
trical goods, respectively, the first involving a considerable amount of storage and the
second, mostly repair work.
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It is significant, however, that so little of the income derived by wholesale estab-
lishments had come from sources other than the sale of merchandise. It is probable that,
with a few exceptions, receipts from services were secondary in nature and that such ser-
vices were performed incidentally to the major operation of the business.
CREDIT BUSINESS OF WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS. — Every wholesale establishment was re-
quested to report how much of its total receipts during 1933 represented credit business.
They were further instructed to include in the credit figures all sales made on weekly, 10-
day, 30-day, end-of-month, instalment or on any other credit basis. However, not all of
the establishments reported on this item. Whether the failure to reply to this inquiry de-
notes strictly cash business or represents an omission is difficult to say, the presumption
being that it probably means that in most such cases business was done on a cash basis.
Data on credit sales are shown in Table 4 (see page A-27) . They are first summarized for
each of the 19 types of wholesale organizations and then shown by twenty-five kinds of
business under each of these 19 wholesale types.
Of the 164,170 wholesale establishments, 111,481 or 67.9 percent reported their credit
business. The establishments so reporting represented 69.0 percent of the total volume of
wholesale trade. For these establishments credit business constituted 82.4 percent of
their net sales. Surprising as it may seem, manufacturers' sales branches reported a lar-
ger portion of business on credit than did wholesalers proper, the percentages being 92.0
as against 80.4. Moreover, sales branches without stocks sold 95.9 percent of their goods
on credit, as compared with 90.6 percent credit business for sales branches with stocks.
As many as SB.O percent of the bulk tank stations operated on a credit basis, selling 56.4
percent of their goods on credit, while onljr 24.7 percent of the chain store warehouses
extended credit to customers, but the sales of such warehouses that were made on credit
terms constituted 66.4 percent of their net sales.
While the figures on credit sales reported by bulk tank stations may appear surpris-
ing, the fact remains that most filling stations to which they sell are independently owned
and operated. In the case of chain store warehouses, the 24.7 percent of the establish-
ments reporting credit sales made up but a small proportion of the business of the group,
so that their credit sales amounted only to 5 percent of the sales made by all warehouses.
Another interesting feature is revealed by the credit sales data for agents and brok-
ers. While only 56.4 percent of such functional middlemen operated on a credit basis,
their sales on time represented 90.4 percent of their total volume. Selling agents appar-
ently found it necessary to extend credit more extensively than any other type of function-
al middlemen. Over three-fourths of the selling agents (75.8 percent) extended this privi-
lege to their customers and in such cases practically all of their sales were made on cre-
dit (97.9 percent). Credit as a selling device was utilized the least by cream stations,
probably because most of them are owned and operated by larger companies for whom such pro-
ducts are bought, followed next by assemblers of farm products. As a group, assemblers and
country buyers made the least use of credit, partly for the reason mentioned under cream
stations and partly because they deal in raw commodities for which there is a ready cash
market at all times.
Even for a given type of wholesaling, the amount of business done on a credit basis
varied considerably with the line of trade involved. For example, in the case of wholesale
merchants, 74.3 percent presumably operated on a credit basis, selling 80.5 percent of
their goods on such a basis. However, in the hardware trade, 91.2 percent of the wholesale
merchants extended credit, making such sales to the extent of 88.3 percent of their total.
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On the other hand, only 35.9 percent of the wholesale merchants operating in the v/aste mat-
erial business sold on credit, but the volume of credit business represented 84.3 percent
of the net sales of those reporting on the item. Judging on the basis of the number of
wholesale merchants selling on credit, the following lines of trade led in the order men-
tioned: hardware, paper and its products, plumbing and heating equipment and supplies, dry-
goods, lumber and building materials, chemicals, and electrical goods. On the basis of the
total volume of credit business as a percent of net sales of the corcerns reporting on the
iteir, wholesale merchants in the general merchandise field occupied first place, followed
by those dealing in dry goods, clothing and furnishings, metals (except scrap), and paper
and its products.
Obviously, credit was used to a larger extent in domestic trade than in foreign comm-
erce, at least a? far as wholesale establishments are concerned. While 88.1 percent of the
importers sold on credit, only 51.7 percent of the exporters operated on such a basis.
Furthermore, of those reporting credit business, in the case of importers, 86.0 percent of
the volume represented credit sales, as compared with 67.3 percent of the volume of export-
ers reporting credit business.
The use of credit was apparently so pervasive that even limited function wholesalers
which include, among others, cash-and-carry wholesalers, found it necessary to resort to it
of this group, 49.0 percent extended credit accommodations, selling 78.6 percent of their
goods on such terms. The extent of credit sales by wholesale establishments indicates the
degree to which the wholesaling structure is called upon to finance the business of their
customers, thereby lessening the burden of financial institutions. Thus, trade credit in
the mercantile field, as evidenced by the census figures, is an important suppleirent to the
.financial credit extended by banks, finance companies, and other such institutions.
DISTRIBUTION OF SALES BY OUTLETS. — In this census, information was obtained from the
various wholesale establishments relative to the major types of customers served by them.
Each respondent was requested to indicate the portion of total sales of the establishment
made: (1) to retailers (for rissale), (2) to home consumers (at retail), and (3) to indus-
trial users. Of the 164,170 wholesale establishments covered by the census, 134,335 or
81.8 percent were able to furnish this information directly from their books cr on the
basis of carefully prepared estimates. These establishments represented 81.7 percent of
the total volume of wholesale trade. The distribution of their sales, as shown in Table 5
(see page A-36) and on Chart IV, was as follows: 52.2 percent to retailers, 28.8 percent to
industrial users, and 2.2 percent to home consuirers. The remainder, consisting of 16.8
percent, obviously represented sales made by one wholesale establishment to another. Par-
ticularly is this latter practice true of such wholesale types as agents and brokers and of
assemblers and country buyers. In many cases this item was checked by correspondence with
respondents, in order to insure accurate treatment of the data.
It is thus possible, for the first time, to deternine, with a fair degree of exact-
ness, the amount of duplication involved in v^holesale trade figures, i. e., the extent to
which the same goods were sold two or more times at wholesale. If it is assumed that the
81.8 percent of the establishments, reporting a distribution of their sales, are represen-
tative of all the establishments covered by the census, the above percentages may be appli-
ed to total sales in order to determine the total dollar volume of business flowing through
wholesale channels to the various types of outlets.
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CHART v.- WHOLESALE SALES BY OUTLET AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
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WHOLESALERS PROPER
MANUFACTURERS SALES
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SALES TO RETAILERS. — Obviously, not all types of wholesale organizations sold the same
proportion of goods to a given outlet (see Chart V). Chain store warehouses, most of which
supply their own stores, reported 82.7 percent of their business to retail stores. The re-
mainder of their business consisted primarily in sales to other wholesale organization. In
this latter figure are included sales of merchandise of own manufacture made to wholesalers
as well as sales by such concerns as the Atlantic Commission Company which sells farm pro-
duce to other middlemen in addition to supplying the needs of the parent organization —
The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company. Bulk tank stations which are similar in many
respects to chain store warehouses, reported 76.7 percent of their business to retailers,
26.8 percent to industrial users, 3.3 percent to home consumers, and but 6.6 percent to
petroleum marketers and to other v/holesale organizations. As was to be expected, whole-
salers proper dealt primarily with retailers, 63.4 percent of their business being account-
ed for by sales to retail outlets. It is significant that such a large proportion of the
business of manufacturers' sales branches also represented sales to retailers (46.4 per-
cent) and the same may be said of assemblers and country buyers and of agents and brokers
(see Table VI).
SALES TO HOME CONSUMERS. — The home consumer normally buys goods at retail for personal
or family consumption. When so purchased, commodities are completely removed from trade
channels. While it is not the general practice of wholesale houses to sell directly to the
public for personal consumption, and i.o establishment has been included in the wholesale
census whose major operations involved dealings with home consumers, many wholesale organi-
zations do sell limited quantities of goods to ultimate consumers. The smallest proportion
of total sales made to home consumers was reported by chain store warehouses, followed by
agents and brokers. Bulk tank stations sold as high as 7.6 percent of their volume in such
manner, with wholesalers proper taking second position with 3.2 percent of their volume thus
disposed of. To what extent such sales were made as a matter of accommodation or as a mat-
ter of regular business practice is somewhat difficult to state.
SALES TO INDUSTRIAL USERS. — As already indicated in a* previous connection, a large
number of wholesale establishments dealt in industrial goods. Such products are sold pri-
marily to factories, oil wells, mines and quarries, hotels, public utilities, railroads,
institutions, and to various wholesale, retail, and service places of business. The goods
so purchased are either converted into more finished products or are used in the conduct of
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the business rather than for resale in the same form. Such goods consequently consist of
ra'ii materials, semi-manufacturers, parts, machinery, equipment, and supplies. The largest
proportion of business consisting of sales to industrial users was reported by agents and
brokers.
The kinds of business leading in sales to industrial users vary, depending upon the
type of agency involved. To illustrate, the bulk of the sales to industrial users reported
by selling agents was in the dry goods trade. About one-half of the sales to industrial
users reported by manufacturers' agents were made in two lines of trade, namely, dry goods,
and machinery, equipient, and supplies. On the other hand, the largest proportion of sales
to industrial users reported by commission merchants was in the farm prcducts-raw material
trade, followed by dry goods, while in the case of brokers considerably over one-half of
the sales made to industrial users was concentrated in the grocery and food trade and in
farm products of the raw material type.
Next to agents and brokers, assemblers and country buyers led in the proportion of
their sales made to industrial users, followed by manufacturers' sales branches and then by
wholesalers proper. The smallest volume of such business was reported by chain store ware-
house?. However, from the standpoint of total business done with industrial users, whole-
salers proper took first place, agent? and brokers were second in importance, and manufac-
turers' sales branches ranked third. Not unlike the case illustrated above in connection
with agents and brokers, considerable variation may be noted in the relative importance of
sales to industrial users, according tc the kind of business in which the wholesale estab-
lishments operated. For example, sales to industrial users reported by manufacturers'
sales branches with stocks, were made principally by the establishments operating in the
machinery, equipment, and supply trade; in the electrical trade; in groceries and foods;
and in chemicals. Sales to industrial users reported by manufacturers' sales branches with-
out stocks operated mainly in the metal (except scrap) trade, followed by the machinery,
equipment, and supplies trade and by the dry goods trade,
DUPLICATION OF WHOLESALE SALES. — A principal contribution to our knowledge of the sub-
ject made by the data presented in Table VI above, and in Table 5 of the wholesale census
reports, lies in the information on sales to other wholesale organizations. For the first
time it has been possible to secure reliable statistics on duplication cf sales by whole-
sale establishments. Of the total sales broken down by outlets, 16.8 percent represented
the extent to v/hich wholesale houses sold to one another. It is probable that if a break-
dov.'n had been obtained for all establishments, the percentage of duplication v/culd have
been somswhat larger. The schedule used in the Census of American Business did not speci-
fically provide for a report on sales to other wholesale organizations. This information
was obtained primarily by subtracting from total net sales of those establishments which
reported a break-down, the sum of their sales to retailers, to home consumers, and to in-
dustrial users. It may well be that some establishments failed to give a distribution of
their sales because none of their business involved sales to retailers, to home consumers,
or to industrial users, but consisted instead of sales to other wholesale organizations.
Nevertheless, it is significant that 84.8 percent of the agents and brokers who report-
ed a distribution of sales by outlets, indicated duplication only to the extent of 32.5
percent of their business. For some time it has been assumed by students of distribution
that practically all sales made by agents and brokers were of this type. A similar revela-
tion is to be found in connection v/ith assemblers and country buyers which reported only
31.7 percent of their business as consisting in sales to other wholesale establishments.
The least amount of duplication was reported by bulk tank stations, followed by wholesalers
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proper. Of the $11,838,698,000 *orth of business of wholesalers proper that was broken
down by outlets, only $784,232,000 or 6.6 percent represented sales made by one wholesaler
to another. The figures in Table 5 of the United States Summary also indicate that the
principal competitor of the conventional wholesaler is not the newer type wholesaler but
the manufacturer's sales branch and that the wholesaler must compete directly, to a con-
siderable extent, with agents and brokers, and to some degree also with assemblers and
country buyers.
EMPLOYMENT IN WHOLESALE TRADE. —The wholesale establishments of the United States em-
ployed during 1933, an average of 1,096,977 full-time paid employees and 125,943 part-time
employees. In addition, they used the full-time services of 94,487 proprietors and firm
members, thus providing employment for 1,317,407 persons. This number constituleo a group
larger than the population of Los Angeles, California and almost equal to the combined
population of Boston and Pittsburgh. The significance of wholesale trade as a s-urce of
employment is indicated largely in Table 6, (see page A-46) although the other tables also
throw light on the subject.
The largest number of full-time employees //as absorbed by the grocery and food trade.
Next in importance was farm products-consumer goods, and third position was occupied by
petroleum and its products. These three kinds of business together gave employment to
464,644 men and women on a full-time basis, representing 42.4 percent of all full-time paid
employees engaged in wholesale distribution.
The total number of full-time and part-time employees was divided into 1,003,097 males
and 219,823 females. The estimate, by sex, is based on the sex distribution reported for
the total number of employees as of December 30, 1933; the percent of women shown separate-
ly relates to the same date. Women employed in wholesale trade constituted 17.9 percent of
all paid employees. This ratio varied considerably with the lines of trade. It was as
low as 5.8 percent in the petroleum trade, and as high as 39.4 percent in the amusement and
sporting goods trade. Second in importance, from the standpoint of employment of women in
relation to total, was clothing and furnishings with 33.8 percent, followed by drugs and
drug sundries with 30.6 percent. The trades showing the smallest relative employment of
women, other than petroleum, were lumber and building materials, coal, and automotive pro-
ducts.
Table 6 also presents the number of full-time and part-time employees as of the fif-
teenth of each month, for each kind-of-business group, and a monthly index of employment
for wholesale trade as a whole. If the average number of full-time eaployees be expressed
as 100, October, Never ber and December showed an improve.iient over January, February, and
March of 11 points. Similarly, the peak of part-time employment was reached in November,
which was 24 points higher than the low recorded in March.
The figures in Table 6 show both seasonal variations in wholesale business as a whole,
and in different lines of trade, and they also reflect a cyclical improvement which became
especially noticeable during the last five months of 1933. Just how much of the variation
is due to one or the other of the tv;o major factors, can not be stated with accuracy, for
it is probable that some lines of trade responded more quickly to betterments of a cyclical
nature than was true of others. To measure exactly the effect upon employment in the differ-
ent lines of trade, of improvements in general business conditions as distinguished from
seasonal fluctuations, would require a knowledge that can not be gleaned directly from the
figures presented in the census.
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As compared with 1929, the average number of employees, full-time and part-time com-
bined, engaged in wholesale trade during 1933. was 23.6 percent lower. The total pay roll
of such employees, on the other hand, declined 42.9 percent. On the average, the decrease
in earnings of employees engaged in wholesale trade approximated 25 percent. Inasmuch as
the cost of living index declined about the same amount durirg the period in question, the
decrease in average earnings per employee in wholesale trade was about equal to the decline
in the cost of living.
INVENTORIES OF WHOLESALE ESTABLISHMENTS. — One of the primary functions of wholesale
places of business is to maintain surplus reserves of commodities at strategic points
throughout the Nation. Only in that way can retailers secure prompt delivery of goods
ordered, and thus operate at reasonable cost and with a minimum of stock. It is also gen-
erally recognized that wholesale organizations as a group can store goods probably with
greater economy than either producer or retailer. The extent to which wholesale establish-
ments perform this function is indicated, in part, by statistics showing stocks on hand at
the end of the year, valued at cost or at replacement prices. While it is possible that
the inventories as of the end of the year were not representative of the volume of goods
kept in stock throughout the year, the figures are, nevertheless, worth while, at least for
comparison purposes.
All wholesale establishments maintained a total of $3,013,179,000 in inventories, the
equivalent of 9.4 percent of net sales (see Tables 1, 2A, and 2B) . Wholesalers proper acc-
ounted for the largest proportion of this total, maintaining inventories to the extent cf
$1,982,758,000 or 15.3 percent of their net sales. Of this group, wholesale merchants
maintained the most important reservoir of merchandise inventories. Their stocks represen-
ted 15.4 percent of net sales. At the other extreme, under wholesalers proper, were the
limited function wholesalers with inventories comprising 4.4 percent of their net sales.
It is interesting to note that manufacturers' sales branches with stocks carried sub-
stantial inventories, the ratio of inventories to sales being 10.7 percent. The smallest
inventories, in proportion to sales volume, wore reported, naturally, by agents and brok-
ers, followed by chain store warehouses and bulk tank stations. Substantial variations in
the amount of stock carried, in relation tc sales, may also be noted as between the various
kinds of business or trade groups, shown in Table 2A and 2B.
Attention must be called to the fact that the above ratios do not represent stock-turn
figures, inasmuch as the stocks on hand are shown at cost or replacement values, whereas
sales are given at selling prices. In order to obtain approximate stock-turn figures, it
would be necessary to reduce the sales of the wholesale establishments involved to a cost
bwSis, by subtracting therefrom total operating expenses, v.'Uich tray be presumed to have
approximated gross margins during 1933.
DISTRIBUTION OF NET SALES BY SIZE OF ESTABLISHMENT .--Table 7 (see page A-47) presents
data for wholesale merchants and for manufacturers' sales branches, by size of establishment
and kind of business. It shows for each kind of business, by size groups, the number of
establishments; the average number of full-time employees; and total expenses, expressed in
amounts and as a percent of net sales. The relative importance of establishments in the
various size groups operated by wholesale merchants is depicted en Chart VI.
Of the 79,032 establishments operated ty wholesale merchants, 43,447 or 55.0 percent
had an annual average sales vclume of less than $50,000, and accounted for but 6.3 percent
of the business of all wholesale merchants. This compares with 30.8 percent of the estab-
lishments with less than an average of $50,000 in annual sales during 1929, doing 1.8 per-
cent of the total business for the year. Thus, wholesale establishments with sales under
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUtlON: 1933
CHART V/.-ESTABHSHMENTS AND SALES OF WHOLESALE MERCHANTS
BY NET SALES SIZE GROUPS. 19:33 AND 1929
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$50,000 were relatively more important during 1933 both from the standpoint of numbers and
the proportion of net sales for the year. Over one-sixth (15.8 percent) of all wholesale
merchant establishments during 1933 reported an average annual business of $50,000 to
$100,000, as compared with almost a similar proportion (15.4 percent) of the wholesale mer-
chant establishments during 1929 appearing in the same size group. However, the establish-
ments in this size group during 1933 contributed 7.3 percent of the total volume of whole-
sals trade, while those in 1929 contributed only 3.3 percent of the total volume. At the
other extreme one finds 36.9 percent of the business reported by all wholesale merchant
establishments in the hands of 1.827 units, with a million dollars and over per annum,
which constituted but 2.3 percent of all such establishments, while an additional 16.5 per-
cent of the business was reported by 3.7 percent of the establishments with average annual
sales of $500,000 to $1,000,000. It would thus appear that 70.8 percent of the establish-
ments operated by wholesale merchants, with annual sales during 1933 under $100,000, acc-
ounted for 13.6 percent of the volume of business, while 6 percent of the establishments,
with annual net sales of $500,000 and over, contributed 53.4 percent of the business.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN WHOLESALE TRADE
It is probable that, with the exception of the first Census of Wholesale Distribution,
this Census presents a more comprehensive analysis of expenses incurred in the wholesaling
of goods, than has ever before been available on so wide a scale. The 164,170 wholesale
establishments in the United States expended a total of $3,710,233,000 in operating costs.
T.'-.ls figure, which constitutes 11.5 percent of total net sales by all wholesale establish-
ments, has significance only in a general way. It indicates the net wholesale m rgin or
the amount which wholesale organizations added to the cost of goods sold in 1933, as a re-
sult of actual money outlays incident to such business. Since no figures were secured on
net profits or on the cost of goods sold, the actual wholesale mark-up can only be estimat-
ed. In the wholesale field, however, net profit percentages are usually so small, and this
was particularly true during 1933, that it may well be assumed that total expenses approxi-
mated gross margins.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN RELATION TO TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT. — Total expenses varied con-
siderably with the type of wholesaling and with the line of trade involved. For wholesal-
ers proper they represented 15.0 percent of net sales, while manufacturers' sales branches
had a cost of only 12.5 percent. Bulk tank stations reported a cost of doing business of
19.7 percent; chain store warehouses, 4.5 percent; assemblers and country buyers, 9.8 per-
cent; and agents and brokers, 3.2 percent. Even within a given type group considerable
differences may be noted in costs of doing business. To illustrate, under the "wholesalers
pr.-psr" group, wholesale merchants reported total expenses of 15.8 percent, while exporters
had a cost of only 6.1 percent. Similarly, brokers had total expenses of 1.7 percent,
while costs of doing business reported by manufacturers' agents represented 6.8 percent of
their sales. Such variations in cost are no doubt explained to a large degree by the differ-
ences in functions performed.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN RELATION TO KIND OF BUSINESS. — Considerable differences in costs
of doing business may also be noted as between different kinds of business. Wholesale mer-
chants, for example, while reporting a cost of 15.8 percent for all kinds of business com-
bined, reported total expenses of 24.6 percent in amusements and sporting goods group, 23.1
percent in the automotive products group, 20.4 percent in chemicals, 16.0 percent in cloth-
ing and furnishings, 13.1 percent in coal, 16.6 percent in drugs and drug sundries, 13.5
percent in dry goods, 22.3 percent in electrical goods, 7.8 percent in farm products-raw
materials, 14.9 percent in farm products-consumer goods, etc. Even within a single kind-
of-business group and a given type of wholesale organization expenses varied as between the
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different kind-of-business sub-groups. In the chemical group, for example, establishments
specializing in naval stores had a cost of doing business of 3.6 percent of sales, while
those dealing primarily in paints and varnishes had a cost as high as 27.2 percent. In the
case of drugs and drug sundries, wholesale merchants handling a general line cf drugs oper-
ated at a cost of 15.1 percent of sales, while those specializing in toilet articles and
preparations reported a cost of 32.0 percent. Thus, the range of expense ratios, by types
of wholesale distribution, for all kinds of business combined, showed a variation from a
low of 1.7 percent for brokers, to a high of 19.7 percent for bulk tank stations. By kind
of business, for all types of distributors combined, the range of expense ratios showed a
variation from a low of 2.1 for dealers in live stock to a high of 43.4 for establishments
dealing in musical instruments and sheet music.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN RELATION TO STOCKS ON HAND. —Scire of the variation in the cost
of doing business of different wholesale organizations in a given line of business, rr cf
the same type of wholesale organization in different lines of business, is due to the na-
ture of the functions performed. Service wholesalers which perform practically all of the
wholesaling functions and are designated for census purposes as "wholesale merchants" would
naturally be expected to operate at a relatively high cost. Not only do they carry adequate
stocks, but they also grant credit, furnish delivery service, assist and advise their cus-
tomers, etc. In contrast to wholeaale merchants are limited function wholesalers who oper-
ated at a cost of 11.5 percent of sales, due principally to a curtailment in services.
This fact stands out prominently in connection with manufacturers' sales branches. Those
branches which did not carry stocks had a cost of doing business of 7.4 percent of net'
sales. Such cost was a little more than double (14.9 percent) for sales branches with
stocks.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN RELATION TO CREDIT BUSINESS. —The excellent correlation between
expenses and functions has already been suggested through the stocks carried, ■ which involve
the performance of the warehousing function. This is further corroborated by the expenses
of concerns operating on a credit basis. A comparison of total expenses in Table 1 and 2B
with those shown in Table 4 reveals the fact that in practically all cases concerns extend-
ing credit to their customers had a higher cost of doing business, as might well be expect-
ed. While total expenses for all wholesale establishments were 11.5 percent of sales, for
those operating on a credit basis they constituted 13.4 percent of sales. This is but a
rough comparison. To determine the extent of the difference exactly, it would be necessary
to subtract the sales of concerns reporting credit business from the total sales of all es-
tablishments, in order to ascertain the volume of business done by establishments which
presumably sold strictly for cash. It would then be necessary to deduct the total expenses,
in dollars, incurred by the establishments operating on a credit basis, from the total ex-
penses reported by all wholesale establishments. When the difference in operating expense
amounts is divided by the sales of concerns presuirably selling for cash only, it appears
that their costs of doing business were 7.5 percent of sales, as compared with 13.4 percent
for those selling on credit. Nevertheless, even a rough compariscn is illuminating.
For all wholesalers proper, total expenses were 15.0 percent of net sales, compared to
15.8 percent for those operating on a credit basis. Expenses of all wholesale merchants
(a subdivision of wholesalers proper) were 15.8 percent; of those extending credit, 16.5
percent. 'In the case of exporter.*, operating expenses of those doing business on credit
were 7.9 percent of sales, as against 6.1 percent for all exporters.
Table VIII has been designed to show the expense ratios of establishments operated by
wholesale merchants (service wholesalers) on a credit basis in comparison with those which
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did not report credit sales and are therefore presumed to have sold only for cash. These
expense ratios, expressed in percentages of net sales, are sho./n for each of the 25 kind-of
business groups. The table also shows the average sales per establishment on a kind-of-
business basis for credit and non-credit establishments, respectively.
In 14 of the 25 kind-of-business groups in which wholesale merchants operated, operat-
ing expenses of those extending credit accommodations to their customers were higher than
for those which did not render the credit function. In three kind-of-business groups
(clothing and furnishings, dry goods, and petroleum and its products) , expenses were approx-
imately the same, regardless of the extension of non-extension of credit, while in eight
cases expenses were somewhat lower for those operating on a credit basis.
The data on credit sales, shown in Table 4 of the United States Summary and in Table
VIII of this chapter, reveal several important points. Among them should be mentioned the
fact that the performance of the credit function involved additional expense over those op-
erating on a non-credit basis. This was true of 14 of the 25 kind-of-business groups in
the case of wholesale merchant establishments. However, the added expense incident to cred-
it extension, even in these 14 kinds of business was relatively small, due no doubt to the
additional business secured as a result of the credit function. For many years credit has
been recognized as a potent business force and as a sales promotional device. It is more
than mere coincidence that in 10 of the 14 kinds of business, wholesale merchant establish-
ments selling on credit operated on a larger scale than those selling for cash. It is also
more than mere coincidence that in all of the eight kinds of business in which wholesale
merchants reporting credit sales had lower operating expenses, the average size of the
business unit was larger than obtained for non-credit places of business. The same was
true of the three kinds of business in vvhich operating expenses jvere approximately the same
for credit and non-credit establishments. From this evidence it may be inferred, that
while credit operation adds to the costs of doing business the additional expense is relatively
small and is, in many cases, more than offset by the economies accruing from larger business
volume attracted through the credit privilege.
OPERATING EXPENSES IN RELATION TO TYPE OF CUSTOMERS. — Another factor in the variation
of operating expenses lies in the type of outlets served, which in turn determines the vari-
ety of services required and the average size of individual purchases. It is probable that
concerns selling principally to industrial users or to other vvholesale organizations, and
hence in larger quantities, would show a lower cost of doing business, as compared tiiih
wholesale establishments of the same type and in the same line of business, whose principal
sales are to retailers, and still lower than those who also cater to home consumers. It may
be that an exhaustive statistical study of the data presented in Table 5 showing operating
expenses for establishments reporting a distribution of sales by outlets, fiill shed some
some light on the subject.
SIZE OF THE BUSINESS UNIT AND ITS EFFECT UPON OPERATING EXPENSES. —One of the impor-
tant contributions to the theory of cost variation lies in the analysis of operating expen-
ses of two homogeneous types of wholesaling, namely, wholesale merchants and manufacturers'
sales branches with stocks. Data for each of these wholesale types are presented in Table
7 of the United States Summary by kind of business and by size of the business unit. For
all wholesale merchants together, the average operating cost during 1933 was 15.5 percent
of net sales. Small scale establishments operated by wholesale merchants, with annual
sales under $10,000, reported operating costs of 35.5 percent, while those with annual sales
of $10,000 to $50,000 showed a cost of 25.7 percent of net sales. As the average size of
the business establishment increased the total expense ratio decreased until it reached a
low of 10.1 percent of sales for establishments with annual business of $10,000,000 and
over. This evidence that operating expenses declined as the size of the business increased
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TABLE VIII - Operating Expenses and Average Sales per Establishment
for Wholesale Merchants reporting Credit Sales.
Kind of Business
Total
Amusement and sporting goods
Automotive products
Chemicals ."
Clothing and furnishings
Coal
Drugs and drug sundries
■ Dry goods
Electrical goods
Farm products-raw materials
Farm products-consumer goods..
Farm supplies -.■ ;
Furniture and house furnishings ,
General merchandise
Groceries and foods
(except farm products)
Hardware
Jewelry and optical goods
Lumber and building materials
(other than metal)
Machinery, equipment and supplies
(except electrical)
Metals (except scrap)
Paper and its products
Petroleum and its products
Plumbing and heating equipment
and supplies
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
Waste materials ....•
All other products
Expense ratio of
establishments
Reporting
credit sales
16.5
22.4
24.1
22.1
16.0
14.9
17.3
13.5
22.3
9.1
15.0
18.2
22.3
17.9
13.4
21.4
26.3
25.5
25.0
22.1
21.4
17.7
24.4
6.5
18.0
19.1
Not reporting
credit sales
12.6
36.7
17.9
10.7
16.1
6.0
13.0
13.2
23.3
6.7
14.3
13.0
24.4
7.7
11.5
22.2
16.3
23.8
31.4
18.0
22.9
17.5
46.0
5.9
18.5
17.7
Average
establ
sales per
ishment
Reporting
credit sales
$166,000
94,000
84,000
150,000
152,000
302,000
380,000
271,000
143,000
341,000
182 000
117,000
108,000
875,000
205,000
301,000
66,000
103,000
89,000
165,000
153,000
135,000
108,000
377,000
94,000
101,000
Not reporting
credit sales
892,000
78,000
255,000
43,000
67,000
35,000
88,000
85,000
87,000
31,000
150,000
20,000
39,000
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is not uniform for all kinds of business. As a general rule operating costs decreased as
the business of the establishments increased from the lowest two brackets to those estab-
lishments which had net sales of from $50,000 to $100,000 during the year. The few excep-
tions to this statement are found in kinds of business where the number of establishments
•.vas too small to have any special significance. As the establishments reached beyond the
$100,000 annual sales mark, the tendency is still for operating expenses to decline, but
exceptions become numerous.
In Table IX, an attempt has been made to show what happened to operating expenses as
the size of the establishment increased, separately for wholesale merchants and for manu-
facturers' sales branches with stocks. In the case of wholesale merchants, it is interest-
ing to note that in all 25 kind-of-business groups, operating expenses were lower for es-
tablishments with average annual sales of $10,000 to $50,000, as compared to those in the
lower sales bracket (under $10,000). As the size of the establishment grew, expenses did
not always decrease, so that in the case of establishments with annual sales of $300,000 to
$500,000 only 19 kinds of business showed lower costs over establishments in the next small-
er size group while in 6 kinds of business the expenses were actually higher. A similar
situation was found in the next higher size group. This would seem to suggest that in some
kinds of business, tha optimum size of the business unit may be found in the middle-sized
groups, while other kinds of wholesale business may be more subject to decreasing costs.
It is also evident that the very small units were the most expensive.
For manufacturers' sales branches with stocks, the optimum size v/ould seem to be
reached in the majority of kinds of business at even a lower level than for wholesale mer-
chant establishments. Thus, 12 of the 23 kind-of-business groups with establishments in
the $200,000 to $300,000 size group either had higher costs than those with sales of $100,000
to $200,000 or the costs were the same. However, as the size of the establishment grew
beyond the $1,000,000 volume, the majority of the kinds of business showed lower expenses.
From these data it may be inferred that as far as sales branches (with stocks) are concern-
ed, the very small establishments were the most expensive, and that for some kinds of busi-
ness the optimum size is reached at a relatively low volume while for other kinds of busi-
ness large units are the Eost profitable until the $5,000,000 to $10,000,000 size group is
reached when many of the establishments begin to have higher costs than those of the pre-
ceding size group.
PAY ROLL AS A PART OF OPERATING EXPENSES. — Pay roll, exclusive of the compensation of
proprietors and firm msmbers, was 5.3 percent of the net sales reported by all wholesale
establishments for 1933. It accounted for 46.2 percent of total reported expenses. Pay
/;11 varied considerably with the different functional types of wholesale organizations.
For wholesalers proper it was 47.6 percent of their expenses. For manufacturers' sales
branches, it represented 45.2 percent of total expenses. The larger proportion of expenses
in pay roll on the part of manufpcturers ' sales branches, as compared v/ith wholesalers, may
be explained in part by the fact that all executives for sales branches have been included
among paid employees, whereas in the case of v/holesalers proper a number of establishments
were operated by proprietors and firm members whose compensation was not included in the
reported pay roll. It is also interesting to note the difference in pay roll as between
those branches that carried stocks ana those which did not. For the first type of manufac-
turers' sales branch, pay roll was 6.6 percent of sales and 44.1 percent of operating ex-
penses. Manufacturers' sales branches without stocks had a pay roll of but 3.7 percent of
net sales, although it constituted only a little more than one-half of the expenses (50.2
percent). In the case of bulk tank stations, pay roll comprised 41.0 percent of operating
expenses; for chain store v/arehouses it was 43.8 percent; for assemblers and country buy-
ers, 44.7 percent; and for agents and brokers, 49.0 percent.
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TABLE IX.— -OPERATING EXPENSES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS, IN RELATION
TO SIZE OF ESTABLISHMENT
1 I Number of kind-of-business groups in
JTotpl expenses, (which operating expenses were, a? com-
\ percent \ pared with preceding size groups 1/
I Of 1
net sales ' Lower | Higher 1 Same,
Size group
Under $10,000 |
510,000 to $50,000 1
^50,000 to $100,000 I
$100,000 to $200,000 1
$200,000 to $300,000 \
$300,000 to $500,000 |
$500,000 to $1,000,000 1
$1,000,000 to 12,000,000 1
$2,000,000 to $5,000,000 j
$5,000,000 to $10,000,000]
$10,000,000 and over ...|
1
\
MANUFACTURERS '
Under $10,000 |
$10,000 tc $ro,ooo j
$50,000 to $100,000 I
$100,000 to $200,000 i
$200,000 to $300,000 I
$300,000 to $500,000 |
$500,000 to $1,000,000 i
$1,000,000 to $2,000,000 j
$2,000,000 to $5,000,000, !
$5,000,000 to $10,000,000]
$10,000,000 and over ]
WHOLESALE MERCHANTS
35.5 1
25.7 1
21.1 1
19.0 i
17.0 1
1-^.6 ]
13.9 1
13.4 1
12.2 I
11.1 1
10.1 1
SALES BRANCHES
14.2 ]
31.8 ]
29.6 1
25.6 1
22.4 ]
17.8 1
16.1 1
14.5 j
12.3 1
11.8 1
8.1 1
WITH
1/ Fcr several trades no establishments appeared in some of the larger size groups, hence
the sum of the Lower, Higher, and Same columns varies as between groups.
2/ Manufacturers' sales branches were found in only 23 of the 25 trades.
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Inesmuch as operating expenses varied with the different kinds of business, the same
may be expected of pay roll, which is the most important item of operating expenses in the
wholesale business. In no kind-of-business group was pay roll lesr than 34.4 percent of
total expenses; in 3 kinds of business it was less than 40.0 percent; in 16 kind-of-busi-
ness groups it was from 40.0 to 50.0 percent of total expenses; and in 6, pay roll exceeded
50.0 percent of the costs of doing business.
TABLE X - PAY ROLL AS A PERCENT OF TOTAL EXPENSES,
BY KINDS OF BUSINESS: 1933
Total
Amusement and sporting goods
Automotive products
Chemicals
Clothing and furnishings
Coal
Drugs and sundries
Dry goods
Electrical goods
Farm products-raw materials
Farm products-consumer goods
Farm supplies
Furniture and house furnishings
General merchandise
Groceries and foods {except farm products)
Hardware
Jewelry and optical goods
Lumber and building materials (other than metal)
Machinery, equipment and supplies (except electrical).
Metals (except scrap)
Paper and its products
Petroleum and its products
Plumbing and heating equipment and supplies
Tobacco and its products (except leaf)
Waste materials
All other products
46.2
49.9
49.8
43.0
48.2
45.8
43.7
51.3
50.8
38.8
45.0
1 42. 9
49.2
39.4
45.7
53.3
48.5
50.1
52.1
51.2
51.0
41.0
47.7
34.4
43.6
46.7
CHANGES IN OPERATING EXPENSES SINCE 1929. — For all wholesale trade combined, operating
expenses were higher in 1933 than in 1929, rising from 8.9 percent of net sales to 11.5
percent and thus registering an increase of 29.2 percent. Expenses were higher for each
type group except for agents and brokers, in which case they remained at 3.2 percent during
both years. In the case of wholesalers proper operating expenses rose from 11.7 percent in
1929 to 15.0 percent in 1933. For manufacturers' sales branches they rose frcm 9.8 percent
tc 12.5 percent; for bulk tank stations, from 14.3 to 19.7 percent; for chain store ware-
houses, from 4.3 to 4.5 percent; and for assemblers and country buyers costs irore than
doubled, rising from 4.5 to 9.8 percent.
While complete explanations can not be given of the possible causes for the higher
costs of doing business during 1933, it would appear that they were due in part to two
principal factors. In the first place, the Icwer dollar volume of business during li'SS
presented a smaller base over which to spread operating expenses. In every wholesale
business enterprise there are certain irreducible fixed charges. Such charges become
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burdensome as the dollar volume of business declines. Even the so-called variable expenses
frequently can not be reduced to the same degree as the decline in business volume; hence
the percentage of expenses to sales tends to rise when business slumps even though in ab-
solute amounts they are actually reduced.
A second factor in the rise of operating expenses is to be found in the larger volume
of physical goods wh-'ch had to be handled during 1933 per dollar of sales. Inasmuch as
prevailing prices were considerably lower than in 1929 the decrease in tonnage handled dur-
ing 1933 was not commensurate #ith the decline in dollar volume. This point may be illus-
trated by the merchandise stocks on hand at the end of 1933 in comparison to the inventor-
ies during the earlier year. While wholesale trade volume was 53.4 percent lower in 1933
than in 1929, stocks on hand were but 41.6 percent less. Stated otherwise, at the end of
1929 stocks of merchandise maintained by wholesale establishments were 7.6 percent of the
sales during the year. At the end of 1933, however, stocks were 9.4 percent of the year's
business. When it is remembered that the stocks are figured at cost or replacement values,
sales at selling prices, and that the mark-up (due to higher operating expenses) *as pro-
portionally greater in 1933, it «ould seem that the actual inventories carried during the
latter year were considerably more substantial than the ratio between 9.4 and 7.6 would
seem to indicate.
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^ '"" WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Census of
""^^ Table 1.— tmiTED STATES SUMMARY OF WHOLESALE TRADE. BV TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
Business
For States and Cities of 100,000 Population and Over
(AU values expressed in tkousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosinf? data for individual establishments, but such data arc included in
the totals; a leader indicates no information or an amount less than $500]
Number or
Establish-
ments
Net Sales
Total Expenses
Full-
time
employees
(average)
Pay Roll
Stocks
on
hand
(end
of
year)
State and Citt
Type of Establishment
Total
Part-
time
1933
19292/
169.654
1933
192&i/
Amount
Percent
of sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
1933
1929
Total
164.170
132^151,373
v68.950.108
v3. 710.233
11.5
B.9
1.096,977
il.714.109
5.3
t59.671
13^013.179
Wholesalira proper ^
82.868
79.784
12.997.276
29,268.220
1.948.513
15.0
11.7
637.052
926.937
7.1
30.818
1.982.758
Wholasal* msrobanta
Sxporters
Importer!
Limited function wholesalere
Manufuturere' sales bruoties 3/
76,856
453
2,176
3,380
16.673
74,476
754
2,262
2,292
17.086
11,302,947
568,147
776,354
359,828
7.667.363
25,370,795
1,607,824
1,808,524
601,077
16.336.9X7
1,791,392
34,131
81,461
41,629
942.261
15.8
6.1
10.5
11.6
12.5
9.8
600,847
4,239
18,847
13,119
232.829
861.501
9,007
36,234
20,195
426.284
7.6
1.6
4.7
5.6
6.6
29,104
622
466
636
6.540
1,737,102
105,950
123,960
15,756
550.346
91 th Btooks
Without stoeks
Sulk tank station* 5/
12,444
4,429
26.190
19.611
' 6,144,688
' 2,412,676
1.888.675
i
i.
2.390.213
' 764,670
' 177,681
372.990
14.9
7.4
19.7
11.3
193,177
39,652
96.962
337,119
89,166
153.0M
6.6
3.7
8.1
5,186
1,355
2.141
549,912
433
138.574
Chain store warehouses
482
569
1.431.663
1.929.681
64.767
4.5
4.8
18.460
28.383
2.0
518
66,204
Assemblers and oountrv buyers
23.962
34,226
1.774.121
4.749.382
173,825
9t9
4.,'>
61,906
77,616
4.4
15,794
223.141
Assemolers of farm prodittts
Cooperative marketing aesoo-
latlons g/
Cream stations
nevators j/
Agents and brokers
11,283
2,732
2,860
7,087
13.818
21,884
4,208
8,134
18.388
718,588
686,072
' 31,459
338,002
6.502.375
2,304,230
1,468,366
4
986,786
14,286,695
77,757
66,726
'' 4,893
25,449
207,887
10.6
9.6
16.6
7.5
3.2
3.2
28,106
20,911
2,736
10,163
60.778
35,021
28,555
2,259
11,781
101.829
4.9
4.2
7.2
3.5
1.6
10,187
4,631
162
824
4.060
124,906
49,076
747
48,412
52,157
Brokore
CoDmiseicn merehanta
Export agents
Import agents
Mamifaeturare' agents
Selling agents
Other agents
3,414
3,128
240
179
4,972
1,235
660
3,689
3.479
260
85
6,987
3,260
628
2,068,370
2,224,864
135,126
50,541
673,964
988,401
441,109
4,037,944
4,694,934
398,559
57,156
1,775,355
2,622,663
670,082
34,536
72, OU
5,736
3,230
38,901
41,357
12,116
1.7
3.2
4.2
6.4
6.8
4.2
2.7
-
6,242
17,744
1,641
423
10,362
8,446
3,920
16.543
35,922
2,372
826
18,631
20,883
6,652
0.8
1.6
1.8
1.6
3.2
2.1
1.5
557
1,444
60
23
813
411
752
6,564
22,386
1.406
1,656
9,994
9,371
856
Soe footnotes at and of TWbla
^-t
KHOUSiLS DISTRIBUTION: 1933
TIBLE Z-1.— SmUBI OF ASOLESiU! TRAIB FOB TBS TJSINUI SWISS: 1933
ALL TTt^ OF ESTABLISacaiTS BT KI2IS OF eUSIKESS
(ill T«ln». .mr««.»d In th
uaasds 0
f dollar
-s. i laadar
Indioatas
ao infonaation or
an ajnount lasa f.hAn kRnn. t
Hoehor of
Bat salaa
Total
Pall-tims
i^y roll
Stocka
astahlli
tnants
axpansaa
amployaaa
(areragal
fin hand
Kind of luilaMi
land
1938
L9M 1/
19S3
1929 1/
Peroant
Bhang«
ijaonnt
splaa
Total
Part-
tlma
of yaar)
tota
164,1T0
169,664
$32,151,373
j68,95O.10f
-53.4
♦3.710,233
11.6
1.096.977
»1,714,109
*59,871
i^,013,179
JBnuMnt >nd sporting goodi
i.sa
l.**6
271.883
485 .40C
-44.0
48.863
le.o
_ 14.443
£4.391
564
19.506
CMUm* ud aotlon pioiura (qulpMnt
Ukd snppllos
87
158
32,362
60.844
-60.0
3,031
9.4
997
1,747
19
2,086
HoTing picture fllBa
446
568
159,923
243.417
-34.3
27,636
17.2
7,665
14,605
263
2 000
Ssortlng goodi lg«n«r»l lino)
201
231
23,928
74,128
-67.7
6,312
26.4
2,140
2,805
38
5i206
5,682
T07«, ooToltios, and flravorka
S06
272
32.652
49,214
-33.7
6.504
13.9
2.218
3.018
102
ill otbar
312
177
23,023
37,797
-39.1
5.480
23.8
1.423
2,316
142
4,532
iatomotlTa irodnota
6.304
4.600
874.269
2.255.525
-61,2
164.726
18.8
54.106
82.094
1,032
ipPjina
intaaobllas and otbar motor Tablolaa
667
743
249.975
1,226,347
-79.6
M.081
15.6
12,966
19,842
211
21,511
IntOBOtlT* aquljaant (Including aooaa-
■orlaa and parta)
4,730
3,202
323,360
642,574
-49.7
83.224
25.7
31,935
43,815
653
74,493
f ir«a and tukaa
Ohamia
917
666
300,934
386,604
-22.2
42,421
14.1
9,205
18,437
168
26,100
2.473
2,233
652.597
1.193.603
-46.3
102.776
15.7
22.613
44.216
522
73.619
I^atnffa
100
79
45,387
48,700
- 6.8
7,996
17.6
1.424
3,879
11
3,328
^ploalTai
101
118
25,024
107,252
-76.7
4,682
18.7
866
2,187
46
2,596
Induatrlal ohanioala
382
549
271,857
493,049
-44.9
25,284
9.3
5.029
11,718
79
24,903
laTal atoraa
54
66
35,866
93,523
-57.4
2,009
5.0
430
793
25
2,313
MlJita and vamlahaa
1,2a
1,027
166,177
304,999
-45.5
41,028
24.7
11,278
18,326
286
30,469
HI otbar
616
396
104,287
146,080
-28.6
a, 777
20.9
3.686
7,314
76
8,010
Clothing and fumlahlcga
4.376
5.619
996.304
2.180. 8o9
-54.3
108.569
10.9
30.298
62.306
1.349
82.711
Clotblng and fomlshlnga (ganeral llnal
282
426
55,827
133,730
.58.3
4,367
7.8
1,333
1,995
102
4,246
Clo tiling, man's and boys'
478
668
77.029
214,264
-64.0
8,254
10.7
2,443
4,294
105
11,547
Clothing, woman's and ohlldran's
978
989
263,^6
312,790
-15.7
24,089
9.1
7,052
12,724
463
8,281
ramlshlnga (gsnsral llnal
276
313
53.099
115,334
-54.0
5,683
10.7
1,806
2,970
46
4,667
Fomlshlnga, man's and lioya'
691
697
106,853
207,979
-48.6
15,648
14.8
4,316
7,525
241
11,793
Pornlshing*, woaan'a aad ohlldran's
338
317
34,135
104,961
-57.6
=,1S4
16.1
1,511
2,473
95
s,«se
Hoslary
361
420
131,592
300,633
-56.2
8,975
6.8
2,063
4,489
72
6,996
Hllllnar; and mlllinary aupplias
476
489
46,840
116,023
-59.6
6,901
14.7
2.496
3,401
98
6,171
Shsas and othar footvaar
498
756
227.323
560, 67i
-59.5
29,288
12.9
7,278
12,436
12»
24,354
Clothing saoond-band
1/
62
^
3,547
^
1/
L
2/
V
Furs, drassad, and for olothlng
V
342
^,
70,634
^
2/
2/
U
2/
Glorea
V
122
^
37,406
^
U
ll
2/
2/
1/
18
U
2,884
1/
u
h
u
2/
Coal
1.382
1,343
631,968
1,160,290
-45.5
52.681
8.3
12,315
24.136
1.138
25.461
Drugs and drug aondrlaa
1,662
1,713
523.392
844,419
-38.0
90,220
17.2
26,158
39.418
455
80.347
Sruga (ganarrl llnal
Uli
SS6
3«,«2
575,166
-46.1
44,068
12.8
15,196
21.514
255
58.872
Sruga (spaoialt; llnail
358
308
79,875
73,332
-1- 8.9
20,110
25.2
4,714
6,806
46
11.134
Patant flMdlolaaa
136
217
19,512
53,764
-63.7
5,827
29.9
671
1,280
23
1,284
Toilat artlolas and jraparatioiM
380
303
47,933
96,334
-50.2
14,894
31.1
2,965
5,637
99
6,762
HI othar
2B2
247
31,590
46,889
-31.2
5,321
16.8
1,612
2,681
33
3.296
Drj gooda
4.796
6.180
2.242.392
3.802.868
-41.0
170.648
7.6
47,394
87.529
988
205.508
^rr goods (ganaral Una)
631
1,071
444,768
889,508
-50. 0
46,274
10.2
16,014
23,802
236
69,094
XtUt gooda
429
257
106,095
72,707
+45.9
11,568
10.9
3,353
5,725
107
9,472
lotions
874
998
120,922
166,266
-27.3
18,190
15.0
6,730
9,726
132
17,238
Plaoa gooda
2.284
2,696
1,515,383
2,624,281
-42.3
88,978
6.9
19,678
44,860
451
100,931
ill othar
677
160
55,234
50,106
't'10.2
6.648
12.0
1,619
3,427
62
8,773
Klaotrlcal goods
3.232
3.870
705.411
2.435.149
-71.0
121.695
17.3
37.341
61.848
606
103.134
Xlaatrloal appllanaaa, aqoljBSnt and
■nppliaa
2,511
2,892
567,991
1,839,236
-69.7
93,592
16.8
29,268
48,393
647
87,774
Sadloa and radio a<ptl|Bant
633
806
63.224
491,621
-83.1
12,810
15.4
3,658
6,090
101
7,721
Bafrigaratsra
188
172
64,196
104,292
-38.4
16,293
23.8
4.415
7.368
68
7,639
Fana pradiDt»-ra« :.<«tariala
16.799
29.612
3.876.211
11.716, 453
-66.9
183.926
4.7
45.501
71,344
6.684
639.406
cotton
2.116
6,234
895,183
3,061,610
-70.8
46.773
5.1
6,079
10,482
391
210,684
Grain
9,201
12,198
1,197,161
3,791,665
-68.4
62,036
5.2
18,787
27,225
1,670
160,202
Bldaa, sklna, r«d furs (ra«l
1,238
1,508
166,626
524,087
-68.2
12,961
7.8
2,96Z
6,351
372
20,014
Saraas ana nolas
242
262
21,400
38,980
-45.1
1,037
7.2
425
611
176
588
LUaatook
2,669
7,288
998,394
3,170,313
-68.5
21,071
2.1
6,099
10,636
645
2,660
SlU (raw)
22
33
72,969
170,946
-57.8
2,191
3.0
240
953
1
7,738
totaseo (laafl
820
1,008
277,885
469,142
-40.8
22,139
8.0
8,343
11.227
3,216
103,694
K>ol and MOhair
264
408
187,279
334,061
-43.9
12,260
6.6
1,896
4,186
102
30,142
ill othar
328
1,693
59,425
156.649
-61.8
3,968
6.7
670
876
112
8.783
I»ni pvodnata-oonsniiar good*
Dairy prodnots (ganaral llnal
Buttar
Ctaaasa
2«.6«4
10.89*
3.178.427
5.808.111
-45.3
404,676
12.7
134.068
182.243
16,997
81.751
1,733
364!
736
299,366
36,795]
90,96«)
474,880
339,330
-37.0
-62.3
61,477
3,985
11,656
27.2
lb.(
12.8
28,260
1,26S
1,968
38,004
1,556
3,425
880
90
77
10,260
64«
5,819
mlk and araaa
3,740
797
118,857
242,994
-62.5
24,572
21.3
9,172
11,127
284
1,722
HI othar dairj ^vodaota
666
281
78,217
66,977
«'16.8
24,646
31.6
7,260
10.630
266
1,889
A-3
TABLE ?-A SIBIiiHY OF WHOLESiSLE TRilli. FOR THb USIT^ SW^tS: 1933
ALL TYi'i;. OF SilABLISRlDiiraS BY KIHB OP BDBlSrjSS •
(All Talues exuresBed In >
housends
of dcllars. A leader Indicates
no infonnation or an amount less
than t600. !
SiBober of
Total
1
sstabllehmestB
llet sales
exueuses _,,
Full-time
Pay roll
Stocks
on hanfl
Kind of EusinesB
eraployeee r
(and
/ere en'
» of
average i
Part-
of year!
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
change
jyaount
sales
Total
time
Farm products-consumer goodat Continued!
i*oultry and poultry producte
3,662
3,830
*316,437
¥760,795 -58.4
«30,569
9.7
11,645
$13,839
$1,374
#7,640
Dairy and poultry products
3,810
3,691
456,796
670,160
-31.8
47,105
10.3
16,S£Z
22,632
1.077
16,709
FruUe and vegetatles (fresh)
9,063
11,194
1,733,264
3,252,975
-46.7
174,646
10.1
56,418
79,032
12.686
34,146
All other
3o0
1/
51,207
i/
6,020
11.8
2,563
2,098
274
2,940
Farm supplies
2,467
1,973
363,771
898,273
-59.6
50,987
14.0
17,060
21,859
1,014
48,663
Fesd
1,533
1,284
169,508
571,068
-70.3
18,173
10.7
7,021
8.821
489
13,088
Fertilizer
363
279
103,311
187,470
-44.9
11,666
11.2
3,255
4,430
131
14,142
beeds
452
316
67,028
116,062
-42.2
18,107
27.0
5,840
7,199
341
18,842
All other
119
94
23,924
23,673
+ 1.1
3,141
13.1
944
1,409
53
2,591
Furniture and house fumishinga
2,784
2,977
364.626
994.062
-64.3
89,946
16.9
18.660
29,464
954
60,084
China, glassware and crockery
320
411
35;876
86,777,-58.7
6,122
17.1
1,797
2,978
50
5,477
Floor covering's
395
463
126,228
323,076! -«0.9
13,495
10.7
3,339
6,601
106
19,326
Pumitiire
730
1,146
82,630
344, 630' -76.0
15,036
18.2
5,133
7,856
298
10,552
House furnishings (except as specified
1,223
779
94,850
181,3281-47.7
18,761
19.8
«,Et0
8,679
475
18,339
UuBloal instrumaite and sheet mueic
116
178
15,043
68,242 -74.2
6,632
43.4
2,171
3,350
26
6,390
Jeneral raerchendise
193
370
243,319
596,066 -59.2
22,081
9.1
6,284
8,654
177
24,161
groceries and foods (except fann product
123.847
22,006
7.574.961
13.239.533 -42.8
716,393
9.5
221.609
327.205
8.113
496.898
Groceries (general linel
4,025
6,900
2,576,506
5,203,417 -30.6
189,197
7.3
68,344
97,109
1,866
246,926
Confectionery and soft drinks
3,836
2,959
282,257
356,242-20.8
53,936
19.1
17,336
22,558
863
18.109
Fish and sea foods
1,880
1,446
166,585
243,682 -31.6
29,377
17.6
10,144
13,841
1,229
7.622
Meats and meat products
3,226
3,605
1,112,114
3,102,286 -64.2
111,851
10.1
39,007
56,957
1,050
39,323
Other food and grocery speoialtiee
10,881
7,094
3,437,499
4,333,906 -20.7
332,032
9.7
86,778
136,740
3,105
194,918
Hardware
1.495
1.789
394,180
866.168 1-54.S
79.036
20.1
30.110
42.117
657
120.030
Hardware (general line)
744
1,227
309,994
754,5941-58.9
64.996
21.0
26,34«
34,662
441
102,154
Hardware (specialty lines]
751
562
84,186
111,564 ;-24,6
14,039
16.7
4,764
7,455
116
17,876
Jewelry and optical ^oods
2,073
2.366
148.762
494,681 -69.9
35.101
23.6
11.146
17.010
317
46.891
Jewelry (general line)
730
1,098
54,909
192,764 ;-71. 5
10,728
19.5
3,261
5,073
169
18,643
Clocks and vatches
163
140
18,824
66,664 -71.8
3,681
19.6
645
1,606
12
8,421
!)laaiond6 and other ireclous stones
243
497
15,311
124,798 1-87.7
1,994
13.0
440
726
25
8,791
Other Jewelry specialties
422
190
27,604
65,863 1-58.1
6,923
21.5
1,766
2,781
75
7,791
Optical goods
615-
■;40
32,104
44,492 1-27,8
12,775
39.8
4,833
6,824
38
6,245
Ltmber and building materials (other
than metal!
3.721
5,513
522.075
2.144,062 -76.7
94,612
18.1
28.738
47.366
3.696
79,735
Lumber and millwork
1,508
2,291
215,355
1,134,206 -81.0
32,036
14.9
10,192
15,408
1,149
33,863
Asbestos products
101
124
26,535
7B, 610 1-64.9
4,545
17.1
1,149
2,559
93
681
Brick and tile
236
428
25,174
98,8651-74.6
4,612
18.3
1,090
2,380
135
5,292
Cement
198
158
39,756
142,726 -72.1
7,207
18.1
1,5«1
3,613
169
4,244
Class
396
264
76,998
89,449 1-13.9
11,430
14.8
3,783
6,509
768
8,866
All other
/1.262
2,258
138,247
603,206 [-77.1
34,783
26.2
10,963
16,897
1,272
26,789
Machinery, equipment and supplies ( excep
1
electrical!
11,449
11,865
1,264,856
3,058,130 j-68. 6
268.438
21.2
84,159
139.886
4.199
248.676
Commercial machinery, equlpnent and
1
su...AieB
2,008
1,804
126,013
250,929 ;-49.8
36,859
29.3
15,276
22,410
386
19,476
Office equiiirent end supplies
(except furniture)
942
S89
73,873
72,621 * 1.9
22,767
30.8
10,500
15,283
135
8,474
Store equipfnent and sunnlies
266
585
9,264
66,320 1-84.1
2,768
29.8
936
1,366
52
1,515
All other
800
630
42,876
120,086 '-64.3
11,327
26.4
3,840
5,7S1
199
9,487
Construction rrschinery, equinrient and
supplies
692
498
53,275
132,690-59.9
12,419
23.3
3,633
6,052
150
12,646
Construction fuachlnery
89
178
7,287
56,631 -86.9
1,693
23.2
418
800
36
3,484
Road rachlnery and equirrent
191
119
22,259
30,788 -27.7
6,379
24.2
1,495
2,489
22
5,056
All other
SIZ
201
23,729
46,271
-48.7
6,347
22.5
1,720
2,763
92
4,106
Firm and dairy irachinery and equiwr«nt
800
560
117,178
385,838
-C9.6
33,165
26.3
10,798
15,915
417
53,340
Industrial machinery, oquiixnent and
supplies
5,021
6,142
671,384
1,648,680
-69.3
114,584
17.1
33,719
69,739
2,363
108,832
Bottles end bottlinp equipment
272
190
27,440
36,417
-24.7
4,000
14.6
1,062
1,813
44
3,258
Uechine tools
149
297
26,511
102,160
-76.0
2,816
U.O
747
1,397
88
3,533
ilec^isnical rubber goods
162
174
21,474
53,433!-66.1
3,281
15.3
947
1,874
48
2,003
kill and nine supplies (general line
1,346
1,418
184,398
410,973
-55.1
36,604
19.3
11,472
18,197
864
66,102
»11 other
3,092
4,063
412,661
1,036,897
-60.2
68,684
16.7
19,491
36,458
1,319
41,936
Professional equipment and supplies
1,078
1,000
119,266
207,816
-42.6
30,719
25.8
10,214
15,230
507
26,364
Dental equipiLent and supnlles
315
337
30,669
48,767
-37.1
9,580
31.2
3,161
4.909
48
9,912
Surgical, medical and hospital
equipment and supplies
^34
336
28,44^
66,413
-4S.6
8,006
26.1
2,450
4,041
98
1,560
All other
429
328
60,155
102,636
-41.4
13,133
21.8
4,603
6,280
361
11,892
IIBLS 2-1,— SOOUBI OF IVEOLESILB IBIIB «IR TEE OTITKD STASffli MIS
il.T. TTi'SS 07 ESTABLISaVSSTS BY CHS OF BDSIIKSS
tm TalM- .rm-...^ In th>m..n/ti. nf afTlY"- * i«-<" <r< l/.»t.aii an InfnYiMttnr nr «n ttmnnnt Taiii ^iMn ilJQO.l
Kind of BasinMt
Service equlpuiect and supplies
Barber fttid beauty parlor equlnnent
and supplies
Laundry equlprent and supplies
Other semce equlncent end auppllss
Tr&nsnortation equlpcert and supplies
Aircraft and seronautlcnl equlpnent
and supplies
fiailroad equipment and supplies
All other
Mstala (exoept sorapl
Iron and steel
Sheet metal prdducta
^ Other mot&l and metal vorlcs
lUper and its [roducts
Paper and Its ^oduots [general line)
Paper and its produDts (specialty lines
Stationery and stationery suppliaa
mi paper
Bmber of
•■tablishne-jte
Set aalae
19«9 1/
1,446
629
1S4
50S
11
240
284
1.996
1T6
499
2.8S1
Petroleian and Its products
Plonbins and heating equl^ant
and suppIleB
Heating equipnent (general Uoe)
Pipe, valves and fittings
Plmbing and heating equipnent
(general line)
Stoves and i«ng«8
m other
TobsAoo and its prodnota (except leaf]
Vaste materials
Xr^n and ateel scrap
Junl£ and Borap (general line)
Waate caper, rags and rulitnr
All other prcduots
Bags and bagging
Beer
Booka and periodioals
Cordage and tvine
-^Flomre and nursery stoolc
Foreet loroduots ; except Imbar )
Leather I
Leather goods
Berspspers and oagasines 1
Oils and greases (animal and voTetAblel
Rubber, orude
Rubber goods (general line)
Wines end spiritons liquors
Tarn
Mieoellaneoue kinds of business
1tl»
1 1,277
479
S26
28.465
1,4S9
532
141
71«
4U
14
ES7
141
2,277 I
19 SS
♦101,723
27,020
24,599
50,109
76,011
4,2»0
42,431
29,330
253
381
3,103
227
UO
1,011
111
780
1.988
3.417
760
1,929
728
9.057
1,568
584
719
232
28.007
397
217
1,607
137
428
2,016
1.231.814
Sl5,499
34,734
277,161
600.526
X9,356
238.637
37,677
14,856
2,292,960
, Peroent
"W 1/ Bhang.
(201,098
50,443
46,216
104,439
230,879
Z,3«l
201,942
26.596
4.439,810
2,839,964
202,469
1,397,387
1.132,583
4.000
644
3,083
273
213
2,384
191
78
725
606
430
792
718
166
36
92
767
176
1,686
7.205
162
V
408
105
633
1,020
559
993
228
171
49
92
77
285
2,423
17,034
18,530
140,487
11,842
77,274
1.263,418
679,014
307,813
113,568
32,188
3,233,663
819,6(57 -67.6
-46.4
-46.8
•52.0
•67.1
<>81.S
-79.0
•i-lO.S
total
expenses
-67.6
-82.8
-80.2
-47.0
.54.4
-22.5
-66.8
-SS.8
t29,0eT
9,481
6,495
14,111
11,606
776
6,486
4,344
78.219
ft
•alee
50,786
5,401
22,032
98.253
-29.1
50,023
32,706
9,753
5,762
423,693
282.602
65,801
176,340
41,461
1.395,498
37,667
132,104
37,123
28,556
29,516
102,437
113,331
49,930
125,252
121,730
38,244
38,048
87,369
160,777
298,422
73,803
86,369
640,323
26,849
92,328
1,691.173
552.280
258,794
234,082
69,404
2.907.410
66,680
169,429
54,281
71,351
205,420
288,752
168,479
33,612<»S72.6
-61.6
-86.2
-68.6
•76.9
■78.5
-74.0
-66.9
-16.3
-25.3
-48.8
-74.6
-25.1
-30.2
-52.0
-43.5
-78.1
-47.4
-58.6
-60.1
-60.8
-70.4
62.326 23.6
4,071
3,701
34,639
2,468
17,447
73,300
28.6
31.4
26.4
28.2
16.3
18.3
15.3
14.8
6.3
rall-tiiM
•■CieTaai
(vnrage)
6.6
16.5
7.9
16.4
16.2
13.7
25.9
38.8
18.6
30.108
9,757
12,299
8.052
169.061
316,791
240,611
121,220
£0,913*317.8
395,3791-69.3
754, S12| -60.4
4,506
24,210
12,921
2,334
7,146
10,866
9,012
8,871
27,914
8,365
1,407
6,17a
9,388
5,167
30,277
23.9
20.0
24.7
20.8
22.6
5.8
9,0TT
3,210
1,710
4,167
1,442
42
892
908
19.482
Pay roll
total
14,226
1,660
3,807
29.322
♦14.487
4,167
3,290
7.040
6,068
224
3,819
2,810
43.056
F»rt-
tlM
14,283
9,666
3,732
1,641
108,979
18. n?
10.7
14.8
7.0
19.4
12.1
12.0
18.3
34.8
8.2
24.2
10.6
8.0
17.8
22.3
6.9
4,2
17.6
10.7
3.2
10.1
1,184
1,089
11,139
707
4,498
16.633
12.683
3.824
5,287
4,072
61.170
27,608
2,646
9,806
90.161
♦222
66
47
104
96
1.828
(eat
ef fwmr)
24,976
17,921
4,998
2,256
173,813
29.756
2,050
1,867
16,494
1,282
8,078
25.201
13.131
2,329
5,407
3,631
SLZ
2,641
2,637
2,068
3,022
10,744
2,495
282
2, 194
2,247
97*
9,734
4,150
5,157
8,824
78.917
1,507
224
94
779
829
242
101
107
2,680
56
97
481
52
198
2T>
1.255
2,118
7,945
6,493
1,250
3,216
5,141
4,016
4,468
U.MO
3,279
•68
987
8,797
2,279
14,764
394
644
217
2.607
66
412
167
8
142
376
40
166
367
25
13
90
86
849
♦tO.910
•.«
4,19T
10,191
T.IOA
24*
2,241
4,618
68.092
4«,84e
6,880
11,402
W.888
88,8
tl,T8«
7,0«T
6«IM
184, 0T»
89.942
2,842
S,80«
i~i
WHOLBSALK DErnUamOB: 1933
TiSLS »-B,— SmOUBT OF WEOLESiL£ TRIDE FOR TEE H.Si 1933
K ITfE OF ESTABLISBUE!!! ASH KINS OF BDbiHESo
(All nltM« •iBTMUd In thoj
laanda of dollar
. A loadar
indloatea no Infoination or
m amount leaa than &600.1
Simhar of
Total
1
iTf* of EttumahiMnt
aatabliahmanta
Hat aalee |
Expenses |
Full-tine
fay roll 1
Stooka
ftnd
flnployeea
(and
of yaar)
Xiai tt Xuln*>«
Perom
;Sof
(oTeragel
Part-
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 i/ .
^ Bhanga
inonnt
tales
Total
tlna
mni.KSH.KBS fHOfSE £/
■BQL2SAU ItEBCEAllTS
. 97«
M.
178.274
»162.257
-51. a
»19.274
24.8"
5.240
»8.677
■ »261
imuaMat and < parting good!
n3.262
Cawcu Mid ■•tt6n pietu* •tulinant
•nd tuppllM
7d
V,
2,642
4/
833
31.9
243
381
19
587
OoTlng platnr* tllaa
1*6
i/
22,288
4/
5,191
22.3
763
2,293
35
1,114
Sport log good! (c*n*ral lint)
174
i/
20,096
4/
6,630
28.0
1,896
2,488
34
4,800
Toyny noTaltlas, and flrtrvorb
336
i/
16,336
4/
3,978
24.4
1,401
1.894
71
3,554
All othtr
24T
i/
16,943
4/
3,642
22.8
936
1,621
102
3,207
iatnatln {rodnota
s.ite
3.414
425.310
1.338.125
-68.2
98.274
23.1
38.003
51.747
858
82.696
intsiotillM and otliar motor TOMoln
3S9
632
126,436
914,734
-86.2
16,669
13.2
6,329
8,467
184
7,867
tetaaotlT* ttnlpMnti wooiaorlra tad
parti
4,861
2,678
246,260
399,797
-38.4
71,986
29.2
28,434
38,960
614
67,730
Ilroa and tutw
Mi
212
62,594
23,&94M22.9
9,Q9
18.3
3,240
4,320
60
7.098
OuBaleala
1.29E
1.077
197.185
327.973
-39.9
40.184
20.4
10.114
17.538
369
31.724
J^atnffa
60
V
26.693
^,
5,067
i*.a
986
2,522
9
3,718
■iqploalTU
24
i/
909
1/
128
14.1
41
57
17
81
ladoatrlal ohflalsali
12E
4/
41,322
1/
5,867
14.2
1,547
2,980
38
5,U6
laTkl itorw
ZZ
V
19.207
4/
686
3.6
218
333
10
1,807
Paint! and Tamiahu
ai6
663
70,861
114,154
-37.9
19,246
27.2
6,040
9,104
228
17,491
All otliar
es«
4/
38,193
4/
9,191
24.1
1,282
2,542
57
3,511
Clothing and fomlihln^
2. 664
3.402
390.789
1.053.882
-62.9
62.404
^6.0
18.628
29.666
958
48.077
Clothing and fnmiEhlnga (gonaral lina
20i
25,768
3,651
14.2
1,104
1,634
75
3,961
Clothing, mon'a and ^07*'
341
37,299
6.611
15.0
1,737
2,912
80
6,745
Clothing, woaan'B and ohildr«a*a
62T
117,311
17,637
15.0
6,020
9,181
376
7,4U
Fomlahinga (gtnaral lina!
167
2,686
12,746
717,447
-62.2
2,052
16.1
691
986
85
2,641
Fumiahinga, man'i and tojt*
430
41,145
7,712
18.7
2,572
3,736
126
7,383
Tnmiahlngs, waavi'e and ohlldron'a
200
14,665
2,647
18.1
836
1,218
60
2,984
Heaiarj
164
22,121.
2,376
10.7
728
1,065
23
2,684
HUlinary and millinary mppdlaa
ni
316
22,678
72,022
-68.5
4,888
a. 6
1,786
2,477
79
1,709
Shsa* and othar tootwnr
363
600
97,066
264,413
.63.3
16,829
16.3
4,155
6,637
.64
12,558
Coal
734
753
230.208
640.577
-64.1
30.083
13.1
7.685
12.990
936
21.016
Jferuga and djvg anndrioi
1.078
1.109
342.462
508.424
-32.6
56.973
16.6
18.524
27.107
394
66.346
Imga (gunaral linal
360
464
273,630
405,262
-32.8
41,365
15.1
13,975
19,946
240
54,104
Smga (ipwiialtx lis**)
192]
476
22,468
81,607
-65.8
6,311
23.6
1,440
2,482
31
6,697
Satont nadisinoa
90
5.489
1,260
23.0
347
664
6
709
Isiltt artlolaa and proparatiosa
222
149
16,Stf
£1,555
-24.2
5,238
32.0
1,558
2,362
88
1,837
All ethar
214
4/
24,537
y
3,799
15.5
1,204
1,763
29
3,099
mj good*
2.938
3.366
764.311
1.564.981
-51.8
101,707
13.5
29.925
49.750
674
142.495
Vrj goada (gaaoral Itut)
489
797
249,239
548,330
-54.6
39,963
16.0
14,452
19,694
206
53,706
iBit goada
276
V
53,414
V
8,544
16.0
2,469
4,617
80
8,822
Xotiona
SOI
730
40,626
82,001
-50.6
8,071
19.9
2,609
4,262
78
7,778
Piaoa gooda
1,229
1,612
881,056
883,466
-56.9
40,304
10.6
8,915
18,722
280
66.461
ill othw
441
V
29,976
V
4,825
16.1
1,490
2,466
30
6,736
Slootrleal good*
Klaotrloal applianoat, atni^iiant and
2,0W
2.146
270,754
836,141
-67.6
60,508
22.3
19,987
30,601
610
43.821
auppliaa
1,514
1,416
186,923
482,554
-61.3
40.581
21.7
13,472
20,708
494
33,294
Badioa and radio aqnijant
399
662
36,252
316,538
-88.S
8,522
23.5
2,635
4,087
78
6,266
Bafrlgaratora
164
78
47,579
38,049
f2S.O
11,406
24.0
3,880
5,706
38
5,262
Farm prodvta-raw natarlala
Cottoa
2.148
2,971
872.891
2.878.448
-66.1
67.862
7.8
13.626
22.957
1.147
233.717
211
398
258,395
929,058
-72.2
16,587
6.4
1,415
3,823
66
84,202
Grain
729
626
302,738
813,616
-62.8
21,616
7.1
4,848
8,755
407
85,799
Bidaa, akina, and fura (r«w)
697
1,060
89,667
305,799
-70.7
8,696
9.7
1,962
3,477
175
14,263
Boraaa and aolaa
62
123
5,200
12,935
-59.8
470
9.0
106
97
12
202
6U
Livaatook
146
316
23,286
138,535
-83.2
1,198
6.2
356
456
48
Silk (raw)
4
10
2,916
70,139
-95.8
104
3.6
27
67
1
263
Totaaoo (laaf)
164
269
58,606
85,484
-31.4
9,500
16.2
3,342
2,933
400
10,116
¥001 and uobair
lis
160
116,792
202,935
-42.4
8,320
7.1
1,325
3,050
30
24,740
13,526
All othar
at
122
16,349
20,027
-23.4
1,371
8.9
245
300
8
Fun prodtuta-oonnmar gooda
Sairj pradnota (ganaral linal
9.924
8.783
1.515.687
2.967.081
-48.9
225.995
14.9
»».430
103.171
4.168
47.267
1,077
180,738'
57,047
31.6
18,454
27,882
679
6,847
finttar
116
16,983
1,471
9.2
466
576
24
SQ2
Chaaaa
124
1,347
33,475
647,490
-42.4
3,961
11.8
861
1,304
2
2,414
■ilk and sraaa
470
46,607
14,643
31.9
4,643
6,754
67
661
All othar dairy prodoata
336
.
39,747
10,884
27.4
3,567
4,529
118
1,166
IIBLE £-B.— ^OniiSI OF iHOLSSiU TBUS FOB TBE O.Si 1933
BT mS ae i^ttSLlSBUSn tSO XlUt of BOSIKESiS
(HI T*ln*( (urttHd in
of dollars, i leader IndlQatee no InfonatloB or an amount less than |600.}
Aaber of
Total
tfV or SaUlilltlBnit
eatabliainentfi
Ret aalea
Poll-tla*
employees
Pay roll
Stock*
on hand
knl
(end
Kinl of Biuinatl
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
Percent
Bhang*
Jnoifflt
56 of
aalea
( BTerag* |
Total
I*rt-
time
of yearl
laOLESALl; ICEEOKASTS (Oonllimsdl
Pum irodn«t»-oonEQB«r goods 'ContlnQad
Pool try aad pool try prodnots
1.M&
1,160
«159,S«9
$400,427
-60.2
^5,849
9.9
5,261
#7,077
$596
$3,646
Dairy and ponJ try irodncta
1.0«
603
272,400
384,719
-29.2
33,140
12.2
10,826
16,460
446
11,196
Frolta and Ttgatabloa (fraah]
5, £03
5.673
752,328
1,634,446
-64.0
87,072
11.6
a, 340
38,468
2,218
a, 648
All othar
106
V
16,840
V
2,028
12.8
1,023
1,132
20
491
Faj% B^ppllaa
1,683
1,100
a2.190
513,420
-58.7
35.130
16.6
12.S94
16.673
786
32.709
?Md
1,1«
760
124,568
340,392
-63.4
18,112
14.5
6,323
6,871
418
11,015
rartUisar
95
91
13,526
66,523
-76.1
1.2S1
9.2
406
618
31
2,188
Saada
373
73J
249
60,397\
13,«99j
116,606
-36.4
13,425
22.2
6,967
7,240
316
17,464
ill othar
2,342
17.1
698
944
21
2.097
Vomlttira and houae furnlahinga
1.510
1,438
141.111
417.366
-66.2
31.921
22.6
11.440
16.023
643
87.622
CMoA, glacvMira and. oroofearj
149
" 4/
9,876
^,
2,772
28.1
929
1,250
15
2,844
Floor oovarlngs
177
4/
39,458
i/
5,360
13.6
1,642
2.778
69
10.635
Pomltnra
356
476
31,453
120,243
-73.8
7,561
24.0
2,998
3,861
207
6,421
Houaa funilehlnga lexoapt as apaolflt
dl 734
4/
48,026
1/
10,665
22.6
3,927
4,904
332
12,098
Hoaloal inBtroaanta and sheet nuslo
94
109
12,298
24,943
-50.7
6,363
43.6
1,944
3,230
20
5,324
Sanantl aarabandla^
87
168
61,207
178,072
-65.6
10,700
17.S
5JAj
1 5,724
118
11,730
Grooerlas and fooda (azoapt fans prodnot
s 116.288
13.896
2.747.964
4.785.544
-42.6
360.983
13.1
131.118
176,907
5,622
319,384
Grcoerlas (ganaral line)
3,434
5,251
1,360,871
2,779,204
-51.0
126,230
?.3
53,970
74,133
1,467
196,651
Confdotionery and soft drinks
3,242
2,360
182,793
271,859
.•32.8
34.493
18.9
13,516
16,316
771
13,518
Fleh and saa foods
1,671
1.289
102,584
198,619
-43. 4
26,967
26.3
3,711
11.785
889
4,965
HaatB and meat ];rodiiete
2,186
2,157
359,824
663,723
-45.6
61,473
1-1.3
17,760
25,955
671
13,477
Other food and grocery apaoUltles
6,756
2,839
741,892
872,139
-14.9
121,830
16.4
37,161
49,218
1,824
90,778
Bardnre
1.144
1.213
339.339
704.345
-SI.8
72.726
21.4
23.268
38.851
510
114,413
Eardnra (general llnel
692
925
301,932
660,233
-54.3
64.266
21.3
25,233
34,275
470
101,768
Eardvara (apeolalty lineal
432
288
37,407
44,112
-i5.2
8,460
22.6
3,015
4,576
40
12,650
Jamlry and optloal gooda
1.432
1.546
86.422
266,311
-67.9
20,726
24.3
7.132
10.218
249
30,166
Jenlry (genar^il llnel
6481
37,^29
8,246
22.0
2,664
3,950
^\l
17,453
Clocks and watchea
99
3,388
1,291
15.4
326
876
10
2,295
SUmonds and othar praolona stonsa
136
1,296
7,475
243,713
-71,8
941
12.6
244
350
£6
4,298
Other Jenlry specialties
24aJ
15,556
3,699
23.8
1,201
1,667
67
2,661
Optical gooda
Lmber and linllding saterials
Lcabar and mlllwork
301
2.352
249
3,522
16,575
231.784
22,598
1.133,856
-26.7
-79.6
6.549
58.814
39.5
25.4
2,777
20,105
3,736
29,563
40
3,249
60,394
895
1,487
103.786
632,008
-83.6
22,737
21.9
8,232
U,338
831
30,806
iahastoB prodno'U
34
1,447
527
36.-4
172
301
70
306
Brick and tile
88
7,318
1,794
24.5
461
833
84
1,130
Oeaant
107
2,035
10,994
601,848
-74.6
2.532
£3.0
645
1,193
120
1,528
Slaaa
284
15,637
5,426
34.9
1,871
3,043
407
4,969
111 other
944J
92.705J
25,799
27.8
3,734
12,666
1,301
a,656
lachinery, equlpaent and anppllea
(except alaotrio&l)
6.791
5.986
468.214
1.134.692
-58.7
118.368
26.4
39.483
60.066
2.198
129.024
Co^Berolel ciaehiner7, e^nlpaent
and anppllea
898
785
44,015
106,612
-68.7
13,116
29.8
4,680
6,687
252
11,267
Offloe eqnljBent and aupplles
(except fnmlturel
179
V
8,243
♦/
2,674
32.4
1,069
1,418
64
1,857
Store e^nlpiarit and aap^iee
199
V
5,315
*/
1,713
32.2
602
799
40
1,099
111 other
520
V
30,457
4/
8,723
28.7
3,009
4,370
168
8,301
Oonatmctlon aacblnary, aqoipaent
and supplies
214
245
20,891
53,680
-81.1
6,346
26.6
1,466
2,322
91
6,198
Conatniotlon machln^sry
36
4/
2,216
iJ,
674
».4
183
330
34
984
Bead Maohlnary and eqaliaent
91
4/
8,996
y
2,298
25.5
601
979
19
2,449
111 othar
87
V
9,679
1/
2,376
24.6
662
1,013
38
2,766
Ian and dairy aaohlnary and
aqnlinait
26S
200
23,096
48,116
-62.0
6,463
23.6
1,657
2,628
147
5,804
Inlnatrial ■achinery, eiul^mt and
anF^lee
2,414
2,915
246,407
664,748
-62.9
65,669
22.6
17,869
£7,776
1,221
66,016
Bottles and kottling equipoent
220
V
10.016
^
1,803
18.0
64S
824
39
1,628
■achlne toole
a
V
11,707
4/
1,866
16.9
646
683
10
2,266
H4Ctenloal robber goode
«6
t/
4,791
V
1,221
25.6
414
646
84
906
Mill and nine aapjllee (general 11
nel 989
y
150,063
i/
30,037
20.0
9,670
16,699
610
46,464
ill other
1,079
*/
69,830
4/
20,643
29.6
6,386
10,025
528
17,731
Professional equ\^ent and auppliea
722
662
64,697
106,761
-48.4
16,793
30.8
6,114
9,202
240
17,464
Dental equljKent and snppllae
262
V
21,518
4/
7,174
33.3
2,467
3,764
33
7,799
Snrglcal.medlcal ind hcepiial aqol
OMnt and suppllea
P-
1 193
I 267
v.
12,424
4/
3,368
31.1
1,283
1,954
34
2,832
ill ether
V
20,685
4/
5.766
27.9
2,364
3,484
123
6,838
i-7
TABLE 2-B. — SUOJiBY OF BHOLESALE TRADE FOR THE U.S: 1933
BI TYt'E OF cETABLloHMEKT AKD KIND OF BDSIHBSS
(All values expressed In tbousaids
of doll
BTS. A leader indloatee no inJ
foxtoatlon or an amount lees
than (600.
Number of
Total
1
Type of Eetatllelment
•stablishmente
Net
sales
Ei]Mns«a
Full-time
employees
Pay roll
StOokB
and
on hand
Kind of Business
1933
1929 i/
1933
1929 1/
Farcaat
change
Amount
aalei
(average)
Total
P«*t-
tliu
(and
of year
WHOLES JIE lIEBCHiOTS (Continued)
Maohlnepy, equipment and supplies
(except aleotrioal) (Continued)
Service equipnent and supplies
1,080
1,001
^58,968
¥105,695
-44.2
#17,274
29.3
6,143
»8,728
tl70
tie. 072
Barber and beauty parlor
681
4/
23,927
4/
7,913
33.1
3,037
3,877
64
6,014
Laundr:; equipment and supplies
93
4/
12,469
4/
2,675
21.5
704
1,335
20
2,364
Ail other
406
4/
22,572
4/
6,681
29.6
2,402
3,516
86
6,704
Transportation equipnent and supplies
238
178
20,238
49,980
-69.6
5,311
26.2
1,564
2,823
77
6,214
Aircraft and aeronautical
8
^,
644
^,
252
39.1
106
153
_
194
Railroad
39
4/
5,957
4/
1,473
24.7
318
742
24
772
All other
191
4/
13,637,
4/
3,586
26.3
1,140
1,928
u
4,248
Uetals (except scrap)
705
796
107,768
406,780
-73.5
23,427
21.7
7,699
12,306
815
29.702
Copper
7
V
818
1/
134
16.4
32
46
1
177
Iron and steel
397
534
66,943
254,427
-73.7
16,546
24.7
5,347
8,498
579
22,278
Sheet metal products
125
4/
15,312
^
3,142
20.5
1,079
1,707
182
3,363
Other metal and metal works
176
V
24, 695
4/
3,605
14.6
1,241
2,05»
53
3,684
i'aper and its products
2.149
2.235
313.743
682.421
-64.0
67.349
21.6
23.093
36,761
686
60,793
Paper and its products (general line)
640
1,242
171,139
404,939
-67.7
35,155
20.5
11,970
20,208
317
52,673
P»per and its products (specialty line
s) 865
367
105,205
182,218
^2.3
20,354
19.3
7,010
11,059
197
17,570
Stationery and stationery aupplles
333
410
23,331
65,271
-64.3
6,338
2 7.2
2,514
3,321
65
6,485
Wall paper
311
216
14,068
29,993
-53.1
6,502
39.1
1,599
2,173
107
5,066
^'etroleian and its products
1.748
3.011
214.270
492.879
-56.6
37,791
17.6
9.753
14,935
429
13.913
Climbing and heating equipDent and
supplies
1.428
1.674
141.449
489.441
-71.1
35.661
26.2
11.198
17.532
646
40.986
Heating equipnent (general line)
66
^
4,106
.V
1,4Z1
34.6
500
723
41
932
Pipe, valves and fittings
81
4/
10,773
4/
2,523
23.4
766
1,148
46
2,760
Plumbing and heating equipMnt (genera
i
line)
767
4/
90,294
4/
22,518
24.9
7,377
11,211
288
30,155
Stoves and ranges
76
V
7,116
4/
1,689
23.7
538
968
26
1,450
All other
438
V
29,158
4/
7,500
25.7
1,999
3,462
145
6,691
Tobacco and its products (except leaf)
1.617
609.581
822.231
-38.0
32.660
6.4
10.4S1
15,025
sa,
29,990
Waste materials
3.342
3,873
155.674
444,284
-66.0
28.273
18.2
12,296
12.258
1,064
27.802
Iron and steel sorap
736
eeo
62,195
186,202
-72.0
8,972
17.2
3,249
3,680
394
9,579
Junk and scrap (general line)
1,897
3,043
63.676
206,873
-69.2
11,467
18.0
5,002
4,871
572
13,140
Waste paper, rags and rubber
709
250
39,703
61,209
-22.5
7,834
19.7
4,046
3,707
96
5,083
All other products
6.401
4.504
495.460
921.364
-46.2
93.110
18.8
33.094
45,562
2,036
67.96S
Bags and bagging
171
4/
17,504
4/
2,988
17.1
2,061
l!620
32
2,747
Beer
1,926
V
87,009
4/
15,43»
17.7
3,909 ,
5,247
296
3,407
BookB and periodicals
116
410
18,038
124,804
-85.6
6,037
33.5
1,977
3,199
142
6,077
Cordage and twine
34
4/
14,912
4/
930
6.2
279
513
3
727
Flowers and nursery stock
606
507
17,362
44,604
-61.1
4,920
28.3
1,689
2,138
118
1,986
Forest products (except lumber)
340
588
27,691
85,240
-67.6
4,600
16.6
1,783
2,442
255
3,377
Leather
295
421
51,503
128,365
-59.9
5,095
9.9
1,379
2,394
27
7,887
Leather goods
643
722
32,418
82,434
-60.7
6,546
20.2
2,379
3,260
144
8.977
Newspapers and magazines
480
4/
72,120
4/
16,157
22.4
7,266
10,825
302
3,638
Oils and greases (animal and vegetable
62
55
21,762
36,644
-40.6
5,202
23.9
1,879
1,973
12
7,169
Bubber, crude
15
V
10,773
4/
783
7.3
163
311
-
1,5S9
Rubber goods (general line)
40
30
2,118
14,620
-85.5
567
26.8
182
246
6
280
Wines and spiritous liquors
601
V
28,407
4/
4,398
15.5
1,270
1,945
84
9,037
Yarn
60
4/
14,863
4/
1,464
9.8
364
528
15
1,884
Miscellaneous kinds of bus iness
1,012
V
78,990
4/
17,996
22.8
6,634
3,912
550
10,293
EXPORTERS
AmuBOnent and sporting goods
S
u
17,712
4,677
f278,7
1,034
5.8
U7
429
20
2
iutonotive prodmots
5
24
3,891
42,444
-90.8
478
12.3
84
167
4
316
Chemicals
11
13
4,582
23, 395
-80.4
228
5.0
49
126
£
394
Clothing and furnishings
17
38
1,119
5,844
-80.9
178
15.9
53
76
-
UT
Drugs and drug sundries
3
9
884
1,344
-34.2
43
4.9
10
21
-
n
Dry goods
36
55
17,406
32,430
-46.3
1,411
8.1
431
957
22
4,180
Electrical goods
10
8
2,003
1,S61
♦47.2
267
13.3
48
94
1
16
Farm products-raw ofitsrials
156
232
260,879
676,005
-70.2
16,186
6.2
1,937
3,422
3SB
90,733
Fann products-consumer goods
20
17
4,5S2
8,419
-45.9
224
4.9
32
8£
5
68
Furniture and house furnishings
3
S
37
726
-94.9
11
29.7
1
1
—
IE
Ceneral merohandise
S
24
37,607
45,736
-17.8
7,871
20.9
218
817
22
2,438
Groceries and foods (except faro products
46
69
38,943
89,628
-56.6
1.789
4.6
271
667
24
5,730
Hardware
4
S
eS3
1.646
-4S.1
60
7.0
20
43
—
U
Jewelry and optical goods
4
2
87
434
-80.0
15
17.2
10
7
-
131
LQnber and building materials (other
than metal )
47
74
13,834
83.262
-83.4
980
7.1
206
412
12
151
A-8
tiSLS z->. — saaiABY OF -iiBOisau^ iBiis roa 111& n.Si 1939
BT TTfE OF t^iUBLl^BIUST IHI KINO Of BDSUEbS
(111 nlsci %-iimtai In thimaanil
• of doll
ara> i laada>
Indloatai
no Infonsatlon or an amount lees
than t500.1
Ihnhar of
Total
tyja vt EcWUlaliiMnt
aatabllahiranta
Hat aalea
Sxixosaa
Full-time
i»y roll
StookB
on hand
anV.
E1b4 Of BoilniM
sttployeea
Peroent
^of
( average )
SBrt~
(eM
of year
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
ohang*
toaant
aalea
Total
tine
ZZraazSBS (Coutlmad)
IUahliiu7, aquiiarat and luppllM
(•iaapt Uaotriul)
IS
S«
t5,97e
»19,5U
-69.4
♦311
5.2
66
»167
«1
*389
H««kla (anspt aorapl
6
5
26,359
5,081
»4S3.3
1,089
4.1
270
739
43
138
P»p»p and It I [Toduota
1
8
1,798
6,91!
-73. 6
280
15.6
73
160
.
64
fatrolaoi and Itt prodncta
7
21
6,731
163,8":
-9C.9
617
7.7
64
135
6
441
HiBtiIng and haatlng aqul^ant and
BQF^laa
3
3
1,023
4,481
-77.2
175
17.1
26
66
-
71
Tobaeos and ita frodoota (azoapt laaf)
3
i/
la
4/
12 9.9
3
5
-
2S
Saata aatariala
6
13
108,145
13,604
^«9S.0
,509
0.6
156
243
US
79
ill othar kinda of 1)aainaaa
S3
78
3,603
77,186
-95.3
463
12.8
94
158
13
333
Jauamant and aportlng gooda
67
20
6.618
3.539
+67.0
1.261
18.9
336
506
9
1.102
?oy«, navaltlaa, and flramrlca
54
V
6,475
4/
1,212
18.7
331
495
9
1,069
ja.l othar
3
V
143
V
39
27.3
7
11
-
33
iutonotlra jrodnota
7
3
538
715
-24.8
145
27,0
SO
60
_
176
Rhanleala
se
59 ■
26.714
50.924
-47.5
3.490
13.1
539
1.327
4
5,660
I^atn^a
15
V
4,704
4/
1,097
23.3
165
465
_
1,167
Isdnatllal oJialoala
Zl
V
17,477
V
1,905
10.9
255
617
4
3,914
Palnta and Taralahaa
6
9
1,761
12,895
-86.3
179
10.2
37
101
-
178
ill othar
16
i/
2,772
i/
305
11.0
62
144
-
411
Clothing and fumiahm^
109
93
24.925
33.181
-24.9
3.899
_15.6
891
1.655
OS.
7.969
Clothing, voaan'a and ohlldrm'a
12
V
826
4/
242
29.3
70
84
129
Fomlatiinga (general Una)
6
4/
941
4/
154
16.4
62
105
-
216
Fornlahlngtt, man's and boya'
14
i/
4,016
^,
837
20.6
158
311
1
1,463
Furnlahioga, vcman'a and ohlldrim'a
30
V
5,411
4/
969
17.9
218
404
2
1,106
Boaiary
6
V
2,252
4/
410
18.2
93
198
-
709
■lllinery and allllner; anpfliaa
37
31
11,247
13,002
-13.5
1,255
U.2
262
537
12
4,321
ill othar
5
V
232
4/
32
13.8
8
16
-
35
Coal
S
1
434
665
-34.7
30
6.9
6
11
.
101
Dmga and img suidrlea
46
69
5.772
22.231
-74.0
2.003
34.7
446
808
22
1.217
JDmga (apacialty llnaa)
13
4/
2,055
*^
687
33.4
132
190
10
290
Frtant sadiclnaa
4
4/
708
4/
175
24.7
23
61
-
123
Toilat artlolas aad preporatlona
24
37
2,842
7,968
-64.3
1,081
38.0
274
520
12
762
ill othar
6
V
167
4/
60
35.9
17
37
-
42
Drr goods
Dry gooda (gecaral line)
353
345
70.709
111.117
-3S.4
13.146
16.6
3.559
6.517
78
20.872
24
51
11,531
17,044
-32.3
1,697
14.7
457
1,015
16
2,730
Knit gooda
3
V
69
4/
22
31.9
8
IS
-
39
Hctlona
113
112
17,581
36,800
-60.9
3,784
21.5
1,404
1,622
18
4,768
?laoa gooda
1S2
151
38,643
52,020
-25.7
7,293
18.9
1,603
3,530
40
12,616
Ul othar
21
4/
2,885
4/
350
12.1
87
137
4
717
Slaetrloal goodj
Tana £vodnota-ra« natarlala
11
12
737
2.559
-71.2
166
22.6
4«
60
1
54
127
157
104,432
229,461
-54.5
4.389
4.2
622
1,912
11
13.853
Cotton
3
3
1,430
23,164
-93.8
35
2.4
6
23
4
32
Htdai, aklns, and fura (ran)
60
76
20,263
46,383
-56.3
1,391
6.9
228
596
6
3,427
611k (raw)
13
11
69,123
75,801
- 6.8
2,067
3.0
209
862
-
7,436
Tobaooo (laaf)
23
24
1,703 .
28,729
-94.1
301
17.7
65
140
-
1,418
wool as£ Bobalr
11
14
6,694
21,391
-68.7
325
4.9
62
132
1
796
ill othar
17
30
5,199
33,993
-84.7
270
5.2
50
139
~
744
Fara produota-oonsuiar gooda
Chaaaa
72
27
45.983
13.431
242.4
1.937
4.2
713
1.260
67
395
10
4/
3,835
4/
345
9.0
86
180
7
306
Fralta and Tagatahlaa (fraah)
ill othar
88
4
14
4/
41,605
543
11,4041
4/
264.8
1,554
38
3.7
7.0
611
14
965
115
60
26
63
Para Buppllaa
Portlllzar
S&
13
27.44S
36.252
-24.3
2.160
7.9
212
621
19
2.434
16
6
23,898
34,627
-25.2
1,919
7.4
142
494
19
2,203
'231
ill othar
10
7
1,691
1,625
- 4.8
241
15.6
70
127
"
Fumitnra and Lonaa furnlahlnga
China, glaaanra and orookary
Floor oorarlnga
Fumltttra
Bouss fumlBhlnga (azoapt aa apaolfli
Mnaloal Inacnsnanti and flheat mualo
237
2u6
29.659
67.866
-56.3
6.827
23.0
1.562
2.637
50
10.197..
66
53
14
Id) 109
6
27
V
7
8,696
7,860
492
11,430
1,281
3,396
4/
2,809
-85.5
-54.4
2,060
1,850
112
2,400
405
24.0
23.5
22.8
21.0
31.6
543
225
64
669
61
1,061
460
121
1,034
121
15
10
25
1,958
4,069
330
3,400
440
Oanaral marobandlaa
Oroobrlaa and fooda( axoapt fans produot
6
27
76.179
191,798
-60.3
2,037, 2.7
424
1,239
1
9,614
■ ) 469
36S
230,394
336,009
-31.2
26.336
11.4
6.594
U.«*8
62
24,906
Confaotlonary and aoft drlnka
IS
10
asi
£44
U48.e
!!47
29.0
76
115
-
168
Tlah and saa fooda
14
16
2,691
5,045
-<6.6
391
14.5
69
188
2
702
Othar food and grooary apaoialtlaa
442
343
226,652
329,802
-31.2
25,698
11.3
6,449
11,365
60
24,066
A-9
TiBLE 2-S. — SUmUBY Cf WHOLESALE IBUE FOR THE U.S: 1933
IT TIfE OF SSIiSLISHUEHT AKS KIS7 0T> BDSMESS
(All TslMB exppososd In thoueands of dollars. A leader
indicates no infoznatlon or an snount less
than tSOO.)
Nisober of
Total
Type of Establishment
establlstnents
Net
sales
ExpsDSee
full-time
Pay ro
11
StOOkB
and
mployees
on hand
Kind of Business
Percent
Hot,
STsrage )
fart-
(end
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
jhange
Amount
sales
Total
tlB*
of year)
lUPOBISBS (Continosdl
Hardware
19
16
♦;.503
»3.74S
-59.8
«S92
26.1
91
.3204
t2
Hardware (general line
3
11
176
3,360
-94.8
39
22.2
11
18
5S
Hardware (speoialty lines)
IS
5
1,327
383
+246.5
363
26.6
80
186
2
608
Jewelry and optical goods
195
330
17.888
110,485
-83.8
3.692
20.6
795
1.B50
40
9.263
Jewelry (general line)
12
1/
1,272
4/
302
23.7
83
147
6
770
Cloclrs and watches
47
4/
6,575
4/
1,702
25.9
313
681
20
2,678
Diamonds and other precious stones
86
^,
6,937
4/
986
14.2
205
363
10
4,114
Other Jewelry sjBolaltles
46
V
2,598
4/
551
21.2
151
273
4
1,523
Optical goods
4
7
505
1,957
-74.2
la
29.9
43
8«
178
Lumher and iulldlng materlale (other th«
m
metal)
33
SS
' 2.873
. 7,392
-61.1
846
29.4
142
298
£2
1.3S8
Lankar and Eillwork
10
S
1,636
1,721
—4.9
447
27.3
64
132
10
738
Brick and tue
10
V
473
V
1S4
38.9
21
88
4
71
Class
5
4/
469
4/
74
15.8
27
42
4
113
All other
G
V
295
4/
141
47.8
30
56
4
4SS
Llachlnery^equlpnent and supplies
(except electrical)
73
95
12.087
16,435
-26.6
1.923
15.9
437
928
10
2.609
CosiDercial machinery, eqnipsent and
supplies
6,
13
317
4,607
-93.1
45
14.2
16
19
_
78
Industrial^ rrochiner^
33^
45
e,'816
6,724
+31.1
1,077
12.2
218
622
8
1,467
Profasslonal squlpnavt and supplies
27
31
2,432
3,540
-31.3
732
30.1
193
362
2
1,002
Other machinery s^lpaemt & supplies
7
6
522
1,664
-66.6
69
13.2
11
25
62
Metals (except scrap)
33
36
24.317
252.017
-90.4
732
3.0
141
374
2
995
Iron and steel
22
27
4,011
10,116
-60.3
517
12.9
88
260
2
602
Other metal and metal works
11
9
20,306
241,901
-91.6
216
1.1
53
114
-
993
I'aper and its products
26
26
7.563
4.763
+58.8
683
9.0
136
253
_
796
Paper and its products (sjeolalty lli
es) 13
1
S87
304
+93.1
205
34.9
53
97
_
383
Stationery and stationery supplies
7
9
824
9V6
-1S.6
157
19.1
47
67
,.
261
All other
5
16
6,152
3,483
+ 76.6
321
5.2
36
89
-
152
lohaoeo and its products (except leaf)
8
6
2.066
3,285
-37.1
326
1S.9
61
161
5
477
All other kinds cf business
210
256
57.614
311,576
-61.5
5.049
8.8
1.022
1.965
36
9,341
Bac6 and bagging
4
V
617
4/
80
13.0
9
42
21
Books and periodio^ils
3
6
54
129
-68.1
20
37.0
4
4
_
89
Cordage and twine
3
i/
1,537
1/
4«
30.0
7
16
.
48
Flowers and nursery stock
4
6
368
1,502
-75.5
69
16.0
14
28
1
181
Forest products (except limber)
14
14
13,040
6,299
+107.0
742
5.7
112
293
2
1.933
Leather
9
11
1,438
4,939
-70.9
164
11.4
26
56
3
267
Leather goods
IS
11
2,359
2,769
-14.8
348
14.8
69
139
9
457
Nswspapere eni raigazines
S
1/
193
V
66
34.2
21
43
2
33
Oils and peases (animal and wegetabl
s) 13
9
3.746
29.924
-87.5
545
14.5
72
152
3
690
Eubber, cnide
10
*/
17,651
i/
52£
3.0
60
213
3
2,227
Rubber goods (general line)
2
4/
23
H
6
26.1
4
3
-
6
Wines and splritous liquors
69
V
■9,741
V,
1,462:
15.2
357
606
2
1,306
Yam
3
4/
315
4/
62
19.7
8
28
9
101
His jellaneouE
6«
4/
6.432
V
907
14.1
259
SU
2
2,033
LniirjB FUJICTION mOLiSALERS
jbQuseinent and sporting goods
27
5
1.345"
2,108
-36.18
336
2479
176
ivr
9
2a
Cameras and motion pijture equipsent
and supplies
3
V
96
4/
31
32.3
14
18
-
9
Toys, roTslties, and fireworks
18
V
1,144
4/
264
23.1
142
108
9
203
All other
6
4/
105
4/
40
38.1
19
16
-
S9
Automotive products
87
10
8.236
1.773
+364.5
1.768
21.4
661
797
4
1.2S7
Automobiles and other motor Tehiolee
e
1
2,819
1,462
+92.8
422
15.0
160
2D4
1
Ul
AntomotiTe equlpnent, acoesscries sai
parts
48
7
6,327
201
2550.2
1,325
24.9
393
689
3
1,140
Tires and tubes
4
2
90
110
-18.2
18
20.0
a
4
-
6
Chemicals
IS
26
436
10.711
-95.9
162
34.9
S8
83
X
46
Clothing and furnishings
27
44
1.290
11.188
-88.5
268
20.8
58
103
s
96
Clothing and furnishings (general lli
e) 4
4/
98
4/
27
27.6
9
?
-
12
Clothing, men's and boys'
8
4/
40O
4/
74
18.8
14
42
4
10
Pumiehings (general line)
3
4/
10?
«/
24
22.C
4
8
-
10
Furnishings, men's and boys'
4
4/
292
4/
33
11.3
9
11
2
22
Hosiery
4
V
138
^
S6
26.1
7
9
•
19
All other
4
V
253
4/
74
29.2
IS
26
2
25
Coal
233
67
87.744
36.148
+142.7
6.796
6.6
1.289
8.162
76
68
OtttnM of
3a«lD*«c
1-10
TiBLE 2-B. — SnOUBT Or VHOLESILZ r'uir.:- poB 7H£ U.Si 19SS
BI tTK OF ESTlBtlSBMan; AHD KISD OP BDSISE33
(HI nlu« (iprMMd is
thouaanda of dollara. 1 leader indiwtea
no Inforaiation or an aoount Iabb
than tSOO.
Kind of Bnslnui
Ih»«b>r of
eitaUlainence
net aalea
Total
Bxpenaej
roll-tlaa
Pay roll
stooia
on hand
19SS
1929 Ij
1933
1929 1/
'•roont
ABOunt
?0f
aalet
(aTarage)
total
Part-
time
(end
of year!
laatsD moTioi jeolesilsss
(Contlmwll
Sro^ and drug imidrloi
44
14
t2.6S7
«2.960
- 9.2
♦434
16.2
123
«197
S3
$519
Drug! (gnorml Una)
Brngt (sfaoUlt; llnaol
fktnt Mdlolnu
Tollot artlolu and preiajatlona
HI otBar
Dry gooda
3
15
7
8
11
»
5
1
1,153
421
207
110
796
3.897
1,762
1
5.119
-34.2
-23.9
94
116
39
45
140
401
8.2
27.6
18.8
40.9
17.6
10.3
30
48
10
15
23
140
4?
58
12
16
62
210
3
9
SCO
87
9
18
lOE
2S4
Ilry gocdi (gananl Una)
Kalt gooda
Botlona
Pla«a gooda
HI otiiar
naotrloal gooda
6
4
16
13
21
37
4
V
16
449
173
267
2,744
264
2.346
257
i/
i/
3,407
i/
6.628
+74.7
-19.6
-64.6
163
17
39
110
72
609
36.3
9.8
14.6
4.0
27.3
21.7
64
6
20
27
23
180
81
8
17
62
22
201
9
1
79
28
a
52
44
376
Slaotrloa] appHonoae, e^ipaent and
•nppllaa
ill oihn
Fkra prodoota-raw matarlAla
19
IB
6
IS
3
40
698
1,647
3.436
6,160
478
13,542
-88.7
+244.6
-74.6
185
324.
122
26.0
19.7
3.6
69
HI
IS
75
126
21
1
190
185
2
tmxm prodaita-oonsanar goodi
380
416
33.825
72.971
-53.6
7.777
23.0
2.546
3,818
226
1,169
BkItx prodvats (ganar&l linal
Chaaaa
Ullk and oraam
HI othar dairy frodueta
Poultry and poultry frcdoota
Dairy and poultry produeta
Frutta and Tagatablaa (fr«ahl
HI other
Fa:v auppllaa
621
48l
60
9J
23
26
148
4
37
IW
16
16
265
i/
36
8,444]
5,780
6,776
322
767
8,016
2,829
901
S.702
48,766
2,201
7,06?
14,946
*/
18.393
-56.3
-6S.6
+13.1
-ei.i
-63.6
3,128
902
1,61U
130
189
1,382
390
46
1.041
37.0
15,6
23.8
40.4
25.0
17.2
13.8
5.1
16.6
1.136
253
530
37
37
424
121
8
292
1,522
488
802
59
58
753
128
8
356
20
15
15
10
10
20
126
10
3
681
286
U9
2
5
86
SO
a
729
Paad
HI othar
fornltura and houae ftimishlnga
24
13
38
31
4
41
3,987
2,716
4.188
17,756
637
8.829
-77.5
+326.2
-62.6
202
839
690
5.1
30.9
16.6
65
237
169
94
262
277
1
2
10
29
700
422
Pumltxiro
Bouae fuznlahlsga
Hualoal lastrunaata
HI othar
firooerlaa and fooda (axoapt turn
iroduatal
10
19
6
8
1.286
17
20
4
V
890
342
1,326
670
1,960
103.949
3,021
6,460
348
4/
176.800
— ««.7
-76.7
+63.8
-41.2
59
296
234
101
■ 11.350
17.3
22.3
41.1
6.2
10.9
12
73
64
20
4.233
18
132
81
46
6.671
4
2
4
77
1
36
114
271
7.688
Crooarlai (gtnaril line)
Confeotionary and aoft drlnkl
Flah and ate fooda
Xaata and meat ja-oducta
Othar food and gnoary apaoi<lea
Eardeare
SOC
41B
a
94
487
9
397
227
4
SI
201
11
56,1*6
19,319
139
5,093
24,112
371
116,274
12,385
475
10,374
37,092
4.796
-52.5
+66.0
-70.7
-50.9
-36.0
-92.3
3,221
2,693
43
1.492
4,001
99
5.8
13.4
30.9
29.3
16.6
26.7
1,296
997
16
383
1,541
28
1,664
1,177
IS
553
2,174
49
40
17
2
18
2
5,192
772
2
119
1,603
177
Eardaara (genaivl Una)
Eardnra (apeelalty lineal
J«Mlry and optletl gooda
3
6
18
9
2
46
ZSl
120
1.733
4,016
777
2.411
-93.8
-84.6
-28.1
623
22.3
35.8
36.9
19
9
261
28
Zl
378
1
1
2
144
33
612
LtBher and building satericia Utbar th
Detail
kn
206
142
30.230
4/
2.696
8.9
580
1.297
16
57
kaaber and nillwork
Brlok and tUe
HI otbar
Machinery, equipeent and ?\ippllaa
180
8
17
40
60
29,548
248
434
1.724
17,866
-90.3
2,548
81
66
646
8.6
32.7
16.2
31.7
9SS
a
16
lai
1,212
45
40
24C
16
2
a
1
5
274
4
19
2.052
8.777
-76.6
123
6.0
26
80
-
*
Paper and Ita proCaata
41
28
10,281
10.»2
- l.l
811
7.9
342
506
19
269
Paper and ita produota ^general line
Paper and Ita jxoduou (apeoUlty 11
Stationery and atatlosery euppliee
«M1 paper
Petrolem tdd Ite poroduflta
6
ual 17
12
7
193
i
81
168
8,620
1,178
326
14.923
1
22.669
-33.9
26
428
229
134
1.568
12.7
5.0
19.4
41.2
10.4
8
96
208
30
366
It
261
166
69
567
2
2
4
11
6
29
164
71
204
PltuDbln^ eind teatlng o^^nl^nent li euppli
Tobeeoo and ita pro4Mte [ezeept leeT)
» 6
22
309
3.844
-92.0
16S
48.8
Si
48
J«
14.637
32.813
-55.4
842
0.8
£90
340
9
818
Ceete neterUl*
11
26
8.367
14.448
-42.1
707
8.4
106
321
79
8
496
93
16.221
86.822
-73.2
2.732
17.9
1.091
1.454
70
639
Beer
Books and t«rlodlaala
266
U
1/
«
3,380
939
4/
2,613
-64.1
639
364
16.9
38.8
1S8
111
176
144
8
32
47
246
Cansos of
Jmerlo&a
Bnslnati
TifiXE 2-fi.— .61I0U£7 OF WHC(L£SAL£ TBiJE FOB TH£ U.St 1959
BT TYPE OF ESTABLI3HMKNT ASD KIND OP BDSIHESS
(All Talitta axpraised Ir
no Infoarofttlon oi
fa imoiint 1aiin
tihrn tmn.)
HixnlMr 0^
Total
aatabllahaaatt
lat lala*
Kipaaai
F<lll..«tau
Mr MU
Stotaa
TTpa of EitatillililMilt
an Ivnd
and
Elsd of Baalaaaa
>*raBt
fot
(aTan««|
P»rt-
(•ad
Of yawl
1933
19W i/
1933
1929 1/
ihang*
Monnt
aalai
ittiA
tlM
LDIIISS FDSCTIOH SE0LES1L£EI3
(Oontinuad)
ill otbar kijidi of Imalnaaa (Cootlnuadl
nowara and nupaary otook
7
2
t302
tsc
+694.7
*81
26. S
3S
«M
.
tl«
Foraat produota (auapt lonliar)
20
28
789
10,216
-92.5
161
20.S
9i
77
•
«
Laathar gooda
8
8
839
682
+23.0
123
14.;
30
74
.
50
Bavapapara and magaalnaa
94
V
6,641
^
9M
14.4
493
691
tao
y
Vina a and aplrltona llqaora
24
V,
3i2
*^
76
21.C
Z8
SO
*
u
lilasallanaona
S4
4/
1,989
i/
432
21.7
242
218
IS
tt
C«ajns of
A^12
TiBLB e-B.— SIBOURY OF WHOL^lLc: TRAIS FOR THE U.St 1933
BY ?Ti^ OF £;;TABLISEffiarr AI;D KIMD OF BUSIHJBS
(Ill TmlMi »m*fi In thOT8»nd« of lollua. A l»»d«r lnlla«t» no Infonnnloa or »n amount l*as than »500. 1
Tn» of lft*l>llaluD«nt
Fnnbar of
estab-
llahmanta
1933
Hat
aalaa
1933
Total
Ezpanaaa
Poll-tlM
amployaaa
(arerag*)
i*y roll
Stocka
aM
Kind of Bnalncaa
imount
% of
aalaa
Total
fart-
tlma
on hand
(end
of year)
lUBUriCTOEEBS' SlUB BRiHOHES WTH SIOCE ]
lonaamant and a porting gooda
J
216
«97.960
«14.803
15.1
4.962
36.433
t249
44.663
Camerai and motion piotura equlpmnt
and anppliaa
UoTing piotura f iloa
Sporting gooda (gonaraa Una)
T07B, noTaltlaa, and firanorta
til othar
intomotlTa prodaota
6
154
9
20
27
726
29,589
61,125
1,591
1,942
3,773
332.631
2,160
10,394
521
364
1,364
54.312
7.3
17.0
34.0
18.7
36.2
16.3
737
3,516
202
119
388
13.466
1,343
6,125
239
181
546
26.506
227
1
4
17
146
1,487
884
374
757
1,161
36.076
iutoBobllaa and othar motor yahlclaa
latonotira aqsiinant, aooaasorlea and {arta
Tlrea and tubaa
Chamloala
244
188
294
703
98,887
20,331
213,413
299.412
19,tl60
6,340
28,122
45.486
20.1
31,2
13,2
15.2
5,909
2,072
6,505
9.416
10,190
2,614
12,701
19.562
24
24
98
96
13,181
4,116
18,777
34.267
IjreBtnffa
Exploa iTaa
IndU£trlAl chomio&ls
Fainta and Tarnieliaa
ill othar
Clothing and fnrnlahinge
12
67
139
303
182
3S7
3,551
23,742
162,475
69,228
40,416
199.562
786
4,497
13,677
16,974
9,552
26.556
22.1
18.9
8.4
24.6
23.6
12.8
111
608
2,574
4,179
1,744
6.402
406
2,107
6,280
7,220
3,549
12.031
27
20
40
9
202
461
2.503
16,309
12,254
3,770
23.936
Clothing and fumiahinge (gansral linal
Clothing, man'a and boya'
Clothing, "Oman 'a and ohildraa'a
Pumiahinga (g«naral Un»)
Pumiahlnga. iMn'a and boya'
Pumiahinga, woman's and childran'a
Hoalary
Ulllinary and millinery suppLlaa
Shoaa and other footirear
Coal
3
54
44
28
73
28
30
16
61
30
188
21,420
10,295
8,830
32,879
8,021
13,278
985
101,666
13,117
£6
1,805
1,994
1,412
5,143
1,103
1,795
208
.12,030
2.099
35.1
8.4
19.4
16.0
15.6
13.8
11.7
21.1
11.6
16.0
11
522
681
396
1,066
292
376
61
3,005
616
29
884
1,238
778
2,213
611
804
114
5,360
946
12
11
10
79
29
11
4
46
11
51
4,764
542
1,628
2,727
1,529
2,284
63
10,347
922
Dmga and drug aundrlea
213
86,966
24,936
28.7
4,223
8.361
24
7.805
Druga (ganaral llna)
Dmga (apaoialty lioaa)
Fatant nalioinaa
foilat artiolaa and preparationa
111 othar
Ory gooda
11
91
17
79
15
233
3,195
47,821
12,394
22,335
1,211
115.132
322
13,534
4,023
6,833
224
15.022
10.1
28.3
32.5
30.6
18.5
13.0
91
2,985
263
799
66
3.872
152
6,821
614
1,647
127
7,568
1
11
2
8
2
56
337
4,033
439
2,863
133
21.569
Cry gooda (ganaral linal
Knit gooda
ITotiona
fiaoa gooda
ill othar
KLaotrioal gooda
6
25
72
113
17
447
1,766
2,609
26,924
77,708
7,226
322.841
113
439
3,335
10,212
923
49,922
6.4
17.6
12.9
13.1
12.8
15.6
32
115
1,196
2,287
242
14,477
51
177
1,978
4,988
374
26,541
11
8
36
1
108
228
384
2,957
16,792
1,208
57.629
Elaotrloal appliaaoaa, aqalpoant and
auppllaa
Badioa and z«dio aqoipnttit
Bafrig«ratora
Farm prodnota-raw matarlala
396
32
20
S
291,169
15,693
16,779
558
43,927
2,072
3,923
30
15.1
13.0
24.9
5.4
13,401
463
593
10
23,037
836
1,668
19
85
9
14
53,122
2,175
2,332
16
7am prodbota-oonamir gcode
344
106.918
24.993
23.4
6,910
9,369
224
5,517
Dairy prodnota (ganaral Una)
Suttar
Chaaaa
111 other dairy produota
Poultry and poultry pradoota
Dairy and poultry prodnota
111 othar
Farm auppliaa
55
28
35
176
U
28
12
UO
24,139
6,123
31,430
32,403
1,262
11,972
689
42.792
4,879
476
5,534
11,938
109
1,965
93
6.983
20.2
9.3
17.8
36.6
8.6
16.4
16.8
16.3
1,296
218
396
3,087
37
849
27
2.481
2,001
264
969
4,974
42
1,073
46
2.768
14
8
1
106
16
56
23
73
2,344
74
1,941
607
4
480
67
10.403
Fa ad
Fartlllaar
ill othar
17
90
3
344
4,606
37,701
566
■a. 809
554
6,354
75
10.616
12.3
16.9
12.8
14.6
221
2,242
18
2.772
310
2,425
33
5.329
2
69
2
107
649
9,731
23
9.413
China, glaaavara and orookary
Floor ooraringa
Fnmitnra
Bovaa fumlahinga (azoapt as sjiaaiflad)
MnalMl Inatnaanta and ahaat muale
10
59
136
138
2
2,018
28.241
25, 5U
15.763
276
347
2.128
4,630
3,446
65
17.2
7.5
18.1
21.9
23.6
66
492
1,161
1,019
16
190
1,038
2.464
1,616
21
1
2
38
65
1
610
3,267
3,137
2,383
16
Cmms of
Anarloan
BU0ln«8B
liBLE 2-B. — STMUBT OP WHOLESiLE TBAIE FOR TEE D.Sl 1933
ST TIPE OP ESTABLISHUEKT AHB KUJI) OF BHSIBBSS
(ill T»la«i txir»»t«« la thomandi of loll«r». 1 iMder liiiUo«t»i no lnfom»tlon or an Mnonnt !«■« thM tgOO. I
Tyre-Sr Katsblialmant
and
Elnd of Bnainaia
Imbar of
•ataV
liatuaenta
1933
Sat
ealaa
1933
Total
ExpenGOB
aalaa
Fnll-tlna
•uplOTeaa
(aTai»g»l
Fa^'oU
Total
lart-
tiaa
Stooka
on hand
(and
of J— I)
■UEUPIOTDEESS ' SALES BBMCHES WITH STOCKS j/
(Contintiadl
Orooerlaa and fooda ( except farm prodnota)
Grooariea (general line)
Confectionery and soft drinka
P18h and eaa fooda
Haata and meat produota
Other food and grocery apaolAltlaa
Hardware
Hardvara (ganaral llnal
EarAnre (apeclalty linaa)
Jewelry and optloal gooda
Jawalry (general line]
Clooks and aatohea
Othar Jemlry apaclaltiaa
Optical gooda
Limber and bnllding materiala (other than aatall
LulDber and mlllvoA
Aa^eatoB irodnota
Brlok and tile
Genent
Slaaa
111 other
Machinery, eiiulpDent and snppllaa(eaoapt
electrlc&l)
Comierolaa ■aohlneiy, OQulpnent and auppllae
Office equlpnent and Buppllea (except
fnrnltnre)
Store equlpnant and auppllea
111 other
Gonatrootlon machinery, eqolpnent aid Bupplii
Conatrootlon naohlnery
Bead oaohloery and aqaiin«nt
ill othar
Farm and dairy machinery and aqalpoait
Indoatrial machinery, equlpaent and aappliaa
Bottles and hottling eqnlpoent
Machine toola
UeohBLnlo&l ruhher gooda
mil and mine eapplleB (general line}
ill other
frofeBBional equipnent and rop^iea
Dental equipnent and supplloa
Surgical, medical and hoapltal eqnipnent
and suppliea
ill othar
Serrice equiynant and snppliea
Barher and beauty parlor equiinent and
euppl lea
Laundry equiiiDent and auppllea
ill other
Tranaportation equlpnant and suppliea
Bailroad equiinent and suppliaa
ill othar
UetalB ( except Bcrapl
Iron and steel
Sheat metal producta
Othar metal and metal vorka
i^aper and ItB iroduDta
Paper and Its products (ganaral linal
faper and its produota (specialty lineal
Stationery and atatlbnery auppliaa
Petroleuoi and Its produota
3.200
S
110
4
84e
2,2S«
97
*
a
193
95
181
to
»
103
473
1,136
22
16
44
270
787
237
43
94
100
21
73
137
32
22
10
423
270
28
12S
203
36
108
60
la
tl. 661.661
376
61,424
1,«09
(i8,2n
980,281
20.811
t207,786
12»»
a, 493
1,670
19,241
26.221
42
13,412
189
52,454
141,688
3.768
11.2
21.8
12.6
8.5
18.2
18.1
570
2,423
9,490
13,738
107.903
10,343
21,234
7,897
16,131
36,111
16,187
438,692
64,270
55,382
2,620
6,266
20, oa
3,171
7,744
9.116
82,164
179,346
12,242
3.662
10,030
26,351
128,061
66,666
8,696
13,091
34,969
33,182
2,641
10,704
19,837
3,043
2,312
731
216.701
383
3,375
8.221
24.4
17.5
3a..4
11
2,389
79
19,231
29,783
1.123
»*.«n
218
316
1,966
6,732
18.513
38.2
13.0
20.6
41.7
17.2
U6
1,008
2.583
20
4.011
129
27,636
62,866
1.950
fa.l89
97,127
17,137
101,437
94.012
39,585
49,265
5,162
1,521
3,404
1,087
2,827
6,503
4,171
U2.972
14.7
16.0
13.8
l7.5
15.2
25.8
137
53
493
1,870
4.973
204
1,744
8.940
20,084
17,947
ase
1,452
4,925
560
2,267
2,098
26,018
38,962
1,984
536
1,370
4,968
30,105
11,851
2,286
3,449
6,116
10,473
433
3,662
6,378
659
527
132
25,257
11,763
2,140
11,354
15.700
7,793
6,513
1,394
?.?99
32.4
26.1
23.2
24.6
17.7
2».3
23.0
31.7
21.7
16.2
14.6
13.7
19.6
23.5
20.9
26.6
26.3
17.6
16.4
34.2
32.2
21.7
22.8
18.1
11.7
316
810
214
679
1,780
1,276
86.218
126
97
926
2,792
9.604
12.1
12.6
11.2
16.7
19.7
13.2
27.0
16,8
9,340
8,627
208
506
1,676
141
683
762
8,745
10,061
368
147
344
1,060
8,152
3,688
668
997
2,088
2,8«1
121
971
1,569
147
109
38
6.277
698
1,921
671
1,614
3,151
1,864
60. 6n
4,230
540
1,607
2.969
979
1,490
480
958-
13,639
12,349
393
797
2,602
260
1,107
1,246
12,696
2i,iai
8U
283
886
2,197
16,938
5,308
1,098
1,738
2,472
3,216
200
1,898
3,121
374
808
66
11.T60
6,182
872
4,256
5.268
1,469
3,082
787
i,.sa*
368
768
2
2
16
1
-m.
16
16
8
870
92
1.4e«
289
828
2
66
8
240
812
240
16
1
224
1
26
T
20
20
87
38
8
45
7
9
29
*77.974
86
2,799
666
17,961
66,673
4.508
200
4,308
t.40T
168
230
3,313
2,696
16.767
1,917
310
3,928
2,680
3,611
3,341
113.386
7,647
6,348
321
978
6,164
' 2,488
i 2,873
i 1,303
46,888
' 37,773
1,566
1,046
1,066
12.338
21,758
7,725
1,990
1,190
4,545
6,523
280
1,718
3,526
1,666
1,360
306
30.069
19,678
2,034
8,377
7.126
2,494
3,534
1.096
2.T19
G«i)tna of
iattriesn
A-14
TABLE 2-B. — SOaUilT OF mOlESALM. THAIOi ^-OR Tl!£ U.St 1933
BT TTPE OP ESTABLISHKEHT AiVD KIIH) OF BUblNEiiS
(111 Tftluai ezpraasad In tbmuaola of dollara. 1 Xeader
Lndifiatee no InfomatlOD or mn amount lass than
»500.)
total
!
TTpa Of S«UbIlBtB«nt
and
Kind of BoalaBts
Htviber of
eatab-
liabmenta
1933
Nat
sales
£xp«i8«e
mi-tlaa
•mployaae
( aTaraga 1
Pay roll
Stoolca
on hand
%ot
fart-
(and
of yaarl
1933
iaouBt
•alea
Total
tlma
IUfiUTACTU£mS* SAhFfi BRAfiCHES WITH STOCKS I
/
(eontlnu»dl
Plumbing and haatln^ aqulpaant
and auppHea
462
♦82.831
»20,856
25.2
5.969
$9,352
t247
118.476
Heating oqulpBont (genaral line)
67
6,106
1,635
26.8
411
734
9
1.229
Pipe, Talrea and fittings
1«
3.184
710
22.3
230
358
1
978
numbing and heating equipnent (gener*! line)
214
45,986
11.690
25.2
3.591
8.000
193
12.216
StOTea and rangea
25
3,530
. 671
19.0
135
240
5
433
All other
140
24,026
6.ZS0
26.0
1.602
3,020
37
3,620
Tobftcco And Ita prodnote (exoept leaf)
ee
512.474
33.256
6.5
3.195
6.555
2S
20.627
All other kinds of biiaineae
566
269.294
39.605
14.7
8.959
16.152
270
40.S98
£*g8 and bagging
17
16,090
1,193
7.4
214
333
1.6S1
Beer
93
37,141
7,693
20.7
1.174
2,289
*47
2.415
BookB and perlodloali
31
11,930
4,816
40.4
1.137
2,321
14
4.379
Cordage and twine
2S
10,331
1,126
10.9
289
636
4
1.725
Forest prodaota (exoept Imber)
90
18,394
2,691
14.6
493
1,023
70
4.514
Leather
32
24,960
2,020
8.1
317
846
5
T|684
Leather goods
63
4,068
1,155
28.4
364
614
7
1,250
Hvwspapera and magasinea
10
38.093
6,059
15.9
1.082
1.119
15
4.705
OllB and greaaaa I animal and vegetable)
29
16.091
1,369
6.5
307
635
9
2,951
Bubber goods (general line]
30
36,426
6,008
17.0
1.998
3.567
7
S,251
Wlnea and aplrltous liquors
27
17,261
1,239
7.2
350
662
3
3,533
Tarn
11
6,474
290
4.5
54
124
1
144
UlaoallaneoQs
108
33,025
3.946
11.9
1,180
1.993
88
2.396
1
uiwuFACTUEEaS* S»t.K!=^ BEANCHES WITHOUT STOCKS X/
innififlaent and sporting goode
156
68.733
11.022
18.8
3.366
5.724
1
...
Moving pioture fllna
141
57,304
tO.864
19.0
3.271
5.633
1
...
Toys, novelties, and flremrka
6
1,355
132
9.7
83
68
>.*
...
All other
9
74
26
36.1
12
23
...
...
Automotive products
95
54.761
6.344
11.6
845
2.170
4
2
Automobiles and other motor Tehicles
11
13,041
1,345
10.3
246
562
...
.. .
AntODOtlTe equlpnent, aooesaorlAa and parte
38
7,882
602
7.6
102
287
...
1
Tires and tubes
46
33,638
4,397
13.0
497
1.321
4
1
Cbenloals
;45
68.073
9.025
13.3
1.529
3.857
28
18
Dye s tuff B
U
9,623
898
9.3
142
416
1
Industrial cbemloals
19
26,644
2,547
9.6
381
1.201
1
• ••
PalntB and vamiabes
46
20,566
3,578
17.4
745
1,587
5
16
All other
66
11,238
2,002
17.6
261
654
21
...
Clothing and fnmlshlngB
192
68.512
6.011
8.8
1.377
3.368
45
5
Clothing and fumlahlnge (general line]
7
2,675
S3
2.0
15
40
...
Clothing, [nen'a and boya*
26
11,621
639
4.S
110
346
1
...
Clothing, woaen*a and children's
19
7,425
962
13.0
173
436
32
...
PumlshlngB (general Una)
35
7,948
1.327
16.7
444
703
2
5
Fumlahings, men's and boys*
51
15,145
1.487
9.6
307
876
9
...
Fnrnlahlnga, women's and children's
14
912
118
12.9
38
75
...
...
BoBlery
22
20,326
1.368
6.7
245
794
1
...
Millinery and millinery Buppllea
9
675
56
8.3
19
29
...
...
Shoea and other footwear
9
1,786
101
5.7
26
69
...
...
coal
76
59.751
4.365
7.3
766
1.979
18
33
Drugs and drug sundries
36
9.654
2.486
25.8
423
998
s
31
Drags (speoUlty llnei)
19
2,585
146
5.7
36
66
3
...
fatent modlolnea
B
869
246
66.4
7
11
2
...
Toilet articles and {reparations
13
2.335
916
39.2
92
212
1
31
All othar
7
4,365
1.178
27.0
286
709
...
...
iTy goods
171
142.467
6.949
4.9
1.831
5.967
19
1
Dry goods (general line)
6
8|7S6
560
6.4
98
275
...
...
Kbit goods
19
6,162
380
6.2
71
206
2
...
Hotlons
47
10.421
1.419
13.6
786
1,081
16
...
Piece goods
92
116,789
4,545
3.9
863
2.377
2
1
All other
7
339
45
13.3
13
28
...
...
Eleotrloal goods
Eleotrio&l applianoes, equipaent and supplies
286
73.538
6.630
9.0
1.612
3.795
24
2
267
51,508
6.700
11.1
1,403
3.184
606
5
24
1
Badlos and radio eqalpnent
17
22,020
924
4.2
208
...
1
Refrlgeratora
2
10
6
60.0
1
...
yam product s-oonsnier goods
rarm supplies
19
6.243
700
11.2
220
341
i
...
51
20,861
2,204
10.6
487
968
10
44
Geusiu of
imerioan
BuBlneBi
A-15
TABLE 8-B.— SUUMAHY OF WHOLESALE TRAUE FOE THE D.Si 1933
BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHUEETT AMD Kllfl) OF BUSINESS
(111 T»lu«» •ipressed In thousands of dollars. A loader
ndicates no infcnnation or an amount less than
♦500.)
Total
Number of
Net
Expenses
Pay roll
Stocks
Ijrp* of Xatalllslment
estab-
lishments
sales
Full-time
employees
(end
of year)
^of
sales
Kind of Business
1933
1933
Amount
(aTerage)
Total
Part-
tlm.
ttUTOPACTUBMa ' SiLlS BRIKCHES WITHOUT bTOOKS 2/
(Contlnu*il
Pumlture and boiu* forniflhlngs
u;
»34.749
$3,154
9.1
737
«1.640
t23
is
China, glassvBrt aoA orocMzy
31
5,149
274
6.3
83
178
Floor oOT«rlnf«
U
22,776
2,261
9.9
410
1,096
9
Furniture
28
3,763
315
8.4
177
206
9
House furnishing (except as specified)
38
3,062
304
9.9
67
154
5
**8
Groceries and foods (eJcept fans products)
232
189.662
26.152
II.B
6.725
10.492
13
5
Confectionery and soft drinks
11
3,203
1,176
36.7
188
421
4
Sleats and Mat iroduots
20
61,006
4,308
7.1
i.oeo
1,750
2
...
Other food and grocery specialties
201
126,453
20,668
16.6
4,487
8,321
7
6
Hardware (special^ llnea)
34
13.329
733
6.5
166
413
1
Jewelry and optlaal foodi
42
11.816
1.291
10.9
290
732
1
-
Jewelry
84
11,430
1,246
10.9
267
708
1
...
Optical goods
8
366
46
11.9
23
24
...
...
Lumber and touildlo^ aaterials (other than metal)
223
67,744
7.101
10.5
1.492
3.524
57
115
Lumher and mlllvorlc
32
5,133
894
17.4
210
414
9
I
Asl)estos prod lata
22
3,462
487
14.1
128
261
Brick and til*
32
6,790
802
11.8
156
407
2
lie
Cement
36
12,340
1,762
J4.3
302
862
29
• •»
Glass
24
21,138
264
1.2
60
168
...
• ■•
All other
77
18,881
2,892
15.3
636
1,412
17
4
Hachinery, equipMnt and supplies (except
electrical)
1.037
24S.733
21.684
8.8
4.866
12.158
166
52
CoRraercial oachliMry, equipnent and supplies
184
10,783
1,929
17.9
701
1,415
8
10
Office •(jml^ent and supplies (except
fumiturel
122
8,267
1,601
18.2
574
1,172
4
9
Store eqtil^ent and eupplies
9
183
29
16.8
13
EO
£
■ •••
All ctlMr
53
2,333
399
17.1
114
220
2
1
Conatructioa — ahineiy, equipoent and supplie
102
9,736
1,932
15.7
433
896
26
• ••
ConstnMtian Msblnery
17
1,678
394
25.0
74
191
1
■ ••
Road atehiMiy ud equlpient
11
S,943
458
11.6
130
271
...
• ••
All other
74
♦,215
680
16.1
229
434
24
...
Farm and dairy machinery and equliment
26
7,207
.1,257
17.4
264
418
9
...
Industrial machinery, equipnent and supplies
586
179,104
13,013
7.3
2,748
7,030
78
'dz
Bottles and hottling equipnent
8
2,766
90
3.3
23
65
...
• ••
Machine tools
22
1,502
312
20.6
SO
173
2
• ••
Mechanioal rubher goods
22
3,644
370
10.4
107
232
...
• ••
Idill and mine supplies (general line)
27
2,513
360
14.3
71
198
3
...
All other
607
168.779
11,881
7.0
2,468
6,362
•8
42
Professional equipnent and supplies
39
3,229
367
11.4
90
169
14
• ••
Surgical, medical and hospital equipnent
and supplies
24
664
154
24.7
31
69
13
• ••
All other
15
2,565
203
7.9
59
100
1
• «•
Serrioe equipnent and supiilles
32
2,332
2(27
14.0
85.
194
S
• ••
Barber and beauty parlor equipment and
supplies
12
266
76
28.2
33.
56
...
• ••
All other
20
2,066
262
12.2
54
136
5
• ••
Transportation equipnent and supplies
88
37,342
3,469
9.3
536
2,039
35
• ••
Railroad equipnent and supplies
80
24,306
3,078
12.7
489
1,847
35
>••
All other
8
13,036
381
2.9
47
192
...
• ••
Uetals (except sorapl
.511
720.235
21,918
3.0
4,364
12,520
787
91
Copper
4
687
50
8.5
15
25
...
...
Iron and steel
4ZS
662,991
17.884
2.7
3,588
10,274
770
90
Sheet metal products
4
360
34
9.7
7
24
3
• ••
Other metal sad netal works
77
66,307
3.950
6.0
754
2,197
14
1
ir'aper and its products
226
144.108
11.730
8.1
2.269
6.408
23
14
Paper and its products (general line)
36
75,465
6,426
7.2
861
2,837
2
i^per and its products (specialty lines)
159
62,651
4,833
7.7
1,004
2,946
21
14
Stationery and stationery supplies
31
5,992
1,471
24.5
404
625
...
...
Patroleon and its prodnots
19
55.762
4,438
8.0
1.233
2.379
1
lij.
C«nsus or
tear loan
Biulnasi
A-16
TIBLE Z-B,— SOOUKY OF .THOLEbAU. TRAJ)o iOH ?KE U.Si 1933
BT HUE, OF ESTlBLIbHUKHT AifD KINZ) OF BUSIlIESS
(111 TClsM eipresanl In U>au«and> of dollars. A leader
indicates no
Information or an amount less than «&00.)
Total
'
Hosber of
let
Expenses
Pay roll
Stooka
Type Of SetaUlebjuent
estab-
llBlments
sales
Pull-tins
employees
on hand
(end
and
Kind of Bttelness
1933
1933
Amount
iCof
sales
( average )
Total
Part-
tine
of year)
lUHWAOTUEKES' SALES BElNOHtS V/ITHOOT STOCKS X/
(Continued!
Flunking and heating equipnent and supplies
123
*24.665
54.309
17.5
1.039
S2.197
«10
• ••
Beating equlpasnt (general llnel
59
5,SS3
889
16.0
245
464
i-lpe, TalTes and fittings
7
2,950
449
15.2
119
258
• ••
PliBblng and beating equlpient (general llnel
5
2,045
465
22.7
150
206
• •■
• ■•
All otLer
52
14,017
2,506
17.9
525
1,249
...
...
Tobacco and Its [vodncts (except leaf)
122
206.727
5.230
2.6
1.302
2.660
All other kinds of business
471
131.632
13,905
10.6
3.741
6.855
116
S12
Bags and bagelng
6
2,105
171
8.1
34
90
Beer
14
325
53
16.3
19
27
59
...
Books and periodicals
17
4,452
1.492
33.5
347
743
• *.
...
forest products (except Itnber)
34
8,519
718
8.4
95
265
1
Leather
28
8,136
446
5.5
89
240
2
Leather goods
15
3,358
344
10.2
66
177
• ••
...
Hevspapers and magazines
65
3,628
3,782
104.2
1,633
1.915
...
Oils and greases ianljiial and Tegetablel
6
8,517
354
4.2
53
167
• >•
...
Bubber goods (general line)
5
432
94
21.8
8
52
...
...
Wines and splritous liquors
15
29,062
1,937
6.7
208
799
...
Tarn
20
41,296
1,393
3.4
194
612
• •«
9
MlBoellaneous
246
21,802
3,121
14.3
■996
1,768
47
...
l/ loaetnuch as the 1929 data are aTatlable only for all manufacturers' sales tiranches conil3ined, for ccriizirlson purposes those v/itb stocks and
thoee without stocks are consolidated for each of the 25 kinds of business on the following page.
Census of
imerlcsu
Buelnesa
A-17
TABLE 2-B.— SUMHAHY OF 'raOLEaALE TRADE FOR THE D.Si 1933
BY Ttt^ OF ESTABLISHMEHT AUD KIND OF BUSINESS
(All values exoressed in thousands
of del
ars, A leader indicates
no info
rmation or an amo\mt less
than $600.)
Number of
Total
Net sales
f^
poll
Type of Establlshnient
establishments
Expenses
Pull-time
employees
StockB
on lisBid
and
(eol
of year)
Kind of Buslnass
1933
1929 1/ 1933
1929 1/
Fercani
change
Amount
iiof
sales
(average)
Total
Part-
tliU
Ht.TJFAOIURiBS' SALlii BEAKCKES .»1IH
1 1
AND nITHOUT STOCKS 3/
i«80,357
-44.1
$25,825
16.5
8,328
♦14,156
$250
Aniusement and sporting goods
372
366
$156,693
t*,itS
AutomotiTe products
821
748
38 7,392
743,877
-47.9
60,656
15.7
14,331
27,675
150
36,078
GhefDlcals
848
738
367,485
600,009
-38.8
54,811
14.8
10,945
23,419
124
34,305
Clothing and furnishing
529
606
268,074
512,153
-47.7
31,567
11.8
7,779
16.399
247
23,940
Coal
105
85
72,868
118,194
-38.3
6,454
8.9
1,281
2,925
29
955
Drugs and drug sundries
251
263
96,610
188,814
-48.8
27,422
28.4
4,646
9,359
30
7,836
Dry goods
404
316
257,599
413,027
-37.6
21,971
8,5
5,703
11,635
75
21,570
iLlectrical goods
733
960
396,379
1,413,393
-72.0
56,652
14.3
16,089
29,336
132
57,631
Farm products-raw materials
5
60
558
70,201
-99.2
30
6.4
10
19
a. ■
16
FertD products-consumer goods
363
461
113,161
294,976
-61.6
25,693
22.7
6,130
9,710
225
5,517
Fartr supplies
161
142
63,653
116,244
-45.2
9,187
14.4
2,948
3,756
83
10,447
Furniture and house furnishings
485
635
106,558
313,272
-66.0
13,769
12.9
3,509
6,969
130
9,421
Groceries and foods ( except faxm
products)
3,432
3,907
1,851,523
3,917,937
-52.7
233,937
12.6
57,218
95,163
1,202
77,979
Hardware
131
195
34,140
79,489
-57.1
4,491
13.2
1,289
2,363
13
4,508
Jewelry and optical goods
311
263
38,037
89,528
-57.5
9,512
25.0
2,843
4,672
22
6,407
Lumber and building materials (other
than metal)
SSS
777
176,647
486,147
-63.9
25,614
14.6
6,465
13,128
558
15,862
Uaohinery, equipnent and suppllea
(except electrical)
4,045
3,352
688,425
1,424,962
-51.7
134,856
19.6
41,076
73,019
1,654
113,438
Metals (except scrap)
934
1,004
935,936
3,151,787
-70.3
47,175
5.0
10,641
24,280
870
30,180
Paper and its products
429
464
238,120
325,637
-26.9
27,430
11.5
5,228
11,676
68
7,140
I'etroleum and its products
140
130
80,982
64,400
+26.7
-8,428
10.4
2,165
3,963
9
2,719
Plumbing and heating equipnent and
supplies
585
674
107,396
269,663
-60.2
25,165
23.4
7,008
11,549
257
18,476
Tobacco and its products (except leaf)
207
236
719,201
784,091
- 8.3
38,486
6.4
4,497
9,215
26
20, 627
Waste materials
2
3
169
4,672
-96.3
41
24.3
11
28
3
30
All other products
1,025
781
400,757
673,187
-40.5
63,469
13.3
12,689
22,980
383
40,580
BULK lAilK STATIONS 5/
Petroleum and its products
,26.190
19,611
1,888,676
2,390,213
-21.0
372,990
19.7
95,962
183,060
2,141
138,574
CHAII! ;,IOR£ WAEEHODbtS
AutomotiTe products
4
8
6,618
5,404
♦69.5
428
5.0
179
222
...
472
Clothing and furnishings
12
64
18,662
81,426
-77.1
700
3.8
220
374
13
1,418
Itriigs and drug sundritts
19
41
56,289
77,301
-27.2
1,712
3.0
911
1,103
1
3,885
Dry goods
9
8
63,018
6,067
+938.7
1,923
3.1
359
1,022
9
12,147
Electrical goods
3
17
3,868
12,199
-68.3
527
13.6
111
166
...
571
Pann products-consumer goods
85
45
81,733
76,306
♦ 7.1
6,547
8.0
1,364
1,942
87
947
Farm supplies
4
6
1,162
1,814
-36.6
168
14.6
57
99
1
227
Furniture and house fxirnisnings
5
13
4,209
24,353
-82.7
781
18.6
295
384
...
489
Ueneral merchandise
3
7
1,294
5,991
-78.4
142
11.0
45
55
...
158
Groceries and foods (except faim
products)
2S8
267
1.172.607
1,569,706
-25.3
50,755
4.3
14,114
22.502
401
44.558
Groceries (general line)
230
217
1,111,603
1,468,042
-23.8
47,476
4.3
12,813
20,896
352
43,943
Fish and sea foods
4
1
541
486
♦11.5
86
15.7
16
36
16
3
Ueats and meat products
18
23
33,936
40,777
-16.8
1,411
4.2
390
570
15
488
Other food and grocery steoialtles
36
26
26,628
70,402
-i2.2
1,783
6.7
89S
1,000
18
124
Hardware
4
1
697
508
+17.5
166
?7.8
78
84
...
197
Tobacco and ite [roduots (except leaf)
20
27
16,400
44,551
-65.4
879
5.7
205
413
...
1,001
All other kinds of business
6
55
4,116
24,055
-82.9
X
0.9
12
18
6
134
ASsa!BLx,RS A;rD COOTTHT BOTiBS 8
/
ASSEUBLiBS OF FAHU PBODDOTS
Farm products-raw materials
4.149
12,868
347.265
1.633.009
-78.7
22.184
S.4
6.240
9.256
2.613
103.656
Cotton
1,226
4,182
144,718
729,634
-80.2
6,318
4.4
2,080
2,220
232
9,952
Grain
801
1,543
52,868
212,508
-75.1
3,217
6.1
1,180
1,547
154
4,847
Hides, skins, and furs (raw)
436
340
14,681
7,734
+89.8
1,469
10.0
491
646
102
1,663
Horses and mules
124
95
2,508
2,487
+ 0.8
330
13.2
120
87
10
199
Livestock
1,132
4,802
56,516
470.975
-88.0
2,591
4.6
647
657
162
886
Tobacco (leaf)
19S
322
61,857
143,417
-56.9
7,054
11.4
1,265
3,541
1,891
84,711
Wool end mohair
70
111
6,562
9,813
-33.1
638
8.2
150
263
19
765
All other
170
1,473
7,555
56,541
-86.6
667
8.8
307
295
43
633
Farm products-consumer goods
6.777
8.187
336.053
611.297
-45.0
51.693
16.4
20.610
23.965
7.062
10.949
Dairy products (general line)
isa
9,87S
' —
2,352
23.8
873
1,029
39
137
Butter
54
2,646
315
11.9
109
117
7
124
Cheese
26
192
10,710
18,282
+115.2
523
4.9
119
246
34
708
Kllk and cream
334
16,728
1,333
8.5
464
456
19
123
All other dairy products
5j
37g
115
30.4
26
44
8
9
Poultry and poultry products
1,669
2,284
75,480
160,642
-63.0
7,920
10.5
3,958
3,510
649
1,849
Dairy and poultry products
2,456
2,746
65,438
142,349
-54.0
7,115
10.9
3,066
2,970
501
1,700
Prults and ve^^etables (fresh)
1,748
2,966
143,900
290,024
-50.4
30,612
21.3
11,039
16,027
6,661
6,623
ill other
104
V
11,898
V
1,408
11.6
866
567
144
676
Caaao* of
Jn«rlo«a
fiualBHs
VABLL 2-B.— ^aUUUBT Of JB0I.E&1LS CfiiSK FOB TUi U.Si 1933
ai TTi« OF bSTAftLXSaCSR AUD KliO) OF 8USin£&b
tkniia.nri. of dollara. A laaaer Indicate
1 no Informtlon
or an
KToount las
than .uOO.
1
Typ* of Egt*bllttB<at
Hoxber of
es^ibliahreenta
:Tet eelea
Total
i:xpenaeB
Pull-tlae
i*y roll
Stooki
and
Kind of Siulnui
193S
1929 1/
1933
t'eroent
1929 1/ 3)*nge
Amount
^ of
aalaa
I average 1
Total
rtirt-
tlae
(anl
of year)
ts.SBffii,itHS 0? PAai <«on)cis
(OontlnoadI
Fsm npplln
128
37S
i4.357
> 31. 21 J
-86.0
v457
10.5
186
$190
»S1
$434
CrooarUi anl food> (uaapt fun
irodaotil
M9
281
27.41E
24.006
+14.2
2.650
9.7
943
1.292
378
8.861
111 otbar klnlB of Imalnus
89
175
3,501
4,706
-25.6
773
22.1
Z£7
318
83
1.006
OOOPEBillTB lUiOSTDiG JLiSOCIlIlOIIB
run {irodaatl-nv aatorlala
8/
931
2.829
263.204
743.875
-64.6
9.842
3.7
2.802
4.632
276
31.847
Cotton
Sraln
LlTCitook
Tobaeoo Ua^l
Vool and DObklr
111 othor
Fam prcd\ioti-«onBiBD«r eoodii
£99
286
306
19
9
IS
1.549
67
1,612
1,197
2
13
18
1.293
96,923
42,481
130,451
2,735
19,487
1,127
377.614
110. 42S -39.4
245,319 -82.7
366,07'j -63.4
4,05S -32.6
3,5064455.8
24,494 -9S.4
671.844 -43.8
2,074
2,655
2,836
337
1,867
73
49.292
3.1
6.2
Z.P.
12.3
9.6
6.5
13.1
863
867
630
47
168
27
16.172
1,393
1.145
1,576
101
383
34
21.763
27 18,768
114! 6,393
91 192
11 6,409
5 33
ce 5£
4,193 10.161
Dairy produoti (g«naral linel
Battar
Ghoaaa
mlk and oraa
All other dairy prodcAta
111 ottar
Dairy and poultry frodnota
Poultry and pcoltry {Todueta
ftvita and Tagatalilaa (fraah)
Fara euppliaa
3321
144
112
U6
11
75
14(1
100
519
182
306
111
676
35
74,25Sf
12,903
3,704
11,980
3,014
8,771
53,217j
33,706
176,067
14.772
232,81! -27.9
36,702 - 8.2
402,329 -56.2
4.272+246.8
14,073
1.604
331
1,299
1,484
905
3,942
4,052
21,502
1.744
19. a
12.4
8.9
10.8
49.2
10.3
7.4
12.0
12.3
11.8
4,310
467
170
548
529
381
1,430
1,753
6,584
679
6.544
692
206
679
857
390
1,606
1,935
10.004
746
126
59
14
e
13
41
48
48
3,837
34
1,350
145
167
101
69
653
2,481
1,917
3,388
1.454
Qrooerlaa and food* (axoapt fan
prodnota 1
111 othar klnda of toalnaaa
14
36
24.016
37,134
-35.3
4.069
16.9
970
1.042
112
S.TT9
56
15
6,466
l,24m21.0
779
12.0
288
372
16
1,8*1
fariB predDota-rav aatarlala
ill othar klnda of hnalnaaa
CHZJU STITIOIIS
fyjcm prodnota-oouLisaar goolp
IBKBE MD BBOKEES
BBOiCKJtS
tesaanant and aportlng goodc
'•°3l
2^860
4
8,134
4/
5
337,2051
797;
31.459
200
986,786
1/
305
-66.7
-34.4
25,346
104
4,893
8
7.5
13.0
15.6
4.0
10,106
48
2,736
3
11.739
42
2,259
3
820
4
152
48,319
93
747
2
JotflootiT^ prodneta
S
3
90
314
-71.3
19
21.1
7
9
...
...
Chaloala
15
29
2.490
17.150
-65.5
63
2.1
15
27
...
B
Indnatrlal chanloall
Jdl othar
Clothing and fnrnlahlaga
Clothing, «DiD9n'e and ehlldran*a
yurnlaninga, aen's and toya*
PURiiBhinga, woaan's and ohlldren*a
ill othar
lUllnaiy and millinery euppliaa
Shoaa and other footwear
Coal
7
8
24
16
1,374
1,116
3.790
1^
9.585
-60.5
11
42
163
0.8
3.8
4.0
4
11
81
5
22
70
"5
1
4
6
V
3
3
64
12
1
3
86
1,92^
209|
164
274
16.461
6,813
93
2,679
33.688
-50.8
+76.3
-89.8
-61.0
40
11
23
65
2
12
1.092
2.1
11.2
11.0
5.8
1.2
4.4
6.6
25
4
4
44
4
229
22
2
6
34
6
504
13
1
6
firo^ and drag sundriaa
9
20
3,702
7,223
-48.7
101
2.7
25
60
...
16
nniga (apeoialty lineal
ill othar
Dry gooda
5
4
S9
15
5.
77
237
3,465
171.883
4,646
2,576
180.599
-94.9
+34.6
- 4.8
23
78
902
9.7
2.3
0.6
6
19
253
6
62
567
1
17
1
154
Dry gooda (general Una)
Hotiona
l?lao« gooda
ill othar
4
S
69
13
11
8
1
65
3
6
1,185
278
169,828
592
368
2,607
2»*
175,786
2,184
828
-54.5
108.7
- 3.4
-72.9
-55.6
34
35
780
53
41
2,9
12.6
0.5
9.0
11.1
10
13
223
7
18
24
12
515
16
21
• ••
1
23
117
14
2
Elaotrloal applianoaa, eqniiaent
and enppliaa
ill othar
9
t
617
6
1
799
291
77
291,082
763
65
1,220,233
-61.9
+18.5
-76.1
32
9
4,801
11.0
11.7
1.6
14
4
1.036
14
7
2.128
226
2
3.194
Cotton
Grain
Hldaa, aklna, and fura (raw!
184
HI
79
272
173
67
106,534
74,902
20,697
413,393
372,627
102,e46
-74.2
-79.9
-79.8
1,349
609
611
1.3
1.1
3.0
272
164
129
512
324
271
34
16
16
2,261
154
350
CeciSu* of
Bub ll^fl ȣ
XiBLE S-B.—SUMMABT OF WEOLSSALE £Bi23E FOR THE U.Sl 1933
BT T[F& OF ESTABLISBIEIIT AIH) EISD OF BUSIHESS
(ill TElnei sxiV08sad lb
thcusands of do
lare. i leader indicates no infomtion
or an
amoimt le e than *600.1 ,
Typa of SstrnMlBbsmt
HoBhar of
establlalmeaits
Hat salsa
Total
Sxpanaas
rmi-tlas
ampleyeaa
fsr rsU
StoA
•BhSB*
and
Kind of BDsinMB
1933
1929 1/
1933
19*9 1/
"•poent
ihanga
Jbnount
^Of
Bale a
(a«Taga)
Total
iwt-
tlBS
BamfKHS (Contluutdl
Fbrm produovC-rav meterlals (Oantloaadl
5ora«s and mul«8
LlT<J8t09JE
Silk (raw)
7obacoo lleafj
Vocl ard mohair
111 othar
Fare p/oducta-^ffunMr gM&M
4
74
3
3*
20
10
666
3
209
2
19
58
8
495
t401
69,745
610
11,595
8,705
7,993
169.193
«1,091
266,194
3,666
9,863
43,647
8,717
263.374
-63.2
-77.6
-86.7
+17.6
-80.0
- 8.3
-35.8
«66
1,»46
3
696
108
114
4.814
16.Z
1.8
0.6
6.0
1.2
1.4
2t»
14
«9«
1
127
12
21
976
tS5
571
• ••
aar
1*
(*
1,924
e
• ••
89
S4
...
aia
41
tt
Mia
lalry prodoota-(gea«ra;. llaa)
Cheeaa
ill othar dairy pradootil
fovltry and pciiiltry xs-odootl
Dairy esd poultry produots
PruitB sad T«sfetal>l«« (frash)
16
6
IS
28
498
91
17
16
18
444
126
1,986)
1,590
2.69!})
6,604
23,662
133,838
27.289
13,503
6,601
15,449
ZCT.9ZI
104.09T
-64.3
-16.3
+63.3
-41.3
-78.8
42
35
T8
133
308
4,a8
693
2.1
2.2
3.0
2.4
1.3
3.2
2.2
6
6
19
SO
4»
666
141
13
21
to
64
137
1,670
S
4
3
3
4
It
1
19
aao
4«
had
rartUlMT
Saadt
ill othar
Pomiture and ho;i£a fumlGhings
69
22
8'
Z_
32
98
19
9
13
19,491
7,104
434
e«oj
2.171
90,848
10,843
2,406
4.400
-78.6
-34.5
-71.2
-50.7
456
110
18
10
206
2.3
1.6
4.1
3.8
9.6
109
27
4
1
106
176
67
4
t
180
B
...
2
a
4.
aa
t
• ••
4«
Pumltura
China, glasftvar« and orockary
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ill ottar
Oaneral marcliandlsa
9
4-'
15
56
6
9
18
632
1751
1,062
31?l
43.643
3,212
1,188
8.130
-80.3
+29.6
h43S.8
36
27
106
38
463
5.7
15.4
10.0
12.2
1.1
9
»
46
43
191
u
14
CO.
103
• ••
1
a
aa
• ••
• ••
tt
«••
*••
Sroearlaa and fosda (axeapt fana
1.377
1.387
1,175,064
1.666,894 -29.6
16.106
1.4
4.032
8.247
10«
Jbtft
Grocarlaa Iganaral Una)
Ccnfaotlonery and soft drinks
FHh and aea foods
Uoats and Mat produota
Otbar food and grooary apaoUltlai
Hardv&re
48
9
22
28
1,270
6
542
13
25
46
759
11
27,707
8,099
3,969
17,601
1,117,788
735
500,738
3,440
4,284
85,706
1,072,726
1.618
-94,5
fl35.4
- 7.4
-79.6
+ 4.2
-54.6
402
317
121
238
16,028
24
1.5
3.9
3.0
1.4
1.3
3.3
U9
26
11
57
3,800
11
193
86
47
9S
7,8»
11
«
2
1
98
T
1
IT
»
2.2S»
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Jawelry «:nd optiaal goods
Jaaalry ig«naral line)
Dlamondrt and othar faraoioua stooca
Other jcsalry apeolaltlaa
Ltnbar and building aBttrials lethar
than lutall
LoBhar and slllworlt
firiok and tila
ill other
Uaohinery, equipnent end eappliae
(aioept aleotrlooll
Comnercial naohlnery, equlpaent
and supplies
Construotion oaohlnery, aqulpnant
and euppliee
Industrial maohinery, equipnent
and supplies
Transportation equipnent and supplies
iTofessional equipnent snd supplies
Other machinery, equipnent and
Bopplies
MetalB (ezoept eorap)
Iron and steel
Other metal sod metal works
Paper and its products
Paper and its jroducts (general line)
i»per and its prodoota (specialty lin
Stationery and stationary supplies
Petroleum and its produots
noiihlng and heating equipaent and Buppl
Tohacoo and Its ETOdaots (exotpt leaf)
39
41
1,489
3.641
-59.1
99
6.6
26
23
I
41
17
16
6
139
148
589
683
217
16.210
1
60,410
-67.8
66
23
21
998
9.3
3.4
9.7
6.2
IT
4
4
248
14
4
6
4«7
...
t
20
IT
t
t9
113
87
124
24
64
14,639
302)
1,36^
6.774
47,887
«.523
4.707
-69.6
-33.8
+22.7
872
30
96
473
6.0
9.9
7.0
8.2
200
12
36
ije
367
£1
49
eso
to
• ••
• ••
T«
1
U
12
4
46
21
2,
30
9
2
33
S
6
18
111
42
3,987
1,202
305
127.
9.001
676
487
2,962
423
169
17.888
-83.6
-91.4
+36.1
+184.2
( •
+155.6
-49.7
11
7
302
107
44
2
386
9.9
16.7
T.6
8.9
14.4
1.6
4.3
3
1
101
28
5
76
I
2
161
43
2S
169
• *•
• ••
t
• *•
u
• ••
• ••
• ••
4
ai
a
...
...
98
22
8
66
6,862
2,139
2.474
6.361
-53.8
278
108
191
4.1
5.0
7.7
4T
28
80
116
64
8f
• ••
s.
...
a
4
SB) 11
6
49
ies 7
12
17
36
33
5
720
1,279
476
44.388
365
2,016
1,007
2,329
29.181
1,117
-64.3
+27.0
-79.6
+62.2
-67.3
17
160
24
971
17
2.4
11.7
5.1
2.2
4.7
7
43
30
136
4
«
•*
11
481
«
• ••
6
11
<
1
9
a*a-
*
7
407
602
-32.4
£3
bf7
«
...
Janaui of
lB«rleaa
Bnilnvit
TABLJ «-B.— SBOURT 0? \1H0Li^U£ TRABE FOR THE D,Si 1933
BT TYl^ OF li:iTA£LISIliaSirr IXD KIND OF BUSIHESS
lUl T*luM (xirsiltd In thou»iid« of dolUra. 1 loadar lndlo»lei no Infonmtlnn
or an
fraount lOA* *Hnn ilK/M^
. 1
Ntnbar of
Total
•atabllatmanta
Rat aaiaa
Expana
aa
Pull-tlna
rty
roll
Stocks
Tjrf* of Eitabllalnait
ant
Kind of Biulnaaa
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
i-aroant
ohanga
Amount
aalaa
•nployoaa
( OTeraco |
Total
Part-
tlma
(and
of yaar)
t&OLlSBS (Contlniudl
*•(• aatarUla
3S
83
«6.893
#53,890
-84.1
*403
4.7
84
S224
M
*&e
Iron and ataal aorap
11
39
4,373
47,697
-90.8
206
4,7
30
IZl
30
JnnJi and aopap (gcnaral llna)
17
7
3,742
3,870
- 3.3
176
4.7
46
99
3
9
Waata papar, ra«a and mbbar
7
7
478
2,323
-79.4
22
4.8
8
4
1
ZS
All otbar prodttjta
1«
172
91.808
352.839
-74.1
1.699
1.7
324
842
16
124
fiaar
11
V
910
i/
70
7.7
14
27
1
2
nowara and nuraary atook
S
1
430
86
+406.9
95
22.1
36
49
Foraat iroduota (axoapt luntar)
1«
29
2,100
11,517
-81.8
145
6.9
27
80
i
10
Laathar
Laathar gooda
s)
♦J
8
2,836
1,25?,
651
+497.1
288
21
9.8
1.7
43
5
72
8
...
...
1
Olla and Kraaaaa (anlnal and Tagatabli
1 30
46
M,697
155,397
-=9.7
602
0.8
89
197
a
49
Winaa and aplrltoua Ilquora
17
V
1,324
4/
97
7.3
18
50
38
Rubbar. onida
7
4,002'
74
1.8
9
25
'.'.'.
7
lam
19
94
7,619
186,189
-89.1
129
1.7
36
50
19
Ulaoallanaoua klnda of bualitfaa
26j
8,639
208
2.4
4S
84
"s
...
OCUUlUUlOli UUiCILMTS
iutOBOtlTa ifrodnota
17
8
870
2.983
-70.8
78
9.0
25
39
1
47
Chasloala
22
23
13.380
23.622
-43.4
861
6.4
131
277
2
215
Kxploatvaa
4
4/
94
V
12
12.8
2
4
2
6
NaTal atoraa
IS
1/
12,931
V
607
6.2
113
243
...
116
111 otMr
s
V
365
4/
42
11.8
16
30
...
93
•Olothln* and fomlahlnga
♦8
80
36.937
71.974
-50.1
1.493
4.2
372
666
20
457
Clotliin^, man'a and boya*
3^
2a2\
21
8.3
7
11
■ ••
1
Clothing, woman'a and oliildran'i
12
14,896
201
1.3
86
87
4
4S
FumUhlnga Iganaral Una)
6
89
10,794
67 404
-50.0
303
2.8
90
207
2
117
rurnlaHknga, wonan'a and ohlldran'a
3
187
60
32.1
51
54
1
1
Hoalary
13
6,939
312
5.3
67
119
11
14S
Othar olothlng and furnlahlnga
8/
l,S15j
81
6.0
12
40
1
20
HUllnar; and nllllnai; snppllaa
6
17
898
3,666
-81.0
69
9.9
22
61
1
13
3hoaa and othar footwaar
4
4
1,689
914
+70.6
446
28.6
78
97
...
120
Ooal
18
94
1.08B
11.9X
-90.9
163
16.0
3?
76
6
a
Ornga and drng aundrlaa
T
7
3,270
1,461
+123.9
80"
2.4
36
42
• ■•
6
Dry gooda
133
149
340.211
517.371
-34.2
12,223
3.6
2,648
7.187
26
2.319
Ory gooda Iganaml llna)
e
17
34,298
99,924
-66.7
617
1.8
197
370
...
IS
Rotlona
23
23
19,908
22,712
-12.3
1,105
5.6
259
397
7
1,388
Vlaoa ffooda
es
102
280,683
386,679
-27.2
10,268
3.7
2,034
6,322
17
914
Knit gooda
9
7
4,985]
339
9,056
-41.2
199
4.0
47
90
...
1
All othar
34
10.0
11
8
1
3
Elaotrloal gooda
24
11
1.798
3,818
-52.9
ML
_11^
74
114
2
149
Uaotrioal appllanoaa, aqulpMnt and
auppliaa
21
6
1.867
778
+114.3
179
10.7
85
103
1
149
Radloi and radio aqulpnant
3
8
131
3,040
-95.7
18
13.7
9
11
1
• ••
/ars produota-raw raatarlala
1.294
1.227
1.190.037
2.981.719
-60.1
24.426
_2it
6.176
11.791
608
U,716
Cotton
70
114
69,942
188,767
-68.2
1,660
2.8
291
619
8
2,837
Grain
219
243
345,788
783,170
-55.8
7,096
2.1
1,301
2,883
49
3,889
Bldaa, aklni, and fura (raw)
2d
42
4,286
20,924
-79. B
129
3.0
41
42
3
60
Uoraaa and nulaa
39
22
10,492
20,360
-48.5
472
4.5
149
227
51
165
LUaatook
911
725
716,020
1,908,840
-62.6
12,984
1.8
3,830
7,070
296
1,003
Tobaooo (laafl
83
29
22,439
8,223
+172.6
1,019
4.5
383
549
176
1,036
Wool and mohair
38
37
27,737
39,420
-29.6
1,044
3.8
169
374
15
3,717
ill othar
Farm produota-oonaumar K^oda
i^mltry and poultry prodnota
IS
1 Olfi
16
1,047
3,333
378^988
12,013
569,950
-72.3
-32,3
33
23^6
1.0
6.2
11
5.931
17
11,204
10
636
9
A>Ulil —
142
182
38,672
122,092
-88.4
2,277
5.9
575
1,142
52
317
Dairy and [«altry produota
80
28
13,634
15,334
-11.7
601
4.4
162
252
22
633
frulta and vagatablaa Ifraab)
778
828
323,686
409,049
-20.9
2U,464
6.3
5,164
9,761
556
3,097
111 othar
17
12
3,297
13,476
-76.6
104
3.2
30
49
6
36
Farm anppllaa
Faad
B8
83
2.778
24.772
-88.8
194
7.0
46
69
15
40
38
49
2,268
22,656
-90.0
161
6.7
38
64
13
9
FartllUar
18
9
209
1,546
-86.5
10
4.8
4
4
2
...
ttaada
All othar
3
8
loi^
570
-47.2
20
IS
10.1
12.7
2
4
4
7
...
17
14
Fumltura and houaa fumlahlnga
Funiltura
38
28
4.219
3.511
+20.2
667
13.2
177
321
6
99
14
12
1,905
1,993
- 4.4
227
11.9
73
131
3
54
Floor oorarlnga
Houa rturnlahlnga (axoapt aa ap*«lfla<
All othar
i]
1 9
8
14
978
1,082
P56
1,618
+62.4
179
104
48
18.2
9.6
18.8
80
SZ
12
102
66
SS
2
6
34
6
OcasiiB of
Bqs Inoat
TIBLS £-B.— SmOURT OF WHOLESILE THAIE FOB THE D.St I9S8
BT rrPX 07 SSTABLISEUSNT AlH) KIKIl OF BUSINESS
(m Talw •XWM9A In
thopMjyit of dpllaf. A Itfcder tndlotw no infomation or m Mopnt !»■
ttmnteOO.l
lyp« Of Esta^lli
and
Kind of Bualaasa
K«nl)«r of
CBtabllahiatnta
1989 1/
1953
19S9 X/
i^roont
sbang*
Total
Kxponaae
■•!•■
Pull-tlB*
P»T roll
E»rt-
(od
of y—i)
CamiSSIQS UEBCBIBTS (ConttmuO
Gastiml iMrobaadlM
Qroo«ri«s snd foodB (•xotpt faia
prodnote }
GoarvotlonArr and aoft drlnka 9
FlBh and 94* food* 40
KOAtii And B«at ^odsotl 12
Other food and ^ooary aptolalti** 66
llordvar*
Jvnlry and optljal goods
X.M&b«x and bnildicfi natarlalt (ethar tfaen
rooUJl I il
Ltanbar and mlllwirk
ill ottaar
Uaohlner7, aqnipaant and sappllas
(azaapt alaotrloall
Matala (axoapt acrapt
fapar and Ita prodOBta
Fatrolna and Its srodoata
■aata aatariala
ill othar kinda of tusinaaa 176
Bear 5
no«»ra and nuraaiy itoak 19
rorast irouuti (cuapt lialxrl 4
Laatbar U
Laatliar gooda 4
Savapapara and lugatlnaa
011a and graasaa (anl>«l and T«g«t«bla) 6(
Ian £9|
lllaoai:.iu:aoua t^
iDuaanant and atortlng good* 6
iatOttO^lTa srodueta £8
ChcBioala t
Slothing and fumlahlngi 6
Dmga aM dr;;g anndi'laa 6
Cr; gooda IS
Btaotrloal gooda 16
Faim pi-odoota-raw matariala 86
Pam produota-con£Q)Lar goods 1£
Oaoaral marohandlsa 16
Qrooarlaa and foods (axoept faZB
produota) 17
Uardvara 7
Lmbar «nd building loatarlala totbar tba: t
matal | 14
Uaohinery, aqulpnant and anppllaa
I axoapt elaotrioal) Si
Uatala (axoapt aorap] 8
Fapar and ita prodnota 6
FatrolaoB and ita prodxaota 6
ill other klnda of baslnaao 16
Dli'OEI AOEMTS
inrasoDent and sporting gooda 7
Ghsoiioala 10
Clothing and furnishinga 6
Ilruga and dmg sundrlaa 11
Ifry goods £4
Farm prodnota-rmi aatwrials 19
Farm prodnota-oonBuBSr gooda 9
Furniture and bcnae furnishinga 9
0#naral marohandice 9
Grooarles and foods lezoept fasai
produota) 92
Hardware 4
Jewelry and optical gooda 9
Limber and building matariala (other thail
metal)
K*ohiner7« aqui^xDant and suppliea
(except eleotrloall 6
Uatals (exoept sorapl 4
*r'er end its produota 6
ill other kinds of bnsinees 27
♦1.990
♦7.627
-78.9
-tel
_tei
46.796
169,997
-71.4
6
74
69
126
4ZS
10,S24
12,464
23,930
176
201
26,279
42,706
94,212
'fU2.9
-60.0
-70.8
-76.2
1.851
4,0
18
13tl269.2
30
971
166
686
17
7.0
9.2
1.3
2.9
9.6
1.888| -90.1
19
10.8
-Ufi.
115
16
8-683
8,4S1
292
5.769
69.766
57,5:8
2,248
17,852
29?
101,590
4.597
11,055
s.sos
622
4
1
2
4
14
9
6
9
4/
15
i/
2
1
5
1
181.689
9.944
81
10,292
5.606
11,706
2,187
696
5,558
24,064
ia,620.
679
9,209
9,990
694
212
1,996
1,987
46,126
2,691
1,705
4,809
419
9,008
7,669
11,935
218
91,184
2,188
1,154
1,642
920
1,026
3,389
22,448
431
946
1,059
U,27e
74
274
301
101
1,021
1,078
3,005
116.256
24,137
8,606
26,523
2,8U
54,727
666
U,e66
11,778
666
8,666
7,929
668
139,990
5,996
101,982
28,911
5,657
9,9M
12,141
5,212
4/
9,754
49,909
-9^?
-S5.9
-89.7
590
532
68
192
-98.3
-57.3 1
-45.9
♦56.2
-57.6
-96.0
-S6.9
- £.6
+177.6
+ ♦.3
-28.4
-71.7
-18.5
-97.6
-76.6
i248.e
-66.3
-65.1
-98.3
-83.4
-92.6
- 9.0
-96.9
+117.6
♦730.7
-95.6
473
«.962
836 +98.0
118+1291.5
1,173
-21.6
1,206
-14.9
4,696
-28.0
8,467
+166.1
3.083
-86.0
440
-21.4
4/
13.269
- 7.5
4/
540
-49.3
284
+ 6.0
393
-74.3
1,247
-18.1
21,4Si
-86.0
10
1.777
296
966
74
87
97
1,129
1,247
60
672
94
64
29
96
200
,279
134
64
206
65
302
790
163
60
465
101
.ItS.
6.9
26.0
e.1
To;7
j^
.Jal
687
6
8T4
46
lU
>66
12
*• •
586
18
68
...
H£
»T
112
(
62
_sia.
12.3
17.4
4.9
9.1
9.4
19. T
O.T
4.7
1.0
10.4
6.2
2.8
12.0
10.8
4.9
10.1
4.9
6.0
4.9
4.9
16.S
8.4
10.9
1.9
27.6
1.6
4.6
_i.sa.
•46
27
197
_1*
m
9.6
119
6.9
29
3.2
60
4.9
407
12.0
1,667
7.4
24
5.6
184
9B.7
69
5.9
195
1.6
17
23.0
68
23.0
12
4.0
26
24.8
95
9.9
79
7.9
156
6.2
2
687
31
82
19
87
11
too
£92
10
116
17
19
11
£0
46
978
£6
92
48
17
60
92
44
18
70
27
JUUSl
_il
-10.
2
874
177
144
46
6£
£0
6£7
S98
£8
£18
68
£•
16
68
89
874
69
46
«£
£3
ISl
229
9E
27
274
94
61
60
11
22
174
97
11
49
40
94
9
8
4*.
£
T
JUSl.
410
8
64
T
8U
166
15«
_1L
16
-XfiS.
£
86
i.aaa
1
£S£
6£
M
..«
82
60
8*4
M
108
it
1
U
19
986
4
1
4
M
M
X
"*9
40
61
54
10
8E9
166
4
94
U6
1
316
£6
£1£
61
161
A-se
te*rlo&a
tlBLE E-B.— SUOUfiT OP .VlfOLKSAL^ TBlSE FOR 7HS D.St 1939
BT TTc3 OP ESUfiLISaiENT AND KI5I) OP BUSISESa
wft infr
MfBtinn nf .n w
.)»- *KAft 1
Tjrp* Of Eeutllilmrat
Ranter of
aatabllshineste
Bat aalaa
Total
5:Q>enaaa
Full-time
Pay roll
Stocka
and
Kind of Boilats
19S3
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
l^arcent
change
imount
-;of
aolea
(aTeragal
total
I'art-
tine
(enl
of year)
86
1»7
^.we
t2?.SS?,
-69.5
i;6S2
8.9
174
^01
tis
toutoent ul afortlng goodi
pit.
Sjwrtlnf good! lg«n«ral line}
Toye, DOT«ltiea, and flraworka
ill othar
AotaoctlTa prodnota
13
69
14
1««
2,085
4.201
794
27.135
1
88.505
-«9.3
136
432
64
1.916
6.5
10.3
8.1
7.1
32
114
28
588
68
205
28
974
3
8
2
12
17
63
34
808
AutoBotillea and othar Dotor Tablolaa
lutOBOtlTe aqulimant, aooasaorlaa
and parte
Tlraa and tubea
Cb«Blct.lB
IS
142
9
171
12
280
7
151
2.285
24.219
631
25.187
3.522
84.302
681
50.012
-35.1
-71.3
- 7.3
-49.6
368
1.432
116
1.674
16.1
5.9
18.4
6.6
165
390
33
416
196
713
65
827
2
9
1
25
232
536
41
521
Dyaatuffa
• Industrial chanloeaa
Baval a tores
111 other ohaBloala
Palnta and Tamlshee
Clothing and famishing
4
54
6
67^
40
489
106
46
537
126
12,489
1,042
9.889,
1.641
59,273
43.292
6.720
133.717
-45.6
-76.6
-56.7
31
783
17
678
166
2.631
24.6
6.3
1.6
6.9
10.1
4.3
5
185
9
166
50
715
13
370
9
357
78
1,166
I
6
1
6
11
46
2
240
2
261
26
179
Clothing and fumlahlnga (ganaral lln
Clothing, man' a and boya*
Clothing, woman 'a and ohildrai'a
rumisMnee '.general line)
Fumiahinga, mon's and boya'
Fumlahlcga, women's and cMldran'a
Boalery
millnery and jilllinery aufpllee
Shoaa and othar footwear
Ooal
el W'^
37
149
26
43
38
60,
84
33
16
4U
59
67
18
4,86*
2,744
17,718
5.413
3.000
2.818
13,607j
5.310
3,900
3,489
111,612
6,867
15,236
13,958
-05.1
-22.7
r74.4
r-75.0
156
96
847
171
189
159
563
272
78
319
3.2
3.5
4.8
3.2
6.3
5.6
4.2
6.1
2.0
9.1
49
28
234
35
62
48
148
97
14
60
93
40
362
58
114
76
296
113
16
161
1
2
24
2
2
2
10
2
1
4
2
42
U
7
91
24
2
3
Druga and drug sundries
60
162
7.222
29.063
-75.2
604
8.4
181
303
4
427
Druga (general line)
Drugs (apeoialty linea)
ill other
Patent medicines
Toilet articles and preparationa
Dry good!
5
12^
16
4
23
481
29
106
27
479
2,494
2,46^
622
143
1,499
114,164
12,779
6.756
- 9.528
196.418
-60.6
-52.2
-84.3
-41.6
236
115
59
19
175
4.303
9.5
4.7
9.5
13.3
11.7
3.8
80
36
22
7
37
1.127
U6
72
24
6
86
2.269
1
1
2
51
245
114
18
• ••
50
669
Dry gooda (ganaral line)
lotiOIB
?iaoa gooda
Knit gooda
ill other
Slaotrioal gooda
27
80
279
298
71
95
266
48
668
2,804
4,746
91,954
9,308)
5.352J
20,464-
10,896
11,862
161,781
10,839
123,807
-74.3
-60.0
-43.2
-83.6
163
332
3.146
478
184
2.048
5.8
7.0
3.4
5.1
3.4
10.0
47
93
835
107
45
684
84
124
1.698
256
107
921
2
6
36
3
4
43
30
66
606
27
SO
422
£laotrioal appliasoaa, equifueixt and
auppliea
B.-.dioa and radio e(;uipnent
Eafrigaratora
?a2iB prodncta-raw matarlala
245
44
9
2/
468
79
21
33
17.109
2.803
64£
2/
93,983
18,961
10,863
3,857
-81.8
-86.2
-95.0
1,662
285
99
1/
9.7
10.2
18.3
490
75
19
2/
745
133
43
2/
36
T
1
2/
319
60
43
2/.
Farm prcdncta-oonsumar gooda
4
19
167
19,i2V
-99.2
40
a.s
11
9
1
?aim supplioa
34
43
2.131
1(5.64S
-SO.O
lOS
S.0
25
11
l
4S
Feed
ill other
-Vomltura and houaa forniahinga
7
27
343
8
35
468
1,469
662
34,831
8,805
1,840
107.404
-83.3
-64.0
-67.6
67
49
2.620
3.9
7.4
7.6
13
12
731
18
23
1.288
2
4
69
34
8
239
Furniture
China, glaaaware and oroolnry
Floor ooTaringe
Bouae furnishinga (except aa apeoifie
koaloal inatnments and aheat muaic
Crooeriea uid foods ( axoept farm
(roducti)
OonTaotionary md aoft drl-Uta
Haata and naat products
Other food and sroeery spaelaltlea
116
57
32
11 13^
4
211
217
243
6
397
11,059
7,690"
5.380
IO.7I4J
88
96.949
57,198
49,177
1,029
203,854
-80.7
-51.8
-91.4
-52.4
770
487
375
960
28
4,^260
7.0
6.4
7.0
9.0
31.8
4.4
210
119
92
290
20
999
406
203
207
448
24
2.008
12
16
31
18
44
8
128
59
1.032
19
6
207
146
69
o
329
270
9,586
141
87,223
13.783
7,071
3,023
193.760
51.460
+35.6
-95.3
-55.0
-73.2
2.285
2
1,973
863
23.8
1.4
2.3
6.3
409
690
248
871
1.137
418
8
838
194
106
Eardwara (general Una)
Bardaara (apeoialty lime)
26
119
167
lOS
3.922
9.8a
38,773
12,687
-89.9
-22.3
166
697
4.2
7.1
51
197
71
S41
1
7
16
90
Census of
iaor loan
Bus In* 88
I1BL£ 2 B.—SnMtUBT OF WHOLESALE TBADE FOB THE U.St 1933
BT TTFE OF K^rABLISBUEBT iJID KIHD OF BUSIBESS
(ill T&lnea expreesed In
^housanti
s of dollars, A leader indioates no Infomation or an amount lese
than t&OO. )
Typ* Of Kttalillslineiit
Rumber of
Bstabllslmente
:<et sales
Total
Expeoeee
Pull-time
Pay ro
11
Stocks
and
Kind of Bu6ln668
,
Percent
<of
(aTerage)
Fart-
(end
of year)
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 1/
ihange
Amount
sales
total
tlaa
lamiFACTUEESS' AttESTS (Oontlnuedl
Jewelry and optical gooda
51
78
$2,209
$12,062
-ai.7
tzoo
9.1
54
%6t
to.
»21
Jewelry (general line)
22-
1,134
121
10.7
33
56
1
12
Cloola and watobes
3
75
83
11,698
-84.5
9
10.8
3
4
...
3
Otier Jewelry epeelaltlee
22
60lJ
48
8.0
11
10
...
6
Ojitioal goode
4
3
391
364
410.5
22
5.6
7
10
...
1
Lunber and Inillding materlale I other tten
Betall
ZOl
44S
14.514
104.165
-86,1
1.204
8.3
930
636
US
188
Lumber and mlllwork
63
126
8,936
53,486
-83.5
560
3.9
100
169
6
38
Aebeetoe prodaota
6'
239'
75
31.4
20
38
19
26
Brlok and tile
23
1,266
228
18.0
61
151
34
3
Cement
3
317
122
60,677
-89.0
58
47.5
12
22
2
17
Slaee
6
407
21
5.2
9
10
...
1
All other
101,
3,544;
472
13.5
128
245
51.
104
Uaoilnery, eqnlpnent and sappllee
(except electrical)
Cotnseroial machinery, eqalpnent and
1,300
1,624
63,414
270,028
-76. S
9.490
15.0
2.398
4.361
231
2.677
suppllea
226
246
6,281
18,799
-71.9
1,276
24.1
432
643
43
351
Office equlpnent and euppllee
I except furniture)
65
V
1,351
^,
424
51.4
157
223
9
137
Store equipment and suppllea
53
V
1,108
4/
532
30.0
114
154
s
95
All other
108
V
2,822
4/
519
18.4
161
266
21
119
Construction machinery, equlpnent and
euppllee
87
103
2,424
16,765
-85.5
588
24.5
150
224
13
264
Construction machinery
15
V
301
^
65
21.6
22
27
1
12
Koad machinery and equlpnent
30
V
1,548
^,
351
22.7
78
129
3
230
111 other
42
4/
576
4/
172
29.9
50
68
9
Farm and dairy machinery and equlpnent
25
30
1,070
5,602
-69.4
166
16.6
45
76
2
164
Industrial machinery, equlpnent and
supplies
725
998
37,661
167,527
-77.6
5,139
15.6
1,291
2,374
Bottles and hottling equlpnent
17
V
2,263
V,
95
4.1
iZ
27
3
40
V
2,805
^,
sa
11.8
73
152
Meohanical ruhher goods
27
V
3,022
^,
501
10.0
77
149
6
31
Hill and mine supplies (general 111
>) 46
1/
2,667
4/
399
16.0
92
162
111 other
595
V
26,904
4/
4,016
14.9
1,027
1,914
Professional equlpnent and supplies
40
37
1,402
6,174
-72.9
512
22.5
98
140
13
129
Dental equlpnent and supplies
5
V
36
4/
13
36.1
7
...
Surgical, medical end hospital
equlpnent end euppllee
16
V
798
^,
108
13.5
55
...
All other
20
V
668
4/
191
33.6
58
Sarrloe equlpnent and supplies
85
94
6,641
9,902
-45.0
668
9.9
137
257
13
276
Barter and beauty parlor equlpnent
9
V
64
^,
16
26.0
2
5
1
2
Laundry equlpnent and suppllea
All other
13
63
%
654
6,023
%
116
426
20.9
8.5
Zl
114
51
223
11
167
Transportation equlpnent and supplies
112
117
9,935
48,558
-79.5
1,452
14.6
246
638
22
16
6
170
107
63
Railroad equlpnent end suppliee
All other
89
25
%
9,194
741
%
1,311
141
14.3
19.0
38
71
Metals (except sorap]
Iron and steel
189
268
19.800
108.488
-81.7
1.324
6.7
348
591
57
499
110
213
13,584
91,610
-85.2
1,013
7.5
244
446
41
409
Copper
Sheet metal products
Other metal and metal woilis
3
14
62.
65
ioo"l
1,592
16,878
-65.2
16
75
221
16.0
4.7
4.9
21
75
38
100
1
16
3
82'
?aper and its products
Paper and its products (general line)
14.346
36.566
-60.5
794
5.5
232
390
9
183
54
75
7,448
21,900
-66.0
339
4.6
5.2
21.6
101
99
32
190
171
29
2
5
2
32
Paper and its products (specialty line
All other
si 69
26
33
68
6,X5
6S,
8,863.
5,596
-89.4
128
60
Petrol«an and its products
n-lintlng and h««tlng equlpnent and suppl
Tobacco and its produota (except leaf)
Waste materials
All other kinds of business
Bear
Forest irodnats (oxoept lumber)
Leather
Leather gooda
7
es 202
68
331
939
9,790
1 560
8.161
41,518
5,137
-88.6
-76.5
-56.6
142
1,067
56
15.1
10.9
4.1
44
314
10
74
491
31
26
5
554
7
6
?a
60
24
27
42
2
46
52
43
-- 408
55.529
2,582
5,263
4,110
2,666
1,236
135.868
4/
12,353
19,764
4,455
-67.0
-74.0
-67.4
-79.2
-40.2
79
2.631
296
347
139
223
19.4
7.4
12.4
6.6
3.4
6.4
23
751
103
66
27
78
52
1.268
137
139
46
120
1
82
9
1
3
5
36
54
877
202
112
0«QBDJ Of
Basin*!*
WBIE 8-B. — SDlliABr OF ..HOLcwALS THABE KIR THE U.Si 1933
BI TliT Of EST^BLISBQiST >!:!) KtlTI) OP BUSlIIUiS
till Taints txpraiatd In
thouaandi
of don
srs. I leader Indloatei
Suaber of
Total
Tjrp* Of EiMbllihBent
ostablishments
Expense*
Full-tlm*
i*y
roll
Stooka
and
Kind of Businaai
19SS
1929 1/
1933
1929 i/
:*ercont
shanga
Amount
jSof
sale*
la»erag*l
Total
Part-
time
(end
of yMLT)
lUacrACIUBSBS' ISSSTS (ContlimadI
Ul otbar klada of busisses (Contlnuadl
Boom aiil carlodlcale
Iinrapapart and ma^ilnaa
7
37
27
$963
2,607
v3,852
- 9.9
»127
640
13.2
25.5
44
205
»54
382
«1
40
**6
U
X
Oils and graasas (animal and T«E»tab
.el 9
14
1,402
5,918
-76.3
74
5.3
22
40
Butbar gt)ods (ganaral Una)
3
2
114
216
-47.2
15
13.2
5
6
Wlnsa and splrltous lliiuors
14
4/
368
4/
32
8.7
9
7
Bag* and taerlns
7
963'
16
1.7
10
10
larn
Cordae* and tvlna
18
8
252
5,994
618
69,310
-82.6
100
78
1.7
12.6
25
18
SO
33
21
93
Ulsstllansoaa
96)
7.979J
544
6.S
139
244
IS
89
AnuBanant and aportlng goods
12
94
2.167
4,500
— Bi.e
324
15.0
35
86
62
lutomotlTS iroAiuta
24
63
2,207
17.512
-87.4
317
14.4
141
162
144
ChaaicalB
24
94
10,133
74,837
-66.5
1,404
13.9
318
462
1
588
Clotblng and fnmlsMng*
I ^^i
251
75.248
142.409
-47.2
2.751
3.7
600
1.519
26
81
Clothing aal furnlshlact Iganaral lli
e) i
194
4
2,1
1
1
...
Clotting, man's and boys'
4
1,488
25
1.7
9
17
5
Clothing, women's and chlldran's
15
0,454
154
2.8
40
84
2
3
Foralshing* (genaral line)
11
210
5,788
129,087
-43.6
114
2.0
27
59
Tarnishing*, mssi's and boys*
17
7,499
226
3.0
88
134
2
7
Furnishing*, vcosm** and ohlldran's
3
703
24
3.4
6
6
5
Eo*l*r7
42
51,7||
2,103
4.1
408
1,183
16
66
Utlllner; and mllllnary *apill**
5
31
10,748
-96,7
17
4.7
5
10
1
Sho*s and othar foot««ar
6
10
2,032
2,574
-21.1
82
4.0
16
25
...
...
Coal
196
292
219.341
290.791
-24.6
8.721
4.0
1.678
4.310
76
3.305
Drugs and drug sundrl**
26
66
3.006
16.635
-81.9
757
25.2
220
369-
1
62
loilst artloles and irec*ratlona
7
23
1,085
9,399
-88.6
501
46.2
172
238
SI
Srug* Up*olalty line*)
A
1.106
153
13.8
22
64
...
fatent medloin**
s
43
106
7,230
-73.4
46
42.5
7
12
...
1
411 othar
la
709J
58
8.2
19
35
1
Dry goods
230
407
364.610
736.630
-47.6
11.267
2.9
2.479
6.737
36
384
Dry goods (general line)
16
37
21,549
90,905
-76.3
850
3.9
166
566
2
Sotlons
11
29
973
5,082
-80.9
30
3.1
10
10
...
S3
Pieoe good*
165
298
328,976
610,647
-46.1
9,478
2.9
2,116
5,691
2S
162
Enlt goods
HI oUi*r
1
43
24,764\
8,348;
29,996
+ 10.4
581
328
2.3
3.9
133
54
347
233
11
167
Kl*8trlo*l goods
21
127
4.658
27.451
-83.0
669
14.4
160
321
12
65
razic prod&ots-raw materlAlB
10
56
2.772
52.727
-94.7
77
2.8
17
25
63
Fara prodnots-oonsomer goods
9
60
1.420
62,917
-97.7
255
18.0
37
87
17
61
Faun sapplles
26
26
463
13,332
-96.5
98
21.2
21
25
3
3
?Dmltura and house fu-nlshings
46
143
24.534
40.159
-38.9
1.993
8.1
508
960
25
1.214
Pomltor*
10
57
1,432
12,031
-88.1
220
15.4
42
85
6
3
China, glassware end orociery
h
z.ai
56
2.6
14
28
3
...
Floor corerlngs
"I
86
19,487
26,128
-17.9
1,569
8.1
413
792
IS
1.204
House furnishings (except as speclfle
dl isj
1,404)
148
10.5
39
55
1
7
Grooerles and foods (sxoept fass irodwt
si 99
196
24.320
171.706
-80.8
1.348
i.i
329
613
42
109
Confectionery and soft drinks
12
16
174
1,865
-90.7
50
28.7
11
17
4
4
Fish and sea foods
3
11
138
3,366
-95.9
12
8.7
2
7
2
1
Ueats and meat ivoduots
7
12
978
8,428
-88.4
103
10.5
28
47
....
2
Othar foed and grceary sp*olaltl*a
77
167
23,030
158,047
-85.4
1,183
5.1
288
542
36
102
Uardwar*
18
4«
2^188
9.671
-77.1
115
5.3
42
56
3
49
J*«*lry and optical goods
7
26
1.247
3.261
-61.6
70
5.6
15
SO
... •
...
Lnabar and trolldtng materlala (other thai
1
nwtall
116
212
18.991
140.721
-86.5
2.567
13,5
451
1.194
SI
1.436
Lmber and millworft
S3
99
10,806
107,647
-90.0
927
8.6
166
403
7
60
Isbestos prodnots
9
153
52
34.0
17
38
4
38
Brisk and til*
20
113
801
-75.3
483
60.3
89
285
...
48
Claaa
6
3,080
129
4.2
29
93
5
54
HI othar
34J
*.l6l)
966
23.3
150
375
5
1,236
Uaehlnery, *qalEia*nt *nd snpplie*
(*xoept eleotrioal)
29
543
4.117
126.207
-96.7
783
19.0
163
477
64
37
Uatals (•koept Borap)
72
108
92,473
330,220
-75.7
3.679
4.0
497
1.355
36
1.194
Iron and steel
63
76
48,322
97,626
-50.5
1,922
4.0
407
1,054
35
1,137
Sheet m*t%l prodnots
Other metal and metal worka
1^
32
343)
43,808j
282,594
-64.4
11
1,746
3.2
4.0
3
87
6
296
"i
67
Censua of
Am er loan
BuBlneen
JU2S
TABI£ 2-B,-^DUUABT OF WHOLESALE TBUX FOB THE U.S: 1933
BY Tlt^ OP EaiABLlSHMKNT! ASD KIHU OP BUSINESS
(All TftluSB eiDreBBiid In
thniisATiHR nf dnllni-B. A leader indicates no infoiwation
.1
Type of EBtabllabment
Number of
establishments
Hi
t Bales
Total
EipenseB
Pull-time
iKI roll
Stoola
Kind of Busineee
1933
1929 1/
1933
1929 ay
Peroant
jhangs
Jnount
5Sof
aaloB
(»Teraeo)
Totsl
Part-
tlju
lend
of 7«ar)
SELLING AGiaJTS (Oontlniied)
i*&per and Its prodaote
35
76
*10,606
$35,898
-70.6
»64i
6.1
92
$239
♦1
ts
Paper and its productB (apeolalty
lines)
All other
Petroleum and its prodxiote
24
11
25
26
5,258
5,348
6.222
3.932
+58.2
£48
29«
356
4.7
6.6
5.8
56
36
68
155
84
186
"i
4
s
66
Plumbing and heating egulpnent and suppl
as 12
62
869
6.571
-8S.9
61
7.1
15
23
...
3
All othar kinds of buBlnasa
66
347
96.819
264.686
-63.4
3,209
3.S
660
1.638
44
432
Beer
Forest products (ezoept Itsnber)
Leather
Leather goods
Newspapers emd magazines
Rubber goods (general line)
Yarn
UlsoellaneouA
OTHER AGENTS
Clothing and furnishings
7
15
16
4
9
10
13
1*
144
V
33
67
10
34
1
212
77
432
19,308
8,652
767
1,384
2,304
99,785]
4,187)
115.743
4/
21,764
40,074
1,203
e,539
282
192,824
52.403
-11.3
-78.4
-36.2
-83.8
+717.0
-66.8
+120.9
62
838
500
27
165
846
5«1
221
2.632
14.4
4.3
5.8
3.5
11.2
S6.7
0.9
6.3
2.2
10
117
106
6
45
143
93
40
880
11
501
207
1*
80
352
348
126
1.575
40
1
i
• •• •
1
1
17
6
164
140
1
3
123
6
260
Clothing and fumishinge (general line
Clothing, men's and boys'
Clothing, women't and chlldren'i
Pumishings, women'a and ohlldren's
All other
Millinery and millinery suppllee
Dry goods
1 27^
3
91
6
25
75
2
21
21,187
966
87,652
939
I.O35J
3,974
59.265
61,471
9SE
64.949
+117,1
+326,4
— 8i7
347
41
1,846
39
137
122
892
1.6
4.3
2.1
4,2
13.2
3.1
1.6
120
11
646
9
50
44
262
211
23
1,186
11
84
61
661
2
* ,.
14
1
3
8
52
19
171
124
Farm prodocts-rav materials
351
348
134.014
218.718
-38.7
4.738
3.5
1.751
2.488
612
169
Horses and mules '-
Livestock
All other
Tobacco (leaf)
Farm produots-Hsonsumer goods
11'
98
8
234
25
54
294
24
2,777
9,683
13,637
107,917
85.480
60,887
157,831
176.838
-57.1
-31.6
-61.7
197
394
488
3,669
1.814
7.1
4.1
3.6
3U
2.1
34
127
110
1,480
446
64
194
2+6
1,984
968
16
103
13
480
68
16
27
58
68
28
Furniture and house fumlBhlngt
41
20
2,763
3.329
-17.0
437
15.8
117
168
28
93
Furniture
House fumishlnga
General merohandlBe
33
8
9
19
1
38
1,840
923
18.445
2,639
690
16.637
-30.3
+33.8
+18.0
327
110
607
17.8
11.9
3.3
96
21
173
128
40
350
23
5
9
89
4
Groceries and foods (except fans producte
1 8
16
17.960
66.858
-67.8
547
3.0
146
294
4
29
Jewelry and optical goods
8
12
182
3.488
-94.8
83
46.6
9
17
«••
32.
Machinery, eq.uijiDent and supplies
(except electrloal)
12
9
1.596
11.934
-86.6
181
Ui?
47
88
?
81
All other kinds of business
27
64
6,662
66,934
-91.6
285
6.0
91
153
6
40
u
3/
3/
fl/
These are revised figures for 1929. The data prerlously IsBued include a ntnber of oonoems dealing In grain and patroleua and Its parodootB
that were erroneously reported and olasBlfied in the lAioleeale census*
Dub to additional information nhioh wae net crallable at the time the previous oenaus oes taJcsn, the 1929 data have been oorrsoted for
certain changes In olstsslfloation*
For comparison porposes lAioleBaling manufacturers and district and general sales offices, except those dealing in. petroleum and its prodoote,
have been Included in manufacturers' sales branches, 1929*
1929 equivalent not available.
Figures for 1929 data for district and general sales offices dealing In petroleim and Its produote.
Inoludee 1,438 cooperative elevators with net sales amounting to $68, 193, 000.
1933 equivalent not available.
Due in part to the Federal Government's policy of rendering financial assistance to farmers in marketing their crops, the number of asseo-
blers and country buyers of cotton, grain, livestock, and tobacco showed substantial decreases in 1933 as compared with 1929.
A-36
Census of
American
Business
Table 3.
tJNITBD STATBS
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
RECEIPTS FROM SALES OF MERCHANDISE AND SERVICE. BY KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
Total
Receipts I
'ROM —
Num-
Expenses
Space rental
Other sorircesl/
ber of
estab-
lish-
ments
Total net
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
Sales of
merchan-
dise
Parking,
storage,
cleaning,
etc.
Kind of Business
Num-
ber
of
estab-
Amount
Num-
ber
of
estab-
Amount
lish-
lish-
ments
ments
Total
164,170
^32,1*1,373
♦3,710,233
48,863
11.5
$31,884,432
$62,047
1,023
#5,076
2,737
$199,818
Amusenient and sporting goods
1,552
271,888
18.0
132,403
338
8
884
419
2/138, 2C 3
AutomotlTe products
6,304
874,269
164,726
18.8
855,313
17,755
51
114
98
1,067
Cbemicala
2,473
652,597
102,776
15.7
651,891
301
14
44
38
361
Clothing and furnishlnga
4,376
996,304
108,569
10.9
995,722
207
12
30
38
345
Coal
1,382
631,958
52,681
8.3
630,908
421
37
310 34
319
Druga end drug sundxles
1,562
523,392
90,220
17.2
522,538
6
16
53 45
795
Dry goods
4,795
2,242,392
170,648
7.6
2,241,577
330
18
82
48
403
Elsetrioal goods
3,232
705,411
121,695
17.3
694,868
9,900
15
27
58
616
Farm produots-raw matarials
16,799
3,876, 2U
183,926
4.7
3,852,845
10,932
51
192
149
2,242
Fann products-consumer goods
23,664
3,178,427
404,576
12.7
3,174,042
2,269
103
359
260
1,757
Farm supplies
2,467
363,771
50,987
14.0
363,013
440
35
118
27
200
Furniture and house furnishings
2,784
354,626
59,946
16.9
353,494
332
14
30
38
770
General nerchandlae
IBS
243,319
22,081
9.1
242,948
3
2
3
4
365
Groceries and foods
23,847
7,574,961
716,393
9.5
7,569,661
1,032
179
885
467
3,363
Hardware
1,495
394,180
79,035
20.1
392,375
260
31
160
62
1,385
Jewelry and optical goods
2,073
148,752
35,101
23.6
148,263
387
9
25
16
77
Lunber end building materials
3,721
522,075
94,612
18.1
520,708
760
72
207
49
400
Machinery, equlpnent and supplies
11,449
l,26-i,855
268,438
21.2
1,237,270
U,534
64
483
572
15,568
Metals (eicept scrap)
1,985
1,231,814
78,219
6.3
1,231,488
206
11
36
U
84
Paper and Ite products
2,851
600,526
98,253
16.4
599,815
181
20
157
32
373
Petrolsum and ita products
28,455
2,292,960
423,693
18.5
2,290,141
1,900
144
545
51
374
Plumbing and beating eqp't. k supplies
2,249
265,167
62,326
23.5
263,768
801
23
34
59
564
Tobacco and ita products (except leaf)
1,988
1,263,418
73,300
5.8
1,262,181
589
18
79
60
669
Waste materials
3,417
282,602
30,108
10.7
282,377
138
22
73
7
14
All othsr products
9,057
1,595,498
169,061
12.1
1,364,823
1,025
54
146
95
3/ 29,504
1/ Includes receipts from rental of mo
;ion pic1
rare films, i
•ttie rental
ental of mi
Chin
IS an d re eel
Ita from ml
scsll
ineoas soijireas.
2/ Conaists ftjr ttie most pert of recei]
itt from
>f motion p
etur<
1 filna.
3/ Primarily receipts from adTortlslngl
i-27
^ '**^ , WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Census of
*™^^ Table 4.— ( tWITto) STATES CREDIT SALES, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
Business
For States Only
(All tallies expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
cent
of
Per-
cent
of
Percent of
sales
Type op Establishment
Kind of Bubinebs
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
estab-
lish,
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
lotal
16^,170
J32,15;,37?
lll,4»l
67. &
122.187. 296
69.0
tlS .'274.093
82.4
56.8
$2,967,564
1?,+
nholaaalarK proper
82.665
12.997.276
60.901
73.5
10.758.041
62.8
8,647,933
80.4
66.5
1.694.753
;5,8
ILolssBle maroh&nts
76,856
11,302,947
57,094
74.3
9,480,629
83.9
7,630,421
80.5
67.5
1,562.163
16.5
JSzporteri
453
558,147
234
51.7
337,190
60.4
226,888
67.3
40.7
26.654
7.9
Importer*
2,176
776,354
1,916
88.1
700,820
90.3
602,567
86.0
77.6
75.357
10.8
LlBltea Amotion lAoleteler*
3,380
359,828
1,657
49.0
239,402
66.5
188,057
78.6
52.3
30,579
12.6
liiazirfaotTiTerB' aalea branchea
16.873
7.557.363
13.982
82.9
5.897.463
77.8
5.410.750
92.0
71.6
76S.S8C
13,0,
Vlti stocks
ia,444
5,144.688
10,755
86.4
4,235,508
83.5
3,884,702
9Q.4
75.5
661,858
IS.S
tlthont atooka
4,429
2,412,675
3,227
72.9
1,5^1,955
66.0
1,526,048
9S.9
63.3
114,962
7.2
Snllc tank atationa
26.190
1.868.675
23.046
88.0
1,S11.30S
80.0
882,039
56.4
45.1
»i.7se
19,3
Chain store nrehocaes
462
1.431.563
114
24.7
107,631
7.5
71,620
66.4
5.0
7.925
7,3
leartt and brokers
13,818
6,502,375
7,790
56.4
3,269,032
50.3
2,956.615
90.4
45.5
133,406
4.1
Srokera
3,414
2,088,370
1,530
44.8
1,042,550
49.9
693,165
85.7
42.8
18,700
1.8
Conolaalan marehanta
3,128
2,224,664
1,440
46.0
863,513
36.8
766,641
88.8
34.5
43,223
5.0
Xxport ae«nta
340
135,126
119
49.6
37,080
27.4
29,663
80.0
22.0
1,805
4.9
Import agents
179
50,541
114
63.7
20,878
41.3
13,478
64.6
26.7
1,346
6.4
Marmftcturera' agents
4,972
573,964
3,484
70.1
420,934
73.3
397,030
94.3
69.2
30,839
7.3
Selling agenta
1,235
988,401
936
75.8
749,699
75.8
733,960
97,9
74.3
33,346
4.4
Other agent a
650
441,109
167
25.7
134,378
30.5
122,858
91.4
27.9
4,149
8.1
Asaaohlers and coTmtr; buyers
23,962
1,774,121
5,648
23.6
652.627
36.8
334,936
51.3
18.9
72.928
11.2
Asaenblirt of fsm prodnota
11,283
718,588
2,171
19.2
185,163
25.8
89,327
48.2
12.4
25,590
13.8
CooparatiTa aarloatlng aaao-
eiatlons
2,732
686,072
906
33.2
301,137
43.9
219,540
72.9
32.0
34,786
11.6
Crean stations
2,860
31,459
77
2.7
2,569
8.2
1,981
76.5
6.3
967
37.4
Sleratore
7,087
338,002
2,494
35.2
163,738
46.4
24,088
14.7
7.1
11,585
7.1
VBOUSAIB KSKOHABTS
76.856
11.302,947
57,094
74.3
9,460,629
83.9
7,630,421
80.5
67.5
1.562.163
16.5
inrasecwnt wid aporting goods
976
78,274
700
71.7
66,124
84.5
54,603
62.9
70,0
14,617
22.4
Autonot'TC prodnota
5,168
425,310
4,267
82.6
359,654
84.6
233,844
65.0
55.0
66,549
24.1
Chsmioals
1.292
197,185
1,118
86.5
168,140
85.3
148,603
86.3
75.3
37,076
22.1
Clothing and furnishings
2.854
390,789
2,356
82.6
357,278
91.4
336,914
94.3
86.2
57,014
16.0
Coal
734
230,208
604
82.3
182,493
79.3
151.663
83.2
66.0
27,216
14.9
Snga and drag sundriea
1.078
342,462
762
70.7
289,919
84.7
254,652
87.8
74.4
50,125
17.3
Dry goods
2,938
754,311
2,589
88.1
701,170
93.0
669,051
95.4
86.7
94,670
13.5
Blectrleal goqds
2,067
270,754
1,778
86.0
253,673
93.7
215.061
84.8
79.4
56,523
22.3
Fare prodaets-ra« natarlala
2,148
872,891
1,130
52.6
385,055
44.1
223,640
58.1
25.6
35,194
9.1
Para produets-oonaumer gooda
9,924
1,515,687
7,168
72.2
1,306,106
86.2
964.016
73.8
63.6
195,976
15.0
Farm auppllea
1,683
212,190
1,246
74.2
146,363
69.0
86,496
59.1
40.8
26,587
18.2
Fomitur* and house furnishings
1.510
141,111
1,131
74.9
122,491
86.8
108,975
89.0
77.2
27,374
22.3
General merehandis*
87
61,207
67
77.0
58,620
95.6
58,620
100.0
95.8
10,502
17.9
GrooerlsB snd foods (except
farm produota)
16,288
2,747,964
11,689
71.6
2,391,020
87.0
1,917,648
60.2
69.8
319,962
13.4
Hardware
1,144
339,339
1,043
91.2
313,541
92.4
276,956
88.3
81.6
66,998
21.4
Jevslry and optical gooda
1,432
85,422
1,029
71.9
68,207
79.8
58,151
85.3
68.1
17,916
26.3
Limber and building nateriala
(other than metal)
2.352
231,784
2,046
87.0
211.284
91.2
165.493
67.8
80.0
53,932
25.5
l~SB
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.—
OTrTTEP STATES
CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHKENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishmepts, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments
Repobtino Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
Per-
Percent of
sales
cent
of
cent
of
Type op Establishment
Kind op Business
Num-
bec
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
AU
nUb-
lish-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
raOLESALE MERCHANTS (contlnusd)
Hachlnery, equipment and supplie
(eieept electrical)
5,791
|463,S14
4,938
85.3
»438,467
93.6
»376,163
85.8
80.3
♦109,517
25.0
Uetals (except scrap)
705
107,768
692
84.0
97,863
90.8
89,680
91,6
83.2
21,642
22a
I^er and Its products
2,;49
313,743
1,920
R9.3
294,378
93.8
265,106
90.1
84.5
62,908
21.4
Petroleum and Its products
1,748
214,270
1,307
78.4
175,851
82.1
121,722
69.2
56.8
31,061
17.7
Plumbing aid heating equliment
and supplioB
i,«a
141,449
1,261
88.3
136,300
96.3
108,829
79.9
76.9
33,236
24.4
ToMoco and Its prDduota
(except leaf)
1,617
509,581
1,178
72.9
443,710
87.1
312, Ul
70.3
61.2
28,753
6.5
Waste materials
3,542
155,574
1,199
35.9
112,516
72.3
94,837
84.3
61.0
20,287
18.0
All otber products
6,401
495,460
3,974
62.1
400,496
80.8
317,267
79.2
64.0
76,327
19.1
KIPOBTKRS
453
558.147
234
51.7
337.190
60.4
2Z6.888
57.3
40.7
28.654
7.9
Amusensnt and sportiog goods
5
17,712
2
40.0
21
0.1
17
ai.o
0.1
12
57.1
AatomotlTO products
5
3,891
5
100.0
5,891
100.0
3,284
84.4
84.4
478
12.3
Chendeals
11
4,582
9
81.8
4,238
92.6
815
19.2
17.8
175
4.1
Clothing md furolshinga
17
1,119
14
82.4
1,005
89.8
873
86.9
78.0
168
16.7
Drugs and dru^ sundrlee
3
884
3
100.0
884
100.0
653
96.5
96.5
43
4.9
Dry goods
36
17,406
31
86.1
16,809
96.6
16,463
97.9
94.6
1,377
8.2
Elsetrlcal goods
10
2,003
6
60.0
1,672
83.5
1,620
96.9
80.9
231
13.8
Farm products-raw jBterlals
156
260,879
44
28.2
88,584
34.0
29,960
33.8
11.6
11,361
12.8
Farm products-consunsr gsods
20
4,552
8
40.0
1,646
36.2
1,397
84.9
30.7
lU
6.7
Furniture and house furnishings
3
37
3
ICO.O
37
100.0
36
97.3
97.3
11
29.7
Gemrsl merchandise
8
37,607
6
75.0
37,291
99.2
19,979
53.6
S3.1
7,862
21.1
Orocerlee and foods (except
farm products)
46
38,943
22
47.8
27,330
70.2
25,998
95.1
66.8
1,336
4.9
Hardware
4
853
4
100.0
853
100 „0
853
100,0
LOO.O
60
7.0
Jewelry and optical goods
4
87
4
100.0
87
100.0
87
100.0
.00.0
15
19.4
Lumber and building mterials
(other than metal)
47
13,834
21
44.T
7,374
63.3
6,410
86.9
46.1
610
8.S
Hachlnery, equipment anl suppllsa
(except eleetrlojl)
X»
5,978
11
84.6
1,977
33.1
1,712
86.6
88.6
156
7.9
Metals (except scrap)
6
26,359
4
66.T
25,470
96.6
24,670
96.9
93.6
1,040
4.1
Paper and Its products
7
1,798
4
67.1
1,490
82.9
1,261
84.6
70.1
2M
16.4
Petroleum and Us products
7
6,731
4
57.1
5,794
88.1
3,894
67.3
57.8
456
7.9
Plumbing and heating equlpunt
and suppllas
3
1,023
3
100.0
1,023
100.0
1,000
97.8
9T.a
175
17.1
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
3
121
1
33.3
T6
62.8
76
100.0
62.(
6
7.9
Vaste netarla]*
6
108,145
4
66.7
107,764
99.6
84,047
78.0
77.7
479
0.4
All other kinds aC business
33
3,603
21
63.6
1,874
51.0
1,583
84.5
45.9
248
13.2
DffORTSB
2.176
T76.354
1.916
88.1
700,820
90.3
602.567
86.0
77rf
76.307
J.0.8
Anuaameit and sporting goods
57
6,618
51
89.5
6,S«S
99.6
6,383
96.8
96.4
1,249
18.9
AatomotlTe jroduots
7
538
7
100.0
538
100.0
654
99.3
99 .5
145
B7.0
Chenlaals
se
26,714
SO
'88.2
17,711
66.3
16,101
90.9
60.3
2,297
L3.0
Clothing and furnlshli«a
109
24,925
101
92.7
23,690
94.6
22,688
96.2
91.0
3,791
L6.1
Cowl
3
434
3
100.0
434
100.0
454
100 .0
too.o
3D
6.9
Census of
American
Business
A-g9
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.— DBItED STATES CREDIT SALES, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(AU values expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Estabushments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
cent
of
Per-
cent
of
Percent of
sales
Ttpe of Establishment
Kind of Bctsiness
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
^01
estab-
lUli-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
IMJOHTERS (oontlnuBd)
Vraga and drug ■aodries
46
$5,772
43
93.6
$5,668
98.2
S5 ,636
97.7
9E.9
$1,988
35.1
Dry goods
353
70,709
339
96.0
68.226
96.5
66,769
96.4
9S.0
12,792
18.8
Eleotrioal goods
11
737
9
81.8
706
96.8
604
85.6
82.0
143
20.3
Plann prodnots-raw materials
127
104,432
115
90.6
97,986
93.8
92,013
93.9
88.1
4,098
4.2
Farm pnlnots-aonsaner goods
72
45,983
61
84.7
41,996
91.3
40,428
96.3
87.9
1,866
4.4
Farm suppllss
2S
27.449
16
60.0
15 ,334
55.9
5,546
36.2
20.2
789
6.1
Pamlture 4 house ftirnlshlngs
237
29,659
210
88.6
28,251
95.3
27,345
96.8
92.2
6,376
22.6
Q«ii«ral msrohandisa
S
76,179
6
100.0
76,179
100.0
52,318
68.7
68.7
2,037
2.7
GtoostIss and foods (ezsept
farm pro duo ts)
«69
230,394
406
86.4
220,021
95.5
176,152
80.1
76.5
25,336
11.5
Hardware
19
1,503
19
100.0
1,503
100.0
1,437
95.6
96.6
392
26.1
Jswal>7 and optlsal goods
195
17,888
160
82.1
15,884
88.8
14,665
92.3
82.0
3,421
21.5
Lumber and building materials
(otliar tban metal)
3S
2,873
29
87.9
2,677
93.2
2,677
100.0
93.2
838
31.3
Dsohlnary, equlpient and snipllea
(exoapt •Isatrloal)
73
12.087
65
89.0
11,635
96.3
10 ,015
86.1
82.9
1,882
1S.2
Wat&l* lexeapt sarap)
SS
24,317
30
90.9
5,457
22.5
5,010
91.6
20.6
642
11.7
Paper and Its produsts
Tobaeoo and Its products
25
7,563
2,066
23
f
96.0
87.6
7,561
1,767
99.8
85;6
7,644
1,696
99.8
S6.0
99.7
8271
682
302
9jP
17^1
Ail othar kind* of buslmsas
210
67 ,514
168
80.0
51 ,096
88.8
47.673
93.3
82.9
4,271
8.4
Lunni rcroTioH wholes aiebs
3.380
359.828
1.657
49.0
239.402
66.6
188,067
78.6
52.3
30,679
12.8
£7
1.345
14
51.9
649
48.3
216
33.1
16.0
144
22.2
AntomotlTs prodoats
57
8,236
29
50.9
6,406
77.8
2,361
36.9
28.7
1.436
22.4
Chamloal s
16
436
10
62.5
401
92.0
292
72.8
67.0
140
34.9
Clotlilne and farnlshlngs
27
1.290
18
66.7
1,057
81.9
590
56.8
45.7
233
22.0
Coal
233
87,744
180
77.3
69,793
79.6
68,130
97.6
77.6
4,649
5.7
Drugs and drug sundries
44
2,687
a
47.7
2,060
76.7
1,703
82.7
63.4
262
12.7
Sij goods
»
3,897
28
46.7
3,372
86.6
3.092
91.7
79.3
305
9.0
Elsotrlsal goods
37
2,346
19
61.4
991
42.S
668
67.4
28.5
241
24.3
Farm produots-raw materials
6
3,43S
2
33.3
9
0.3
4
44.4
0.1
3
33.3
Farm produats-oonsuBer goods
SBO
33,826
220
67.9
29,431
87.0
17,978
61.1
53.2
6,973
23.7
Farm mpplles
37
6,702
18
48.6
3,136
46.8
774
24.7
11.6
761
24.3
Furniture * house fttrnlahlnga
38
4,188
24
63.2
4,099
97.9
3,644
88.9
87.0
669
16.3
Grooeriss and foods (exoept
farm pro duo ta)
1,285
105,849
416
32.4
99,640
29.5
22,180
65.9
21.4
5,892
14.9
Hardware
9
371
4
44.4
300
80.9
143
47.7
38.5
78
26.0
Jewelry and optloal goods
18
1,763
7
38.9
990
56.6
838
84.6
47.8
312
31.6
Lumber aod building materials
(other tban metal)
206
30,230
163
79.5
26,166
86.6
26,115
96.0
83.1
2,468
9.4
Uaohlnery, equlpoent i san>lles
(ezoept eleotrloal)
40
1,724
40
100.0
1,724
100.0
1,604
93.0
93.0
646
31.7
Uetals (ezoept sorap)
4
2,062
1
25.0
1,829
89.1
429
23.5
20.9
101
5.5
Paper and Ite prodoots
41
10,281
32
78.0
9,836
96.7
9,583
97.4
93.2
771
7.8
Petroleum and Its products
193
14,923
131
67.9
13,767
92.3
10,891
79.1
73.0
1,372
10.0
Plumb li« and heating aqulpnant
and snppllai
6
309
2
33.3
261
84.5
58
22.2
18.8
138
52.9
i.-30
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1938
Table 4. — ONITED STAIBS
CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(AU values expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in colunm indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals)
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
cent
of
Per-
cent
of
Percent of
sales
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
estab-
lish-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
LIMITED FUNCTIOU mOLESiLEHS
(continued)
Tobacco and Ito products
(except leaf)
111
514,637
29
26.1
$4,372
29.9
41,080
24.7
7.4
«4ie
9.6
Waste materials
11
8,367
8
72.7
8,335
99.6
8,335
100.0
99.6
698
8.4
All other kinds of business
495
16,201
241
48.7
10,789
71.0
8,350
77.4
54.9
1.969
16. 3
KAITOPACTUESRS' SALES BHAHCHES
'HTH STOCKS
12,444
5.144,688
10.755
86.4
4.295.508
63.5
3.884,703
90.4
76.f,
G51,8M
1».?
Ajnasement and sporting goods
216
97,960
139
64.4
35,658
36.4
21,103
69.2
21.6
8,123
22.8
Automotl7e products
725
332,631
679
93.5
268,936
80,9
229,474
85.3
69.0
46,184
17.2
Chemicals
703
299 ,412
650
92.5
221,972
74.1
214,276
95.6
71.6
36,330
15.9
Clothing and furnishings
337
199,562
304
90.2
167,869
84.1
165,799
99.4
83.5
21,782
13.0
Coal
30
13,117
30
100.0
13,117
100.0
10,012
76.3
75.3
2,099
16.0
Drugs and drug sundries
213
86,956
141
66.2
69,754
80.2
69,431
99.5
79.8
20,413
29.3
Dry goods
233
116,132
219
94.0
112,726
97.9
111,686
99.0
96.9
14,649
13.0
Electrical goods
447
322,841
381
85.2
270,042
83.6
255,845
94.7
79.2
40,604
15.0
Pann products-raw materials
5
558
5
100.0
658
100.0
568
100.0
DO.O
30
5.4
Farm products-consumer goods
344
106,918
269
78.2
85,989
80.4
67,218
78.2
52.9
18,993
22.1
Farm supplies
110
42,792
87
79.1
33,786
79.0
24,765
73.3
57.9
6,438
19.1
Furniture and house furnishings
344
71,809
287
83.4
67,083
93.4
66,673
99.4
92.8
9,557
14.3
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
3,200
1,661,861
2,639
82.6
1,467,032
87.7
1,220,363
83.8
73.4
162,004
12.6
Hardware
97
20,811
66
88.7
18,688
69.8
18,613
99.1
89.0
3,266
17.5
Jewelry and optical goods
269
26,221
263
97.8
24,839
94.7
24,305
97.9
92.7
7,791
31.4
Lumber and building materials
(other than metal)
332
107,903
297
89.6
89,898
83.3
88,239
98.2
81.8
17,292
19.2
Machinery, equipment and
supplies (except electrical)
2,988
438,692
2,748
92.0
393,171
89.6
368,161
93.6
83.9
101,943
25.9
Metals (except scrap)
423
215,701
324
76.6
162,378
70.5
151,567
99.6
70.3
19,775
13.0
Paper and Its products
203
94,012
163
80.3
70,319
74.8
68,536
97.5
73.0
13,747
19.6
Petroleum and its products
121
26,200
101
83.6
18,276
72.5
13,620
74.0
63.7
2,990
16.4
Plumbing and heating equipment
and supplies
462
82,831
408
86.3
70,117
84.7
66,895
94.0
79.6
17,870
25.6
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
85
612,474
70
82.4
436,487
86.2
434,860
99.6
84.9
28,601
6.6
All other kinds of business
566
269,294
466
83.6
216,796
80.5
192,908
89.0
71.6
32,266
14.9
BAJTOPACT'JHERS' SAI.2S BRANCHES
7.2
TITHOnT STOCKS
4,429
2,412,675
3,227
72.9
1,591,956
56.0
1,526.048
96.9
63.3
114.962
Amusement and sporting goods
AutomotlTe prooucts
Chemicals
166
96
146
58,73-
54,761
68,073
50
88
120
32.1
92.6
82.8
24,085
21,363
63,587
41.0
39.0
78.7
15,677
13,788
50,650
69.2
64.5
94.5
28.4
26.2
74.4
3,227
1,942
7,292
13.4
9.1
13.6
Clothing and furnishings
Coal
Drugs and dru^ sundries
Dry goods
Electrical goods
192
76
68.512
59,751
164
56
86.4
74.7
50,899
37,884
74.3
95.3
50,392
55,983
99.0
97. •
73.6
9S.0
4,572
1,738
9.2
4.6
38
171
266
9,654
142,467
73,538
13
126
226
34.2
73.7
79.0
3,595
123,584
48,451
37.2
85.7
66.9
3,693
102,379
46,703
99.9
82.8
96.4
37.2
71.9
S3. 5
1,221
4,67£
4,528
34.0
3.8
9.3
36.8
Fans prodncts-consumer goods
19
6,243
9
♦7.4
891
14.3
753
84.9
12.1
328
A-Sl
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.— U?:tJPB STATES CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(All vaities expressed in tlumsands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
Per-
Percent of
sales
cent
of
cent
of
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
estab-
lish-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
MAMUTACTURiaS' S/iES BRANCHES
niTHOUf STOCKS (Continued 1
/arm supplies
51
$20,861
41
80.4
$16,598
79.5
56. £07
39.2
31.2
-:5i,S47
11.1
Furniture and house fumishlnes
141
34,749
115
81.6
28,069
80.8
27.677
09.3
80.2
2,273
8.1
Groceries and foods (except
fsmi products)
232
189.662
149
64.2
133,028
70.1
127,814
96.1
67.4
20,106
15.1
Hardware
34
13,329
24
70.6
3,432
25.7
3,428
99.9
25.7
212
6.2
Jewelry and optical gcods
42
11,816
23
54.8
6,246
52.9
6.242
99.9
52.8
907
14.5
Lumber and building materials
(other then metal)
223
67,744
174
78.0
55,502
81.9
55,192
99.4
81.5
5,740
10.3
Machinery, equipment and suppliei
(except electrical)
1,057
249,733
891
84.3
197,033
78.9
195,719
99.3
78.4
15,591
7.9
lletels (except scrap)
511
720,235
374' 73.2
485,804
67.5
485.122 99.9,67.4
16,015
3.3
Paper and Its products
226
144.108
170
75.2
103.130
71.6
102.572
99.5
71.2
7,528
7.3
Petroleum and its products
19
55.782
14
73.7
24.638
44.2
22,586
91.7
40.5
2,228
9.0
Plumbing and heating equijoent
and supplies
123
24.565
89
72.4
13,848
56.4
13,664
98.7
55.6
2,578
16.6
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
122
206.727
5
4.1
40.506
19.6
40,506
100.0
19.6
1,660
4.1
All other kinds of business
471
131.632
306
65.0
119.762
91.0
116,695
97.6
88.8
8,654
7.2
BULK lAHK STATIONS
.26.190
1.888.675
23,046
88.0
1.511.302
80.0
852.039
56.4
45.1
291.750
19,?
CHAIN STOKE V^AHEHODSES
462
1,431.563
114
24.7
107.831
7.5
71.620
66.4
5.0
7.925
7.3
AutomotiTe products
4
8,618
1
za.c
275
3.2
17
6.2
0.2
83
30.2
Clothing and fm-nishings
12
18,662
4
3S.3
3,094
16.6
3,094
100.0
16.6
351
11.3
Drugs and drug sundries
19
56,289
1
5.3
169
0.3
169
100.0
0.3
e
4.7
Dry goods
9
63,018
2 22.2
337
0.5
336
99.7
0.5
64
19.0
Electrical goods
3
3,868
2
66.7
1,696
43.8
1,273
75.1
?2.9
509
30.0
Farm products-consumer goods
85
81,733
7
8.2
1,114
1.4
948
85.1
1.2
852
76.5
Farm supplies
4
1,152
4
100.0
1,152
lOC.O
245
21.3
21.3
168
14.6
Pumiture and house famlshings
5
4,209
1
20.0
249
5.9
226
90.8
5.4
116
46.6
General merchandise
3
1,294
1
33.3
81
6.3
81
100.0
6.3
6
7.4
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
286
1,172,607
85
29.5
98,690
8.4
64.418
65.3
5.5
5,608
5.7
Hardware
4
597
1
25.0
121
20.3
12
9.9
2.0
41
33.9
Tobacco and its proeucts
(except leaf)
20
15,400
1
6.0
674
4.4
670
99.4
4.4
92
13.6
All other kinds of business
6
4,116
4
66.7
179
4.3
131
73.2
3.2
27
15.1
BROKSiS
3,414
2,088,370
1.630
44.8
1,042,550
49.9
693.185
85.7
42.8
18,700
1.8
iumisement and sporting goods
4
200
1
26.0
10
5.0
10
100.0
5.0
1
10.0
Automotive products
3
90
1
33.3
31
34.4
31
100.0
34.4
14
45.2
Chemicals
15
2,490
10
66.7
1,507
60.5
1,371
91.0
55.1
43
2.9
Clothing and furnishings
24
3.790
11
45.8
1,406
37.1
1,394
99.1
36.8
99
7.0
Coal
64
16,461
56
87.6
15,866
96.4
15,526
97.9
94.3
1,029
6.5
Drugs and drug sundries
9
3,702
4
44.4
3,440
92.9
3,062
89.0
82.7
77
2.2
Dry goods
89
171,883
69
77.5
130,749
76.1
108.255
82.8
63.0
682
0.5
A-32
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.— UHITKI) STiTES CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
{All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals)
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
cent
of
Per-
cent
of
Percent of
sales
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
neee
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
eslab
lish-
mmt
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
BROKCTS (contin'jed)
Electrical goods
11
$368
7
53.6
v'158
42.9
?152
96.2
41.3
»19
L2.0
Par.n product b-ieti niaterlals
517
291,082
124
24.0
61,823
21.2
38,47E
52.2
13.2
1,577
2.6
Tarra products-consuirBr goods
566
169,193
237
41.9
82,797
48.9
62,628
75.6
37.0
2,772
3.3
Farm supplies
91
27,289
49
53.8
9,788
35.9
7,20E
73.6
26.4
258
2.6
?^lmltu^e and hou » fumisMiigs
32
2,171
24
75.0
1,504
69.3
1,376
91.5
63.4
104
6.9
GoDeral mer*andlse
55
43,643
18
32.7
17,858
40.9
16,527
92.5
37.9
190
1.1
Groceries and fbods (except
farm products)
1,377
1,175,064
582
42.3
627,045
53.4
551, 51i
88.0
46.9
8,369
1.3
Hardware
6
735
3
50.0
132
18.1
13;
100.0
18. 1
5
3.8
Jewelry and optica 1 goods
39
1,489
18
46.2
804
54.0
449
K.8
30.2
59
7.3
Lumber aid baildlng nnterials
(Other than matal)
139
16,210
102
73.4
11,543
71.2
10,526
91.2
64.9
755
6.5
Machinery, equipment and si^ipUes
(except electrical)
87
5,774
37
42.5
4,134
71.6
3,943
95.4
68.3
292
7.1
Metals (except scrap)
30
9,001
18
60.0
4,942
54.9
4,707
95.2
52.3
221
4.5
Paper and Its Troducts
21
2,474
13
61.9
1,718
69.4
1,64£
95.9
56.5
172
1D.0
Petroleum and Its predicts
49
44,388
38
77.6
37,2S£
83.9
37,256
100.0
83.9
849
2.3
Plumbing and heating equipment
end supplies
7
365
4
57.1
201
55.1
201
100.0
55a
12
6.0
Tobacco and its pro4icts
(except leaf)
4
407
1
25.0
341
83.8
341
100.0
83.8
18
5.3
Waste materials
35
8,593
22
62.9
7,347
85.5
7,286
99.2
34.8
351
4.8
All other products
140
91,508
81
57.9
20,137
82.0
19,163
95.2
20.9
732
3.6
COWIISSinN !fEBCHAJ!r3
3.128
2,224,864
1.440
46.0
863, 5i;
38 .(
766,641
88.8
34.5
i3.223
5.0
Automotive products
17
870
11
64.7
776
89.2
148
19.1
17.0
58
7.5
Chemical s
22
13,380
13
59.1
8,35£
62.5
7,417
88.7
55.4
503
6.0
Clothing and furnishings
48
35,937
33
68.8
29,623
82.4
28,971
97.8
80.6
899
3.0
Coal
18
1,085
11
61.1
521
48.0
416
79.8
38.3
83
15.9
Drugs and drug sundries
7
3,270
5
71.4
3,264
99.6
3,260
99.7
99.7
76
2.3
Dry goods
133
340,211
116
87.2
299,099
87.9
298,885
99.9
07.9
11,612
3.9
21eotriCBl goods
24
1,798
15
62.5
1,008
56.1
946l
94.0
52.7
120
IL.9
Farm ;-roduct3— raw ?TBterials
1,294
1,190,037
127
9.8
86,220
7.S
63,162
73.3
5.3
3,118
3.6
Farm prodjcts-oonsumar g^oda
1,015
378,988
777
76.5
258,797
68.3
199,888
77.2
52.7
20,371
7.9
Fann supplies
58
2,776
19
32.8
83!
30.0
320
38.4
U.5
73
8.8
Fumifrjre and house furnishings
35
4,219
18
51.4
2,166
51.:
1,706
78.8
40.4
240
11 .1
Oeneral merchandise
3
1,990
2
65.7
104
5.2
56
53.8
2.8
15
14.4
Groceries and foods (exospt
fann products)
121
46,736
92
76.0
22,964
49.1
17,245
75.1
36.9
1,555
6.8
Hardnare
4
178
4
100.0
178
100.0
177
99.4
99.4
17
9.6
Jewelry rjid optical goods
5
184
4
80.0
179
97.3
157
87.7
85.3
18
JD.l
Lumber 'nl building materials
(other than metal)
47
8,683
30
63.8
7,516
86.6
7,468
99.3
86.0
512
6.8
Machinery, oquipment and suppQsB
(except electrical)
20
5,763
9
45.0
363
6.3
362
99.7
6J
57
15.7
Metals (except scrap)
5
1,752
4
80.0
1,746
99.7
1,741
99.7
99.4
28
1.6
Paper and its prodiots
4
209
2
50.0
29C
97.0
289
99.7
95.7
30
L0.3
Petroleum and its products
68
4,597
34
50.0
2,06S
44.S
1,027
49.7
22.3
214
L0.4
A_33
Censiis of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.— CBIIKD SIAIBS CREDIT SALES, BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
{AU values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals)
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
Per-
Percent of
sales
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
cent
of
total
for
kind
Net
sales
cent
of
total
for
kind
Amount
Amount
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Estab-
lish-
ments
AU
Per-
cent
of
of
re-
estab-
of
busi-
busi-
port-
Ush-
sales
ness
ness
ing
credit
sales
ments
COMMISSION MERCHAKT3 (Continued)
Waste materials
4
*522
4
100.0
$522
100.0
$522
100,0
100.0
^24
6,5
All other kinds of business
176
181,589
110
62.5
136,921
75,4
132,476
96,8
73,0
3,590
2,6
ETPOBT AtSMTS
240
135,126
119
49.6
37,080
27.4
29,663
80,0
22.0
1,805
4.9
Amusemnt and sporting goods
5
579
2
40.0
35
6.0
35
100.0
6.0
4
11,4
AutomotlTS products
28
9,203
17
60.7
7,855
85.4
7,771
98,9
84,4
509
6,5
Chemicals
5
3,330
4
80.0
3,089
92.8
3,089
100,0
92.8
79
2.6
Clothing . ad fumlBhings
S
534
6
100,0
534
100,0
601
93.8
93,8
64
12.0
Drugs and drug nisdxies
e
212
5
83.3
81
38.2
81
100.0
38,2
15
18,5
Dry goods
13
1,936
11
84.6
1,441
74.4
1,411
97,9
72,9
86
6,0
Bleotrlcal gooda
15
1.987
9
60.0
1,688
79.9
1,500
94,5
75,5
183
11.6
Faun prodiBts-raw materials
36
46,126
5
13.9
867
1.9
738
86,1
1,6
71
8,2
Pam produets-oonsujner goods
12
2,691
3
25.0
821
30.5
787
95.9
29.2
63
7.7
General merchandise
15
1,705
6
40.0
954
56,0
911
95.5
53,4
58
6.x
(aweerlee and foods (except
farm preduota)
17
4,809
8
47.1
626
13,0
662
69.8
11.7
55
8.8
Hardware
7
419
4
67.1
377
90,0
377
100,0
90.0
61
16.2
Luidier and building materiala
(other than metal)
14
9,008
6
42.9
5,013
56,7
2,757
55,0
30,6
164
3.3
Machinery, eq^xiimeni and
supplies (except electrical)
32
7,663
18
56.3
1,157
15,1
9S8
80, S
1E,1
155
13,4
Metals (except scrap)
1
11,335
3
100.0
U,335
100.0
6,908
60,9
60.9
153
1,3
Paper and its products
E
218
3
60.0
166
76,1
166
100,0
76,1
52
31.3
Petroleum and Its products
t
31,184
1
16.7
150
0,5
150
100.0
0,5
4
2,7
All other kinds of business
IE
2,188
8
53.3
991
45,3
991
100.0
45,3
29
2.9
DIPOTT AGENTS
17S
50.541
114
63.7
20.878
41,3
13.478
64,6
26.7
1.346
6,4
Amusement and sporting goods
7
r,lB4
6
85.7
854
74,0
850
99,5
73.7
98
U.5
Cbanlcals
10
1,642
7
70.0
1,038
63.2
863
83.1
52.6
60
6,8
Clothing and furnishings
f
920
4
66.7
601
65.3
601
100.0
65.3
25
4,2
Drugs and drug sundries
i:
1,026
7
63,6
615
50,2
388
76,3
37.8
38
6.8
Dry goods
2<
3,383
23
95.8
3,377
99,8
2,653
78,6
78.4
406
12.0
Farm products-raw materials
IS
22,448
9
47.4
2,670
11,9
1,102
41,3
4,9
84
3.4
Farm products-consumer goods
J
431
2
60.7
40L
93.0
34
8,5
7,9
14
3.5
Furniture and Louse furnishings
s
346
7
77,8
274
79.2
261
96. C
75,4
118
43.1
General narchandise
2
1,059
1
33.3
821
77,5
821
100,0
77,5
60
7.3
Groceries and foods (except
farm produota)
32
12,278
16
46.9
6,937
56.5
3,140
45.3
25.6
120
1,7
Hardware
<
74
3
76.0
38
51.4
34
89, £
45,9
14
36,8
Jewelry and optical goods
'.
274
3
100.0
274
100.0
274
100.0
100,0
6!
23,0
Lumber and building materials
(other than metal)
1
301
2
40.0
16
5.0
9
60, C
3,0
2
13,3
Machinery, equlinent and
aupplles (except electrical)
e
101
4
66,7
97
96,0
89
91.8
88,1
24
24,7
lietale (except scrap)
4
1,021
3
75, Q
799
78,3
644
80.6
63,1
54
6.8
Paper and its products
e
1,078
4
66,7
1,048
97,2
1,013
96.7
94,0
75
7,2
All ether kinds of business
27
3,006
14
51.9
1,119
37.2
702
62.7
23,4
94
8,4
v-x-dMtirmm'^'V''
i-3*
Census of
American
BusinesB
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4.— nniB) SI^TSS CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHHENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Establishments
ESTABUSHMENTS REPORTING CREDIT SaLES
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
cent
of
Per-
cent
of
Percent of
sales
Type of Estabushuent
Kind of Business
Num-
Net
Num-
total
Net
total
Estab-
ber
sales
ber
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
sales
for.
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
estab-
lish-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
UAl.-UPACIIJHERS' AGENTS
4.972
4573.964
3.484
70.1
J420.934
73.3
$397,030
94.3
69.2
i30.839
7.3
Amuaement aoi sporting goods
es
7,080
68
79.1
6,017
65.0
5,883
97.8
83.1
516
8.5
AatomotlTe products
166
27,135
120
72.3
21,953
60.9
19,114
87.1
70.4
1,467
6.7
Chemicals
171
26,187
127
74.3
19,868
78.9
19,505
9?. 7
77.8
1,428
7.8
Clothing and furnishings
469
59,273
341
69.7
40,624
68.5
39,122
96.3
55.0
1,841
4.6
Coal
16
3,489
16
100.0
3,489
100.0
3,486
99.9
99.9
319
9.1
Drugs and drug sundries
50
7,222
38
63.3
6,150
85.2
6,043
98.3
85.7
451
7.6
Dry goods
481
114,164
403
83.8
100,155
87.7
96,731
96.5
64.7
4,136
4.1
Electrical goods
298
20,464
205
68.8
16,284
79.5
16,309
94.0
74.8
1,714
10.5
Farm products-consuner goods
4
157
1
25.0
36
22.9
36
100.0
22.9
7
19.4
Farm supplies
34
2,131
15
44.1
426
20.0
164
38.5
7.7
47
11.0
Furniture and house furnishings
343
34,831
234
68.2
26,342
75.5
24,503
S3.0
70.3
2,084
7.9
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
231
96,949
117
50.S
50,165
51.8
46,424
92.5
47.9
2,262
4.B
Hardware
145
13,783
96
66.2
9,941
72.1
9,508
96.6
69.0
571
6.7
Jewelry and optical goods
51
2,209
29
56.9
1,607
58.2
1,281
86.0
56.0
143
9.5
Lufflher and building materials
(other than metal
201
14,514
132
65.7
9,251
53.7
9,018
97.5
62.1
955
10. S
Machinery, equipment and
supplies (except electrical)
1,300
63,414
924
71.1
49,044
77.3
46,471
94.8
T3.3
7,862
15.0
Metals (except scrap)
169
19,800
138
73.0
14,661
74.0
13,609
92.9
68.7
1,143
7.8
Paper and its products
129
14,346
96
73.6
11,056
77.1
10,628
96.1
74.1
661
,6.0
Petroleum and its products
7
939
4
57.1
837
89.1
604
72.2
54.3
134
15.0
Plumbing and heating equipment
and supplies
202
9,790
145
71.6
7,207
73.6
5.594
92.9
68.4
830
11.5
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf!
12
1,360
8
66.7
486
36.7
324
56.7
23.8
18
3.7
Waste materials
6
408
4
66.7
291
71.3
255
87.5
52.5
36
12.4
All other kinds of business
351
36,329
224
63.8
25,133
71.1
22,217
86.4
62.9
2,114
8.4
SELLING AiaiTS
1,236
988.401
936
75.8
749,599
75.8
733,950
97.9
74.3
33,346
4.4
Amusement and sporting goods
12
2,167
9
76.0
2,033
93.8
2,021
99.4
93.3
312
16.3
AutomotlTe products
24
2,207
15
62.6
1,264
55.8
1,046
83.4
47.4
194
15.5
Chemical s
24
10,133
21
87.5
9,468
93.6
8,928
94.1
88.1
1,172
12.4
Clothing and furnishings
111
76,248
83
74.8
55,260
68.1
. 63,404
96.7
84.3
2,560
3.8
Coal
196
219,341
161
82.1
139,798
63.7
137,522
98.4
52.7
6,472
4.6
Drujrs and drug sondries
26
3,006
23
88.6
2,991
99.5
2,939
96.3
97.8
756
E5.3
Dry goods
230
384,610
183
79.6
284,940
74.1
283,157
99.4
73.6
8,840
3.1
Electrical goods
21
4,658
18
86.7
4,657
97.8
4,435
97.3
95.2
556
14.4
Farm products-raw materials
10
2,772
2
20.0
380
13.7
380
100.0
13.7
26
.5.6
Farm products-consumer goods
9
1,420
4
44.4
626
SB. 3
459
65.4
32.3
44
5.3
Farm supplies
25
463
7
28.0
238
51.4
238
100.0
61.4
65
35.7
Furniture and house fumlshings
46
24,534
37
80.4
23,032
93.9
22,998
99.9
93.7
1,843
8.0
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
99
24,320
51
51.5
12,362
60.9
10,522
85.0
43.3
916
7.4
Hardware
18
2,188
15
83.3
1,942
68.8
1,922
99.0
87.8
107
6.6
Jewelry and optical goods
7
1,247
5
71.4
1,215
97.6
1,216
lOC.O
97.6
69
6.7
Lumber and building materials
116
18,991
86
76.9
13,993
73.7
13,533
96.7
71. S
2,362
16.9
^35
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 4. — DUITBD STATES
CREDIT SALES. BY TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT AND KIND OF BUSINESS
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of doUars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data
are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Credit Sales
Credit sales
Total
Expenses
Per-
Per-
Percent of
sales
cent
of
cent
of
Type of Establishment
Kind op Business
Num-
ber
Net
sales
Num-
ber
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Net
sales
total
for
kind
of
busi-
ness
Amount
Estab-
lish-
ments
re-
port-
ing
credit
sales
All
estab-
lish-
ments
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
SELLING AGENTS (ContlBuad)
Maoblnary, •qulpment and
•upplles (axoapt electrical)
29
♦4,117
83
79.3
|3,506
85.2
e3,438
97.9
83.4
$680
19.4
MetolB (except scrap)
78
92,473
64
88.9
77,430
83.7
77,016
99.5
83.3
8,631
3.4
Paper and ita produota
35
10,606
38
91.4
9, -971
94.0
7,427
74.5
70.0
498
4.9
Patroleum and its jiroduoti
35
6,282
15
60.0
5,750
92.4
3,778
65.7
60.7
394
5.1
PluBbln^ ml tasatisg •(luipoant
and supplies
12
659
9
75.0
784
84.3
707
97.7
83.3
50
6.9
AH other kinds of business
88
96,819
71
80.7
86,986
89.8
86,770
99.8
89.6
2,796
3.3
OTHBl AC3M76
650
441.109
167
26.7
134.378
30.5
122.658
91.4
87.9
4.149
3.1
Clothing and fumletflngs
144
U6,743
34
58.3
36,219
31.3
34,310
94.7
39.6
1,174
3.3
Err 0>ods
25
59,265
14
56.0
47,177
79.6
45,867
97.2
77.4
818
1.7
Failii produot»-raw matarlala
351
134,014
36
10.3
18,303
9.8
10,248
83.3
7.6
691
5.6
Farm prodncts-constimer goods
2S
85,480
13
58.0
19,963
23.4
15,148
75.9
17.7
689
3.5
jFuraiture and houM furnishings
41
2,763
8
19.5
513
18.6
193
37.6
7.0
133
84.0
Crooariee and foods (ezoept
farm products)
8
17,960
5
62.5
17,485
97.4
16,860
96.4
93.9
513
2.9
Mashinery, sijuiizient and
supplies (except eloetrloal)
12
1,595
5
41.7
660
41.4
186
28.2
11.7
131
19.8
All other kinds of business
44
24,889
8
4.6
58
0.8
46
79.3
0.8
10
17.2
ASaBffiLKRS 0? FABM PBODDOTS
U.883
718.588
8.171
19.8
185.163
8S.B
89.327
48.2
12,4
25.590
13.8
Tars piroduots-rav oaterlals
4,149
347,266
754
18.2
46,797
13.5
11,752
25.1
3.4
3,908
8.4
nra produets-Hionaunsr goods
6,777
336,053
1,814
17.9
111,931
33.3
60,976
64.5
18.1
16,738
16.7
Faia supplies
128
4,357
58
45.3
8,803
64.3
645
23.0
14.8
294
10.5
Qrofsries end foods (szoept
fam products)
140
27,412
95
67.9
21,348
77.9
14,389
67.4
52.5
2,154
10.1
All other kinds of business
8S
3,501
50
56.8
2,284
65.2
1,565
68.5
44.7
506
23.2
COOPBRATIVK IJARKETIKO ASSOCIATIONS
2.732
686.078
906
33.8
301,137
43.9
219,540
73.9
33.0
34.786
11.6
FasL products-raw materials
931
263,i>,04
235
35.2
88,255
33.5
54,314
61.6
20.6
4.659
5.3
ram prodBcts-eonsuaar goods
1,549
377,614
500
32.3
178,925
47.4
144,166
80.6
38.3
25,103
14.0
Farm supplies
lat
14,778
123
67.6
18,880
87.2
7,427
57.'
50.3
1,225
9.5
Qroeeries and foods (exeept
farm proAiets)
14
84,016
7
50.0
15,919
66.3
10,791
67.8
44.9
3,133
19.7
All otter kinds of buslnass
56
6,466
41
73.8
5,158
79.8
2,848
55.1
44.0
666
12.9
CREAM STATIONS
8.860
31,459
77
2.7
8,589
8.8
11.981
76.5
6.3
967
37.4
KLETATURS
7,08T
338,002
2,494
35.2
163,738
48.4
24,086
14.7
7.1
11,58E
7.1
Farm pro Aie ta-ra« materials
7,050
337,305
2,457
34.9
162,941
48.3
33,743
14.6
7.0
11,481
7.0
All othsr kinds of buslnsss
37
797
37
100.0
797
100.0
345
43.3
43.3
104
13.0
1-36
Censosof
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 5.— DlflTEB 3T1TES DISTRIBUTION OF SALES. BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(AU values expressed in thousands of doUars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals)
All Establishments
Establishments Reportino Disthibdtion of Sales
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
ber
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
Sales to
home
Sales to
Sales to
whole-
Num-
Net
Total
of es-
Net
retailers
con-
indus-
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
sales
Per-
for
sumers
trial
sale
lish-
ments
Amount
cent
of
sales
resale
(a(
retail)
users
organi-
zations
ness
ness
Total
164170
♦32151373
♦3710233
134335
81.8
86283004
81.7
♦3064147
11.7
♦13724818
♦586945
♦7865887
♦4406360
Wholesalers proper
83865
12997276
1948513
77104
93.0
11838698
91.1
1777029
15.0
7502303
379508
317^651
784238
Wholesale loerchanta
76856
11302947
1791392
71468
93.0
10398573
92.0
1634796
15.7
6990668
366101
P456306
585498
Exporters
453
558147
34131
327
72.2
368488
66.0
26651
7.2
41163
58
235638
91639
Importars
8176
776354
81461
2108
96.9
738148
95.1
77605
10.6
231358
4518
413418
38854
Limited function whole-
salers
3380
359828
41529
3201
94.7
333489
92.7
37977
11.4
239124
8825
67299
18241
llanufacturers' sales
branches
16873
7557363
942251
14129
83.7
5738517
75.9
746819
13.0
2661912
71237
1742140
1263228
With stocks
12444
5144688
764670
10695
8B.9
4243398
88.5
631943
14.9
2854349
62060
1009926
917063
Without stocks
4429
2412676
177581
3434
77.5
1495119
62.0
114876
7.7
407563
9177
732214
346165
Bulk tank stations
26190
1888675
372990
14049
53.6
990464
52.4
174173
17.6
759619
75067
93718
. 6SO60
Chain store warehouses
462
1431563
64767
405
87,7
1307993
91.4
51377
4.7
1081626
1665
8553
222259
Agents and brokers
13818
6502375
207887
11718
84.8
5225625
80.4
174991
3.3
1361291
10279
8153902
1700153
Brokers
3414
2088370
34536
2785
81.6
1784407
85.4
29156
1.6
247759
1270
575609
959769
CoTHBlsslon merchants
3128
2224864
72011
2516
80.4
1694172
76.1
61025
3.6
472572
2010
840060
379530
Export agents
240
135126
5736
157
65.4
62268
46.1
2976
4.8
13218
188
38300
10568
Import agents
179
50541
3230
153
85.5
47207
93.4
3080
6.5
5392
165
34205
7446
Manufacturers* agents
4972
573964
38901
4610
92.7
530183
92.4
36509
6.9
215147
3571
213358
98107
Selling agents
1236
988401
41357
1057
85.6
799996
80.9
33741
4.2
212458
1964
391011
194563
Other agents
650
441109
12116
440
67.7
307392
69.7
8504
2.8
194745
1111
61359
50177
Assemblers and country
buyers
23962
1774121
173825
16930
70.7
1181707
66.6
129758
11.0
368061
48305
400913
374428
Assemblers of farm pro-
ducts
11283
718588
77757
8037
71.2
511131
71.1
57469
11.2
155192
10717
166487
17973S
CooperatlTs martcetlng
associations
2732
686072
65726
1906
69.8
432105
63.0
52324
12.1
176039
12697
119445
1S49S4
Cream stations
2860
31459
4893
2310
80.8
15279
48.6
3655
23.9
1657
397
9039
4186
KlSTators
7087
338002
25449
4677
66.0
223192
66.0
16310
7.3
26173
24494
106942
65583
-mOVSkLS :f2HCHANTS
76a5fi.
11302947
1791392
71468
93,0
10398573
98.0
1634796
15.7
6990668
366101
J45fi3Qfi
5BS49a
Amusement and sporting goods
976
78274
19274
894
91.6
72300
92.4
17038
23.6
36496
4760
27963
3081
AutomotlTe products
5168
425310
98274
4922
95.2
397230
93.4
84578
21.3
297178
56280
32639
U133
Chemlcala
1292
197185
40184
1221
94.5
186214
94.4
37443
20.1
37809
8455
123628
1638S
Clothing and furnishings
2854
390789
62404
2844
99.6
390241
99.9
62320
16.0
359586
4134
24366
2099
Coal
734
230208
30083
651
69.6
158652
68.9
22971
14.5
83648
15691
46764
18549
Drugs and drug sundries
1078
342462
56973
1016
94.2
292951
85.5
49908
17.0
270502
4807
13145
4497
Dry goods
2938
754311
101707
2873
97.8
700232
92.8
95807
13.7
407012
3392
269207
20681
Electrical goods
2067
270754
60508
1976
95.6
258049
95i3
57080
22.4
164041
18410
72384
3214
Faim products-raw nBterials
2148
878891
67862
1613
75.1
717881
82.2
53689
7.5
59704
10680
594474
63023
?arm products-consumer goods
9924
1515687
225995
8981
90.5
1420713
93.7
210504
14.8
1155345
65 464
54793
155111
Farm supplies
1683
212190
35130
1207
71.7
155740
73.4
25254
16.2
113386
18113
14227
10014
?umiture and house furnish-
ings
1510
141111
31921
1493
98.9
134758
95.5
29124
81.6
U8519
6722
8384
8194
General merchandise
87
61207
10700
87
100.0
61207
100.0
10700
17.5
57683
1896
941
687
Groceries and fools (except
farm products)
16288
2747964
360983
16043
98.3
2687226
97.8
353489
13.2
2278076
55151
194458
165547
Hardware
1144
339339
72726
1093
95.5
299050
88.1
63025
21.1
219978
20171
58463
6444
Jewelry and optical goods
1432
85422
20725
1416
98.9
82458
96.5
80211
84.5
73920
2354
5673
511
Lumber and building matar-
lale (other than metal)
2352
231784
58814
1830
77.8
180386
77.8
45056
25.0
96386
16134
59577
9889
Machinery, e<iulpnBnt and
supplies (except electrical)
5791
468214
118868
5533
95.5
440918
94.2
110387
85.0
79540
9497
38U85
30690
A-37
Census of
American
Business
Table 5.—
UMTSD STATES
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in tlumsands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Distribution of Sales
Per-
Per-
Total
Type of Establishment
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
sale
organi-
zations
Kind of Business
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
lish-
ments
sales
Amoum
Per-
cent
of
sales
for
resale
sumers
{at
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
fHOLESALK KEnCHAWTS
(oontisued)
Mstala (eicept scrap)
70S
tl07768
»23427
571
81.0
192679
86.0
♦19477
21.0
J26168
»2683
(60878
»2950
Paper and its products
2149
313743
67549
2041
95.0
281407
39.7
59597
21.2
135964
10089
127792
7S62
Petroleum and its products
1748
214370
37791
1423
81.4
173190
80.8
30474
17.6
114390
12788
34467
U545
Plumbing and heating equip-
ment and supplies
1428
141449
35651
1348
94.4
130271
92.1
32649
25.1
87582
6639
33527
2523
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
1617
509581
32560
1582
97.8
485113
95.2
30936
6.4
473296
6332
647
4838
TTaste imterials
3342
155574
88273
2599
77.8
135634
87.3
24306
17.9
14150
2039
107081
12564
All other products
6401
495460
93110
6311
98.6
453879
93.6
88035
19.0
236215
15420
175709
36534
EXPOHTERS
453
558147
34131
327
72.2
368488
56.0
26651
7.2
41153
58
235638
91639
imusemeDt and sporting goode
5
17712
1034
3
60.0
31
0.2
16
51.6
13
.
18
_
AutomotlTo products
5
3B91
478
4
80.0
3878
99.7
473
12.2
3291
5
580
2
Chemicals
11
4582
228
10
90.9
4323
'94.3
207
4.8
397
-
3926
-
Clothing Old furnishings
17
1119
178
17
100.0
1119
100.0
178
15.9
1086
-
24
9
Drugs and drug sundries
3
884
43
3
ioo.o
884
100 .0
43
4.9
55
-
—
829
Dry goods
se
17406
1411
31
86.1
3893
22.4
216
5.5
1428
-
1663
802
Electrical goods
10
2003
267
7
70.0
1256
62.7
159
12.7
9
-
928
319
Farm products-raw materials
156
260879
16186
84
53.8
113818
45.5
12256
10.3
1710
9
85873
31226
Farm prodix: ts-consumer goods
20
4552
224
15
75.0
2990
65.7
154
5J3
928
-
313
1749
Furniture and house fumish—
ings
3
37
11
3
5.00.0
37
LOO.O
11
29.7
-
-
37
-
Oeneral merchandise
8
37607
7871
6
75.0
36275
96.5
7544
20.8
18030
5
6944
11296
Croceries end foods (azoept
farm products)
46
38943
1789
40
87.0
36862
94.7
1640
4.4
5403
19
1654
29786
Hardware
4
853
60
4
L0O.O
853
LOO.O
60
7.0
36
-
15
808
JswBlry and optical goods
4
87
IS
4
100 .0
87
LOO.O
15
17.2
87
-
-
-
Lumber and building mater-
ials (other than metal)
47
13834
980
35
74.5
10489
75.8
761
7.3
3829
-
3320
3340
Machinery, eqnlpmmt end
supplies (eicept electrical)
13
59T8
3U
10
76.9
1700
28.4
129
7.6
277
-
1420
3
Metals (except scrap)
6
26359
1089
6
100 .0
26369
100.0
1089
4.1
268
-
25593
498
Paper and its products
7
1798
280
S
71.4
1495
83.1
246
16.5
164
-
-
1331
Petroleum and its products
7
6751
517
6
85.7
6282
93.3
503
8.0
3095
-
2971
216
Plumbing and heating eqaii>-
ment and supplies
3
1023
178
2
66.7
401
39.2
57
14.2
294
-
-
107
Tobacco and its products
(oicopt leaf)
3
121
18
2
66.7
106
87.6
12
11.3
77
-
-
29
'Taste Materials
6
108145
S09
4
66.7
108021
99.9
494
0.5
275
19
98774
8953
All other tdn^ of business
33
3603
463
26
78,8
2329
64.6
388
16.7
401
1
1565
342
IMPOKL'KHS
2176
776354
81461
2106
96.9
738148
95.1
77605
10.5
231358
4518
413418
88854
Amusement and sporting gpoAB
57
6618
1251
53
93.0
6504
98.3
1219
18.7
5733
28
613
130
Autamotlvo products
7
538
145
7
LOO.O
538
100.0
145
27.0
398
-
48
92
Chemicals
58
26714
3490
58
LOO.O
26714
100.0
3490
13.1
1587
•-
24235
892
Clothing and furnishings
109
24925
3899
108
99.1
23360
93.7
3651
15.6
11390
34
11475
461
Ooal
3
434
30
3
100 .0
434
100.0
30
6.9
-
-
434
"
Drugs and drug sundries
46
5772
2003
44
95.7
5670
98.2
1989
35.1
2623
15
1331
1701
Dry goods
353
70709
13146
348
98.6
69660
98.5
12965
18.6
39485
48
27152
2975
SlBctrioal goods
11
737
166
11
100.0
737
100.0
166
22.5
543
5
171
18
Farit products-raw naterlals
187
104432
4389
lis
92.9
103376
99.0
4279
4.1
1895
3
94101
7377
Farra products-oonaumer goods
72
45983
1937
69
95.8
45550
99.1
1907
4.2
30197
-
255
15098
Farm supplleo
25
27449
2160
17
68.0
19023
69.3
809
4.3
5876
—
13102
45
i~se
Census of
American
Business
Table 5.—
UiniD 3liXSS
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF" BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(AU values expressed in thousands of doUars)
|An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Distkibution of Sales
Type of Establishment
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
sale
zations
Kind of Business
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
lish-
ments
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
for
resale
smners
{at
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
IITTSTSR?^ (oontlnuedl
Ftarnltare * (louse ftirr' 3hlii(?«
237
«296&9
$6827
236
99.6
^9645
99.9
t6771
22.8
f24461
.
J1766
$3488
General merohandlse
6
76179
2037
6
100.0
76179
100.0
2037
2.7
4646
,
71223
810
(arooerles and foods {ezoept
farm products)
469
230394
26336
448
96.6
208404
90.6
24873
11.9
72932
•3651
81267
60664
Hardware
19
1603
392
18
94.7
1601
99.9
3»
26.0
9U
a
221
845
Jewelry and optloal goods
196
17888
3692
196
100.0
17888
100.0
3692
20.6
12676
92
4020
1201
Luntier and tiulldti^ natarlala
lother than rastall
33
2873
846
31
93.9
2854
99.3
844
29.6
808
18
1896
ise
Uftohlnery, equipment and
supplies lezoept eleotrloal
7S
12087
1923
69
94.5
11122
92.0
1669
16.0
726
9
9868
BM
Uetals (exoept sorap)
38
24317
732
31
93.9
24112
99.2
691
2.9
786
116
21866
1867
Paper and Its products
26
7563
683
26
100.0
7563
100.0
688
9.0
777
11
6309
466
Tobaooo and Its produots
leioept leaf)
8
2066
328
8
130.0
2066
100.0
828
15.9
1827
90
46
19«
All other kinds of business
210
67614
6049
206
97.6
55248
96.1
4977
9.0
11190
888
42047
1628
LIHTEI PTTUCnOH
THOlESiLSRS
S3 80
3698«8
41629
3201
94.7
8334B9
92.7
37977
11.4
239124
8825
67299
18241
Anasenent and sporting goods
27
1346
335
26
92.6
1293
96.1
321
24.3
1005
195
75
IB
Antofflotlve jTodbots
57
8236
1766
62
91.2
5706
69.3
1315
23.0
4808
674
76
147
Chemlaals
16
436
152
16
100.0
436
100.0
162
34.9
66
6
364
1
Clothing and furnishings
27
1290
268
26
96.3
1060
82.2
204
19.2
843
8
81
126
Coal
23!
87744
6796
204
97.6
73088
83.3
6011
6.9
40741
617
24452
7278
Drugs and drug sundries
44
2687
434
43
97.7
2677
99.6
432
16.1
2291
80
281
76
Dry goods
60
3897
401
60
100.0
889?
100.0
401
10.3
1091
62
2731
18
Eleotrlcal goods
37
234S
609
34
91.9
1331
66.8
306
23.0
1028
30
262
11
Farm j-roduats-raw materials
6
3436
122
6
100.0
3436
100.0
122
3.6
33
1
3401
1
Farm produots-consumer goods
380
38825
7777
332
87.4
31644
93,6
7311
23.1
22497
3978
4258
916
Peurm supplies
37
6702
1041
28
76.7
5706
86.1
74«
13.1
2948
398
1160
1200
i^rnlture 4 house furnishings
S8
4188
690
88
100.0
4188
100.0
690
16.6
1980
54
183
1971
urooerles and foods
(eioept farm products!
1285
103S49
ll.TSO
1272
99.0
102641
99.7
10663
10.8
100166
699
1068
629
Hardware
9
371
99
9
100.0
371
100.0
99
26.7
220
64
97
Jewelry and optical goods
le
1738
623
18
100.0
1733
100.0
623
36.9
1032
129
572
Lnnber and trailding nateriaU
(other than metal)
205
80230
2696
182
88.8
29037
96.1
2658
8.8
20260
113
8070
604
Haohlnery, equipmnt and
supplies (except eleotrieal)
40
1724
646
40
130. 0
1724
100.0
54S
31.7
887
186
640
12
Hetala (except scrap)
4
2052
123
4
100.0
2062
100.0
123
6.0
974
1062
16
Paper and its products
41
10281
811
36
87.8
10142
98.6
786
7.7
3438
41
6662
\
Fetrolsum snd its pro<iists
Plumbing and heating e(inlp-
198
14928
1668
167
81.8
18468
90.2
1862
10.0
S86S
410
2189
BO 61
ment and supplies
6
809
153
S
68.8
800
97.1
149
49.7
286
s
10
Tobacco and Its p-oducts
(except leaf)
111
14687
842
111
100.0
14687
100.0
842
6.8
14401
216
21
Taste materials
11
8867
707
11
100.0
8367
100.0
707
8.4
8367
All other kinds of busiosss
496
15221
2782
492
99.4
14661
96.3
2623
17.9
12288
926
1282
16B
A_39
Census of
American
Business
Table 5. — nSTISD ST^XSS
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
DISTRIBUTION OF SALES. BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(AU value$ expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Establishmkntb
ESTABUSHMENTS RePOBTING DISTRIBUTION OF SaLES
Type of Establishment
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
sale
organi-
zations
Kind of Business
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
lish-
ments
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
for
resale
sumers
(at
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
1(A1!U?ACTDKSRS' r.AT.KR
BRil.'OHlS WITH STOCKS
12444
V5144688
i764670
10695
85.9
$4243398
82.5
J631943
14.9
(2254349
$62060
11009926
$917063
ijmiaanieiit and eporting goods
216
97960
14803
121
56.0
68351
59.6
7543
12.9
10390
121
18347
29493
AutcnotlTe producta
726
332631
54312
613
84.4
221065 66.51
39086
17.7
166568
9282
39742
6483
Cbemlcala
703
299412
45486
578
82,2
148470
49.6
29721
20.0
46529
2113
04004
15824
Clothing end fumiahlnga
337
199562
25556
324
96.1
168515
94.5
23854
12.7
179374
158
1652
7331
Coal
30
13117
2099
26
86.7
9646
73.5
1897
19,7
4547
1810
3289
.
Druga and drug aundrlaa
213
86956
24936
199
92.4
70806
81.4
20533
29.0
51238
919
1469
17180
Dry ^ods
233
115132
15022
231
99.1
U4843
99.7
14960
13,0
35324
6755
47401
25363
Electrical goods
447
322841
49922
327
73.2
264183
81.8
40830
15.5
53801
633
168870
40879
Ham producta-raw materlala
5
558
30
6
100.0
558
100.0
30
5.4
550
_
8
-
Kara products-conaumer goods
344
106918
24993
332
96.5
93162
87,1
22259
23.9
70285
1684
6719
14474
Farm supplies
110
42792
6983
54
49.1
26628
62,2
5394
20.3
17863
1837
6127
811
Furniture and house furnish-
ings
344
71809
10616
315
91.6
61672
8S.9
9126
14.8
62927
179
1272
7294
Groceries and foods (szcept
farm producta)
3200
1661861
207785
3061
98.7
1560974
9Z.9
194706
12,6
1118404
5618
99402
337550
Hardware
97
20811
3758
80
82.5
18460
88.7
3363
18.2
14687
43
3168
562
Jewelry and optical goods
2e9
26221
8221
236
87.7
24422
93.1
7748
31.7
19549
341
1068
3464
Lumber and building mater-
ials (other than metal)
332
107903
18513
257
77.4
56495
52.4
10685
18.9
30867
1226
24402
_
llaohlnery^ aqulpnent and
auppllos (except electrical)
2988
438692
112972
2519
84.3
372830
85.0
88313
23.7
108959
13244
212306
38321
Uetals (except acrap)
423
215701
25257
288
68.1
133064
61.7
15794
11.9
33526
5077
94147
314
Paper and Its products
203
94012
15700
177
87.2
67211
60.9
12686
22,2
22614
3852
28943
1802
PetiTjleum and Its products
121
25200
3990
21
17.4
19463
77.2
1926
9.9
12763
72
6468
160
Plumbing and beat! ng equip-
ment and supplies
462
82831
20858
378
81.8
68630
82.9
17187
25.0
39772
1764
24041
30R3
Tobacco and Its products
(except leaf)
85
512474
33256
72
84.7
431971
84.3
28491
6.6
78766
78
4661
34S47e
AU other producta
556
269294
39606
481
86.5
241979
89.9
35822
14.8
86086
5254
132430
18229
^THOUT STOCKS
4429
2412675
177581
3434
77.6
1496119
62.0
U4876
7.7
407563
9177
732214
346165
Ajnuaonei^t and eporting gooda
156
58733
U022
20
12.8
4579
7.8
687
16,0
912
386
3281
AutomtlTe products
95
54761
6344
67
70.5
21791
39.8
2320
10.6
15982
70
5601
138
Chemicals
145
68073
9025
124
86.6
47924
70.4
6394
13.3
13375
1870
•^20 17
662
192
68512
6011
187
97.4
61253
89.4
5474
8.9
47564
204
6405
7080
Coal
75
59751
4365
36
48.0
26944
45,1
U97
4.4
6960
329
17080
2575
Drugs and drug sundries
38
9654
2486
30
78.9
3974
41,2
1392
35.0
3314
U
36
613
Dry gooda
171
142467
6949
160
93.6
129524
90.9
5756
4.4
32336
. 16
89887
7285
Electrical goods
286
73538
6630
198
69.2
50622
68.8
4323
8,6
9140
C32
24871
15979
Farm producta-corsumer gooda
19
6243
700
15
78.9
5427
86,9
641
10.0
229
re
,
5162
Tarm sui^lles
51
20861
2204
28
54.9
9559
45.8
1061
11.1
7990
20
901
648
Furniture and house furnish-
ings
141
34749
3154
132
93.6
31731
91.3
2812
8.9
14624
10
1419
15678
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
232
189662
26152
195
84.1
132959
70,1
20337
15.3
102559
15
6399
2398G
Hardware
34
13329
733
28
82.4
10569
79,3
466
4.4
U85
1
2250
7153
Jewelry and optical goods
42
11816
1291
28
66.7
7249
61.3
1034
14.3
7085
_
6
168
Lumber and bulldli^ mater-
ials (other than raetsl)
223
67744
7101
146
65.6
34412
60.8
5330
15.5
18000
46
13525
2841
Machinery, equipment and
supplies (except electrical)
1,057
249733
21884
909
86.0
110673
44.3
14337
13.0
3683
248
104993
1749
Uetals (ezospt scrap)
511
720236
21918
286
66.0
355315
49.3
12965
3.6
55885
2720
290602
6108
Paper and Ita products
226
144108
11730
157
69.5
90947
63.1
6798
7.6
28018
1244
49872
11813
Petroleum and Its products
19
55782
4438
10
52.6
20035
35.9
1709
8.5
15962
10
4063
*
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 5.— VIWCEB STUBS DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Estabushkents
Establishments Reporting Distribution of Sales
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
1
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
sales
Per-
for
simiers
trial
sale
lish-
ments
Amount
cent
of
sales
resale
{at
retail)
users
zations
ness
ness
TlfHOCT STOCKS
(continued)
Plumbing and heating equip-
ment and supplies
123
$24666
.S4309
105
86.4
416565
67.6
$2906
17.5
$6163
♦59
$8771
$1992
Tobacco and its products
(except leaf)
122
206727
6230
121
99.2
203961
98.7
4412
2.2
121
-
-
203640
All other kinds of bosineas
471
131632
13906
452
96.0
119086
90.6
12626
10.6
16466
1626
73160
27824
KiLX taut: stations
2S190
18B8675
372990
^4049
53.6
990464
52.4
174173
17.6
759619
75067
93718
&2QfiIL
CEAIll STOEE T'iBROOSES
462
1431563
S4767
405
87.7
1307993
91.4
61377
4.7
1081626
1665
256S
222259
AutomotiTe products
4
S618
428
3
75.0
8343
96.8
345
4.1
8343
_
_
Clothing and furnishings
12
16662
700
11
91.7
18244
97.8
680
3.7
18244
-
-
-
Drugs and drug sundries
19
66289
1712
16
94.7
50692
90.1
1644
3.2
60692
-
-
-
Dry goods
9
53018
1923
9
100.0
63018
100.0
1923
3.1
63018
-
-
-
Electrical goods
3
3868
527
2
66.7
3377
67.3
497
14.7
2712
460
214
1
Farm products-consumer goods
es
81733
6547
75
88.2
77636
96.0
6485
8.4
66797
39
1
10798
Farm supplies
4
1162
166
3
76.0
1072
93.1
161
16.0
1017
65
-
-
Furniture and house fumish-
Ings
6
4209
781
6
100.0
4209
100.0
781
18.6
4027
-
-
182
General merchandise
5
1294
142
2
66.7
289
22.3
32
11. 1
82
-
-
207
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
288
1172607
60756
263
91.3
1070119
91.3
47931
4.6
8B7690
992
25S4
209203
Hardware
4
597
166
4
100.0
697
100.0
166
27.8
674
2
-
21
Tobacco and Its products
(except leaf)
20
15400
879
6
30.0
10219
66.4
705
6.9
6372
-
1
1846
All other kinds of business
6
4116
39
4
66.7
179
4.3
27
16.1
158
17
3
1
3414
2088370
34536
2785
81.6
1784407
85.4
29156
1.6
247769
1270
576609
959769
Aaosement and sporting goods
4
200
8
3
75.0
162
81.0
7
4.3
11
_
92
59
AutODotlTe products
3
90
19
3
100.0
90
100.0
19
21.1
2
-
SI
57
Chemical s
16
2490
63
13
86.7
2270
91.2
46
2.1
481
6
1S67
124
Clothing and furnishings
24
3790
153
24
100.0
3790
100.0
163
4.0
1866
-
S50
1662
Coal
64
16461
1092
61
95.3
16077
97.7
1063
6.6
6986
134
8362
596
Drugs and drug sundries
9
3702
101
9
100.0
3702
100.0
101
2.7
606
-
3154
42
Dry goods
89
171883
902
88
98.9
171447
99.7
894
0.6
7220
-
118112
46116
Blectrical goods
11
366
41
11
100. 0
368
100.0
41
il.l
66
-
ITT
12S
Farm products-r'iw materials
517
291082
4801
347
67.1
172017
69.1
3540
2.1
8153
146
ISTSiT
26471
Farm products-conaximer grods
566
169193
4814
429
76.8
128781
76.1
4045
3.1
33762
38
6998
87993
Farm supplies
91
27289
593
58
63.7
14907
64.6
36 B
2.4
7439
73
6897
1498
Furniture and house furnish-
ings
32
2171
206
32
100. 0
2171
100.0
206
9.5
1668
26
86
192
General merchandise
65
43643
463
10
18.2
2386
6.5
41
1.7
477
-
1496
410
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
1377
1175054
16106
1193
86.6
1093344
93.0
13669
1.3
143231
329
201 677
748207
Hardware
6
736
24
5
83.3
641
67.2
19
3.0
154
-
7
480
Jewelry and optical goods
39
1469
99
39
100.0
1469
100. 0
99
6.6
1162
40
76
191
Lumber and bttlldL:^ materials
{other than metal)
139
16210
998
lie
83.5
13330
82.2
863
6.4
7801
283
3833
1413
Uachioery, equipment and
supplies teioect elaetrioal)
87
5774
473
77
88.5
4773
62.7
460
9.6
1S2
3
4511
127
Hetals (except scrap)
30
9001
386
26
83.3
8496
94.4
336
4.0
26
3
6093
376
Paper and Its products
21
2474
191
17
81.0
2315
93.6
176
7.6
956
-
736
624
Petroleum and its products
49
44388
971
46
93.9
43366
97.7
900
2.1
12667
Ill
1
1913
1
28674
tt:
A-41
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 5.— UirtlBD SIAIBS DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousavds of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals)
All
Establish
ME NTS
Establishments Reporting Distbibdtion of Sales
Type of Establishment
Kind of Business
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
sales
Per-
for
siuners
trial
sale
lish-
ments
Amount
cent
of
sales
resale
{at
retail)
users
organi-
zations
ness
ness
BROKERS (oontinueaj
'
Plumlilng and heatlne equlp-
nsnt and supplies
7
J365
fl7
6
86.7
5341
93.4
*16
4.4
5225
*15
sioi
Tobaooo and Its products
(eloept leafl
4
407
23
4
100.0
407
100.0
23
E.7
2
36
369
J«»te naterials
35
9593
403
33
94.;
8148
94.8
394
4.8
66
»8
7339
743
All o*er produoW
140
91508
1699
136
97.1
89601
97.9
1489
1.7
12518
6S
6381;
13201
COMMISSION I2RCHAXT3
3128
2224864
72011
2516
80.4
1694172
76.1
61025
3.6
472572
2010
840060
37 9630
Automotlva products
17
870
78
16
ee.2
861
97.8
76
8.8
196
83
430
143
ChaiDicals
Zl
13380
861
18
81.6
10598
79.2
569
6.3
7127
66
911
2492
Clothli^ and ftimlshlngs
48
35937
1493
47
97.9
36123
97.7
1490
4.2
14294
3
13362
7474
Coal
18
1086
16?
13
72.2
624
48.3
86
16.4
392
48
60
34
Dru^s and drug sizndrlas
7
3270
80
7
100.0
3270
100.0
80
2.4
819
-
37
2416
Dry goods
133
340211
12223
129
97.0
306686
,89.9
11671
3.8
63296
16
210627
41857
Eleotrieal goods
24
1799
197
20
83.3
1245
69.2
149
12.0
664
8
146
438
rarm products-raw naterials
1294
1190037
24426
863
66.7
818560
,68.G
16034
2.0
35542
51
B46ES1
236316
Para produots-oonsumer gooda
1016
378988
23446
908
89.6
369397
97.6
23112
6.3
300620
931
4544
63402
Parn Bupplles
56
2776
194
39
57.2
1512
54.5
132
8.7
1060
39
<:6l
152
Purnlture k houaa furnishings
S5
4219
557
33
94.3
4136
98.0
534
12.9
2867
110
679
490
G«neral r^erohandlse
3
1990
87
3
100.0
1990
100.0
37
4.4
42
-
1862
66
Grooeriea and foods
(except farm products)
121
467S6
1S51
118
97.5
45999
98.4
1837
4.0
29173
90
1834
14902
Hardware
4
178
17
4
100.0
178
100.0
17
9.6
27
1
141
9
Jewelry an^ optical goods
6
184
19
4
90.0
108
68.7
18
16.7
89
-
-
19
Lumber and building materials
(other than mtall
47
8683
690
37
79.7
8194
94.4
504
6.2
6961
350
1006
888
Machinery, equlpc^ent and
suppliea (except electrical)
20
5763
192
19
96.0
6769
99.9
190
3.3
8
.
6631
120
Metals (except scrap)
5
1752
36
3
60.0
IE 76
89.9
21
1.3
1
-
1411
163
Paper and its producta
4
299
32
2
50.0
11
3.7
2
18.2
8
-
3
-
Petroleum and its products
68
4597
473
69
86.8
4662
99.2
443
9.7
3707
193
76
687
Waste materials
4
522
34
4
lOO.O
622
100.0
34
6.5
.
-
622
p.
All other kinds of business
176
181689
4962
171
97.2
74372
41.0
4050
6.4
16721
19
50069
7563
SXPCliT AOEHTS
240
136126
6736
157
65.4
62268
46.1
2975
4.8
13218
188
36300
10562
6
679
60
6
100.0
579
100.0
60
10.4
16
663
Antoraotlve products
28
9203
572
22
78.6
8260
89.8
483
6.9
2909
-
4394
967
Chemloale
5
3330
94
6
100.0
3330
100.0
94
2.8
3
-
3S27
-
Clothii^ and furnishings
6
634
64
6
83.3
320
59.9
30
9.4
303
_
17
.
Drugs and drug sundries
6
212
23
6
100.0
212
100.0
23
10.8
53
-
11
148
Dry goods
13
1936
95
11
B4.6
1852
9.':.7
92
6.0
1077
_
260
526
Bleotrloal goods
16
1987
200
8
63.3
1279
64.4
166
12.9
1164
-
93
32
Pann produots-rai? materials
36
46126
2279
11
30.6
10182
22.1
377
3.7
103
-
9329
760
Paim products-consumer goods
12
2691
134
6
60.0
1277
47.6
82
6.4
598
-
201
478
Ssneral merchandise
16
1708
84
10
66.6
1243
72.9
66
6.2
66
-
113
1074
Groosries and foods
(except farm products)
17
4809
206
14
82.4
3859
80.2
164
4.0
2188
-
188
1483
Hardware
7
419
S5
4
57.1
291
69.6
57
19.6
260
.
-
31
Lumber and building materials
(other than metal)
14
9008
302
9
64.3
8671
96.3
267
3.1
2727
-
S819
2125
Machinery, equlpoiont and
supplies (except electrical)
32
7663
790
18
56.3
6873
89.7
726
10.6
66
4
4646
213S
Metals (except scrap)
3
113S6
163
3
100.0
11335
100.0
163
1.3
1023
184
10128
-
i~tS
Census of
American
Business
Table 5.—
imiTa) 3TAIB3
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands 0/ dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Establishments
ESTABLISHMENTB REPORTING DISTRIBUTION OF SaLES
Type of Establishment
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailere
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
sale
zations
Kind of Business
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
lish-
ments
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
for
resale
siuners
(al
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
EXPOHT AGENTS
Icontlnued)
Paper and Its product a
6
$218
$60
3
60.0
$60
27.5
$8
13.3
*9
-
»3S
*16
Petroleum and its products
6
31184
465
4
66.7
869
2.8
51
5.9
466
-
414
-
All other kinds of business
15
2188
101
13
86.7
1776
81.2
89
5.0
198
-
770
808
I}.IPORT AdSNTS
179
60541
3230
153
86.5
47207
93.4
3080
6.5
5392
»165
34206
7446
Annisement and sporting goods
7
1154
111
7
100.0
1154
100.0
111
9.6
606
.
300
348
Chemicals
10
1642
113
7
70.0
994
60.5
89
9.0
70
-
909
16
Clothing and furnishings
6
920
29
5
83.3
644
70.0
26
4.0
284
-
360
-
Drugs and drug sundries
11
1026
50
9
81.8
976
95.1
43
4.4
226
-
760
-
Dry goods
24
3383
407
24
100.0
3383
100.0
407
12.0
1266
2
1643
478
?arm producte-raw materials
19
22448
1657
15
78.9
21118
94.1
1593
7.b
73
-
20644
BOl
Farm jr oducts-consumer goods
3
431
24
2
66.7
401
93.0
14
3.6
25
-
9
367
Pumlture and house furnish-
ings
9
346
134
9
100.0
346
100.0
134
38.7
318
26
-
5
General merchandise
3
1069
63
1
33.3
821
77.5
60
7.3
-
-
821
-
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
32
12278
195
26
81.3
11879
96.8
174
1.5
706
100
6973
4100
Hardware
4
74
17
4
100.0
74
100.0
16
21.6
60
-
-
24
Jewelry and optical goods
3
274
63
3
100.0
274
100.0
63
23.0
168
-
106
-
Lumher and huildit^ materials
(other than metal)
6
301
12
3
60.0
240
79.7
10
4.2
8
-
232
-
Machinery, equipment and
supplies (except electrical)
6
101
25
5
83.3
100
99.0
23
23.0
-
-
100
-
Uetala (except scr^)
4
1021
95
4
100,0
1021
100.0
95
9.3
420
10
566
25
Paper and its products
6
1078
79
6
100.0
107R
100.0
79
7.3
325
-
738
16
All other kinds of business
t?
3005
156
23
85.2
2704
90.0
143
5.3
947
28
154
1676
JUinjFACrJRHlS* AGZNTS
4972
573964
38901
4610
92.7
530183
92.4
36509
6.9
215147
J671
213S56
98107
Amasanent and sporting goods
86
7080
632
78
90.7
6412
90.6
574
9.0
5426
20
84
882
Automotlre products
166
27135
1916
141
64.9
26113
95.5
1754
7.0
6105
639
15250
3ioe
Chemicals
171
26187
1674
153
89.5
24042
95.5
1536
6.4
2499
30
18914
8699
Clothing and furnishings
4B9
59273
2631
465
99.2
6S37<;
95.1
2512
4.6
42710
120
2602
10*44
Coal
16
3489
319
16
100.0
3489
100.0
319
9.1
1618
19
1716
2S7
Dmgs and drug sundries
60
7222
604
66
93.3
7092
98.2
573
8.1
3428
16
2783
866
Dry goods
481
U4164
4303
469
97.6
101472
88.9
423S
4.2
35720
394
64916
10443
Electrical goods
298
20454
2046
262
87.9
18096
88.5
1857
10.3
8447
436
6647
2666
Farm products-consumer goods
4
157
40
3
75.0
121
77.1
33
27.3
115
6
-
-
Farm supplies
34
2131
106
21
61.8
1946
91.4
80
4.1
237
12
622
1177
Pumlture and house furnish-
ings
343
34831
2620
332
96.8
33146
95.2
2476
7.5
25271
277
6697
1901
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
231
96949
4260
200
86.6
92611
96.6
4104
4.4
47846
186
30S9
41641
Hardware
145
13783
863
134
92.4
12377
89.8
811
6.6
4910
101
2372
4994
Jewelry and optical goods
51
2209
200
61
100.0
2209
100.0
200
9.1
1961
9
-
239
Lunher and hulldlt^ materials
(other than metal)
201
14514
1204
163
81.1
12520
86.3
989
7.9
6574
127
4832
987
Machinery, equipment and
supplies (except electrical)
1300
63414
9490
1265
96.6
60401
95.2
9119
15.1
3869
296
64286
1960
Metals (except scrap)
189
19B00
1324
168
83.6
18364
92.7
1087
5.9
1143
237
12803
4171
Paper and its products
129
14346
794
111
S6.0
11266
78.6
669
5.9
2760
96
4047
4363
Petroleum and Its products
7
939
142
6
8 5.7
897
95.6
137
16.3
170
3
86
639
Plum>)lng and heating equip-
ment and supplies
202
9790
1067
165
81.7
8496
86.8
918
10.8
4959
90
2107
1340
Tohacco md its products
(except leaf)
12
1361
56
8
66.7
328
24.1
16
♦ .9
147
-
-
181
i-43
13-W-l
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 5. — OJtlTED 3TAIBS DISTRIBUTION OF SALES. BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHIENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals]
All Establishments
Establishments Reporting Distribution of Sales
Type of Establishment
Num-
Net
Total
Num-
ber
of es-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Net
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
bus.
Total
expenses
Sales to
retailers
Sales to
home
con-
Sales to
indus-
Sales to
whole-
sale
organi-
zations
Kind of Business
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
lish-
ments
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
sales
for
resale
siuners
(at
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
MANDTAOTURSPS' aCEI'.'J
■
(continued)
Waste materials
6
t408
$79
3
50.0
$337
82.6
$67
19.9
_
.
$237
_
All other kinds of business
351
35329
2631
340
96.9
33080
93.6
2444
7.4
$9331
$45£
20411
$2886
SEILIFG AGBITS
1235
988401
41367
1057
85.6
799996
80,9
33741
4,8
21245£
1964
391011
194563
Amusamsnt and sporting goods
12
2167
324
U
91.7
2094
96.6
319
15. J
201 <
31
4
43
Auto^aotlTe {roducts
24
2207
317
23
95.8
2085
94.5
308
14.8
898
204
186
797
Chemlcola
24
10133
1404
24
100.0
10133
100.0
1404
13.9
63<
34;
8061
1198
Clothing and furnishings
111
75248
2751
107
96.4
73705
97.9
2698
3.7
25954
1
1066
46676
Coal
196
219341
8721
162
82.7
122412
55.8
5925
4.8
89476
691
28129
4814
Drugs and drug sundries
86
3006
757
24
92.3
2992
99.5
754
25.2
2590
22
205
175
Dry gjods
230
384610
11267
223
97.0
369068
96.0
1U14
3.0
32511
-
885025
111538
Electrical gooda
21
4658
669
20
95.2
4598
98.7
666
14.5
182^
1(
1156
1603
Farm products-raw materials
10
2772
77
8
80.0
2347
64.7
60
2.6
194
-
1424
729
Farm product s-oonsumar goods
9
1420
256
8
88.9
1330
93.7
285
16.9
376
2
1
951
Farm suiTpMea
25
463
98
13
52.0
388
83.8
94
24.2
127
94
120
47
Furniture and house furnish-
ings
46
24534
1993
32
69.6
9055
36.9
U24
12.4
5184
-
291
3580
Groceries end foods (except
farm products)
99
24320
1348
82
82.8
21522
88.6
1287
6.0
5980
288
4251
11003
Hardware
18
2188
115
18
100.0
2188
100.0
115
5.3
1450
27
67
644
Jewelry and optical goods
7
1247
70
7
100.0
1247
100.0
70
5.6
185
627
436
Lumber and building mater-
ials (other than Mtal)
116
18991
2S67
88
76.9
15358
80.9
2124
13.8
8269
139
5856
1094
Machinery* equipment and
eupplies(eicopt electrical)
29
4117
783
24
82.8
2551
62.0
387
15.2
71
.
2423
57
Metals (except scrap)
72
9E473
3679
34
47,2
46274
50.0
1333
2.9
4508
124
40556
1086
Paper and its products
35
10806
544
31
88.6
7960
75.1
406
5.1
905
-
. 6074
1881
Petroleum and Its products
25
6222
358
20
80.0
6814
93.4
292
S.O
1814
61
1941
1998
Plumbing and heatix« equip-
ment and supplies
12
859
61
12
100.0
859
100.0
61
7.1
593
9
31
886
All other Icinde of bueinees
88
96819
3209
86
97.7
96016
99. S
2975
3.1
87297
7
63617
6195
OIHES ACEIJTS
650
441109
12116
440
67.7
307392
69.7
8504
2.8
194745
1111
61359
50177
Clothing and furnishings
144
U5743
2532
143
99.3
U5723
99.9
2528
2.2
102764
76
177
12707
Dry goods
25
59865
892
25
100,0
59265
100.0
892
1.5
46749
28
632
11868
Fann products-raw raateriala
351
134014
4738
165
47.0
63628
47.5
2511
3.9
3611
296
56078
3649
Farm products-consumer goods
26
85480
1814
17
68.0
26170
29.4
834
S.3
4166
-
680
20384
Furniture and house furnlah-
ii^s
41
2763
437
34
82.9
2089
75.6
349
16.7
1433
500
109
47
General merchandise
9
18445
607
5
55.6
16524
89.6
346
2.1
15179
84
1381
.
Groceries and foods (except
farm products)
8
17960
847
7
87.5
17835
99.2
535
3.0
17396
6
.
433
Jewelry and optical goods
8
182
83
8
100.0
182
100.0
83
45.6
182
.
-
-
Machinery, equipment and
supplies
12
1595
181
10
83.3
1545
96.9
175
11.3
263
1
1015
866
All other kinds of buslDssa
27
5662
286
26
96.3
5431
95.9
261
4.6
3002
187
1353
889
ASSE^BLEBS OF FiP:.'
PRODUCTS
11283
718588
77757
8037
71.2
511131
71.1
57469
11.8
165192
10717
165487
179735
Farm products-raw materials
4149
347365
22184
2489
60.0
198339
57.1
10893
5.5
17110
3694
U8406
69129
Far.j FToducts-conauraer goods
6777
336053
51693
5248
77.4
280069
83.3
43795
15.6
124350
6297
41107
108315
Farm suppllea
128
4357
457
84
65.6
3078
70.6
335
10.9
1797
301
604
379
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRffiUTION: 1933
Table 5.— rritlB STUBS DISTRIBUTION OF SALES, BY KIND OF BUSINESS AND TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT
For States Only
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
(An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments,
but such data are included in State totals)
All Establiehuknts
Establishments Reporting Distribution of Sales
Type of Estabushment
Num-
ber
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Per-
cent
of
total
for
kind
of
busi-
Total
expenses
Sales to
Sales to
home
Sales to
Sales to
whole-
sale
organi-
zations
Kind of Business
Num-
Net
Total
of es-
Net
retailers
con-
indus-
ber
sales
expenses
tab-
Ush-
ments
sales
Amount
Per-
cent
of
for
resale
siuners
{at
retail)
trial
users
ness
ness
ASSBIBLSRS O' FARH
PBOniCTS (continued)
Oi<oe«rles and foods (except
fara products)
140
»27412
$2650
134
95.7
$26545
96.8
$1736
6.5
♦11223
*382
»3114
tU£06
111 ottaar kinds at business
89
3501
773
82
92.1
3100
88.5
710
22.9
712
103
2256
29
COOPERAtIVS MARKETINC! ■
ASSOCIATIONS
sm
686072
65726
1906
69.8
432105
63.0
52324
12.1
175039
12697
119445
124924
Farm products-raw material a
931
263204
9842
452
48.5
117812
44.8
5523
4.7
5890
2294
91996
1763S
Farm products-consumer goods
1549
377614
49292
1234
82.9
275555
73.0
40653
14.8
150763
8660
21233
94899
Farm supplies
188
14772
1744
122
67.0
13287
89.9
1594
12.0
6155
1384
4853
895
Grooerlas and foods (except
fazm products)
14
24016
4069
12
85.7
19751
82,.3
3905
19.8
9374
40
18
10319
All other kinds of bualnssa
56
6466
779
36
64.3
5700
88.2
649
11.4
2857
•319
1345
U79
CREAM STATI0H3
Faim products-consunBr 0)ods
2860
31459
4893
2310
80.8
15279
48.6
3655
23.9
165»
597
90S9
4186
KLS7ATCB3
7087
338002
25449
4677
66.0
22319B
6S.0
16310
7.3
26173
24494
106942
65583
Farm products-raw materlala
7050
337205
25345
4663
66.1
222541
66.0
16218
7.3
25913
24321
106859
65448
All other kinds of business
37
797
104
14
37.8
651
81.7
9S
14.1
260
173
83
135
Geraus of
fius iness
WHOLESALE nSTRIBTJTIOH: 1933
Table 5A., SALES fJADE BY RETAILERS TO OTHER RETAILERS BY STATES AND KIND OF BtBINESS l/
(All Talues Bipreased In thousands erf
dollars)
-I
Ferraers'
1
.Geographic Dlylslons
supplies
Furniture |
Vm!b»T
Total
Food
and
General
Apparel
Automotive
and
building
Other
S*00Q<-
and States
■ales
Sroup
country
merchen-
group
group itaouBshold |
and
rstall
hand
general ^Ise group
group
hardware
stores
stores
stores
group
UNITED STaJES
5461.659
$115,387
$31,410
$18,633
$6,937
$179,663
$12,548
$S%.OM
$61,099
•2.928
MEW ESdLim
32,821
8,949
1.997
234
2,322
11,071
693
2,294
5.114
147
Connecticut
7,671
2,986
439
16
31
2,516
225
335
1,115
8
kalne.
2,695
379
443
5
6
1,101
134
229
383
15
Uassachusetta
16,065
4,327
385
169
2,270
4,695
262
1,085
2,761
111
New Haimshlre
1,375
247
342
1
.
346
13
289
135
2
Rhode Island
3,324
780
196
-
4
1,863
14
2?g
385
1
Vannont
1,691
230
192
43
11
550
45
335
MIDDLE ATIAUTIC
117.648
43,795
5,019
4.214
1,970
30.604
4,171
9.673
17,114
888
New Jersey
12,342
4.154
572
22
17
4,008
292
1,224
1,962
91
New York
70,103
24.670
1,987
1.801
1,241
19,597
3,276
5,374
11,616
541
PennBylvsnia
35,203
14.971
2,460
2.391
712
7,199
603
3,075
3.536
256
EAST NORTH OENTRAl
139,489
28.952
7,012
11.371
951
53.445
3.533
7.309
25.746
670
Illinois
57,419
11.071
2,194
11,173
653
21,261
1,131
2,532
7,173
231
Indiana
10,791
2.134
1,402
459
10
3,773
204
753
1.945
111
tiohlgan
32,950
7.602
1,503
130
163
8,618
960
1,583
12.131
260
Ohio
29.641
5,207
1,149
94
88
16,837
1,062
1,742
3.402
60
Wisconsin
8,688
;i,938
764
15
37
2,956
176
699
1.095
8
amsT KORTH nRm-HAi.
46.683
5.784
3.152
284
129
29,932
514
2.605
3.950
133
Iowa
5,934
1,130
538
8
19
2,911
33
425
858
12
Kansas
5,342
596
407
42
12
3,643
27
346
253
16
Uinnesota
17,218
1,700
306
5
21
13,411
113
128
1.512
22
Missouri
10.838
1,441
1.209
152
65
5,496
278
1.143
991
63
Nebraslca
4.327
511
412
58
6
2,595
47
434
259
5
North Dakota
1.639
2tl,
138
6
Z
1.020
9
161
62
-
South Dakota
1,385
165
142
13
i
856
7
168
15
15
SOUTH ^liJGIO
31,329
4,750
3,597
456
89
16.181
882
2,897
2,377
100
De la ware
740
104
131
3
-
336
8
133
25
-
District of Columbia
2,732
123
5
-
2
1.670
132
272
509
19
Florida
2,683
500
113
1
6
1.257
202
427
171
6
Georgia
2,766
570
651
48
5
1,032
65
177
213
5
Maryland
4,310
1,333
306
51
2
1,759
14
278
553
14
North Carolina
9,184
676
1,157
121
31
6,250
45
514
347
43
South Carolina
1,923
328
399
217
32
638
10
209
90
-
Virginia
3,605
705
542
6
9
1,234
365
553
181
1»
lest Virginia
3,386
411
293
9
2
2,005
41
334
288
S
p^-^T sniTTH CEHTRAI,
14,501
4,607
2.375
227
34
4,510
353
1,238
1,067
90
Alabama
3,133
710
LOOT
64
3
910
50
237
142
10
Kentucliy
6.036
2,794
388
33
24
1,869
124
390
396
18
Mississinni
1.895
459
601
85
-
451
14
236
45
4
Tennessee
3.437
644
379
45
7
1,280
165
375
484
58
-/■EST SOUTH CHNTRf.T
22,256
3,789
3.446
516
50
9.962
773
8.044
1.427
249
Arkansas
1,986
127
451
97
4
975
18
194
115
5
Louisiana
2,871
621
422
155
17
1,078
114
236
193
35
Oklahoma
6,897
1,456
1.206
104
3
2,761
121
700
408
138
TexES
10,502
1,585
1.367
160
26
5,148
520
914
711
71
1jODSI<iIN
11,878
2,367
1.501
574
93
5,394
246
939
688
76
Arizona
1,481
239
330
377
9
304
40
76
97
9
Colorado
3,615
745
177
10
68
2,052
60
273
206
24
Idaho
1,198
216
104
90
1
593
14
140
37
3
ilontana
1,397
212
74
20
1
756
69
154
110
1
Nevada
439
117
62
.
-
132
6
52
63
7
New Keiico
1,100
175
468
19
6
315
9
70
37
1
Utah
2,092
571
211
51
6
935
45
146
99
28
\iyoiiiing
556
92
75
7
2
307
3
28
39
S
PACIFIC
45,054
12,394
3,311
257
299
18.364
1,383
4.855
3.616
575
California
36.717
10,934
2.444
211
198
14.491
1,233
3,774
2,957
475
Oregon
2.823
669
154
5
9
1.390
9
383
184
20
'Srashington
5.514
791
713
41
92
2,483
141
698
475
80
1/ Pran 'hible 7, Retail Census.
Note. — Sales to other retailers Include mer^andlse for their use, suoh as supplies and msrehandise for resale, but do not
Include sales of trucks or sales to , contractors such as plumt)ers, builders, etc.
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■..KOLBSALE DI3TRIBLrriOM: 1933
I4BI, ^^^OLBALB MBHCHAOTB OD MANUFACTURKRS* SALES BHANCHB, BY SIZE OF SPABLlSHMWnr. AMD KDJD Of BOSINES
FOR THK UNITED STATES
d_
POTAl 1
DNDER «10,000 |
$10,000 TO »49,
999
Typ* of satAbllBtswnt
dum-
ber
Average
number
Total
Num-
ber
Average
Total 1
Num-
ber
of
stab-
llsh-
ments
^^JSf
Total
y^|y< of Bu8ln6S8
of
estab-
llah-
menta
aai;
of full- _
time
ei&-
P19W98 -
expenses
of
stab-
liah-
DSDtS
Net
salea
of rSu-
tlnm
em-
nlovees
expenses 11
Net
sales
of?g?:
time
em-
AiDount
a of
sales
Amount
* of '
sales
j«of
j sales
HHOLISin imWHAin3-Tht«1
^2.032
1.033
84.89
^619.694 !
1.873.853
15.5 16.439 1
J72.434
10.773
»25.719
35.5 37.008
»6e4.163
70.912
»175.576
36.7
tamnwiMit asd sporting goods
? •i.578
20.535
24.2
282
1.193
192
527
44.3
425
10,537
1.160
_ 3-526
_33.5
CBiDSras and motloD platoro aguljinant
asd tii|)f>ll«s
7*
2,64
2 !?
833
31.5
20
35
14
29
34.1
43
1,118
138
362
32.4
MoTlng plotui-e f lliDB
145
23,25
8 76
5,191
22.3
46
181
46
158
87.3
55
1,371
310
800
62.9
Sporting gooda (general llna)
174
20,09
6 1,896, 5.630
28.0
21
107
15
39
36.4
79
3,19fl
205
670
30.5
ToySi noTeltlea* and firewoilca
390
22,81
1 1,732
5,190
22.8
102
406
52
142
35.0
175
4,236
«e
1,341
29.5
ax otber
250
16,08
6 942
3,681
22.9
93
413
65
159
38.5
73
1,714
169
453
26.4
AutamotlTS pxoduota
5.175
425.84
8 38.053
98V19
33.1
959
4.729
773
1.797
38.0
2.361
61.310
8.399
19.313
31.3
AutofDoblles and other motor vshlelaa
Xi
126,43
6 6,329
16,6)
13.2
31
175
25
50
38.6
86
3,144
365
~
677
~
31.6
AutomotiTB eqnlinant* aoeesaorlea
1
and parte
4,3Sa
246,81
8 28,484
72,131
'9.2
832
4,013
678
1,571
39.1
2,045
53,036
7,485
16,991
32.0
Tires and tnbea
548
32,59
4 3,240
9,619
1.3 1 96
541
70
176
33.5
331
6,140
649
1,545
25.3
Checilaala
_x.sa.
223.89
9 10.653
43.674
,q,fl 261
1.154
192
451
39.1
535
13.184
1.438
4.1W
^ .Zti
Indnatrlal ohemloalfl
146
58,79
9 1,802
7,776
13.2
-'
58
10
23
39.7
23
631
96
■■'•4f*
" 30.0
I^inta and vaznlahaa
821
72,62
2 6,077
19,424
26.7
111 585!^
88
200
f«.3
386
9.«-'!.-
1,060
2,937
30.4
Cbemicala axoapt ea apeolfled
383
92,47
8 2,774
16,474
17.8
135
- «•*-
94
ZS!^
».IL
116
' ^,722
303
925
34.0
Olotblog and fumlahlnge
2.963
415.71
4 19.519
66.303
15.9
468
2.207
275
632
28.6
ll.OSl
26.763
2.075
5.375
20,1
Clothing and itimlahinga (general
line)
305
26,00
0 1,112
3,683
14.2
45
219
21
52
33.7
S2
1,964
137
357
18.3
Clothlnftoen'8 and boye'
341
37,29
9 1,737
5,6U
15.0
39
193
25
74
38.3
i3e
3,635
283
681
13.7
Clothing, vooen'B and ohlldren'a
639
U8,13
7 5,090
17,879
15.1
70
391
36
84
38.9
166
4,395
407
957
21.8
Vtenlshlnga., (general line)
163
13,68'
7 753
2,206
16.1
28
154
9
39
25.3
69
1,779
133
293
16.8
TDmlahlngB, men'a and boy»*
494
45,16
1 3,730
8,550
ie.9
110
489
64
120
24.5
301
4,683
396
912
19.5
nmlahlngs, viman'B and ohlldren'a
230
30,06
5 1,064
3,616
18.0
44
229
25
76
33.2
105
2,444
230
589
24.1
Hoelerr
189
24, 3T
3 821
2,736
11.4
26
145
26
39
26.9
70
1,876
126
292
15.6
Ullllnerr and mUllner? eupplles
S36
33,92'
5 2,067
6,143
18.1
62
302
52
94
31.1
132
3,430
314
883
25.4
Aoea and o«»r footeear i/
S6«
97,0&
5 4,156
15,829
16.3
44
13S
17
54
29.2
90
3,502
149
406
16.2
Coal
73?
230.6*
I 7.691
30.113
87
m
(X)
(XI
(^1
320
5.729
561
1.556
27.2
Dnga end drug auDdrle*
1,124
546,25
4 18,970
58,976
16.9
295
1,261
245
545
43.2
279
6,900
866
2,133
30.9
Dn0i (general line)
360
373.SS
5 13>7S
V^3SS
l5.l
«
»
5
1
36.4
IS
S64
43
94
55.5
Dnga lapeolalty Ilnaa)
205
24,51
5 1,572
5,998
24.5
69
310
55
141
45.5
86
2,139
357
760
35.5
Patent njedielaee
94
6,19
7 370
1,435
23.2
35
155
36
67
43.2
29
733
74
260
35.5
Toilet artlo'^a and praparatlone
24«
19,19(
3 1,8S
6,ol9
32.9
124
492
98
221
44.9
62
1,396
183
519
37.3
111 other
219
24,70
4 1,2a
3,859
15.6
61
281
51
109
38.8
90
2,263
309
499
23.1
I>ry goods
3.291
825.021
3 53.484
114.353
13.9
411
2.130
236
631
29.6
992
36.430
1.930
5.137
19.4
Dt7 goods (general llna)
513
360,771
3 14,909
41,660
16.0
37
235
27
35
36.2
109
2,965
200
610
20.6
Knit goode
281
53,48;
5 2,467
8,566
16.0
25
137
17
44
33.1
75
3,103
144
383
18.2
Notions
614
58,20
7 4,015
11,355
20.4
120
625
93
138
30.1
339
6,116
596
1,275
20.8
Fleea gooda
1.421
419,69
9 10,618
47,597
11.3
127
561
SO
133
23.7
363
9,974
622
1,869
18.7
HI olter
462
32,86
I 1,577
5,175
16.7
102
572
49
181
31.6
308
5,292
368
1,000
18.9
HeotrlOBl goods
2.078
271.49
I 20.033
60.674
22.3
356
1.651
257
621
37.6
674
16.961
2,089
6,257
31.0
irieetnoal applianoea, equipment
and anppllea
1,584
137, 65(
3 13,517
40,747
31.7
259
1,241
197
476
38.4
505
12,797
1,581
3,903
30.5
Badloe and radio equipaent
400
36,26
2 2,636
8,522
23.5
87
344
48
119
34.6
144
3,543
420
1,115
31.6
Rsfrlgeratora
154
47,57'
3 3,880
11,405
24.0
10
66
12
36
39.4
35
621
88
239
33.5
Thsn pnduotB-raa materiala
2.275
977.32;
! 14.248
72.251
7.4
205
999
107
345
34.5
690
19,050
1,009
2,851
15.0
Cotton
234
259,82;
5 1,423
16,622
6.4
9
46
3
10
21.7
33
1,001
19
41
4.1
OralB
729
302,73
3 4,848
21,616
7.1
39
178
17
50
28.1
241
7,185
315
811
11.3
Eldea, aldss, and fura (rev)
557
109,951
3 2,190
10,087
9.2
67
356
3«
132
34.3
206
5,594
277
982
17.6
' LlTastook
146
33,2a
5 356
1,198
5.2
. 18
72
13
27
37.5
65
1,542
51
219
14.2
Tohaooo (leaf)
207
60,30
9 3,407
9,801
16.3
32
150
20
72
48.0
71
1,331
246
495
27.0
■ool and mohair
124
123,48
5 1,387
8,645
7.0
3
23
-
1
4.3
17
460
20
51
11.1
farm pioiiuctB other than apeclf led
178
97,781
3 &SI
4,282
4.4
37
174
SO
63
36.2
53
1,437
83
252
17.5
Faxn produets-oonaumer gooda
9.996
1.561.671
3 77.143
327,932
14.6
1.593
7.527
773
3.033
27.7
3,229
32.705
6.649
16,060
19.4
Dairy prodncta (general Une)
1,077
130,73
9 18,454
57,047
31.6
103
533
81
206
38.6
373
10,323
1,501
3,327
32.2
Butter
118
15,98;
3 463
1,471
9.3
9
40
5
10
25.0
47
1,382
64
182
14.2
Cheeee
134
37,31
3 949
4,306
U.5
12
60
6
17
28.3
30
741
46
134
18.1
UlUc and oream
470
45,60
7 4,643
14,543
31.9
153
661
126
330
49.9
146
3,397
513
1,388
37.9
All other dally prodncta
336
39,74
7 3,567
10,884
27.4
66
381
57
153
41.5
137
3,357
432
1,317
:^o.'?
Poultry and poultry product e
1,445
159,56
9 5,251
15,849
9.9
319
1,488
112
344
23.1
534
13,663
776
2,001
4.0
Dairy and poultry producte
1,045
272,401
3 10,826
33,140
12.2
Ul
515
67
97
13.6
318
8,611
478
1,085
1^,6
rzulte and ngetahlas (freah)
5,261
793,9S
5 31,951
88,626
11.2
786
3,718
296
882
23.7
1,610
40,479
3,693
6,588
16.3
All other
lis
16,38:
5 1,037
2,066
U.6
34
131
23
39
29.8
35
853
96
138
16.2
Fam Buppllee
1.708
239.63
9 13.606
37.290
15.6
319
1.073
135
297
27.7
660
17,640
1,276
3,067
17.4
Feed
1,142
124,56
B 5,323
18,112
14.5
168
796
104
207
26.0 1 472
13,164
820
1,847
15.2
FertlUier
UO
39,42
4 548
3,170
8.0
17
83
7
31
37.3
43
1,134
105
237
25.5
Seed*
373
60,39
7 5,967
13,425
22.2
30
167
23
45
26.9
120
3,157
244
691
37.4
All other
33
15,35
0 768
2,583
16.9
4
27
1
14
51.9
25
3,195
107
342
%^
Furniture and bouee fhmlsbln^
1,747
170,7'!1
3 13,022
38,748
32.7
478
2,011
313
778
38.7
615
14.477
1,672
4.458
_SQsS
204
16,47
8 I'.tit
*,e3Z
i6.t
37
164
27
65
39.6
84
1,931
317
563
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Floor oorerlngs
230
47,31
9 1,867
7,210
16.2
20
63
3
29
46.0
67
1,761
lis
409
23.3
Furniture
370
31,94
5 3,062
7,673
24.0
U4
496
66
194
39.1
123
2,819
378
856
30.4
House ftim'ge. (except as specified)
843
59.4S
6 4,616
13,265
22.3
294
1,224
199
468
38.2
306
7,056
827
2,236
31.7
Uusloal Inetrtmnts & shaet nmsle
100
13,57
9 2,005
5,768
42.5
13
64
18
22
34.4
35
920
136
394
43.8
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93
iA37.386
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367.319
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126,230
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37.2
22.9
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117.634| ii:,o/e
6,340| 483
88.679
937
24,3
14.8
PlBh and sea foods
1,665
105,275
8,780
27,348
26.0
656
^^i66
633
1.688
40.5
1 1,416
34,712
3.627
9,114
26.3
llMte and meat frodxiete
2,166
359,824
17,760
51,473
14.3
300
^ '2142C
496
1,036
42.8
527
13,22C
1,793
4,iai
31.6
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6,197
966,744
43,810
147,628
15,2
1.870
' 1.330
137
344
25.9
696
17,895| 1,564
3,706
80.7
■i
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1.301
2.704
36.1
1,800
45.367
4,921
10,641
23.6
Hardware
1,163
340.842
28.359
73.118
21.5
4«4
M
1S9
34.3
312
a.603l 923
2.333
Eardesre [general line)
695
466
302.108
38,734
25,264
3,095
64,305
8,813
21.3
22.8
/ ■- t
27.1
Hardware (specialty lines)
■^^°
60
6
16
26,7
87
2.607
312
762
27.1
' 412
404
69
143
35.4
225
6,796
611
1,671
27.1
Jewelry and optical ^oodB
1,627
103.310
7.927
24.417
23^
1,964
269
719
36.8
736
18.226
2.163
5.616
Jewelry (general line)
660
146
38,701
14,964
2,667
639
8,547
2,993
- '^
30.8
Clocks and natches
V — "ds and other preoloue stones
Other Jewelry specie.
Optical goods
[/]
201
916
106
298
32.8
293
7,174
612
1,847
26.7
222
14,412
446
1.92J
- 6,700
60
218
39
102
48.8
52
1,036
108
279
26.9
294
16,163
17,080
/■7
1,352
2,82S-
■ 13.4
23.4
38.2
28
97
36
141
443
237
9
66
50
47
165
107
33J
37.2
46.1
108
108
176
2,868
2,560
4,590
170
306
967
586
806
2,099
20.4
31.4
45.7
Lumber 1 bid's Btr»la {other than metal
2,385
234,657
20,247
69,660
25.4
3SS
1,800
324
819
45.6
903
23,582
3.096
7,986
33.9
i-^-:er L.ia ■■'-lll.ior)'.
906
106,422
6,296
SS.IH"
2S.0
114
55S
104
231
41.5
anr
8,275
1.146
Z,6U
TZ7TJ-
Bldg.ictr'ls. exoept lunber - mlllwork
1,460
129,235
11,951
36.476
28.2
269
1.244
220
688
47.3
593
16,307
1.951
6,340
34.9
Kachlr.ery, eq^-'t-i e'pls (except eleetr
16,664
480,301
39.920
120,791
25.1
1,226
6.814
1,138
2.461
42.3
2,386
60,430
7.617
19.671
32 .(
Coimerclal naohlnery.eqp't & supplies
664
44,332
1.M6
13,160
25.7
22r
i;i82
210
as
43.4
388
9,533
1,268
3.U7
32.7
Office
lei
6.446
1,074
2,700
32.0
35
210
43
103
49.0
92
2,237
377
814
36.4
Store
159
6,315
602
1,713
32.2
49
zn
47
121
62.8
77
1,762
243
697
33.9
All other
524
30,571
3,019
8,747
28.6
144
743
120
289
S8.9
219
6,634
848
l,70j
30.8
ConBtruotlon machinery, e(ip*t i s'pls.
214
20,891
1,466
6.348
25.6
24
93
38
82
88.2
69
1,880
200
649
34.5
Farm and dairy machlnerj- end eqn' t
265
23,098
1,667
5.463
23.6
41
136
23
54
39.7
103
2,593
271
703
27.1
Industrial machlnery.eqp't & s'pls.
2,447
265,223
18,077
56,646
22.2
436
1.987
487
888
43. 6
940
23,824
2,723
7,602
31.9
Mill and mine supplies (general line
) 990
150,087
9,871
30.042
20.0
82
40C
86
179
44.8
330
8,770
881
2,349
26.8
Industrial machinery, eqp*t*i supplle
B
except mill and mine euppllas
1.457
106,136
8,206
26,604
25.3
354
1.687
ta
•87
43.3
ao
15,054
1,842
6,253
34.9
i^rofeselonal equi^ent and supplies
749
57,029
6,307
17,630
30.7
153
684
117
S26
47.7
S02
7,928
1,048
■ 2,646
33.4
Dental
265
21,787
2,489
7.237
33.2
SI
214
27
85
39. 7
9S
2,475
337
760
30.7
Sur^-lc&l, medical and hospital
199
13,594
1,383
4.238
31.2
46
187
34
98
62.4
83
2,241
281
771
34.4
All other
295
21.648
2,436
6,055
28.0
66
283
56
143
58.5
126
3,212
430
1,114
34.7
Serrice equlpoent and suppliee
1,087
59,490
6,164
17.343
29.2
309
1.562
249
567
36.7
478
11,841
1,687
4,030
34.0
berber and beaaty pexlor
662
23,945
3,039
7.922
33.1
179
835
131
298
36.7
260
6,324
968
2,164
34.2
Laundry
93
12,469
704
2.675
21.5
12
54
12
29
5S.7
30
760
67
226
29.7
All other
412
23,076
2.411
6,746
29.2
118
673
106
230
34.2
188
4,757
662
1,640
34.5
Transportation equipment and supplies
238
20,238
1,564
5,311
26.2
34
170
16
83
37.1
108
2,831
320
925
32.7
-etals (except scrap)
7»
132.086
7.840
24.159
18.3
160
699
92
311
44.6
213
5.228
626
1.684
32.2
Iron and steel (except scrap)
419
70,954
5,435
17,063
24.0
63
264
46
125
44.0
127
3,014
334
995
33.0
Uetals except Iron and steel
319
51,131
2,405
7.096
11.6
97
«15
48
186
44.8
86
2,214
292
689
Sl.l
r'aper and its products
2.174
321.306
23.2ga
68.032
21.2
288
1.380
190
474
34.3
736
18.652
2.147
5.440
28.9
^per & its products (general line)
642
177,167
11,996
35,393
20.0
13
59
12
17
28.6
94
2,661
309
834
23.6
rtper * ItE products (6i«cialty lineej
878
105,792
7,063
20,569
19.4
163
708
81
204
28.8
321
8,151
885
2,025
24.8
Jtationery snd stationery supplies
340
24,166
2,561
6,496
26.9
71
349
52
123
36.2
151
3,664
442
1,073
29 .3
All paper
314
14,192
1,609
5,686
39.4
51
264
45
ISO
49.2
172
4,376
511 .
1,708
39.0
^'Stroleum and its products
1,7«9
a4,273
9.768
37.791
17.6
329
1.478
216
609
34.4
756
19,633
1.716
4,864
24.8
dUDbing & heating eqp't & eupplles
1.4£9
141,484
11.210
36,674
25.2
173
813
116
377
45.8
524
14.038
1.497
4.145
29.5
rtuDibine A heating eqp't (gen'l line)
770
90,294
7,377
22.518
24.9
43
235
27
75
31.9
191
6.671
568
1,611
26.6
Other plurobtng & heating eqp't & e'pli
. 669
61,190
3,833
13,156
26.7
130
588
88
302
51.4
333
8,367
929
2,634
31.5
Tobeooo and Its (jroduote {except leaf)
1.625
511.647
10.522
32. 988
8.4
153
630
61
142
22.5
308
8,086
449
1.096
13.6
aaste materials
3.343
166.661
12.S98
23.283
18.2.
1.790
6,183
1,088
2.348
38.0
981
21.751
2. 861
5.792
26.6
Iron ajid steel scrap
736
62,195
3,249
8.972
17.2
316
1,139
193
458
40.2
238
6.364
665
1,559
29.1
Junk and scrap (general line)
1,897
63,676
6,002
11.467
18.0
1.139
3,789
646
1,407
37.1
621
11.2?8
1,392
2.814
24.1
*ast,e paper, rags end rubber
710
39,790
4.047
7.844
19.7
335
1,265
249
483
38.5
222
5.089
814
1.409
27.7
All other products
6.608
552.349
34.097
96.126
17.7
2.018
9.097
1.069
2.700
29.7
2,744
65.651
6.378
iS.547
23.7
Beer
1,9S6
87,009
3,909
16.4J7
17.7
704
3,196
296
812
26.4
936
21,023
1,322
3.946
18.8
Bags, bagging, oordage A twine
212
34,570
2,346
4,044
11.7
61
263
48
SO
31.6
76
1.970
343
486
24.7
flower* and ntireery steak
610
17,730
1,703
4,979
28.1
337
1.346
133
417
31.0
173
3,989
566
1.391
34.9
fOrest products (except l\sDber)
354
40,731
1,896
6,342
13.1
127
661
114
208
37.1
132
3,119
546
1.055
33.8
Leatber
304
62,941
1,405
5,269
9.9
49
256
25
76
29.7
117
2,906
220
546
18.0
Leather goods
658
34,777
2,448
6.894
19.8
147
707
83
209
29.6
300
7,370
689
1,663
22.6
Vewspapers, books and Eoagaslnes
604
90,406
9,268
22.280
24.6
72
355
39
105
29.6
231
6,981
574
1.126
18.8
Alls and t;reases (anloal ^ Tepetable)
76
26,608
1,9a
6.747
22.5
6
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
16
403
66
161
40.0
iKibber, crude
25
28,424
213
1.306
4.6
6
63
16
24
38.1
^Ines and splrltoua liquors
660
38.148
1,627
5.660
16.4
203
628
94
206
24.9
268
6,676
435
1.347
20.2
Tarn
63
16,1M
372
1.616
10.0
7
III
IXI
(XI
(XI
10
280
16
61 22.2
Ulscellancoua kinds of business
1,117
87,438
6,960
19.443
22.2
316
1,539
217
561
36.6
481
ll,92l|
1,596 1
3.753
31.5
Cvnana of
iserlaia
Bnslseai
A~t9
CaOLESJLLS SISHtlBIITIOIl 1933
Ilia 7.-»E01BaiLS 10SOHABT3 m> BAJTOFlOnMES' 3iU!S BIUS0HS3, BT SIZI OP EBIIBIISBIESTS ISD nilD OF BOSinaa
FOR TBS nnTSD STATES
T;p0 of SatabllBfanent
Kind of BiulnoBB
;VH0LS3iXS MSaCHAJrrS-Total (oootlnned)
^imsemaQt and Bportla^ goods
Cameras and motioc picture aqulpuot
and auppllea
UorlDf plctoro fllna
Sporting goods (general line]
Tots. noTsltlea, and fireworks
All other
Aotonctlve products
Aatomobllea and other motor vehicles
AatonotlTe eqolpisnt, acoessorlea
and p«rta
Tires and tohss
Chealesls
Indoetrlel chemloala
Paints and Tarnishes
CfaaiDloale except as epeelfled
Clothing and fomlehlngs
Clothing and fomlahlnge (general
llnel
Clothing, men's and boys'
Clothing, voicen'B ahd children' a
Fomlshlnge (general line)
Pnmlshlags. men'e end boye'
Pomlshlnge, women's and children's
Hosiery
Uilllnery and millinery Bnppliee
Shoee and other footwear
Coal
Drags and drog eondrias
Drugs (general line]
Drugs (specialty llnes)
Patent ffledleiaee
Toilet artlclee and preparations
All other
Dry goode
Dry goods (general Una)
Knit goode
Botiona
Piece goods
All other
Slectrical goode
Klectrieal appliancea, equiinent
and euppliaa
HadlOB and radio equi|iDent
Refrigerators
Fano products-raw materlale
Cotton
Srnin
3idee, eUns, end fure (raw)
LiveBtook
Tobscoo (leef)
Wool and Bvhalr
Farm produots other than speciflwl
Farm prodnctB-conaisiter goode
Dairy iroduotB (generwl line)
Batter
Cheese
l^illc and cress
All other dairy producte
Poultry and poultry prodacte
Dairy and poultry jrodocte
FmltB and Yegeteblee (freah)
All other
Farm auppllea
Feed
Fertiliier
Seede
All other
Pumltnre and house furnishings
China, glaBswnre and croclEary
Floor aoToriogs
Furniture
House fnm'gB- {except bb apeoifiedj
Hnalcal inatramonta ft sheet music
(Ail TMluew ATpTwen*!'
ITum-
ber
of
eetab-
llsh-
menta
$50,000 TO $99,999
12,496
146
751
120
31
1£3
4E
29
76
114
30
80
26
34
68
57
{881,309
100
56
121
222
65
273
59
24
164
140
26
25
14
24
225
27
54
220
176
925
6
10,274
418
1,642
2,080
3,112
3,022
64.123
ATerago
nnnber
of full-
time
em-
ployeee |
Total
erpenees
73,074 : $186,994
181
198
220
210
51,336
8,337
2,373
11.151
3,265
35.824
9,194
2,917
1,376
692
1,591
2,418
39.529
111
848
643
669
779
18,615
6,454
812
912
15,742
2,161
167
1,060
268
2,517
492
3,332
837
6.598
< of
salei
29.7
26.6
51.6
30.9
21.5
25.8
29,3
30,7
25.9
1,960
130
5,420
412
7.973
516
2,025
153
5.752
402
1,960
145
2,365
113
4,138
454
4,171
192
366
1,063
1,411
369
1,114
356
329
966
624
2,044
6,936
3,968
8,541
15,682
4,400
24.981
268
126
85
178
203
2,336
2.486
19.093
4,137
1,751
29.710
2,693
11,399
9,636
1,722
1.656
953
1,649
121.987
16,297
1,716
958
4,40^
3,707
15,453
12,737
66,164
531
25.062
17,336
1.220
5,601
905
16.700
2.191
2.424
4,105
6,468
1.512
369
208
735
771
253
2,372
686
392
344
679
485
6.643
1,724
379
1.067
391
344
49
127
36
77
9.624
2.114
78
75
534
413
738
792
4,843
37
1.575
462
72
183
131
422
590
156
I.OII
666
1.764
2,614
787
6,530
4,922
1,059
549
3.317
20,7
29.9
25.6
18.4
18.5
19.6
17.7
18.2
19.4
18.0
13.8
23.3
15.0
10.006
^n t>,nTi.«ni1« nr j^nn,,., 1
$100,000 TO $199,999
bar
of
eeteb-
lish
wants
27.0
23 5
28.5
36.6
36.4
20.1
17.3
14.6
16.6
20.7
16.7
17.9
26.1
112
1,026
1,256
203
365
125
230
21.705
5,202
221
107
1,289
1,453
2,044
1,838
9,480
71
4,234
2.253
305
1,470
206
4,349
584
443
1,197
1,583
25.8
25.6
31.4
11.2
Rat
sslee
tverse*
number
of full-
time
?1. 398. 186 94.755 8265.556
14.651
(X)
W
2,380
6,567
4,232
72.139|
8,536
55,069
8,534
3,649
14,196
4,104
55,666
54
66
231
54
4.2
9.0
13.0
11.6
22.0
13.1
13.9
17.8
31.9
12.9
11.2
29.3
39.2
13.2
14.4
14.3
13.4
16.9
13.0
25.0
26.2
22.8
26.0
26.7
18. 3
29.2
24.5
35.6
i33
61
Total
expensss
1.129
(X)
(I)
215
565
207
7.302
,079
671
216
,291
257
3,371
7,251
14,189
2,989
7,098
4,261
3,788
4,772
8,147
19,093
11.723
5,996
1,276
1,169
1,755
1,523
69.076
11,900
7,336
9,027
33,387
7,424
44,614
33
103
123
15
26
13
16
1,515
172
16
26
SO
40
169
159
868
IS
226
136
10
62
212
30
50
32,967
8,624
3,223
^45,575
4,725
13,738
16,921
2,066
3,656
1,683
2.366
208.164
152
316
601
207
520
271
126
380
348
1,266
3,801
m
(XI
608
1,646
930
19.£05
16.254
1,960
803
4,237
1,051
9,213
63
206
93
3.257
578
376
591
1,307
405
3,267
442
980
2,384
562
1,313
869
435
1,072
1,156
< of
sales
25.9
(X)
(X)
25.5
25.1
22.0
27.0
$200,000 TO $299,999
bar
of
estab-
liBh-
mantfl
29.5
23.0
22.0
29.8
25.6
16.5
3,536
2.852
1.309
309
270
667
277
10,468
2,268
651
346
23,583
2,155
3.901
7.290
5.384
22,648
22,744
116,085
2.194
31,185
19,822
1.339
6.267
1,767
29,504
4,327
7,296
5,064
10,757
2,060
93
440
484
71
391
121
59
12.959
1,719
1,073
1,645
4,736
1,295
9,696
6,781
1,921
994
6,102
2.973
lis
108
923
651
954
1.096
5.876
263
1.916
976
92
753
96
264
1,403
1,825
204
845
286
275
34,568
13.1
13.5
16.6
18.6
16.5
20.4
11.5
22.5
14.2
18.5
24.3
21.8
24.2
23.1
39.1
18.2
51,063,4
109
16
Sat
Seles
Ireregw
nujT>ber
of full
time
em-
ployeae
7,952
(X)
(X)
2,821
1,658
1,543
39.071
9,062
26,700
4,309
2,164
5,097
2,689
63,634
15.2
14.4
14.6
18.2
14.2
17.4
21.6
20.6
22.3
30.6
276
465
2.817
2,151
2,629
3,174
14.590
434
5.485
2.753
225
2,183
324
6,986 23.7
450
1,256
264
1.177
435
1,310
926
2,499
27t
74S
11.2
5.6
10.2
10.8
9.8
21.9
15.2
11.6
16.5
33.6
12.6
12.4
36.6
40.0
11.1
14.0
12.4
19.6
17.6
129
11
2.952
3.663
16,463
(X)
5,746
(XI
3,746
6,084
23,218
10,476
480
(X>
(Xi
196
111
74
3,459
2,553
345
477
57
3.013
17.989
11,477
1,458
671
2,393
1,990
55.093
9,298
5,863
6,152
31,096
2,664
32. ;53
23.076
4.450
4,627
30,491
13.9
16.6
26.4
16.4
29 ■)
16.1
25.9
23.2
36.2
16
20
16
91
68
374
2.941
8.755
8,548
1,213
4,337
2,540
2,167
160,533
88
188
696
(XI
334
(XI
131
314
1,145
426
Totel
exoensee
$180.725
1,969
(X)
(X)
740
298
301
9.364
7.137
978
335
1.624
462
9.672
1.542
1,019
104
32
249
138
2.270
528
232
546
681
1,467
316
302
15,521
1,124
4,550
4,626
3,726
21,514
16,278
91.213
1,979
19.866
10.517
491
8,036
823
19.993
2.417
4.111
4,848
8,102
515
35
285
157
36
235
57
43
,534
363
681
2,551
(X)
1,029
IX)
388
1,026
3,268
1,643
3,671 20.4
376
260
756
605
8.306
sales
24.8
(X)
(I)
26.2
18.0
19.6
24.0
27.6
22.7
15.6
31.9
16.8
15.2
12.4
18.6
16.5
(X)
17.9
(X)
10.4
16.9
14.1
17.6
1.704
833
1,469
3,970
310
6.498
4,512
977
1,009
3.072
114
1,801
41
108
369
459
714
748
4,210
64
1,442
894
67
149
347
537
33
764
124
740
156
169
24,785
5,228
160
490
1,236
1,473
2,264
2,046
11,562
326
4.171
25.6
38.7
15,1,
18.3
14.2
24.2
12.8
11.5
20.2
19.6
22.0
21.8
10.1
3.9
11.3
8.9
10.2
17.1
6.1
15.4
2.437
220
3.991
686
561
1.089
1,544
109
33.7
14.2
10.8
26.7
39.5
10.5
12.6
12.7
16.5
21.0
14.3
1.6
30.3
26.7
20.0
28.5
13.6
22.5
19.1
21.2
J
CaiiBva or
VR0LS31LE CISTRIBOTXORi 1933
lASIX 7.— IHOLKSJOB imCIUirrS AXD KIRUFACTURSIS' SALES BRAJICRES, »T SIZE Of SSTIBLISTWDITS IIQ) Ellffi 0? BIBIItSS
nSi THE tlVITSD 3TXTSS
(ill Tsloaa antrassed In thousands of dollarsj
teO.OOO TO «99,999
tlOO.OOO TO 1199.999 1
taiO.OOO TO 1299.
»99
KUB-
iraregw |
Total
Han-
iver^te
Total
■iB-
iTarage
Total
typa of £sublUt»enl
Uod of Btulaait
ber
of
eatab-
Set
aalee
nvisber
f full-
expenses
"S'f
Nat
muber
of full-
axpenaes
bar
of
let
nvber
of fall'
axpanaea
time
tot
•stab-
aalaa
tlse
tot
satab-
aalaa
tlM
lot
Uab-
amount
aalaa
lleb-
em-
taotrnt
aalaa
lleh-
Aaoimt
aalaa
)loyaas |
manta
ployees
manta
^ior*aa|
0«R«ral Bierch«ndla«
20
»1.413
73
»169
13.4
15
»2.167
97
♦2*3
11.2
6
11,341
66
__|238
17.6
aroc*rl«> and fooda(«KC«pt ffcrs. produce
s) 2.SW
167,542
12,860
26,445
15.2
2.263
322.391
".¥»
46,516
14.'.
i.m
261,616
13.860
36.620
U.O
Groc«riea lgon«r»l lloo]
377
U,64l
1,373
i.$54
16.3
636
121.692
5,156
11,721
~9T7
544
134.290
5.276
U,64Z
9.4
Co&f«cct30«r7 and BOft drlnU
BOO
34,252
3,034
7.563
22.1
256
36.542
2,639
6,507
18.3
60
19,052
1,210
3,au
16.«
Fltb and saa fooda
239
16,740
1.970
5,000
29.9
128
17,779
1,174
4,409 1 24.8
62
13.093
901
3,474
a.o
Laata and saat prodacta
372
26.598
1.908
4.736
17.8
368
60,797
3,086
9,046' 17.6
166
37.433
1,920
6,726
16.0
Otbar food and grocery apaolaltlaa
ese
61,311
4,595
5,190
8.5
683
96,681
6,401
14.636 1 15.3
309
76.946
4,071
11.466
14.9
Hardware
194
13,783
1,460
3,451
25.0
184
26,277
2,456
6.366' 24.2
116
27,757
2,374
6.403
28.1
Hardware ( general Una)
126
9,052
989
2,181
24.1
141
20.166
1,947
4.S58 24.1
90
21.903
1,911
6.016
21.9
Hardware (apeclalty llnea)
69
4.731
471
1,270
26.8
43
6,109
509
1.510 24.7
a
5.654
463
1.386 23.7
Jewelry and optical ^oda
234
16,757
1.363
3,990
25.3
153
20,359
1,70T
5.274 1 a.i
39
9,637
64T
1.667 19.6
Jewelry (general line)
73
4,358
308
1.113
22.9
57
7,716
527
1.816 sa.i]
13
S,4«T
283
.'653 18.6
Clocks and watches
17
1,198
61
377
31.5
12
1,611
96
365 22.7
3
643
34
136 1 21.2
Dlasonda and other precious atonea
<2
2.752
64
286
10.4
29
3.741
96
466: 13.0
9
2.266
3T
164 1 7.2
Other Jewelry specialties
52
3.550
292
642
23.7
22
2.926
209
724 1 24.7
7
1,642
96
363
22.1
Optical spods
SO
3.399
618
1.372
40.4
33
4.363
777
1.883 1 43.2
7
1.617
223
571
35.3
lumber i bld'g irtr* Is (other then net
•11 MS
31,166
3,349
9,123
29.3
361
49.630
4,536
13.581 i 27.4
121
28.8421 2,317
T.641
26.6
LiBAer and alllwork
178
12,690
1.366
3,462
27.3
Hi
20.736
1.625
5.1911 25.0
61
14.6161 l.lO!
3.415
2i.4
Bids, str'la. except luober & mlllwor
K 267
18,476
1,983
5.661
30.6
209
26,694
2,711
8.3901 29.0
60
14.227 1,215
j
4.226
29.7
kacbineiy, eqp* t.i a'pla.( except elect.
J 1,044
73.42:
7.176
20,714
28.2
679
93,355
7,965
23,880
25.6
237
57,691,- 4,424
14.507
23.1
CoBcarclal machinery, eqp't.4 a'pla.
141
9,655
1,103
3,099
32.1
66
8.864
861
2.406
27.1
30
4,598 427
1.403
30.6
Office
34
2,401
342
862
36.7
17
2.332
219
610
26.2
1
(I) (11
(Zl
(Zl
Stora
23
1,579
147
425
26.9
6
766
57
220
28.7
3
(II (Zl
(Zl
(Zl
HI other
64
5.675
614
1,792
31.6
43
5.766
585
1.676
21.3
16
3,695 366
1.146
31.1
Ccnatructlon cachlnery, eqp' t A s'pla
62
4.280
376
1,273
29.7
37
4,903
295
1.108
22.6
12
2,906 21E
724
26.0
Pant and dairy nachlnerj and eqp' t
47
3.581
314
1,016
26.4
41
5.546
364
1.147
20.7
20
4,821
330
1.016
21.1
Industrial ii*chinery, eqp't, 4 a'pla
466
32,510
2,805
8,666
26.7
317
44,718
3,521
10.865
24.3
122
30,251
2.049
6.783 22.4
LUl and mine aopplles lgt:neral llL
e) 217
15,271
1,211
2,668
24.0
169
24,131
1,719
5.081
21.1
73
18,211
1,U9
3,765
10.6
Industrial machinery, eqp't.4 suppl
Isa
except Dill and Dine suppllaa
241
17,239
1,594
4,998
29.0
146
20,587
1.802
5.784
26.1
49
12.040
600
1.996
24.9
Professional equlpnont and auppllea
142
9,936
1,150
2,489
2S.1
93
12,164
1.386
3,947
32.4
33
6,021
966
2.625
32.7
Dental
6S
4,007
469
1,172
29.2
41
5,363
6S5
1.686
31.4
14
3,464
«6»
1,202
34.6
Surgical, oadioBl and hospital
34
2,394
235
694
29.0
21
2,781
262
992
35.7
C
1,964
222
Oi
33.7
All other
50
3,534
446
623
17.6
31
4,040
449
1,269
31.4
11
2,613
2T5
765
29.3
Service equipcMnt and auppllea
152
10,638
1,139
3,329
31.3
96
13,076
1.242
3,407
26.1
16
4,429
416
1.226
17.7
Barber and beauty parlor
69
6,087
720
2,009
33.0
39
5,433
630
1,654
30.4
5
1,300
146
409
31.5
Laundry
16
1,134
63
262
23.1
16
2.342
147
509
21.7
7
1.693
94
330
19.6
all other
47
3,417
356
1.056
31.0
40
5,301
46S
1,244
23.5
6
1.436
179
469
34.1
Transportation equioMnt 4 aur^olles
42
2,822
289
840! 29.8
30
4,062
266
1,000
24.6
12
2,706
219
724
26.6
Letele (except screp)
104
6,593
643
2,081 31.6
113
16,050
1.165
3,905
24.3
54
12,688
996
2,906
22.6
Iron and steel (except scrap)
69
3,993
409
1,445 36.2
66
8,963
673
2,52S
28.2
33
8,049
668
1.943
24.1
letala except Iron and ateel
35
2,600
234
636; 24,5
47
7,087
492
1,360
19.6
21
4,639
410
963
19.9
Paper end Ita prodpcta
373
26,717
2,544
6.881 25.8
345
48.243
3.868
11.375
23.6
169
40.971
3,0T2
9,626
23.3
Pa'wr i its products (general line)
100
7.SB4I 594
1,52( 20.6
169
24.369
1.865
5,3-:
a.j'
97
i3.47«' 1,67T
5,029
21.4
Paper 4 its nro^ucts (specialty line
) 151
10.688
966
2,480; 23.2
122
16,346
1,300
3,727
22.6
56
13,689i 1,074
3,196
23.3
Stationery and stationery supplies
65
4,698
565
1,344
28.6
27
4,008
332
970
24.2
13
3,01t' S3T
973
32.3
Will paper
57
3,947
420
1,533
38.8
27
3,520
371
1,336
38.0
3
Tea 64
326
41.6
Petrolam and Its products
306
21,566
1,546
4,920
22.8
193
26,766
1,692
5,547
20.7
54
12.661 692
2.466 1 19.6
PloBblng 4 heating eqp't 4 auppllea
335
23.671
2,133
6,425
26.9
230
31,663
2,572
6,422
26.6
75
18.10T
i.4T7
4,676
26.9
Pltathlng 4 heating eqp't (gen'lllne
239
17.460
1,493
4,500
25.8
182
2S.a«4
2,021
6,524
25.7
66
13.660 1,092
3.428
24.7
Other plumbing 4 heating eqp't 4 a'pl
a 96
6.411
640
1.926
30.0
4S
6,309
651
1,696
30.1
17
4,247 1 366
1.447
34.1
7obaccc and Its producta (except leaf)
231
16.253
526
1,227
7.6
301
43,306
1,141
2,694
6.7
ioe
50,644 ! 1,!S6
3.216
6.6
baate fflaterlala
2SS
17,739
2,023
4,2S7
24.0
168
22,460
2,297
4,866
21.7
66
15.684 1.224
3.976
16.7
Iron and ateel scrap
es
5,600
677
1.513
26.1
65"
7r54Sr
—nr-
^iTwr
T2.T
u
" 5.896 Sie
' Tl»
TS3-
Jualt and scrap (general Una)
114
7,913
827
1.712
21.6
58
7,860
at
1,554
19.6
30
7.340 560
1.316
17.9
Vaste paper, rags and rubber
56
4,026
619
1,032
25.6
SO
7,052
929
1,621
23.0
21
4.646 326
948
19.6
All other products
887
62,946
4,909
13,669
21.7
615
71.777
5,967
16,540
21.7
135
36,124 3,000
1 'iTTl
»•»_
Beer
189
12,75«
725
2,227
17.6
60
8.16S
313
1,153
14.1
IT
4,313 363
! 636
19.4
Bags and baggings oordaga and twine
34
2.4S9
322
557
22.7
24
3.312
296
529
16.0
9
2,303 1 156
319
13.9
Ploiers and nursery stock
46
3.383
386
1,043
30.6
39
5,103
396
1,293
26.3
6
1,966 136
433
21.0
Poreat producta (except lumber)
44
3,066
273
733
24.0
31
4,733
370
1.223
2S.8
4
969
1 136
990
40 .T
Leetbar
52
3,665
223
654
17.7
36
4,769
196
686
14.S
16
3,994
110
461
11.3
Leather gooda
124
8.599
666
1,833
21.3
61
8,027
643
1,611
lO.l
13
3,02T
190
629
90.6
newapaperi, books snd maxaxlnea
lie
8,116
606
1,642
19.0
97
13,799
2,092
3,804
27.6
26
6,571
960
1.894
17.9
one and grwaaas (animal 4 ragetable)
10
664
74
202
30.4
11
1,702
160
366
Z1.4
6
1.619
131
9E7
13.8
Bubbar, crude
-
-
.
.
.
4
490
12
35
7.1
1
(XI
(XI
(Zl
(XI
Sines sod aplritous liquors
96
6,670
302
1,012
15.2
87
7,648
331
1,257
lt.4
18
4.179
166
777
16.6
Tarn
14
1,813
40
177
9.8
14
1,994
60
231
11.6
3
(XI
(Zl
(Zl
(Zl
Iflacallaneous kinds of bualneaa
158
11,743
1,093
3.679
31.3
81
12,045
1.229
?.3S1
27.8
32
8,286
604
1.664
20.0
Ceosaa of
AnwrtCAn
Boaineu
T.lOLSSU£ PJSCUVITIOI: 1939
TABLB T.— WHOLSS&LB umCBlSTS AND UAnUPJLCnTR£BS' SALSS BBAICHBS, BT SIZS OP GSTISUSHIC^TS ASD £imi OF BasiITKSS
FOH THE traiTE) STITBS
(All Tiloas oinresoed In
thousands of doUarst
#300,000 10 M99,999
1500,000 TO ♦9"
9". 999 1
H, 000,000
T0»1,
999,999
I^ce of EaMbllUiasit
ms-
ker
Arerage
number
Total
azpenaes
fsr
r^
^JSbS
Total
Kind Ot 9aaln«am
of
estab-
llah-
Vet
sales
of full-
of
estab-
liab-
let
sales
■
3f Ihll-
tlas
expenses
time
Amount
Slot
Aaooat
Jtof
aents
ployees
sales
lents
£uea
IHOiaSlM MEacmBTS-Total (oontlnaed)
5.9M
$1,622,217
77,622
_|221j569
14.6
hUf,
|1.9'j
- :13^
13.4
ImaameDt and tportl^ goods
20
7. 70S
619
2,092
27. E
8
ij.S-lY
^^'1
!v.a
5
6,01l_
•I'.Z
1.541
19.8
CamerM and notion picture
1
ixi
IXI
ix!
(XI
-
■ "-1" ■!
-
aquipmant aod anppllet
1
KOTiDg picture fllns
1
(XI
Ixl
(X)
Ixl
-
I
IX)
Ul
Ul
Ul
Sportio^ goods (general Line!
12
4,893
470
1,423
29.1
1
',':■
IX)
Ul
Ul
Ul
Toys, acveltiea. SDl flrevorlfS
6
1,723
80
331
19.2
3
(;.
(X)
Ul
Ul
Ul
Ul other
1
IX)
Ul
(11
IX)
4
'c,^c.\ .-.-
1
'
(II
IX)
III
Ul
jLutomotire products
123
46,883
3,998
11,166
23.6
67
44.694 3,028
r.«6T
17.6
. "
33,423
1.416
3.899
Hrf
AntooiobUes and othar motor Tehicles
30
12,300
867
2, 167
17.6
32
21.468 1,185
3,011
14.0
16
22,124
860
2,170
9.9
iotomotlve aQQlpoent, acceaaories
1
and parte
ve
28,991
2,852
6,137
£6.1
31
20,041 ! 1.717
4.637
22.6
6
III
III
Ul
Ul
Tires and tubes
16
6,S92
279
871
15.6
4
J lOKi .OC
-10 1 i« .>
■^
(PI
I--1
Ul
Ul
Chemicals
H)
18.833
i.182
4.238
22.5
43
Z\
S,!01
17.6
Induatrlal chemicals
16
6,008
311
1,10)
18.4
19
12,.-.
. ,,- .
1,6S5
11.8
Paints and ramishes
24
8,893
761
2,663
aa.T
9
5,608
461
1,430 1 26.0
6
6.818
Bev
1,866
92.1
Chemicals except as specified
10
3,934
90
582
14.8
15'
10.621
244
1,3641 11.2
U
1<,546
519
2,840
17.2
Clothing and f arnlshings
135
61.736
2.087
7.960
15.4
114
,,
0.7U
19.8
Clothing and furnishing (general line
7
2,425
125
152
14.5
6
Ul
Ul
Clothing, men's and hoy^*
9
3,501
127
531
15.2
12
._,
U)
Ul
Clothii«, women's and children's
M
24,835
1,031
3,926
16.8
40
2x,90i
690
2,977
13.6
?uxni8hings (gaieral llnel
3
1,007
46
132
13.1
4
Ul
Ul
Ul
III
Funilsbings, nan's and boys'
18
6,928
242
1,100
is.a
T
-i
L^
Ul
(II
Ul
Ul
Pomlshings, womai's and children's
10
3,904
130
656
14.2
s
9
Ul
Ul
Ul
1X1
Hotter^
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3,004
80
as
10.4
s
S.
9
Ul
Ul
Ul
1X1
Ulllaery and mlllineiy sapplles
16
6,132
306
1,041
IT.O
9
2
2
III
ix:
U)
Ul
Sboes and other footrear
-
-
-
-
-
32
"
1,869
13.(
Coal
4E
17,732
642
S.MO
18.8
46
i^
i.724
19.0
69
26,377
l.CSl
4,352
16.5
101
12j997_
16.9
Drugs (general line)
■■■- ar
S6;721
1,174
3,047
14.7
83
K
10,466
16.8
Drugs [specialty lineal
4
1,391
150
377
27.1
4
2,751
Z'i^'
Ul'
U)
Ul
Patent medic inaa
t
801
18
98
12.2
9
1,776
62
12t
-
-
-
-
Toilet articles and preparations
S
2,050
136
663
32.3
6
4,614
331
l,5s;
: ,5:"!
■132
1.639
30.8
111 othar
4'
1,414
34
167
11.8
5
4,084
88
•43;
Ul
Ul
Dry goods
£40
90.360
3,298
13,064
U.5
211
144. ?S1
■-.--^
■~,-.I
14/Ml
12.3
Dry goods Iganval lin«)
46
17,853
570
3.087
17.3
58
3S
2,967
16.7
EBlt goods
27
10,108
376
1,340
13.3
10
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U)
Ul
Botiona
24
9,099
522
2,037
22.4
13
S, ..
ID
Ul
Place good*
132
49,263
1,306
6,011
12.2
121
63,919 ;;,c>79
9,669 n.'
• . B63
2,048
10,674
10.9
Ul othar
11
4,027
125
669
14.6
9
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Ul (j:
■:)
Ul
Ul
III
Blactrioal goods
133
51,613
3,518
11,392
22.1
71
47.996
.
8,163
20.3
Electrloal sppliaaoaa, aqalpiMat and
snpplles
66
53.613
2,323
7,273
21.7
46
30,863
5.906
20.4
Badlos sad radio aqulpnent
23
8,629
513
1,832
21.5
6
3,644
lOy
649
21.7
Befrigeratorfl
24
9,471
682
2,287 24.1
20
13,4881
588
1,609
19.S
Perm producta-ra« materials
149
67.336
1.96T
4.993 8.7
157
ir? - '
6,627
6.9
Cotton
29
10,870
77
440
4.0
29
718
2.7
Grain
33
12,888
447
1,388
10.8
49
3.
3,909
10.4
aides, skins, sad furs (raa)
36
13,304
214
996
7.6
36
23,ici coo
i , r :>.. , ' .<>
0
11 . .■":
li-'
708
6.9
LiTestodc
4
1,566
6
46
2.9
6
3,914
44
171
4.4
t
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(I)
Ul
Ul
Tobaoco lleaf)
22
8,685
1.061
1.264
14.6
11
7,921
712
1,229
15.6
t
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(!)■
Ul
Ul
Vool and oohalr
17
6,649
128
621
9.3
17
12,750
104
621
4.9
20
£6,009
313
1,882
7.2
Parm products other than specified
6
3,374
32
238
7.1
9
5,578
67
391
7.0
7
8,460
67
371
4.4
Farm products-consumer good*
604
230.279
10.344
31.698
13.7
46^
315.169
U,707
46.387
14.^
1.9
229.069
10.796
33.866
14.8
Dairy products (general line)
SS
20,716
2,483
7.06S
34.2
57
38,930
2.163
12,139
31.2
22
31.1E1
3,167
10,186
32.7
Butter
S
l,9ffl
76
298
15.6
6
3,943
60
169
4.8
9
3,793
24
135
3.6
Cheese
17
7,043
149
702
10.0
12
7,836
164
750
9.6
2
2,199
48
154
7.0
Milk and cream
20
7,231
469
1,766
24.4
16
10,480
704
3,124
29.8
6
7,618
1,006
2,693
36.8
All other dairy piodncts
IS
4,677
548
1,596
34.1
7
4,573
481
1,476
32.3
1
Ul
Ul
Ul
U)
Poultry and poultry products
60
21,980
827
2,669
11.7
34
23,192
618
2,273
9.8
12
17 Ml
?JC
1,179
6.7
Dairy sad poultry products
66
2S.466
1,067
3,032
11.9
73
49,223
2,372
7,626
15.3
52
Tl
S,6U
13.4
Prults and Tegetablas (fre*)
363
139.356
4.638
14,231
10.2
247
173.468
4,778
17,470
10.1
70
c
9,221
10.0
111 other
6
1,884
95
316
16.8
6
3,546
347
440
12.4
1
li.
III
III
Pam supplies
73
28.143
1.381
4.239' 15.1
62.
36. 3;^
2.619
6.790
18.7
19
13.766
526
2.362
9.9
?aed
32
12,084
609
1.362 11.3
28
19,178
775
2,636
13.3
^
8,053
266
90T
11.9
Fertiliser
6
2,366
67
143
6.0
2
IX)
(II
(XI
(XI
5,092
60
604
5.5
seeds
27
10,768
669
2,230
20.7
18
13,486
1,606
3,737
27. V
U)
(Xl
Ul
All other
9
2,935
136
504
17.2
4
(II
III
(I)
(X)
i»i ■■'
MX)
U) ■
Ul
Poralture and house furnishings
66
26,652
1.862
6.909
23.1
42
29,441
1.462
6.230
iT.e
13
17,195
1,647
4,132
24.0
China, glaasvare and crockery
7
2,646
184
631
23.8
4
(l(
(If
Ix)
(xl
-
-
-
-
-
Floor coTerlDgs
18'
6,933
235
853
12.3
15
10,017
355
1,479
14.6
T
10,197
972
1,936
13.1
Furniture
13
4,819
699
1,504
31.2
3
2,033
82
288
14.2
1
Ul
Ul
IX)
Ul
House fum'gs. 'except as specified)
21
7,607
446
1.612
21.2
17
12,376
654
2,196
17.7
9
U)
III
U)
U)
Itusical instruments & sheet snsio
9
3,547
296
1.309
36.9
3
(V
III
(X)
IXI
2
Ixl
(X)
Ul
Ul
■■■ of
ntMM
<ln»i«
Ttni t.—moiaa* tmeian
wmj,tatu iissuaiTioic 1933
as lUDFicTTHxas' sun nuuicns, bt siu of isTuinmorrs tn cm or nwinss
rca ID OIITD ITlfB
411 TalMl eutiaa
■d la 1
J.MB*n.l
♦100,000 K) »499,999
le««,000 10 *999,999
♦1,000,000 TO $1,999,999
Uf of Utatl UkMnt
IU4 of tasiisaa
»er
of
oetak-
llak-
•ama
let
aalee
iraraca
aaabar
af falk-
tiaa
Dlonaa
ax^M.
■~- 1
kar 1
of let
•ate
lTera«a
noaber
of fall-
tiaa
ploreoa
.xjjai.
bar
of
latab-
■at
aalai
LT«-a«e
nnaber
If fnll-
tlae
iloyooa
aijtilia
laaaat
Kef
•04m
toonnt
<of
■ale^
laouDt
aalo*
laoUUU KaCHUTS leontlnual
A«B«r«l aarsliAadiM
>
«3.4»3
»4T
»7oe
20.4
3
«2.260
186
t460
20.4
4
*4.3e3
235
♦ 525
12.0
Or«c*rl«i ftod food«(*n*o» fani protwt
1)1.249
476.062
20.833
45,486
9.6
863
582,082
22,904
62,694
10,8
300
403,364
15,430
46,046
11.2
Cr90«rl*« (ff«s«rkl lina)
COBfectioaerj and toft drlaks
nab ud aaa food!
Maata and aaat prodoeta
Other food and grooarr apaolaltlaa
Hartenra
MO
34
49
1B4
312
10*
M6,M2
20,406
16,777
»»,B14
116,663
41.406
9.6T2
987
1.377
3,136
5,661
3.436
12,959
2,413
4,664
6,S34
16,716
9.2S0
6.0
11.8
24.3
14.8
14.3
22.2
476
26
32
101
220
92
323,228
16,100
19,650
69,262
164,642
63,204
11,960
644
911
3,168
6,321
4.967
31,642
1,697
3,662
9,586
16,907
13,236
9.6
11.2
19.6
13.8
10.3
20.9
176
6
2
37
80
39
231,837
7,669
2,696
50,784
110,478
63,602
e:994
563
169
1,746
3,968
4,634
231061
1,384
822
6,649
14,139
10,804
9.4
18.1
31.7
U.l
12.8
20.2
Bar4.»ro Igviaral Una)
HArdvmra (apaelal^ llaaa)
Jo^alrr and optioal g«oda
9t
14
a
35.TM
6,816
s.ats
3,017
418
563
7,992
1,2S8
1.800
22.3
21.6
18.0
66
4
22
60,106
3,096
13.430
4,794
173
659
12,797
438
2.698
21.3
14.1
19,3
37
2
T
51,539
2,063
9.611
4,429
106
473
10,380
424
1.938
26.1
20.6
20.2
Jawalr7 (gaoaral Una)
Clocka and natehai
Dlaaonda and ottar praalona atonaa
Othar Jawalry apaolaltlaa
Optioal coada
Itaikar k bld'g.mtr'la (omar than aiat
Inaber and fiiflaork
Bld'ff kftr'la. azcapt loabor & alUvo
■aeblaory, a^p't. & a'pla- (azcapt alao*
9
3
4
3
3
t1) »
3,299
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
36.316
205
(X)
(XI
IXI
(XI
2.34*
687
(X)
(XI
(XI
(XI
7.607
17.6
(X)
(X)
(I)
(XI
21.3
11
7
2
2
68
7,009
4,135
IXI
^ (XI
98.U6
488
125
(XI
Ixl
2.682
1,767
666
IXI
(X)
7,773
26.1
16.1
(X)
IX)
20.3
2
1
3
1
17
Ixl
(X)
4,640
(X)
IX)
Ul
IX)
280
(X)
(X)
II)
IXI
1,032
Ul
III
(X)
1X1
22.2
III
lU
rk 43
1 ) 1«7
19,397
16,919
62.464
1,300
1,044
4,S19
3,884
3,623
14.549
20.0
22.6
23.3
28
30
87
18,410
19,746
87,393
671
1,661
3 747
2.666
6,U8
12,272
14.4
26.9
21.4
9
6
10,663
IX)
96.526
583
(X)
2.204
1,700
(11
T,49T
15.1
III
19.6
CooBonlal aadiliiarj, ati^t & o'pla.
OfTiea
riara
All othar
Conatnotion ■aehlnerr, oq*' t A o'pl
rara and dair7 machlnary and aqp't
Indnatrial aadilnarj, o^p't. & a'pla.
Mill and islTv eappllaa (gaiaral lln
IndnvtrUl nachinorr, oqp*t. k npp
•zoapt Bill and mtno npplias
Profaialonad aqnlpnwt and anppllaa
Dantal
Snrgloal, aadloal and hoapltal
Ul othar
Serrlce oqnlpaant and anppllaa
Barbar and haantj parlor
Laandxj
HI other
Traoaportation aqalp«ant and anppllaa
Katala (axeapt acrap)
14
1
1
12
a 3
10
9t
a) W
Ilea
34
IB
4
4
B
23
8
a
7
4
43
6,033
(X)
(X)
4,300
2.007
3,926
36,104
12,472
13,434
5,481
2,166
1,488
1,831
6.601
2,904
3,064
2,643
1,401
16,836
376
(II
(Xi
296
111
216
2,360
1,32
848
612
261
147
124
841
346
197
298
84
1.071
1,276
(XI
(XI
1,013
370
1,0T«
7.510
4,425
3,088
1,486
659
443
384
2,653
950
617
786
278
3,421
25.4
(I)
(XI
23.6
1T.4
20.8
19.5
23.0
27.1
30.4
28.8
21.0
30.0
32.7
26.8
30.9
19.8
20.3
6
1
6
3
t
56
48
10
5
1
2
2
10
2
3
8
6
29
rii
(XI
(XI
2,083
(XI
M,ao8
»,74S
6,465
3,019
(X)
(X)
1.385
6,158
1,062
(XI
(XI
4,146
20,002
Ix)
(X)
(X)"
141
(X)
2,196
1,614
342
348
IX)
(X)
161
407
109
(XI
(X)
216
1,038
fx)
IX)
IXI
411
(XI
6,900
6,194
1,716
827
IX)
IX)
364
1.691
438
(X)
(11
1.087
3.635
IX)
IX)
IX)
19.7
(X)
19.1
17.5
26.4
27.4
(X)
(X)
25.6
27.6
41.2
(XI
(XI
26.2
18.2
1
1
2
1
15
10
5
5
1
4
2
1
1
2
16
IX) ■
IXI
2,740
• (X)
21,977
15,189
6,788
(X)
IX)
4,760
3,288
IX)
(X)
2,100
19.367
!xi
(X)
92
IX)
1,089
739
360
(XI,
(XI
604
171
(XI
(XI
134
921
1x1
(II
729
III
3,737
2,417
1,320
(I)
(XI
1,403
548
III
III
394
2,999
III
IXI
u.«
lU
17.0
15.9
19.4
Ul
III
19.6
ll.T
IXI
1X1
16.8
15.5
Iron and ataal (except aerap)
Metala except Iron aod oteal
^apar and ita prodoeta
29
14
13S
11,642
6,294
49,971
862
209
3.524
2,732
689
10,641
23.7
13.0
21.1
20
9
82
13,753
6,249
54,524
720
318
3.460
2,59C
1,046
11,307
18.6
16.7
20.7
6
7
35
9,704
9,663
46.779
604
517
3.005
1,766
i,a4
8.632
16.4
12.6
18.2
Papv and Ita prodncta (ff€ai«al Una]
Paper k iti prodaeta (apaolal^ llnaa
Stationary and atationerr anppliea
fall paper
FatialeoA and ita prodaata
•3
) 39
7
4
42
31,663
14,473
2,639
1,296
16,310
2,113
1,020
213
178
816
6,362
2,949
690
560
3,022
20.1
20.4
27.2
42.4
18.5
83
25
4
SO
n,876
17,738
2,911
20.766
2,273
921
266
705
7,458
3,142
707
3,365
22.0
17.7
24.3
16.2
28
6
2
80
32,175
11,636
2,969
27,108
1,996
656
164
908
5,829
2,088
616
2,322
18.1
IT.l
w.r
8.6
rloaMnc i hmtln( eqp't i fapptlai
CI
22,643
1,852
6.691
26.2
26
17.304
1.177
3.614
22.0
s
4.667
346
1.202
28.1
Ploabln^ & heatlQC aqp* t. (gen'l*. line
Othar ylmbiiv A boating aqp't- J, a'p
Vobaoeo and ita prodneta (axnapt loaf)
) 36
la. 23
183
13,814
8,729
69.849
998
834
1.596
3,116
2,576
4.293
22.6
29.6
6.1
17
9
149
(X)
IX)
102.398
(X)
(X)
1.930
(X)
(XI
6.602
(X)
(X)
6.4
IX)
1
63
Ixl
IXI
68.389
(XI
(XI
1.221
(Zl
III
9.417
(II
(XI
5.3
faato material a
39
16.001
1.0TB
2.304
16.4
32
23.342
1.072
3.016
12.9
16,534
404
l.lSl
T-P
Iron and ateal icrap
Jtutx and ootap (Kouaral line)
Vaate paper, re^ and rvbfeer
ill othar prodoeta
10
16
14
136
3,651
6,719
6,630
61,477
262
299
514
3.048
659
696
947
6,655
18.0
12.2
16.8
17.2
9
16
8
86
6,531
10.491
6,320
56,954
210
446
417
2,885
623
1.400
992
8,267
9.6
13.3
16.7
14.5
4
4
4
36
(x(
(X)
6.672
60,034
III
(XI
179
3,653
(xI
(X)
412
10,221
III
(XI
7.4
»0.4
Boer
Ba«o, ba««los, cordage a> tviaa
Ploaera and nnraer? ateek
Poreat pradacta (azcapt loahar)
Laathar
Leather ffoeda
levapapari, bocka and aafcailnaa
Oila and ^eaooa (aniaal & Tacotahle)
Bahber, omde
Wlaaa and apiritona llqoora
lam
Hleaellaaaana klnda of baainaaa
12
T
4
6
11
7
29
11
4
10
6
24
4,340
2,649
(t)
2,989
4,114
2,668
11,2*2
4,319
1,394
3,724
3,186
9,479
167
247
(X)
161
U3
209
987
U7
12
104
107
618
623
423
(XI
649
589
694
2.417
764
73
631
328
1.814
12.1
16.6
(X)
18.4
13.6
22.3
21.4
18.2
6.2
14.3
10.2
19.1
2
3
1
3
16
6
16
9
4
6
B
15
lllli
(X)
(X)
1,840
10,371
4,369
10,78T
6,166
2,618
3,TTT
3,326
10,266
41
(X)
(I)
8F
303
68
982
469
6
98
79
B71
u
IX)
(I)
346
1,098
361
2,124
1,538
71
440
344
1,474
i.i
IX)
(XI
18.6
10.6
6.2
19.T
24.9
2.8
11.6
lO.S
14.4
i
4
2
8
6
1
1
1
a
6,498
IX)
11,614
8,163
IX)
(I)
(Zl
III
SM
360
1X1
1,291
599
IXI
(XI
IXI
1X1
IX)
8,6*1
1,873
IXI
(I)
II^
IX)
ll.f
l.t
(li
SL,4
M.T
III
III
IS
Itl
A-53
WHOLEaALK DISOTIBOTIOH: 1933
TABU ?•— VmUZSAIX ICHCHANTS US) lUNDFACTORSRS* SALES BRANCHES, BY SIZE OF ESTAfiLISHUENTS AND KIND 07 BUSINESS
7(H THE UNITBD STiBIS
thouaanda of doMaxal
$2,000,000
to »4,999,999
♦5
,000,000 to »9,'999,999 |
♦10
,000,000
and Orer
Typ* Of EstaUlibMnt
Kind of BuslDsas
llah-
Bsuta
Nat
sales
of mii-
tljsa
am-
plOToee
Total
expeoaaa
of
satab-
llah-
oanta
Not
aalea
of full=
Total 1
axpen^'ea |
HUm-
Hat
soles
ATerags
Of"]^5
tin
ployeoB
Total
eipenae
a
Amount
« of
aalsa
tllDO
am-
Plgyaaa
Amount
t off
aalas
llah-
OBnta
Amount
* of
Bales
WHOZ£SAIZ HEBCHAinS * Total (OCmtlowd)
i9e
»1,450,672
49.520
»176.592
12.2
100
1690.976
14.857
176.613
U.l
46
t721.639
14.831
J73.099
10,1
APuameat and aitortli^ good*
s
(I)
(I)
(I)
(X)
2
' (Xl
(XI
(Il
(X)
.
.
C^raa and notion plotur* a^ialp-
BSDt and aappllaa
-
-
.
.
-
-4 -
~
.
»
-
.
_
.
,
.
Hot ins piotur« flLu
1
(I)
(X)
(XI
(Xl
2
(XI
(Xl
(Il
(Xl
_
_
„
_
_
Sporting gooda (gonaral lina)
s
(I)
(I)
(X)
(11
-
-
-
-
.
_
_
«
_
Toys, Qoreltlea, and flraworks
-
-
-
~
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
_
_
_
_
All otber
-
-
-
■
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
AutemotlTe produota
17
44,927
1.816
5.848
13,0
2
14.549
224
632
5.7
.
_
_
_
.
Autofflobile and otbar motor TatiiBlea
IS
(I)
(x)
(I)
(Xl
1
(II
(xl
(Xl
(l)
.
.
_
_
a.
AutOBiotlTa aqulp*t aeoasaorlaa ft pari
ts 1
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
-
.
.
-
~.
.
.
^
_
_
Tiraa and tubaa
1
(I)
(X)
(I)
(11
1
(I)
(11
(Xl
(I)
-
-
-
-
-
CHanioala
U
32 240
891
3,767
U.7
3
'^!
-4'!
1"'
i^!
1
IX)
(Xl
(IJ
w
industrial cbaalcala
3
(I)
(I)
(I)
(Xl
1
(xl
Ttxl
(xl
(x)
.
pBlDta and Tamlaha*
1
(I)
(X)
(I)
(XI
1
(X)
(xl
fll
(Xl
_
_
_
_
_
Cbaml-sala axoept m apwilfJ**
7
19,776
594
2,545
12,9
1
IX)
(II
(Il
(Xl
1
(II
(I)
(Il
(Il
Clotbinc aid fumiaLlues
C
16,391
457
1,939
10j5
1
{!)
(Xl
(II
(XI
1
(11
(II
(Xl
(Il
Clotbinc k fumlabin^a (general Una)
I
(ll
(ll
(I)
TxT
*
-
«•
Clothing, nen'a and bojs'
. 1
(I)
(X)
(X)
(Xl
-
-
»
m
..
.
.
.
-
.
Clothing, vcnen'a and colidrWa
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
.
.
-
-
rorniatalnga (geieral line)
«
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
..
.
a.
rurnlahinea, mai'e and fcoya'
1
(I)
(X)
(X)
{xl
-
-
..
.
.
.
.
.
.
.
Puxnlahlngs, aoiaen'a and caildren*a
.
.
.
.
-
_
-
.
.
_
.
_
_
a.
_
Hoalary
1
(I)
U)
(X)
(ll
-
-
-
.
.
.
-
.
.
.
liiniser? and miUinery aupplles
1
(I)
(X)
(X)
(11
•
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
.
-
cQioea and other footaoar
1
(I)
(X)
(I)
(11
1
(Xl
tx)
(Il
(Il
1
(Il
(Xl
(Il
(11
coal
IS
40,821
i.as?
4.aSB
11.1
4
' (Xl
(X)
(XI
(xl
1
(Il
(XI
(Xl
(Il
Drugs and dmg eundrlea
26
74.595
3.598
11.835
16,1
6
(XI
{X)
(Xl
(XI
1
(11
(XI
(XI
(Xl
Druga (general Una)
SS
62,066
(l!
3,156
9,078
14.6
6
. (11
(X)
(xl
(Il
1
(Il
(Xl
(II
(Il
UragM ( specialty liaaa)
2
(I)
(X)
(Xl
1
(II
(X}
(xl
(xl
.
Patent medloinea
-
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
.
■
-
-
-
.
.
Toilet artlolas and preparatlona
.
-
.
-
-
-
.
..
~
.
-
-
-
.
All other
2
(I)
(I)
(I)
(II
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Dry gooda
44
126.143
4.926
15.864
12,6
6
(11
(X)
(IJ_
(Il
5
(11
(XL
fx)
m
Dry gooda (general lis*)
19
56,205
(l5
3,261
8,844
16.7
2
(XI
(X)
(x~
(II
4
(II
(Xl
(X)
(Il
Knit goods
S
(I)
(Xl
(Xl
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
•
-
Sotions
1
(11
(I)
(XI
(Xl
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
.
a.
Plaee goods
a.
60,369
1,002
5,073
8,4
4
(Xl
(XI
(XI
(XI
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(II
All other
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Sleotrl«sl goods
«
U.UT
690
2.201
19.7
_
_
_
.
_
.
_
_
_
gi^rfl sppUanoea, aqp't It anivllea
2
5,149
zss
716
13.9
-
.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Hadloa end radio equlpnent
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Hefrlgeratora
2
5,9«S
457
1,483
24.8
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
rmxm pn<kots-m Batarlala
70
201,321
1.440
12.166
6.1
19
127.934
839
6.188
4.8
15
231,019
i.oeo
16.587
7.2
Cotton
23
63,218
285
4, no
S.8
6
40,692
175
1,100
2.7
6
87,198
399
8,560
9.8
cnda
2C
78,101
644
3,643
4.9
6
37,192
350
2,555
6.9
3
63,798
352
2,106
3.3
Hldsa, aldns, and fora (m)
4
(l!
(Xl
(11
(X)
1
(Xl
(Xl
Ix)
(Il
-
-
~
^
-
UTe Block
2
(I)
(I)
(I)
(Xl
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
*
-
TDbaoee (leaf)
1
(I)
(I)
(X)
(Xl
*
m
-
-
.
\
(X)
(X)
(x)
(I)
Tool and BObair
9
29,401
■66
2,601
6.8
4
(11
(Il
(Xl
(Xl
1
(X)
(X)
U)
(I)
Paim prodaeta other than e pacified
5
13,840
86
677
4.9
2
(Xl
(II
(Il
(Xl
8
(X)
(X)
(x)
(X)
P«m prodaets-eonsnwr gcoda
47
129.953
4.447
14.008
10,8
8
53.256
419
2,630
4.9
2
82.998
892
1.423l_
6^g
Dairy piodaets (genaral line)
5
(ll
U)
(X)
(Xl
1
(II
(II
(Il
(Xl
-
Buttvr
*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Chaeaa
4
10,003
245
1,467
14.6
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
UlU and «!•«■
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
All other dairy prodaot*
1
(I)
(XI
(XI
(XI
1
(XI
(Xl
(Xl
(Xl
-
-
-
-
-
Pooltry and poultry produeta
5
14,274
148
667
4.0
1
(II
(Xl
(11
(xl
-
-
-
-
-
Dairy and pooltry prcdoota
17
45,842
1,1S6
3,721
8.1
3
19,077
217
977
6.1
-
-
-
-
-
Fruits «d TOgetablea (fMah)
14
35,697
557
2,024
5.7
2
10,666
107
1,155
10.8
2
22,998
892
1,423
6,2
All othar
1
(li
(I)
(XI
(XI
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Taim aappllas
9
25.640
1.468
2.048
6.0
4
30.927
364
4.607
14.9
.
_
.
_
.
Fbad
1
(l5
(X)
(X)
(XI
3
(il
(Xl
ill
(XI
.
.
-
-
-
FertJ UasT
i
13,657
tl)
101
1,500
10.8
1
(Xl
(Xl
(XI
(XI
-
-
-
-
-
Soads
S
(I)
(XI
(XI
.
-
-
.
-
-
-
-
-
-
All other
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fumltora and hooaa furnlBbingB
4
(I)
(X)
(XI
(==1
1
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
_
_
_
_
..
China, glaasaaro and erookery
1
(I)
(xi
ill
(xl
.
.
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Floor eoTerlng
2
4,516
243
923
20.4
-
-
-
■.
-
-
-
-
-
-
Fumituro
_
.
.
-
.
1
(Xl
(II
(Xl
(xl
-
-
-
-
-
Suv furB*gs (except es apeclfled)
1
(I)
(I)
(XI
(11
*
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
.-
-
Uasical inatronanta & abe^i ouaio
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
C«aaM of
BuaiasM
A-54
WBDIMOAIA DISZUBtmOVi 19S8
tABLI 7.— nOLBSlLI imOBAHT8 AD lUIDTACTUBSS* SALE BRABCRIS. BT SIZE Or BTABUffBKKRS iD DID OF inSIII
fCB IBB aviTD sum
(All value
I mxfrm»»m<
ill Uomuai
or dallanl
♦2,000.000 K) ♦♦.999,9« 1
♦6,000,000 TO $9,999,999
♦10.000.000 in OTK
Ttp* of KatkbllcfaMBt
KlBd of BoalMiB
b«r
of
estsb-
llsh-
rmnta
Vat
aalea
iTane*
mnbar
jf foll-
tina
DlOTMa
Iot.l
k*r
of
■BtBb-
lllh-
iTAnta
•Bloa
LT*ra«i
mBbR-
>f ftav
DlO^AI
tottl
bar
of
Bstab-
Iloh-
nanla
lot Bf full.
• •Ua tlao
[nlonSl
Total
axpanaaa
tot
txamt
<0f
■al«a
lomiit
<of
talaa
raOLSSlIE KISCHAVrs (eoBtlBiMd)
3«ner*l nerohaodls*
1
(XI
(II
(11
(I)
♦36,939
2,212
t«.e67
18.6
4
♦e0.255| t.o«t
♦2.412
3.0
GrooerlM and foodi(«xc»pl tmrm produoti
1 113
1923,364
11.791
146,256
14.3
21
144,980
4,386
26,639
18.4
IS
143,717' 2,676
18.296
12.7
Groc»rlM (g«ner»l lln»l
CoofAotloDsr; and soft drloki
Fl»h and aea foods
lUati and meat product*
Other food aod ^oovry •p«oLaltlai
Hardw»p»
£6
1
6
A6
24
1M,611
(II
(11
132. 62S
76.071
6.797
(II
(11
4,153
6.671
17, M4
(XI
(II
25,961
14,896
16.5
(XI
(II
19.6
19.8
10
65.197
1X1
(XI
41.642
HI
3,426
(II
(XI
340
(XI
9,746
(II
(XI
14,308
IXI
14.9
(II
(XI
34.4
HI
2
11
1
16.752
124.966
>I|
798
l.STt
lz|
2.62S
15,6T1
(Zl
14.0
12.8
(XI
HarAMT* (eviMrml lUwl
Hardnra [iptolaltr llusi)
Jvwelry and optioal gDodi
22
2
2
70.210
4.861
6.446
6,365
286
93
14,082
814
796
20.1
16.7
14.6
-
III
(II
1X1
III
1
(zl
izl
hI
(xl
Jwelrj (ganaral lint)
Oloolo and watoh«i
Bla&o&ds and othar praolona atonaa
Othar Jewalry BpaclaltlaB
Optical goodB
iTBibar 4 bld'g tttr'la [other th«n met
L-jBAier i>nc t..;II>iorlc
Bldg> ntr'la. except lonbar t nlll.worl
Uaohiner;, eqp't A ■' pla (exoept elect
1
1
11- 1
(11
(II
HI
(11
(11
(11
(II
(11
(XI
(II
IXI
(XI
-
;
-
-
-
-
-
;
*
^
c 1
1) 8
(II
(II
(11
(X)
(II
(XI
(11
(I)
1
(II
(XI
(XI
HI
-
-
-
CoBCerolal BaachlDery* -eqp't i a' pie
Offloa
Store
All othar
CoDatroottOD maohlnery, eqt>*t. 4 e*pl
Farm and dairy icachloery and eq.p't.
Indnatrlal aachlnery, eqp't. & a'plc
Hill and BlM euppllas (gen«»rel lln
Industrial naohlnery, eqp't. 4 t'pl
except Bill and mine sappllea
PTOfeaelonal equlpnent and Mppllee
Dental
Su-glcal, toedleal and hospital
All other
Serrlce aqnlpbent and ropplles
Barber and beauty parlor
Uundxy
All other
Tranaportatlon equljiDent 4 suppllaa
Uetkls lexoept scrap)
-
7
) 3
4
1
1
6
(11
(XI
11.942
(II
(II
(II
(Zl
(X)
167
(11
(11
(II
(XI
(XI
T7S
(II
III
(11
(XI
(XI
6.5
(XI
(11
(XI
1
1
(II
IXI
(II
(XI
IXI '
(XI
hi"
HI
I
HI
HI
(11
W
Iron and ateal (except scrap)
Metala except iron and steal
Paper and its prDdoots
4
2
10
11.6S2
(11
(II
1.199
(II
(II
2,923
(11
(II
25.1
(II
(11
1
(II
(XI
(Zl
(Z|
1
HI
(Zl *
(X)
HI '
Paper 4 Its products (general lloel
Paper 4 Its produots (speelelt; lines
Stationery and stationery mipplles
Wall paper
PetroleoB and Us produots
6
2
14
21,605
(11
50.690
1,257
(II
1.166
3,208
III
8.286
14.9
(II
16.1
1
3
(II
17.211
(XI
399
(Zl "
2.4T1
hi'
14.4
-
-
;
-
-]
PltDblng 4 beating eqp't. 4 Buppllca
I
(II
(11
(XI
(II
1
(XI
(XI
(XI
(11
.
.
_
^
Pltnilng 4 heating eqpH (gen'l lln
Other plTanblng 4 heating eqp't. 4 e*pl
Tobacco and Ita products (except leaf)
B. 1
S6
(11
109,646
(11 '
2,076
(11
6,668
III"
6.0
1
2
IXI
III
(XI
(11
IXI
(XI
HI*
(X|
1
HI
(XI
(Zl
|Z|
Waste iMterlsls
5
16.767
252
1.502
9.0
-
Iron and ateel scrap
jQOk and scrap (general Una)
taste paper, ra^ and rubber
All otber prodoota
4
1
23
(I)
III
73.4SB
(II
(11
2.141
(XI
(XI
7.097
(XI
III
9.7
8
(XI
(XI
IXI
III
1
IXI
(Zl
(XI
(Zl
Bear
Ba«a-and bagging, cordage and twloa
Plovers and nursery stook
Forest produots (exoept Itaber)
Leather
Uathar gooda
Beespapara. books and Dagmslnaa
Oils and cr«M** (anlxial 4 Tec*tabla)
Bobber, oruda
Vines and aplrltona llqnora
Tarn
lUa«*llan«ou Unda of buslneas
1
3
9
4
3
1
4
1
1
2
(XI
4.694
11.132
14.624
10,366
(XI
9,699
(II
(II
(II
(11
323
60
136
1,144
(11
64
(II
(II
III
(11
676
404
734
3.214
III
613
III
(II
(II
(11
14.4
3.6
5.1
31.0
HI
6.S
IXI
(XI
(II
1
2
1
t
2
III
12.340
(XI
11,644
13,066
III
68
(11
404
90
(XI
435
(XI
2,493
807
hi"
3.5
HI
21.4
3.9
1
HI -
HI -
HI -
HI-.
Censaa of
Am «r lean
Baslnaas
A-55
WHOLESALE DlSTHIBOTlOHi 1933
TABia 7,— WHOLESALE MSRCaANTS AKD MANUFACTORERS • 3ALS3 BRANCHES. BT SIZE OF SSTABLISHKEOT AND KIND OP BUSINESS
?0R THE UinTED STATES
(All laluoa oxDrossed in thousands
of dollara)
TOTAL
tnnaR jio.ooo
110.000 TO $49,999
Typ% of Establlahment
Kind of Bualseas
Kunv-
ber
Average
number
Total
Krnn-
bor
Average
number
Total
IfuiD-
ber
Average
number
Total
estab-
Het
saloa
of full-
time
expenses
of
istab-
Net
sales
of full-
time
expenses
of
estab-
Bet
sales
of full-
time
expenses
)tof
11 A-
en>-
Amount
lish-
em-
Amount
% of
11*-
ea>-
Amount
% of
nloyees
sales
ments
ployees
sales
monts
ployees
sales
UAMTPACTOKEIiS" 3A1SS
BEA1ICHE3 - Total
12.444
»S. 144, 686
193,177
»764,670
14.9
1,066
?6,334
1.126
f2,463
45.2
3.241
#85,366
9.727
$27,481
31.8
Amaiement an4 sporting gocds
216
97,960
4,962
14,803
16.1
6
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
17
616
52
171
33.1
lutomotlTe produot«
726
332,531
13,486
54,312
16.3
56
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
118
3,237
358
1.077
32.3
Chamloalt
703
299,412
9,416
46,486
15.2
63
332
39
116
34.6
216
6,950
687
2,124
35.7
Clothing and fUrnlAlngi
337
199,562
6,402
26,666
12.8
16
(XI
(X)
(XI
(XI
57
1,484
156
306
20.6
Ooal
K>
13,117
516
2,072
16.8
2
(X)
(XI
(XI
(X)
6 .
190
12
54
36.6
Drugs aoa drug sundries
213
36,956
4,223
24,936
28.7
26
124
27
66
46.2
61
1,385
166
607
36.6
Dry goods
233
116,132
3,872
16,022
13.0
11
6?
11
22
38.5
45
1,266
91
209
15.6
Bleptrloal gocds
447
322,841
14,477
49,922
15 ,B
37
199
68
87
4Si7
86
2,642
366
966
37.5
Farm fs-odaots-raw niatarlals
6
568
10
30
5.4
1
(X)
(XI
txi
(X)
1
(XI
(X)
(XI
(XI
Tana produota-aonsniBer ^ods
344
106,918
6,910
26,020
23.4
20
122
as
58
55.7
92
2,493
275
988
39.6
Farm supplies
110
42,792
2,481
6,983
16.3
6
23
4
5
21.7
9
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
Fttrnltare A house fumlahlng
1 344
71,809
2,772
10,615
14.8
47
196
33
58
34.9
74
1,894
219
502
2S.6
Orooerlas and foods (ezoapt
farm jroduote)
s,soa
1,661,861
61,493
207,786
12.5
237
1,219
190
458
37.6
608
18,099
1,411
4,116
22.7
Bartwaie
97
20,811
1,123
3,768
18.1
9
62
14
22
42.3
34
961
91
236
24.6
Javelry and optloai goods
269
26, S&
2,653
8,221
31.4
26
153
32
64
39.3
161
3,615
620
1,399
38.7
Lonber and building rmterlal
I
(othfir than natal)
SSI
197,903
4,973
18,513
17.2
SS
189
32
57
36.4
66
1,667
162
560
33.8
aohlnary, equlinent and
npplles (ezoept eleotrioa
.11,988
438,692
36,218
11«,»72
26.8
328
1,621
486
970
69.8
1,069
27,789
3,835
9,778
35.2
Metals leioopt aorapl
423
215,701
6,277
26,267
11.7
36
160
26
83
61.9
86
2,627
208
eii
32.1
I«per and Its produots
20S
94,012
2,969
18,700
16.7
17
93
23
56
59.1
64
1,673
266
687
43.7
Fatroleun and Its produots
121
26,200
932
3,990
IS. 8
\3
_71
11
21,
31.0
60
1,636
142
699
36.6
Plumbing & heating equlpnent
and Buj^llea
462
62,851
6,969
20,956
26.2
21
{p
(X)
1X1
ixl
96
2,366
267
861
36.5
Tobaooo and its ivoduots
(except leaf)
66
512,474
3,196
33,256
6.6
11
34
6
11
32.4
8
291
18
48
16.5
All oliier kinds of busineaa
SS6
269,294
9,969
39.605
14.7
36
168
27
55
34.8
159
4,616
436
1,390
30.1
tec ,000
TO $99,'
m
two ,000
TO $199
999
$200,000 TO $299,999
MlSOTAOTmEBS' SALES
BRABCHES - Total
1.SS4
134,126
12.359
39,740
29.6
1,890
269,985
21^84
58,998-
26.6
1,034
253,394
16,741
66,764
22.4
Aamaement and sporting goods
2S
1,870
2S9
784
41.9
48
5,923
746
2,265
32.6
49
11,769
997
3,211
27.3
AatenotlTS produots
93
6,886
737
2.272
3S.0
125
17.687
1,527
6,201
29.4
64
15,379
1,206
4,196
27. S
Chemioals
109
8,103
648
2,663
31.6
94
13,334
926
3,989
30.0
44
10,644
699
2,976
28.0
clothing and ftrnlshings
48
3.484
196
622
17.9
6S
9,264
604
1,427
17,3
32
8,064
692
1.467
18.1
Coal
2
II)
(XI
al
IX)
6
856
24
91
10.6
4
924
17
49
6.3
Drugs md drug sundrlaa
19
1,330
98
404
30.4
19
2,619
176
594
22.7
IS
3,337
210
677
17. S
Pry gooda
39
2,091
176
501
17.S
41
6,900
262
940
14.6
20
6,062
242
837
16.6
Bleotrioal goods
71
6.234
6S4
1,492
28.6
60
8,721
739
2,229
26.6
34
9,138
562
1.761
21. S
Parm produota-rsw Baterlale
I
(X)
(«
(X)
(X)
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(It)
1
(XI
(X)
(X)
(XI
Farm prcduo ts-oonaumer goods
ee
4,591
422
1.S87
36.7
62
8,746
664
2,469
!29.2
20
6,936
646
2,176
31.4
Para aupplles
10
711
42
137
19.3
14
1,812
147
417
23.0
17
4,293
241
664
13.1
Pumltare A^houae furnlAlsg
1 59
4,403
229
1.018
23.1
67
9,467
476
1,773
18.7
38
9,191
567
1,764
19.2
Srooerloa and fooda (exoept
farm pro duo ta)
SZ6
23,840
1,967
5.793
24.3
438
64,336
4,693
14,609
22.7
273
67,996
3,542
11 ,046
16.2
Bardwara
1!
898
63
216
24.1
11
1,689
86
320
19.0
10
2,357
109
482
20.4
Jewelry and optloal gooda
4S
3,0E0
344
970
SI. 6
21
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
8
1,996
173
6S9
32.0
Lumber and building material
i
(other than iretall '
48
8,647
292
1.034
29.2
63
9,301
664
2,234
24.0
38
(X)
(X)
(X)
(t)
Haohlnwry, equlpcent and
n s«2
supplies (except eleotrloa
39,809
4.666
13.296
3S.7
462
63,387
6,536
19,404
30.6
210
63,191
4,190
14.876
28.0
Metals (ezoept scrap)
64
4,610
347
1,403
30.4
72
10,098
482
1,984
19.6
34
7,936
427
1.609
20. S
Baper and its produota
29
1,986
261
729
36.7
24
3,447
387
1,145
33.2
11
2,763
214
496
19.0
Patroleum and Its produots
18
1,099
96
404
36.8
17
2,340
240
802
34.3
5
767
64
266
33.2
Plumbing ft heating equlpnent
and suppllea
114
8,348
606
2,494
29.9
lis
16,962
1,043
3,763
23.6
63
13,030
994
3,417
26.2
fobaooo and its produote
(ezoept leaf)
6
480
22
81
16.9
26.0
10
1,590
92
321
23.1
6
1,240
78
315
25.2
All other klnda of bosinasa
100
7,086
582
1,843
76
10,741
682
2,213
ZI.6
37
8,945
389
1,877
21.0
teimt of
tetrloan
Batineea
DISIBZnTTXOVt 1983
TABLE 7.— VH0LE3AIS lOBOHAirTS AKD UASUriCrUfOOtB* 3&L39 BRAJrCHS, BT 8IZB 07 E9TAfiLI3HnT9 AED HIS OT BIBZI
fOB m OnTKD 8T1TB9
(All Talnaa exprasssd in thouauds o
f dollaral
»a)0,(X>0 TO »499,999
*60O,000 TO (999,999
»1,000,000 TO H,
9M,9W
am-
ATsrage
lOB-
iTerafr*
■OB-
ATaraga
'^p« of Eatabllstiaant
Kind of Boalness
ber
nmber
Total
bar
smber
Total
ber
nnaber
Total
of
estab-
Hat
aalea
of full-
time
axpanass
Of
estab-
I*t
sales
>f fall-
tima
ozpeBsea
°f let
>stal>-{ wis*
of fnll-
tla*
azpsuaa
(of
r of
11*-
erv
Amount
% Of
llsh-
s^
kflxmat
liA>-
a»-
ABOimt
ments
ployees
sale*
sants
ployees
tales
vnts
ployaaa
■alaa
imnmcmi£it3' salss
Bm-13IS9 - Tottl
1.199
»464.629
23,121
fet.in
17.8
l.lfT
1818,788
36,713
n 31, 867
16.1
801
(W«,TU
80,187
>117,71«
14.8
Aoufnert btu) sportliw goods
S3
U,400
821
2,347
18.9
26
16,707
846
2,403
U.4
9
12,447
608
1,460
11.6
AatomotlTO pmduota
7S
27,637
1,486
6,186
22.4
116
82,369
3,441
14,017
IT.O
67
T3,U3
1,M»
9,242
U.6
Cb«Dloala
51
23,776
1,173
4,762
20.0
66
39,561
1,738
8,2X3
20.8
3<
48.669
1,M0
*,984
14.4
Clottiliie ud farnUhlngt
63
20,662
666
3,382
16.4
38
29,660
8C7
4,334
U.l
*0
17,6*0
714
3,948
14.3
Coal
9
1,238
29
86
6.9
4
2,716
196
tea
M.t
2
(XI
(Z)
(XI
(XI
Dro^s and drug tuBdrlot
23
8,933
442
1,972
22.1
27
19,367
m
6,44a
28.1
11
le.tM
i,m
r,»4i
30.9
Dry goods
26
9,900
244
1,060
10.7
24
16,290
370
1,637
9.4
IS
18,961
708
2,811
U.9
Slootrloal goods
31
12,378
606
2,21*
17.9
4«
32.879
1,619
4,618
13.T
41
84,008
1,189
7,000
13.0
Pans produots-oSnrassr goods
2S
10,746
700
2,447
22.8
23
16,379
666
2,663
16.6
17
14.876
1.639
7,190
29.2
Para suipllos
24
9,619
613
2,019
20.6
U
16,217
1,134
2,886
17. «
(
7,081
342
676
9.6
Purnlture A bouss ftirnishli^
I 24
9,366
364
1,628
16.3
24
16,006
674
2,261
14.1
T
9,776
1*6
919
9.4
Oroosrles and foods (ezoapt
farm products)
41?
161,166
7,067
21,329
13.2
442
316.373
11,646
39,109
12.4
f»T
302,649
9,809
M,880
U.l
Hardware
9
3,491
234
836
23.9
<
3,979
168
704
17.7
8
7,376
368
»4S
U.l
Jewelry and optical goods
10
3,746
392
1,276
34.1
6
3.186
32C
1,123
36.3
«
4,770
263
1,244
28.1
Lumber and tnlldlng material
1
(other than metal)
ST
14,606
767
2,636
17.4
28
19,612
-807
3,181
IS.S
11
U,389
8(1
2,930
1»»7
Uaohlnery, equlpoent and
sappllea (exoapt eleotrloa
.) 196
72,204
4,138
16,910
23.4
141
95,167
7,166
22,828
24.0
31
41,239
S,10T
8.674
10.8
UeUls (ercept scrap)
45
16,516
706
2,466
14.9
46
30,897
1,466
4,266
If. a
2T
36.790
1,816
4,031
11.0
B^per and Its froducts
24
9,721
460
1,761
19.1
16
9,816
366
1,603
16.3
11
16,809
614
2.960
18.7
Petroleuir. and its products
4
1,462
119
464
31.1
3
1,759
113
749
42.6
1
(II
(Z)
(XI
(Zl
Flamhlng and heatlt^ equlpDe
It
and supplies
39
16,066
1.196
3,607
23.3
2T
18,042
1,133
4,190
23.2
8
7,893
669
2,17«
rr.t
Tobacco and Its products
(except leaf)
11
4,266
180
774
18.2
9
5,907
231
947
16.0
9
12,149
187
1.80(^
14.8
All other yinds of business
42
16,639
660
2,976
18.4
40
28,011
1,291
4,362
U.6
W
80,496
2.098
7,658
12.1
♦2,000,000 TO U.9n,»M
te,ooo
*
,000 TO
*1,V99,VM
♦10,000,000 AID om
HUHJPACTOKEM ■ 3A1Z3
HRA50HS3 - Total
»94
670.143
23.709
107.447
12.?
S(
372.846
7,226
44.068
11.8
4S
Xf)S6.*ZZ
10.816
85 .♦If
a.l.
Amuaament and cportlng goods
3
7,664
178
421
6.8
.
.
T
(X)
(XI
(11
(Z)
Automotive products
22
62,326
1,668
9,269
13.3
-
-
-
-
-
2
(X!
689
(XI
(Zl
QlaaloalB
IS
43,199
647
S,9S2
9.1
9
63.166
1,192
7,281
U.6
2
42,729
40T
2,648
8.0
Clothing and furnishings
12
38,002
964
4,584
12.1
1
(X)
(X)
(XI
(Xl
4
67.126
1,2U
4,331
7.»
Coal
2
(It)
(X)
(X)
(X)
.
-
-
«
-
.
«
Dro^a and dri^ enndriea
T
24,177
1,129
7,439
30.9
.
-
-
-
■-
-
-
m
•
S17 goods
9
24,342
734
3,241
13.3
6
30,643
1,937
3,964
12.9
-
-
•
m
A
Slactrloal gooda
SI
98.706
4.431
14.041
14.2
6
39,900
1,278
4,311
10.8
4
80,148
1.140
U,327
lt.1
Farm producta-cooaumer goods
7
20,163
879
3,367
16.7
2
12,190
211
2,096
17.2
..
.
•
m
Psrm supplies
1
(XI
(X)
(XI
(X)
-
.
.
.
.
.
-
-
.
•
Furniture i house fumishingi
1 4
11.622
166
782
6.8
-
>
-
.
.
-
•
—
—
»
Groasriss and foods (except
farm products)
126
378,372
8,203
37,200
9.9
16
99,969
1,362
17,035
17.0
18
231,982
2,113
10,863
8.1
Hardware
.
.
„
.
.
_
_
.
«
_
•
.
»
w
Jewelry and optical poods
1
(X)
(XI
(XI
(X)
-
-
-
.
.
.
-
-
.
,.
Lumber and buildiu? material
1
(other thin metals)
7
23,463
778
3,773
16.1
-
-
.
-
-
1
■ (XI
(Zl
(XI
(XI
Machinery, equiprent and
sui^lies (exoept electrics
) 9
23,971
1.269
4,334
18.1
3
20,614
836
2,003
9.7
-
•
-
*
-
Ustala (except scrap)
e
22,326
311
1,697
7.6
3
20,060
136
U3
2.2
4
63,792
6<«
6.486
10. »
I^par.and ita iroduots
3
9,694
47
1,611
16.6
2
(X)
(XI
(X)
(XI
2
(XI
(XI
(X)
(Z)
Pstrolfloni and its products
-
.
-
-
-
2
(X)
(XI
(X)
(X)
-
-
-
•
Plumbing and hsatlng squipoa
It
and supplies
1
IX)
(X)
(X)
(XI
.
_
-
m
.
.
.
.
-
•
Tobacco and Its produots
(sxoept leaf)
7
17,462
369
3,060
17.5
3
20,007
199
2,6S6
13.3
6
449,248
1,824
23, Us
6.1
All other kinds of business
19
66,280
1,496
7,961
14.1
6
32,973
291
1,702
6.2
2
U,S6a
1,034
7,679
IT.S
An (X) In ooloim Indlcutos that Information siust ba withheld In 01 '
are included in State totals; a laader Indloatee do Infoniatlon.
to avoid dlBQloaln« data for IndiTldxxal aatabllshnente, but suoh data
A-57
KHDLISUJ! mSTRIBDnCM: 1933
Census of
Amerloan
Business
TABLE 8. - SinJMAHlf OP WHQUESAIE ESTABL ISHMEST WHICH BBS AIT OPERATIONS
1929 - 1933
1yp« of Establishment
Period In nhich establishments began operations
Kind of Business
Establishments
irraftxr
Percent
of
1933
Total
>et sales
(000 omitted)
Total
Type of establishment
Wholesalers proper
Manuf aoVurers ' sales branches
Agents and brokers
Assemblers and country buyers
All other types
Period in ifttlch establishments began operations
Prior to January 1, 1933
1933 total
First (quarter, 1933
Second (quarter, 1933
July, 1933
August, 1938
SepteDi>er, 1935
October, 1933
November, 1933
Eocacber, 1933
Kind of business
Amusemont anc sporting goods
Automotive products
Cheirloals >
Clothing and furnishings
Coal
Drugs and drug sundries
Dry goods
Bleotrioal goods
Farm products-raw materials
Farm prodaots-consumer goods
Farm supplies
Furniture and hoxise furnishings
General merdhandiae
Qrooerles ai^ foods (except farm products)
Hardware
Jewelry and optical goods
Lumber and building materials (other than metal)
Ilachlnery, equixnient and supplies (azoept electrioal)
llatals (except scrap)
Pqper and its products
Petroleum and its products
plvmiblng and heating equipment and supplies
TohAOOO and its products [except leaf)
Vaste materials
Beer
Tina and spiritous liquors
All other predueta
'37.846
23,075
2,039
3,947
4,526
4.269
25.631
12.015
1,43E
4,114
1,347
1,046
1,300
1,076
922
776
23.1
27.8
12.1
28.6
18.9
16.0
418
26.9
1,960
30.9
549
22.2
1,519
34.7
238
17.2
613
32.8
1,298
27.1
892
27.6
2,283
13.6
6,626
27.6
609
20.6
814
29.2
32
16.6
5,177
21.7
217
14.6
413
19.9
611
16.4
2,284
19.9
307
16.6
560
19.6
4,949
17.4
49»
22.2
398
19.8
663
26.3
1,986
83.3
668
86.1
1,398
2S.6
^.364.988
1,369,110
486,479
866,604
263,507
400,188
2.815.371
103,166
266,860
63,17?
28,925
34,614
26,634
11,664
14,587
33,416
130,596
52,960
160,964
59,249
56,206
228,217
83,964
463,763
471,694
32,377
39,816
3,011
509,040
12,594
17,538
41,338
119,076
115,340
68,728
394,861
35,206
69,231
17,793
67.260
38,8«7
76. m
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tabla «.— IIH01.ESALE TKADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(AU valum erprtutd m Uumaands of doUaTt)
[An (X) ID cohimn indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid diaclonng data for individual establiahmenta, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than MOCj
FuU-
NmiBEaor
FuU-
EaTABUSB-
NitSalm
time
Pat Rou- |
Stocks
ECTABUSR-
NbtSaum
time
Pat Rou
Stocka
UENTS
em-
on
UENTS
em-
on
COOKTT
ploy-
hand
CoDNTy
ploy-
hand
ees
Part-
time
(mdof
ees
ParU
time
(mdo/
1933
1929
1933
1929
{over-
all')
Total
vm)
1933
1929
1933
1929
{am-
Of)
Total
yettr)
uuuu
ARIZOltA
(oontlnuad)
TottI
i.tos
1.743
8809.397
1574.145
9,526
*12.510
•866
•31.948
Tana
84
88
#1.713
*3,S81
107
• 180
•41
B^SiE^a
a=t
•88
iatsufm
s
3
68
140
5
6
-
8
teimo
17
81
356
1,720
36
48
2
59
nn^mis
B&rbo\ir
IB
80
793
3,505
6S
63
1
63
Bibb
«
13
8
11
ise
481
413
855
IS
23
S3
SS
S
12
21
Total
1.894
S.OSS
1S1.SQ4
378.074
8.118
7.787
881
13.896
Bloxmt
Bollook
8
4
M7
524
15
17
1
46
Arkanaaa
88
34
3,008
S,37S
208
189
84
389
ButUr
IT
14
1,189
2,614
60
70
10
134
Ishlajr
10
16
198
1,144
11
SS
1
21
Calioon
38
40
4,047
9,532
196
289
8
446
Baxter 1/
8
15
839
2,120
10
9
-
SS
Chubers
7
8
119
IXI
9
17
S
8
Banton 1/
38
60
1,641
3,961
93
109
1
809
Cliaroks*
S
4
105
859
4
8
-
3
Boona
15
36
549
1,325
31
49
8
66
CUlton
U
19
M8
1,896
23
40
8
76
Bradley
8
9
318
1,034
17
84
-
71
Chocte*
i/
4
18
174
436
97
64
-
31
Calhoun
-
*
-
-
-
-
-
-
CIsrM
7
9
838
464
19
36
.
14
Carroll
84
26
688
1,360
36
4S
-
100
Cl«r
V
8
8
(X)
786
(X)
(I)
,
(X)
Chloot
16
21
1,503
6,666
62
73
4
826
ClebUTM
1
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
_
(X)
Clark
18
SS
781
8,179
43
58
1
100
CoffM
1/
13
80
495
2,687
88
60
7
39
Clay
14
14
388
1,017
16
38
T
60
Colt»rt
U
10
1,067
1,759
57
94
3
80
Clabuma
18
T
343
SSS
18
18
1
SO
Coa*cuh
8
7
193
1,343
16
S3
-
13
Clareland
3
8
6S
(X)
3
8
-
11
COOBS
3
3
88
269
6
8
.
8
Coluubla
16
38
759
4,108
37
46
1
8S
CoTlncton
84
88
1,441
3,034
84
114
3
821
Convay
17
33
646
3,178
34
48
8
lOS
Cr«n«b**
7
13
458
1,130
27
35
-
72
Cralgbaad
37
34
3,736
7,436
198
849
8
40S
C<illaui
19
IS
899
1,727
68
67
5
111
Crawford
8
IS
980
3,066
17
86
4
SO
Il«H
18
83
803
766
88
37
8
72
Crlttandan
18
39
870
1,836
36
S3
1
48
DftllM
41
49
e,«35
17,969
326
393
16
1,874
Croaa
8
19
363
843
14
86
1
38
» J»lb
18
14
390
2,443
21
32
-
25
Dallaa
11
7
473
SOS
84
SS
1
75
Slmor*
8
B
588
1,310
16
29
1
57
Daaha
IS
14
1,077
2,914
SI
59
1
136
beuBbU
17
a
923
1,614
41
46
S
64
DrCT
9
6
4SS
3SS
16
81
1
31
Itonh
38
40
3,180
11,960
171
199
4
402
Fkulknar
18
17
1,818
2,494
SO
68
S
131
rK7«tts
1/
10
81
237
2,764
21
88
S
16
Pranklin
6
10
1S3
171
8
10
1
S
rruiklln
11
e
357
423
29
37
n
50
ifaltoD
6
3
375
547
10
17
1
43
CeoeTS
1/
9
33
eeo
1,169
25
33
1
20
Garland
40
36
1,711
3,685
124
137
1
S09
Gr««ne
T
13
181
806
8
10
1
8
Grant
4
7
183
323
6
11
1
13
bla
i/
B
88
159
1,318
16
18
1
20
Graaca
14
S3
1,366
2,137
56
80
s
121
Htnrj
10
7
831
279
13
S3
.
14
Hsmpataad
20
19
1,463
6,025
67
85
3
801
HOQAtOD
8«
41
8,876
8,714
loe
134
8
877
Hot spring
7
T
881
668
13
26
4
34
Jaoksoa
e
13
477
1,935
24
88
~
44
Howard 1/
9
89
isel
1,666
13
88
-
84
J«fr«r»on
4S3
447
84,974
859,562
4,410
5,985
130
6.012 Independacoe
19
37
1,489
6,468
81
77
1
184
Ulnar
e
9
107
540
5
8
2
111; Ilard
6
23
841
996
9
13
30
Luul«r4*l«
38
40
2,849
7,398
101
157
9
267;i Jickaoo
IS
2S
1.464
8,521
56
67
4
808
U»r«nc»
s/
81
3
482
591
6
9
_
281 Jaffaraon 1/
43
83
6.138
38,271
377
433
IS
799
Ua
IS
14
1,173
2,669
66
99
4
134' Johnaon
11
17
SIS
821
84
31
8
69
UMitoas
9
le
556
4,774
87
33
1
7l!l IafB7«tta
8
9
75
485
10
18
1
3
Umdei
3
4
85
191
S
10
1
6
Lavranea
11
81
733
3,170
28
36
8
73
IhOOD
7
17
817
1,080
13
24
47
Lea 1/
IS
84
1,189
6,483
83
40
1
104
Ihaiion
41
38
3,545
13,674
156
206
10
453
Lincoln
S
6
SSS'
880
S
8
-
9
Huengo
11
IS
823
4,102
37
47
8
93
Uttla alver
T
14
869
867
SO
IS
-
33
■U-lOB
9
11
378
850
30
48
.
26
Logan
1«
34
441
814
S3
34
1
48
■kranall
80
18
1,178
978
49
71
S
97
Lonoke U
18
70
457
3,487
26
48
1
39
■Dblle
il
80S
141
41,775
63,436
1,879
1,696
59
14,8241 Vuliaon }/
-
10
-
776
-
-
~
■bnriM
4
«
120
288
11
16
.
i' Hart on
3
13
47
159
1
1
5
lloQtfOB«r7
91
138
21,624
86,967
834
1,093
17
2,57o:< Ullar
31
SO
5,316
9,120
250
386
3
946
■orcu
38
41
8,598
16,320
121
149
5
327 Miaaiaaippl TJ
SO
89
4,108
24,418
ISO
196
4
338
Parrj
8
14
338
1,779
15
19
•
31 llonroa
IS
89
638
1,098
36
60
-
73
Plokena
«
13
113
1,404
9
13
1
11: nontgomary
3
S
68
306
7
11
S
PIW
17
83
1,419
2,518
49
71
6
72: lla<i4a
10
9
S68
1,212
38
36
-
73
Budolph
9
18
694
866
48
43
1
42! 8awton
.
3
-
(X)
-
-
-
-
Rui«ll
S
7
187
663
80
18
1
21' Onachlta
19
19
1,237
2,653
78
103
3
148
St. Cl»lr
e
4
162
191
8
17
-
6; Parrj
1
4
IX)
267
IX)
(XI
IX)
tX)
Shelbr
7
10
222
432
18
2S
-
8
Phllllpa
36
7B
8,383
18,222
197
878
2
537
Somter
10
17
259
880
19
89
1
86
Pike
B
20
93
438
8
11
-
11
T>llaA«g«
IS
83
1,027
6,284
33
32
1
66
' Polnaatt
8
24
241
1,990
IS
19
1
14
TftlUpoovft
9
17
631
1,234
87
48
-
49
' Polk
13
14
1,083
818
34
48
1
154
Tiucftloofa
38
48
8,086
14,760
843
S6S
4
703
1 pope
S3
19
1,687
3,874
66
79
3
184
*»lk«r
83
18
1,691
1,764
176
146
13
99
Pralrla
8
10
233
360
9
13
-
15
t«« blazon
3
3
95
129
4
7
.
5
Pnlaakl
1S4
166
34,889
101,393
1,791
8,312
99
4,961
WHOM
a
4
146
178
IS
16
-
19
Dandolpb
11
6
517
783
19
86
1
44
tluuo
18
7
444
668
10
IB
3
13
St. rranolf
Sallna
19
7
a
3
1,393
soe
4,021
27
35
IS
61
SO
3
1
198
13
AmWA
seott
Sa«ro7 %/
T
9
7
3S
132
160
868
444
10
6
10
18
I
4
80
Total
478
49,T^ff
OT.BB4
8-8SO
4-9B3
Sabaatlao
Sarlar
108
10
86
87
16,306
SIB
33,068
S,OES
815
SS
1,136
37
39
1
2,394
1
81
ipMjbe
2/
7
1
IBS
IX)
8
9
1
28;, Sh«rp
B
8
309
484
9
IS
-
30
CooMM
31
88
1,044
3.215
B8
93
5
no! 3tona
S
1
tx)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
COGOBino
17
10
1,388
884
' 88
84
B
124:; union
48
71
2,973
10,916
189
830
10
868
GIU
83
IT
1,388
3,099
81
e<
C
96|| Taa Buran
S
7
(X)
86
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Or»haa
IB
8
612
649
«T
43
1
96 tasMngton
4T
68
S,8ES
10,539
8B8
800
3
tra
Or«*ol««
V
9
1
184
(X)
«
11
1
26'| thlta
•8
109
1,188
6,040
89
76
•
131
fcrleopa
808
171
29,110
64,086
i.tss
8,076
888
8,778 Woodruff
9
18
ST6
1,636
18
18
1
33
HoInaTS
8
7
244
1 1,896
! ^
S3
1
19 Tail
10
88
830
1,079
18
IS
•
IS
I«tbJo
a-
19
9
1,661
1 728
i 39
«4
3
199
nam
B<
38
8,612
10.870
383
584
87
812
Plul
a'
18
8
Sin
(X)
84
44
1
36|j
Skat* Cmi
17
80
1,136
5,397
as
98
10
16611
Ta«>p«l
19
17
2,085
2.848
IBS
S6S
9
398
'
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9 . —WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES
{All values expressed in thousands of doUars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid discloeing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500]
NUMBEB OF
1
Full-
—7
NUMBEH OF
\
FuU-
1
Ebtabush-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll 1
Stocks
Ebtabush-
Net Sales |
time
Pay Roll |
Stocks
County
UENT8
em-
OD
hand
Ccuurr
BIENTO
em-
ploy-
on
hand
ploy-
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
{aver-
age)
Total
Part-
time
(<™io/
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
{aver-
age)
Total
Part-
time
{end of
year)
oiunraii
\
►
f
OOLOSilO
teoatlauadi
Total
11,061!
9,751
2.2S5.2S6
4.159.523
92.049
1145.840
11.005
«236.371
Praaoat
25
22
tl,424
11,472
94
»97
•le
l99
UaMd*
V
57S
4««
92,609
158,670
4,757
7,096
246
9,233
Carflald
19
16
567
1,027
34
48
a
52
llpliM
.
>
-
.
.
-
Gilpin
3
4
29
52
4
4
-
1
lalor
e
5
230
148
11
17
-
8
Grand
8
4
219
61
11
18
-
le
»«•
«S
28
5,167
5,475
121
204
13
171
Gunalaon
6
3
140
126
9
12
-
15
Omlartru
4
2
160
(X)
5
9
1
6
HlBsdala
1
1
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
Colua
el
2S
706
3,984
43
75
2
43
Huerfano
12
15
518
1,463
44
61
1
91
Coatra CoiU
y
51
35
5,628
3,465
508
420
20
389
Jaokson
1
5
(XI
259
(XI
(XI
(II
(XI
IHI Iort«
10
4
243
159
11
17
2
19
Jeffaraon
10
6
185
172
20
22
1
57
Kldondo
13
8
872
3,976
26
69
28
35
Rlova
12
12
200
923
13
15
-
48
rrttno
S8S
231
53,395
62,450
1,449
2,588
247
3,622
nt CaraoB l/
55
45
555
11,096
39
41
1
55
Claim
22
19
1,099
2,939
49
75
4
43
Lata
6
6
192
397
10
15
3
14
Bimtoldt
4«
53
4,232
3,967
178
286
7
449
La Plata
16
19
796
1,281
39
57
5
68
laparlal
V
ISl
90
14,979
24,977
642
1,582
563
1,108
Larlaar
42
55
1,625
4,351
88
112
3
223
In7<,
IS
7
657
369
57
48
1
44
Ua Inlaai
42
26
3,233
12,863
179
220
17
B77
lapn
ICO
lie
13,047
26,252
563
812
26
946
Linoola
17
20
391
4,092
25
29
1
94
Kiogi
51
29
2,707
6,000
102
167
8
165
Logaa 1/
55
51
1,751
7,202
115
127
6
179
Ute
«
4
294
125
15
26
1
15
■■•a
43
56
4,626
8,187
256
345
27
760
Laasan
1/
le
5
875
520
46
65
1
101
nmral
1
1
(X)
(XI
(Xl
(XI
(XI
(I)
Lot ij«alaa
4,«10
5,S52
792,263
1,540,822
56,555
56,737
3,007
82,404
llDffat
8
6
285
259
13
16
1
IS
Ibdais
15
9
927
477
47
75
3
44
Kontaraa
7
fl
191
491
13
18
1
15
larla
S/
s:
11
1,932
1,119
31
138
12
147
Hootroae
18
22
660
2,573
51
52
10
35
■aripoaa
5
4
271
51
10
19
.
19
MOrgaa
21
50
497
2,211
40
44
1
77
aandottlao
27
17
926
1,351
76
107
2
93
Otaro
28
25
899
1,728
55
87
19
78
»r«a<
57
52
2,517
4,517
127
194
19
193
Onray
2
2
(Xl .
IXI
(XI
(XI
(I)
(XI
■odoc
11
7
559
742
30
46
-
48
Park
2
2
(XI
(XI
(XI
(Xl
(XI
(X)
lono
3
1
136
(X)
12
8
4
17
Phllllpi
21
27
550
3,150
52
38
1
97
Montarar
V
107
78
13,997
15,492
1,020
1,479
297
627
Pltkla
2
1
(XI
(XI
(XI
(X)
(I)
(Xl
lapa
f
50
IS
3,450
1,438
235
311
7
908
Proaara
25
56
667
4,541
62
81
5
107
mntM
1>
7
1,553
469
125
157
2
386
Pnablo 2/
92
71
12,057
19,637
665
925
35
1,970
Oraaca
151
157
28,728
56,389
2,042
3,183
1,229
911
Uo Blaaeo
4
2
45
(XI
6
5
-
2
Plaoar
52
25
2,868
4,190
233
286
23
181
Wo Granda
19
52
1,151
5,820
40
81
24
73
e
2
235
(I)
12
18
1
21
Bontt
11
16
174
310
11
15
1
15
IlTCnlda
tl
C8
72
14,722
15,435
988
1,425
412
946
3a«tiaol»
12
16
594
1,845
20
19
2
20
SaoraMcto
v
206
155
53,415
88,273
2,096
3,284
147
5,413
San Jaan
2
«
tx)
(XI
(XI
(II
(XI
(Xl
Sao Baulto
6
9
SOS
1,146
18
30
1
22
Saa Mlgaal
3
S
41
62
5
5
-
5
San Bamardlao
leo
153
40,572
53,637
2,299
2,728
864
1,132
3od«alok
19
15
524
1,207
20
80
1
S3
San Dlt^o
^
517
228
45,660
59,319
3,233
4,655
559
4,076
Suanlt
1
(Xl
-
(XI
(11
(XI
(11
San rrauluo s/
t,Vn 5,154
911,7*9
1,784,173
25,385
44,780
1,288
106,396
Tallar
4
4
86
107
8
9
-
5
San Jonquio
IM 110
24,275
42,141
1,255
1,836
63
3,267
Waahl^toa
19
19
259
911
18
18
1
se
Saa Lola Obiapo
44
37
2,573
5,982
106
189
6
529
•aid
95
110
4,241
10,926
194
ess
10
452
San latao
«/
52
21
11,520
22,234
232
415
7
816
Kim 2/
48
28
970
3,484
48
41
5
67
Suta Barbara
109
70
10,526
17,612
721
1,086
297
798
Santa Clara
il
lei
108
81,070
24,282
2,501
2,477
101
3,802
oonBCTicm
Santa Orva
e<
SO
5,958
15,086
2S9
408
98
541
Shaata
ll
IS
1
14
l,74i
(I)
634
67
(XI
99
(X)
5
(XI
846
(X)
Total
1.412
1.569
S?6,829
520.551
13.721
21,424
645
49.575.
Slam
Sliklrra
52
17
1,706
1,973
95
133
4
208
Palrflald 6/
556
243
93,196
108,376
3,298
5,774
179
16,198
SoUaa
45
35
2,900
4,284
132
241
4
157
Hartford
415
585
92,976
153,683
4,6SS
6,648
212
19,984
SaaOK
1^
154
102
15,666
27,376
1,026
1,261
42
1,258
Lltohflald
37
57
3,197
5,649
185
262
20
553
Staalalana
•4
70
10,100
9,288
859
904
57
1,216
Mlddlaiaz
32
26
3,438
4,068
226
335
19
345
Snttar
17
12
1,181
763
51
83
8
597
■ev Haraa
442
564
128,955
225,521
4,514
7,565
185
11,107
Tahaaa
21
19
1,380
1,599
88
122
9
85
■oa London
119
85
12,631
19,234
689
960
26
1,406
•rialt/
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
Tollaad
7
7
672
887
34
57
1
84
Tulara
v
115
87
17,002
21,230
678
1,522
451
855
tixdhaa
24
24
1,764
5,155
90
126
3
9T
ToolUiBia
11
a
635
502
22
44
7
183
Tantara
es
77
22,683
27,922
1,180
1,865
752
459
mLiim
Tolo
24
20
3.383
5,410
107
237
41
l,034i:
'ftiba
21
15
1,667
2,676
84
132
7
120
j Total
bat
259
286
59.182
118.087
1,783
5.244
97
7,235
COMUllO
58
44
2,S90
4,500
88
ISO
14
18S
Urn Caitla
172
158
53,848
107,715
1,596
2,987
55
6,877
fatal
1.825
2.078
2S«.056
639.626
10,976
16.380
551
25.558
Suiai 1/
UISTBICT 0»
49
90
2,944
5,874
99
127
28
175
Idaaa
15
15
211
922
18
21
.
23
Uaaoaa
25
17
1,172
2,166
84
104
4
154
COLTHBU
Irapalioa
1«
22
463
1,774
54
38
4
49
Irehalata
1
14
1
19
(I)
647
(I)
2,684
(XI
58
(XI
39
(XI
1
(XI
56
Total
575
496
179,077
261.083
7,444
10.989
92
11.587
Sana
Mat
11
12
318
1,590
21
22
-
59
nOBIBl
Bonldar
41
41
1,535
2,459
111
146
9
158
Cbaffaa
le
le
11
11
373
415
531
8M
21
17
27
2C
3
1
51
33
Total
2.051
2.064
280.305
466.535
15.446
19.171
1.794
22.368
CbaTanaa
Claar Oraak
1
(Z)
(X)
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
Uaobaa
28
26
2,345
2,951
153
220
18
379
(XI
Oeaajoa
Hj
l:
S(
78«
1,711
36
3S
1
29
Bakar
2
5
(X)
545
(XI
(XI
(XI
CMtilU
21
34
59!
4
4
•
!
Baj
14
IS
581
1,142
123
79
4
59
Crowlaj
I!
11
461
643
U
69
49
SO! Bradford
5
14
lis
881
9
19
1
6
cnatar
.
I 4
5i
131
1!
(
1
4 Brarard
K
24
569
1,261
4!
68
3
38
Salta
51
29
1,125
2,53C
69
99
21
71
1 Brovard
21
82
1,542
1,921
ee
-. 125
1
100
Doorar
Wi
95<
182, 3M
395,991
7,714
11,081
22!
16,73!
i Oalhoan
9
9
91
12!
1
14
^
4
Dolorat
1
1
lH)
(XI
(XI
(X)
(XI
(II
Cbarlotta
9
14
SSI
831
51
5C
£
14
IKn^laa
4
1
K
144
1
1
-
<
Cltrna
11
1
47C
17!
51
5«
1
26
la«la
it
(
\ ■ i
75
7
59
9!
■
14(
) OUT
1
1
(Xl
144
(XI
(XI
(XI
(XI
Elbart
1
11
31<
84
) 19
11
31
Colllar
i:
4
841
241
6(
76
s
55
n tm—
8
«
7,98'
10,04.
i 41E
56!
I
78
CalaakU
11
It
742
981
3'
49
1
96
Census of
American
BuainftB
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
TabU 9 .—WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COIWTIES
(All ralues expresstd in Owusands of doUara)
{An (X) in column indtcatea that information miist be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establiahmenta, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount Ich than $600)
NmBRR OP
Full-
NUHBKROP
Full-
ESTABUBH-
NrrSALXs
time
Pat Roix
Stoeka
ESTABUSH-
time
Pat Roll
Stoda
COUNTT
UKN^re
em-
ploy-
ees
(oi'er-
age)
on
hand
(mdo/
year)
C>)u?nT
HINTS
em-
ploy-
ees
(mw-
on
hand
year)
1933
1»29
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
mam
aointi
(eontlmwd)
(contlnuadl
Sul*
»:
261
137,000
150,758
1,897
t2,641
174
tz.ett
Chatham
187
167
IS5.S46
tl21,4S4
1,307
•1.S91
.*>!
*s,m
Da 3ot«
19
18
955
1,679
55
110
39
115
Chattahoochaa
.
2
_
(X)
_
_
Mil*
3
9
121
332
9
11
-
15
Chattooga
1
2
(X)
(XI
(XI
(XI
(if
(X) '
HOT.!
B7e
387
75,279
161,814
2,9S7
3,948
70
7,144
Charokaa
7
8
441
964
34
34
B(
bcutli
70
90
9,215
20,076
408
S4S
29
1,184
Clarka
37
43
6,787
17,329
214
2se
6
SOI
ntfitT
»
S
155
116
10
13
I
8
Clay
3
6
(X)
358
(XI
(X)
(11
(11
franilln
5
23
131
1.596
11
15
-
IS
Clayton
3
8
(X)
537
(XI
(XI
(11
(I)
C^iden
1«
IS
1,300
1,469
263
146
2
416
Clinch
3
3
146
200
7
11
e
Cllehriat
3
11
145
300
8
8
-
39
Com
9
21
877
3,191
34
69
1
at
ClaJles
4
7
77
319
6
8
-
4
Coffaa
11
17
i.tot
1,704
30
41
3
n
out
1
2
m
(I)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
CoJ^nltt 1/
36
S3
1,637
12,528
77
99
4
14(
BaBllton
2
»
(X)
498
tx)
(11
(I)
tx)
Coltahta
3
3
73
73
3
9
1
t
Itrdae
se
21
1,477
1.323
177
147
42
25
Cook
8
9
194
1,S«6
7
13
.
t
H.odlT
4
4
489
325
16
28
-
32
Coaata
12
18
9,857
3,641
77
74
1
881
Httniando
g
8
319
486
128
63
u
7
Crawfort
-
2
-
(I)
.
.
Rlgblaods
15
15
1,267
818
136
127
39
33
Criap 1/
IS
32
966
8,681
109
9<
IT
U1
!Ullib«roii«h
278
243
52,065
87.867
2,435
3.509
174
4.750
lada
2
1
(XI
(X)
(XI
(XI
(11
(XI
Ho Ian
e
4
4 IS
171
30
2S
-
32
Daaion
-
.
-
-
lDdl«o ai»«r
<
7
810
262
19
61
29
161 Qacatnr
13
16
439
1,923
36
49
6
71
Jaoluos
22
SO
1,250
2.569
59
131
60
SSSi Da Ealb
8
13
683
2,006
34
36
1
1
Jsffanon
10
13
321
472
36
33
1
46|l Ilod«a
7
17
508
1,846
27
3S
1
«
Ufajatta
4
2
38
(X)
1
2
1
1 D00I7
10
22
291
1,077
16
28
3
Uka
31
35
1,841
3,492
84
165
64
41 Boughartj
43
43
8,213
23.842
379
441
18
I,0«
Laa
IB
IS
749
2,214
42
89
24
45
Douglaa
3
7
202
371
9
16
1
UOB
14
18
715
1.891
54
91
1
246
Barly
4
9
SOS
2.023
17
20
_
a
UTJ
17
18
228
S22
25
24
-
23
lehola
-
5
-
36
.
*
.
Ubartj
1
1
m
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
XffinghaB
4
4
169
163
7
IE
1
1
Hadlaon
8
9
198
410
13
21
-
14
Blhart
9
12
730
1,932
32
44
1
«
■anataa
37
30
1,758
4,292
109
316
95
187
Biaimal
22
86
736
2,169
31
SO
3
61
Ibrlan
32
38
1,780
4,359
112
153
5
247
Svana
9
12
228
706
17
34
1
»
■fextlo
14
IS
218
375
16
27
1
16
Pannln
S
3
342
809
13
14
.
S(
Monroa
2«
2S
1,471
2.133
46
69
7
141
Payatta
1
S
(XI
86
(XI
(XI
(II
(11
Vaaaau
11
9
249
605
32
44
12
20
Floyd
33
40
5,063
14,644
161
toe
4
481
Otslooaa
5
4
138
134
9
15
-
5
Poraytha
-
6
-
276
-
-
Okaaebobae
11
IS
303
432
24
27
2
23
PFaoklln
9
17
410
1,671
14
30
1
B
Orange 2/
113
82
36,605
15,992
1,639
1.277
69
719
Pulton
661
753
331,035
503,426
7,634
11,907
169
28,301
Oacaola
7
9
369
460
30
39
-
37
Olliaar
3
11
100
291
8
6
-
F>lB BaaetL
ee
74
6,322
10,296
349
484
13
457
Claaoook
1
.
(XI
.
-
Paaoo
11
28
825
491
178
107
12
33
Clymi
34
34
3,327
19,629
99
127
4
331
PlnalUa
B7
78
5,830
9,510
519
562
72
562
Cordon
7
9
214
527
17
39
3
u
Polk
109
94
17,001
16,838
1,839
2.161
652
612
Grady
8
23
269
1,566
20
34
t
u
Pntsam
17
28
992
4,976
U7
108
4
67
Craana
5
12
93
206
7
13
-
<
St. John
34
18
2,112
4.399
81
143
26
66
Owlnnatt
7
9
633
579
20
49
1
«
St. baola
21
14
1,226
1.266
71
147
SO
96
Raharahaa
IS
12
780
828
39
83
t
T(
Santa aoaa
3
S
86
249
S
14
I
3
Hall
29
33
3,686
6,029
140
188
7
31
3ar«aot«
17
17
1.189
1,727
154
130
14
42
Hanoook
4
13
119
483
8
7
Saalnola
1«
SO
3,178
7,514
197
161
1
33
Haralaon
3
7
120
562
6
9
-
1.
5»«tar
13
IE
343
990
82
26
2
11
Harrla
3
3
51
107
7
7
-
Surauaae
9
12
304
824
21
32
1
12
Hart
4
28
107
1,094
6
13
-
I
tajlor
11
9
857
618
26
46
4
83
Baard
_
■ _
.
.
_
.
.
Oil 00
1
1
(X>
(X)
(X)
(X)
(I)
(XI
Haniy i/
2
16
(X)
711
(XI
(II
(I)
(II '
TolMla
49
48
2,90e
3,519
221
303
46
671
Hoaaton
4
8
95
502
8
It
-
laktaia
4
2
90
(X)
7
6
5
Irarln 1/
2
19
(X)
430
(XI
txl
(11
(XI
lalton
7
8
243
365
24
37
1
43
Jackson
IS
30
992
1,343
S3
' 44
3
19
WaaUflctoo
3
S
8S
394
7
9
-
4
Jaapar
Jaff Darla
4
8
7
2
133
150
397
(XI
s
4
B
B
^
OIOROIA
Jaffaraon 1/
Janklna
10
7
33
18
208
326
1.417
4S4
18
12
tr
t4
4
e
3
TOUl
2.275
3.183
429.242
1-018.496,
IS.244
31.069
470
57.442
Johnaon l/
Jonaa
3
1
14
1
49
(XI
481
(X)
6
(XI
8
(H
(11
■
(XI
inline 1/
S
32
373
1,324
16
37
1
17
Laaar
«
4
lOT
174
9
12
-
1
Itkinaon
4
(X)
93
(X)
(X)
(II
(XI
Lanlar
1
1
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
(XI
(11
Badon
4
(X)
eao
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Laorana l/
18
ST
2,051
4,319
60
87
4
IS
Bakar
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Ua
-
1
-
(XI
-
-
-
BaMalD
17
14
1,S14
2,233
es
81
1
146
Llharty
3
3
95
(XI
9
IS
1
Banka
.
(X)
.
(X)
(X)
(I)
(X)
Lincoln
10
3
70
3(3
1
1
-
Barrow
IB
319
1,909
16
21
22'
Long
1
1
(X)
(X)
(XI
(11
(11
(XI
Bartoa l/
11
a
SIS
3,937
28
34
1
»
Loandaa
33
36
3,213
7,512
lit
180
a
301
Ban Sill
15
10
377
909
27
S9
6
52
laapkln
-
1
-
(X)
-
-
-
Barrlaa
7
243
1,429
10
16
I
14
lisDuma
13
14
60«
SS3
43
31
1
*•
Bui
se
B9
13,930
16,500
666
827
33
1.404
Ifcliitonk
3
1
37
(XI
3
4
-
Blaoklaj 1/
Brantlaj
23
1S7
818
e
10
-
12
Han on
3
14
130
1,348
3
11
-
1
1
(X)
(X)
(I)
<X1
(X)
(11
Ikdlaon 1/
3
34
(X)
969
(XI
(X)
(XI
(11
Brooka
11
10
330
82S
28
2«
1
23
Ihrlon
8
3
219
(XI
6
8
-
1
BiT«a
3
(X)
88
(X)
(XI
(XI
(XI
> Harlaathar
8
10
303
1,351
14
3t
4
1
Bsllooh
u
n
1,278
2,029
47
SI
-
96
Ullar
4
1
148
(X)
3
3
-
m
Borka
u
IS
467
2,232
27
39
-
•a Hilton
-
6
-
148
-
-
-
Biitta
8
126
163
t
la
-
7 Mltoball
17
14
493
1,466
S3
49
9
r
Calbooa
11
697
1,411
183
as
11
128
marcm
3
7
173
331
6
11
t
m
Caadan
4
SO
2,181
4
e
-
3
tbateomtrj
1
»
(XI
343
(XI
(XI
(X)
(II
Caaptall
7
.
239
.
-
-
-
mrgmn
3
13
(XI
806
(XI
(X)
(XI
(I)
Candlar
17
M
368
1,2X9
*
It
-
13
lbrt«y
1
8
(XI
232
(II
(XI
(H
(XI
Carroll l/
1 11
SS
678
5,410
38
43
1
39
lAiaoo««a
•<
S3
11,113
17,46t
I.IOS
791
It
•31
Catooa*
.
-
-
-
laatan
e
to
473
1,530
tt
t7
. -
4
Charlton
j 2
3
(X)
73
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Ooaaaa
-
3
■
79
-
■
~
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COLFNTIES
(AU values expressed in thousaruis of doltaTs)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500]
Number of
1
Full-
[
NuBraEH OF
1
FuU-
Establish-
Net Sales i
time
Pay Roll |
Stocks
Estabush-
Net Sales |
time
Pay Roll |
Stocks
ments
em-
on
MENTS
em-
on
County
ploy-
hand
County
ploy-
hand
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
iaver-
age)
Total
Part-
time
(endol
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
(aver-
oje)
Total
Part-
time
(tniol
fsar)
GXOBSU
IsiHO
(eontlBUAd)
(continued
Ogl»thorp«
9
11
IS3
»1B1
2
ta
.
»2
lemhi
6
6
»2a5
t208
7
»11
-
«u
P«uldln«
S
a
79
345
3
5
-
2
Leels
13
IS
323
1,463
11
20
«2
18
PMCh
e
9
334
901
18
23
.
3i;
Lincoln
a
8
125'
492
7
10
-
12
Plekttaa
5
143
_
5
8
»1
111
Kadi son
14
15
358
1,193
17
22
2
39
Men,*
3
12
522
388
9
11
2
14
Kinldoka
14
10
440
706
8
32
20
28
PllM
1
12
(^1
463
(X)
(D
(X)
(X)
Res Perce
40
38
4,276
9,008
203
303
19
722
Polk
14
17
14,435
B,371
119
254
1
12,066
Oneida
1/
7
9
101
1,238
9
18
2
11
Pulaski
U
18
512
1,895
13
28
1
36
Oayhee
5
-
90
-
3
10
6
4
Pntn»«
4
8
14a
439
10
9
1
4
Payette
18
19
1,427
2,691
34
103
58
205
goltaan
2
1
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Power
6
14
203
1,599
14
21
1
28
Rabun
4
2
158
(X)
8
IS
12
Shoshone
18
14
1,667
3.179
66
140
58
378
Budolph
Zt
27
831
2,034
40
51
13
174,
Teton
11
10
154
505
14
16
-
12
aichaonil
117
119
22,a04
83,787
651
855
17
2,754
Twin Palls
?/
105
57
6,929
13,443
250
344
50
849
BockdaK
2
a
(X)
1,290
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Talley
5
4
145
136
11
16
1
11
Schle?
:
2
(D
(XI
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
Washington
18
18
915
2,392
54
81
10
158
Scr«T«i 1/
e
40
270
2,501
15
18
-
25
S«Blnole
10
4
393
543
18
20
2
19
lUIHOIS
Spalding
17
17
3,583
5,180
198
231
3
48S
sttpbana
7
9
4
12
372
278
203
771
22
15
28
18
1
1
22
37
Total
11.924
11.687
2.818.348
8,861,067
89.544
150.174
4,231
195.134
SMrart
Sumtar
18
2a
1,247
3,884
7S
104
4
248
Idaaa
107
lis
11,102
21,736
717
938
47
1,867
Talbot
S
3
(I)
112
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Alexander
36
51
3,246
13,234
242
282
23
657
Tallaforro
2
1
m
(XI
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Bom
17
18
484
694
32
35
3
-
TaU>aU
3
5
73
384
4
10
-
Sn Boom
13
8
470
689
30
43
1
79
Taylor
i
7
154
403
7
10
1
lOii Brown
24
26
1,178
897
38
31
2
100
Tolfair
7
17
448
1,775
IS
28
-
47 Bureau
1/
67
48
5,211
8,965
109
125
8
310
Tarrall 1/
13
13
383
4,130
17
29
11
Wi' Cftlhoon
4
-
178
-
9
10
-
42
Thooas
Bl
32
1.110
3,578
74
101
-
I2fi, Carroll
21
28
490
1,698
20
26
2
49
Tift
16
19
1,341
4,724
46
71
13
lOeil CasB
22
28
602
1,669
42
58
1
78
Toouba
11
19
581
2,931
43
43
3
102
Champaign
i/
179
128
11.886
16,289
365
428
26
1,012
Tonu
_
.
OhrlstUn
80
82
3,247
5,J94
128
170
12
348
tr^utlan
1
14
(X)
831
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Clark
30
27
646
1,061
34
40
1
42
Troup
ZS
30
1,215
4,599
74
103
3
108
Clay
24
27
560
1,436
21
52
1
23
Tomer
a
4
109
147
11
17
2
3
Clinton
20
18
581
664
26
44
5
57
*irt«g>
2
a
(I)
68
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Coles
81
84
4,031
6,998
219
242
24
398
VdIou
I
4
(I)
59
(XI
(X)
(X)
tx)
Cook
6,378
6,889
2,354,149
6,929,241
71,744
126,437
3,074
159,597
Upton
g
12
1,280
1,245
41
ea
80
Crawford
30
2S
5,786
2,117
219
272
3
191
lalkar
7
7
487
474
2S
36
1
44 Cunberland
18
8
400
156
14
18
2
49
Walton
9
20
813
1,802
41
41
-
981 DO Ealb
y
64
57
3,544
4,452
127
179
17
34S
Wara
18
24
2,024
7,282
111
148
3
125 Be fltt
52
49
2,009
4,732
52
84
8
215
larran
4
4
99
138
8
14
.
5 Dou«lae
51
39
2,185
3,641
87
99
5
240
ffaabin«ton
IS
41
915
1,933
54
32
2
55 Bu Page
1/
35
15
3,832
1,362
67
114
5
86
Vajna
e
8
107
1,842
10
18
-
a Idgar
51
54
2,000
4,651
80
114
18
321
Webster
_
S
•
88
-
-
~
-I mearda
12
15
454
1,261
29
30
1
28
Ihaeler
2
2
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
{XI Effingbaai
!/
43
26
1,115
1,984
47
53
5
178
IMta
1
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X) 1 Skystte
30
SO
998
2.341
47
52
2
48
IMtflaK
u
IB
767
1,299
33
63
1
78
For*
48
46
2,181
4,685
74
92
5
129
Tllooi
2
8
(X)
412
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Franklin
45
44
1,807
3,167
lis
151
8
222
Hikes
10
e
554
338
23
28
33
Fulton
55
50
1,853
3,748
104
140
18
200
¥llklnaon
s
3
45
82
2
a
-
3
Gallatin
11
18
450
757
4a
38
1
S3
Worth
9
9
297
90O
11
15
1
17
Greene
Cnindy
28
33
27
24
807
1,460
1,593
2,962
45
55
58
88
1
3
14S
166
nUHO
Bamllton
Hancock
Jl
13
72
396
2,487
686
4,782
20
89
19
90
1
8
a
280
Total
788
«74
50.889
98.462
8.078
3.257
443
8.124
Hardin
4
18
3
16
47
507
134
1,292
1
15
3
14
1
4
Henderson
36
Ida
70
sa
10,108
15,506
345
515
14
1,065|| Henry
^,
80
80
4,227
6,625
172
208
12
337
Idaas
S
4
81
91
7
8
4
IrO(iuols
1/
118
88
5,810
10,572
178
219
12
505
Bannock
58
42
8,782
8,493
283
451
13
984
Jackson
43
35
5,050
1.967
170
375
6
412
Bear lake
S
14
127
374
8
14
-
14
Jasper
27
17
775
1.322
22
24
3
29
Banenh
S
3
80
81
7
9
-
10
Jefferson
V
49
30
2,066
4,538
159
179
12
220
Bln«ha>
44
28
1,572
2,isa
75
iia
40
20eF Jersey
21
14
695
812
28
31
1
134
Blaine
a
1
110
(X)
5
7
.
111, Jo BSTises
24
19
722
1,308
32
47
1
88
Boise
1
1
iX)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XJ
(X) 11 Johnson
15
11
187
151
10
16
2
10
Bonner
15
10
429
840
37
38
3
30 1 XiJie
120
105
10,471
19,880
802
848
13
1,048
BonneTllle
48
48
4.357
8,859
183
' 235
25
512
Xankakee
V
77
50
4,319
7,872
242
333
21
644
Boundary
7
3
193
118
10
14
-
18
Kendall
17
20
1,008
2,880
33
42
7
79
Butte
4
3
45
83
5
a
_
5
Xnoz
72
75
5,877
11,477
271
3to
17
883
Caaaa
a
a
128
484
5
8
1
5
Lake
V
70
47
8,393
6,128
401
429
23
509
Canjon
42
44
3,008
8,182
139
218
51
21C
La Salle
140
117
9,045
19,038
399
500
28
791
Carlbes
3
2
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Lawrenee
SO
32
2,557
2,412
128
217
£
158
Caaela
22
19
995
1,268
4«
84
4
9i
Lee
54
41
3,265
6,327
129
160
3
335
Clark
3
2
59
(X)
4
8
S
Livingston
1 es
91
5,289
, 12,170
lis
157
11
254
Clearwater
4
4
157
129
e
IS
1
1 Logan
73
58
2,756
7,996
96
128
13
181
Cuater
3
1
52
(I)
3
<
i
MsDonaugb
1/
i al
42
3,819
8,870
108
131
11
401
nmore
7
7
129
207
11
15
1
1!
■sHenry
33
30
1,352
2,368
45
87
e
47
ftanklln
10
6
275
718
"
u
:
2'
1 IbLam
148
120
11,644
26,467
57S
773
21
1,275
rr*Mit 1/
IS
27
543
4,009
29
E2
14
54
Hason
139
125
14,873
30,832
74C
920
31
1,657
f
9
181
649
1!
39
28
16:l Ihcoupin
S3
58
1,596
3,185
72
94
11
144
oootlne
Idaho
9
11
281
802
1!
2C
I
23l| Kadison
90
70
8,228
9,185
514
746
1(
1,096
19
la
40:
1,088
11
2S
!
37(1 llarlon
8/
58
29
2,393
3,373
14:
17C
11
251
Jerrerson
IS
ig
401
i.sae
n
a
1
«7 Marshall
38
3S
1,78C
2,875
51
80
:
187
Jerene
18
10
1,23:
1,738
Si
! a!
2'
123 Ihaon
56
ss
2,30«
3,471
7S
81
<
104
leotenal
17
19
581
1,00S
4,
K
)
43' Xaesae
ll
22
«
93!
79!
8(
98
t
148
totah 2/
U
21
784
2,141
( 3
r 5
L
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S|: Keaard
32
21
1,258
2,184
S(
4!
131
Census of
AmericaD
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tabl« 9— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(AU values txprtstti in thousanda of dollars)
|An I X^ in column indicates that information most be withheld m order to avoid disclosing data for individual eatablishmenta, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates r
infonnation or an amount less than $500)
Nl'UBtR OF
FuU-
I
1 Number of
Full-
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll
Stoeks
Estabusr-
Net Sales
time
Pay Rou.
Stocks
CoUNTT
ments
em-
ploy-
ees
(.aver-
agt)
on
hand
(mdof
year)
County
HENTB
on
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part,
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
ploy-
ees
(<aw-
Total
Part-
time
hand
(endo/
iwr)
lUIWOlS
miui
(oontlmul)
(eontlnuod
Ifcrc.r t/
31
15
«1,230
»783
22
»31
*^
♦39 J^gruige
17
11
t448
»631
22
*S8
»1
«27
Mourom
to
12
598
687
29
39
3
164 Lake
s/
169
111
18,010
58,967
889
1,310
59
1,441
»>nisM»rr
ei
38
2,127
1,916
118
134
10
228JU Porte
67
36
3,223
6,189
211
301
24
377
■fcrgmn
71
55
3,646
8,335
187
211
13
383i'I«vrence
31
18
1,387
1,139
89
111
164
Moultrla
SI
39
1,503
3,674
39
42
2
96 Ibdlion
80
59
4,116
6,472
274
362
14
448
Ogle
48
47
1,674
3,088
61
88
5
UlJlbrion
H
614
749
190,334
461,082
6,481
9,778
279
15,064
PMrU
MO
247
55,319
101,454
1,925
2,872
108
3,828 Karahall
S/
37
12
2,701
526
82
107
439
Wrrj
29
19
970
893
81
98
6
111 Ibrtln
10
11
SSI
427
11
14
12
fUlt
S2
61
2,230
6,681
62
78
6
2S8'llllaiiil
S/
44
22
1,573
2,169
92
109
198
Plk*
51
47
1,0S1
2,168
47
69
7
180 Monroe
29
22
1,431
2,601
131
186
ISO
Pop*
«
4
38
409
1
3
-
2 Hontffooery
51
40
3,038
3,817
190
244
177
Pulukl
6
6
57
159
2
4
-
Iblorgan
20
11
412
369
17
36
18
Putnaa
19
11
856
1,206
28
28
2
78ISerton
35
23
1,820
1,604
93
118
100
Rudolph
3t
30
783
1,293
42
94
1
66 boble
33
23
1,163
2,374
71
98
100
Slchland
to
24
468
1,791
22
31
6
39 Ohio
3
2
68
(Z)
3
S
-
4
Hock Iilul z/
lie
74
8,410
21,237
568
863
42
1,103 Orange
15
12
646
1,597
28
35
42
St. Cl»lr
166
189
88,520
260,792
1,219
2,079
101
984 Owen
12
IS
240
681
15
21
18
S«llll<
39
29
1,943
2,406
127
168
7
262 Parke
20
24
665
947
58
79
62
Saa^ajDon
17«
175
27,671
43,555
1,030
1,316
30
1,5131 perry
12
5
220
210
14
17
19
Schuylar i/
es
7
726
529
69
66
7
117 Pike
8
17
578
1.086
29
31
47
Soott
19
13
626
1,404
16
19
1
76 Porter
31
18
1,599
1,675
78
109
82
Shelby t/
eo
34
1,426
2,229
69
57
3
113 Pooey
15
26
291
662
18
27
29
Stark
a
17
897
1,710
21
29
2
86 Ptdaakl
33
24
1,654
1,651
41
49
77
StephansoD
81
63
8,907
9,684
360
316
18
526|.PatnaiQ
31
24
576
1,243
31
69
36
T«ia.«ll
83
79
3,508
10,324
150
188
8
420 Bandolph
53
44
2,016
6,068
96
111
340
Union
33
26
1,078
1,148
42
46
6
38 Blpley
38
31
380
1,372
31
38
te
vamlllon e/
les
134
9,261
20,648
417
549
39
l,129lil)iuh
36
35
1,458
2,501
74
86
7S
lahaah
24
2S
778
1,459
31
36
4
49'st. Joseph
141
146
15,032
42,741
970
1,267
SS
1,883
■arran
41
39
1,809
3,425
69
99
7
196 Scott
14
5
331
151
14
18
IB
taahlDgton
25
23
874
1,343
36
43
3
50 Shelby
36
33
1,534
2,146
76
87
191
Vajna
19
18
787
2.017
48
«4
4
12ysp6ncer
8
11
760
1,227
17
27
IS
•hlte
27
39
695
1,330
44
47
4
491 Starke
26
19
939
1,780
33
94
4
41
•Mtasida
53
47
5,011
6,377
131
170
11
328 Steuben
27
23
687
1,501
31
M
43
•in
104
90
10,489
17,901
639
860
37
1,069 SMlliTan
26d Swlt.erland
34
21
814
947
38
63
69
•llllamaon t/
60
39
2,427
4,290
12S
161
IS
5
1
106
(«
12
9
4
wlmwba«o
148
112
13,363
30,231
702
1,060
58
1,470, Tippecanoe
88
69
8,504
9,758
380
470
IS
44T
aoodford
37
39
1,738
5,554
54
67
5
1591 Tipton
29
21
915
1,254
36
49
47
tTnlon
IS
19
367
578
19
21
4:
iroim
Vanderburg
is/
147
194
30,552
61,355
1,139
1,791
S3
2,42t
llarmlllloB
18
26
641
1,114
31
40
38
Total
4.240
3.734
425.743
921.561
19.061
2?,58Q
943
38.740
Tlgo
Wabaah
s/
129
68
127
38
18,218
2,279
51,020
5,892
1,076
92
1,313
117
28
2,520
=^
168
Idaia
40
35
2,349
5,776
136
143
295 »arren
21
28
691
1,632
29
29
44
Allan
214
181
32,091
58,137
1,793
2,470
71
3,9le,»arrlok
IS
16
209
427
10
21
IS
Bartholonaa
27
37
996
1,932
60
87
100| Wftshlngton
14
7
419
221
35
39
48
Ban too
43
31
2,043
3,248
66
80
124
Tayna
68
•4
3,307
13,505
218
306
714
Blaokford
17
9
580
425
61
53
79
telle
s/
30
15
1,903
1,007
170
121
141
Boona
33
27
1,048
1,256
67
96
90
White
47
45
1,486
3,001
62
83
58
drown
3
1
46
1X1
1
4
6
Whitley
36
33
1,331
2,349
64
81
5
lOT
Carroll
35
22
1,839
3,295
64
69
51
CUrk
79
24
43
14
3,986
923
5,421
1,162
239
39
273
51
13
384
37
lOtl
Clay
28
S3
23
39
758
3,250
1,284
3,482
38
149
59
171
.%
Total
5,262
4,964
UA,iSi
■l.nft7,nna
_1J,SM
. ta.su
1.179
39.911
Clinton
Cravford
7
4
398
320
8
11
U
Adair
29
29
1,567
4.559
28
30
t
39
DaTlatt
19
21
831
2,562
47
70
17
26
20
979
1.168
44
46
2
18
uaarbom
20
IS
527
646
36
53
32I1 Allamakee
s/
31
20
894
870
32
43
1
128
Docatnr
34
33
1,534
3,178
72
81
95' Appanoooe
31
32
1,174
3,933
85
124
6
114
Da Calb
31
21
898
1,220
39
59
69 Audubon
1/
16
24
377
1,926
16
26
9
to
Mlaasi*
78
37
5,730
12,999
297
381
11
559! Benton
62
52
3,271
4,971
107
lis
9
148
Cnboli
18
11
939
982
53
67
60 Black Hawk
121
93
10,956
26,511
602
686
38
l,S8t
•Ikhart
77
S3
4,219
3,894
242
347
10
867 Boone
54
52
3,206
5,090
117
143
19
18t
nretta
2<
15
960
1,052
60
75
81 Breaer
V
SO
28
5,522
2,549
299
232
61
181
rloy4
4«
30
1,883
5,819
144
167
14
206 Buchanan
47
63
2,631
5,809
177
163
to
SIS
rountaln
33
28
945
2,881
34
56
511 Buena Tieta
63
58
2,996
8,190
154
126
6
190
rrankltn
19
12
489
531
29
39
21iButler
49
40
1,866
3,049
41
44
S
SS
Pal ton
29
32
840
1,925
42
44
SSlCalhoun
S3
48
2,201
5,220
78
90
»
194
Glbaon
39
35
1,302
1,483
82
112
137iC.rroH
i/
75
51
3,179
6,740
94
132
10
laa
Crmnt
S3
48
2,304
7,234
183
193
19
220:Caaa
49
33
1,738
4,148
126
104
4
i«»
Craana
34
29
1,103
1,633
88
88
98 cedar
v
33
36
898
3,181
39
49
S
68
laallton
29
28
943
1,897
to
80
TSiCerro Cordo
81
76
14,673
14.185
458
696
24
1,898
Rancook
27
16
699
693
35
55
SliiCherokee
28
26
1,023
2.077
49
61
4
ISS
Harrlaon
8
10
170
408
7
15
lOjChlckaeaw
38
34
1,646
2.722
56
68
e
69
B»oilrIdti
28
19
588
955
35
69
37 'Clarke
23
24
670
2,289
28
44
16
to
Ranry
33
33
1,170
2,418
30
loe
147!Clay
49
40
1,667
5,133
70
102
11
181
HoaaLTd 0/
38
26
2,998
3,681
184
508
296 Clayton
?/
72
57
2,976
8,419
155
171
24
162
Hunting on
44
58
1,560
3,442
98
133
292 Clinton
62
63
5,946
9,156
257
330
5
491
Jaokaon
30
20
685
2,156
90
79
54 Crawford
il
49
33
816
5,060
54
46
2
76
Jaapar
45
47
1,498
2.808
87
119
99 Dallaa
62
40
1,520
3,222
69
86
2
90
■>«y
40
34
1,431
3,354
99
111
180 na7le
s/
25
13
812
SIS
39
31
2
48
Jaffaraon a/
4«
20
1,922
1,747
174
163
337 Decatur
y
19
41
522
2,180
14
26
4
11
Jannla«a b/
13
3
179
178
16
IS
4 Delaware
42
37
1,945
3,712
70
78
3
4<
johnaon
23
31
707
707
32
63
25 Sea Ikinai
58
58
7,938
22,964
778
850
8
3,816
Eaoz
50
56
3,983
9,647
toe
£40
It
495 Dleklaeon
34
31
1,421
5,634
52
fO
2
116
baoliuko
52
34
1,494
2,010
72
lOS
12(^
nibv«>*
120
80
12,087
19,867
812
1,018
36
1,988
Census of
American
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9-— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES AWD COlfflTIES
(All values expressed in thousands of doUars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500]
Number of
Full-
Number of
Full-
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll
Stocks
ESTASLISH-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll
Stocks
ments
em-
on
MENT6
em-
on
Ck)UNTY
ploy-
ees
hand
(end oj
County
ploy-
ees
hand
lend of
Part-
time
Part-
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
{aver-
age)
Total
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
(aveT'
ate)
Total
year)
IO»A
Kursis
(oontinoad)
(continuad]
anat
39
33
»1,777
t2,999
76
»84
♦10
12091
Clark
21
17
«488
t2,450
23
»30
»8
»63
Pftjvtte
s/
U
34
2,364
1,629
91
119
16
141,
Clay
38
49
1,522
4,765
53
63
9
112
yioyd
58
42
1,649
3,234
84
107
2
86
Cloud
49
66
3,089
10,326
211
233
19
233
7r«nklin
50
23
1,079
2,514
35
60
1
104
Coffay
39
55
1,113
1,959
64
78
30
66
Prsoont
SS
SB
1,070
3,049
30
37
4
44
Comanche
23
14
696
2,160
41
36
28
93
Gresne
S2
39
1,707
3,683
84
92
6
191
Cowley
2/
83
51
4,619
6,656
303
426
4
701
Grund/
i/
19
42
536
5,164
26
42
4
60
Crawford
86
92
5,399
13,747
262
377
16
696
Cutlu-la
51
33
2,400
4,089
63
72
5
101
Daeatur
38
22
774
2,232
36
44
12
79
Bud 1 ton
87
<2
4,265
9,774
153
163
44
181
Dickinson
v
97
73
2,628
11,032
131
166
19
216
Hancock
49
39
2,524
5,206
108
106
5
96
Doniphan
12
28
471
1,551
15
33
1
36
Hsnlln
se
es
2,831
8,623
114
132
6
144
Douglas
43
42
2.321
4,446
146
215
1
366
Harrison
4S
33
1,538
1,894
60
63
6
88
Edwards
42
44
1,081
5,764
49
46
3
ea
Honrj
J/
14
40
468
4,123
29
37
.
24
Blk
18
21
158
536
17
19
5
16
Rovard
49
40
2,458
4,524
65
64
18
115
tills
50
35
2,445
6,967
146
177
2
235
Hoaboldt
40
39
1,393
3,765
39
60
2
115
Bllsworth
40
42
1,202
3,238
63
63
21
166
Ida
SB
20
1,143
1,681
38
49
7
49
Plnnay
1/
28
19
968
11,169
56
79
6
122
Iowa
31
41
1,031
5,486
55
4!
3
73
•ord
97
71
6,839
34.962
363
432
6
1,166
Jaokaon
39
28
1,974
1,228
43
67
9
43
Franklin
42
44
2,460
6,563
125
191
3
287
Jasper
4S
48
2,096
6,692
69
86
6
129
Caary
20
15
1,384
1,056
64
64
1
121
Jafferaon
31
39
862
2,646
44
49
4
49
Got a
55
21
965
2,493
31
40
1
94
Johnson
39
43
1,675
4,423
86
129
4
180
Grahaa
28
22
561
1,749
30
30
4
58
Jonas
42
38
1,672
3,893
83
100
12
90
Grant
1/
23
18
437
3,664
16
16
-
107
KeoknJc
V
M
49
519
2,896
23
31
2
33
Cray
y
41
57
818
7,333
39
48
3
237
Kossuth
63
68
3,036
8,255
81
114
5
186
Graalay
12
2
242
m
11
15
1
21
Laa
<I
59
5,507
10,714
350
477
14
899
Greenwood
37
43
704
1,712
46
70
6
121
Unn
ITS
149
35,923
56,778
1,335
1,854
63
3,027
Hamilton
17
11
473
876
27
34
14
97
Loolsa
i:
IB
583
1.267
23
31
1
32
Rarpar
76
42
2,044
4,929
96
96
1
260
Lncas
28
29
1,483
3,196
68
76
2
124
HarToy
53
50
2,073
5,338
142
198
-
380
Lyon
4:
29
799
2,364
42
48
1
94
Hasksll
1/
19
16
253
2,997
22
26
-
96
■adlson
Be
23
679
77?
38
45
1
41
Hodgaman
16
14
269
2,008
14
13
4
20
Mahaska
5S
38
1,794
6,240
89
113
9
162
Jackeon
43
44
600
1,976
39
46
2
46
Marlon
v
54
48
1,307
6,630
73
62
2
66
Jefferson
27
32
620
1,146
38
44
8
22
Marshall
70
96
6,222
14,094
257
346
10
656
Ja«,ll
31
37
993
4,740
41
65
2
62
Mills
22
21
861
2.133
54
62
1
63
Johnson
22
31
492
1,962
27
43
1
48
Mltehall
28
38
1,174
4,099
50
58
12
64
Kearny
14
11
239
773
10
12
1
30
Monona
49
37
1,802
3,598
53
66
3
122
Kineoan
72
47
1,026
3,311
64
66
2
128
Monroa
14
9
350
437
ta
25
24
Eiowa
29
26
595
2,844
32
38
1
86
MoQtgomar7
35
25
1,316
3.674
82
87
7
56
labette
85
59
3,841
6,220
102
132
5
171
Koseatlna
52
69
2,512
7,342
167
173
13
261
Lane
26
14
493
2,649
26
26
2
67
O'Brlan
69
43
3,00?
3,433
82
101
10
142
Laavanworth
46
41
1,989
2,537
155
197
14
228
Oscaola
38
54
630
4,652
42
43
6
104
Lincoln
48
34
913
2,103
U
47
1
74
Pa«a
45
37
1,643
4,419
108
121
3
179
Linn
16
30
343
1,587
14
24
1
21
Palo Alto
58
55
2,133
6,496
79
95
3
119
Logan
37
21
732
2,085
44
63
1
79
PlTwnth
53
38
1,209
3,552
48
75
3
129
Lyon
62
41
3,612
4,253
167
201
16
380
Pocahontas
50
39
1,245
3,727
42
55
2
73
McPhareon
2/
106
65
5,222
3,244
143
204
20
848
Polk
527
369
76,141
158,474
3,495
5,308
134
7,139
Ifcrlon
72
60
1,544
4,012
102
109
5
164
Pottanttasda
84
65
8,144
20,184
668
674
14
1,617
Ibrshall
82
79
2,123
5,226
116
100
5
169
Poaashiak
40
51
1,016
4,088
52
67
5
71
Xaada
32
21
828
4,198
49
53
3
156
Kinggold
v
20
57
430
2,054
16
19
2
15
Klaoi
36
52
903
1,627
49
69
1
73
Sao
1/
SI
35
3,148
3,488
56
74
6
167
mtchell
60
44
2,604
6,488
66
90
3
144
Scott
141
ise
21,724
47,600
1,136
1,477
49
2,286
Uontgoaery
2/
82
74
4,266
14,060
227
291
17
470
Shslbr
38
27
1,243
2,096
49
76
19
82
Morrle
34
25
2,116
2,106
69
log
10
61
Slonz
48
42
2,466
6,126
83
94
9
lee
Morton
26
23
616
3,369
32
41
1
68
storj
78
76
5,224
9,433
146
219
27
296
Hamaha
64
69
1,446
3,673
76
87
3
108
Tana
i/
39
63
2,114
7,828
64
107
11
97
laoeho
51
40
1,198
3,626
72
91
6
238
Taylor
34
35
661
2,0W
23
28
4
32
Bass
52
46
1,019
5,502
62
56
4
70
Union
39
33
1,186
5.616
87
91
2
115
Norton
41
27
1,697
4,086
66
75
8
120
Tan *aran
4S
42
1.148
2,282
69
76
2
33
Osaga
46
28
835
1,283
58
68
3
63
lapallo
51
51
6,452
11,234
296
414
31
eS4
Oeboma
39
48
706
3,690
38
53
5
64
Warran
24
24
426
3,373
25
38
2
38
OtUaa
39
39
1,516
2,675
43
48
3
67
lashing on
1/
27
44
652
4,463
46
58
4
66
Pawnee
49
43
1,367
6,102
66
66
4
107
Wayna
y
27
46
1,028
3,958
62
49
2
36
Phillips
44
41
1,486
4,306
52
66
4
138
tabstar
92
95
6,442
16,636
339
417
10
682
> PottawatomK
37
40
616
3,323
48
57
4
68
Wlnnaba«o
45
27
1,921
2,755
62
80
10
66
Pratt
46
62
1,246
4,656
75
92
1
154
linnashlak
V
4S
23
2,082
3,222
114
134
11
104
Bawllns
24
22
710
3,212
37
41
1
57
Woodbury
505
307
107,314
287,876
2,921
4,054
128
4,648
aano
167
134
22,942
106,374
550
769
21
3,236
Worth
29
24
1,363
1,666
26
36
3
43
Kapubllc
38
42
798
1,656
38
47
2
55
Irlght
1/
43
52
1,SS9
8,412
62
69
6
128
Rice
1 Rll«7
61
38
61
41
2,672
1,679
5,306
5,482
98
82
112
112
10
13
18S
121
UISIS
Booke
36
35
642
3,804
37
40
1
69
Buah
33
26
521
3,266
42
44
1
n
»ou;
_S.21£
4.322
299.123
688.677
12.896
16,95?
9S£
34.922
aussall
Saline
62
117
48
76
1,236
18,618
3,099
31,711
63
752
64
933
3
19
132
1,865
1 ■
Ulan
43
39
1,559
2,670
88
92
3
132
Scott
21
16
361
1,260
17
24
1
83
Indaraon
itohlnaon
33
26
1,012
1,751
116
102
1
70
Sedgwick
354
328
70,391
171,599
2,475
3,566
128
7,739
43
41
4,903
20,265
254
342
23
1,135
Seward
1/
31
?e
1,671
13,344
91
106
4
236
Barbar
5(
S5
35
1,050
2,229
43
46
6
66
Shawnee
122
122
15,132
67,920
775
1,049
38
2,268
Barton
iS',
85
58
3,530
15,593
142
193
13
316
Sheridan
19
14
178
973
16
16
17
Bourbon
a'
70
31
1,B77
4,648
145
128
5
162
Shaman
23
17
881
2,946
52
70
2
154
Broan
60
47
1,179
2,631
49
57
6
78
Smith
42
38
930
3,192
SB
43
5
91
Batlar
BO
52
1,337
4,131
86
106
6
342
Stafford
48
40
1,123
5,848
47
6«
3
171
Cbaaa
13
12
161
407
15
21
1
10
Stanton
21
14
717
2,125
24
2e
2
101
Chautauqua
U
U
180
719
14
21
6
16
stsvaos
1/
26
19
283
2,573
21
2C
-
34
Cbarokaa
43
47
1,275
4,001
66
86
1
212
Suonsr
109
79
2,384
3,139
115
is:
6
46e
Ch«y«nna
19
22
707
2,341
32
41
1
52
Thomas
46
44
2,966
7,062
113
13£
IC
231
Census of
Arrwiican
Busin«as
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES
{AU Toiufs expressed in Oiousamis of doUars)
[An (K) in column indkatet that information must-be withheld in order to avoid discloeing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a Iwder indicates no
information or an amount less than $500|
Nt'UBKR OK
FuD-
■■
="™"
NoMBKRor
^^ " "~'"
Full-
C!;t\blish-
Net
Sian
time
Pay Roll
Stocks
EaTABUtH-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll
Stocks
COONTT
MCNTS
em-
ploy-
es
(awT-
agt)
on
hud
(mi of
l«or)
0)UNTV
om-
on
hand
(nw*.^
1933
1929
1B33
1929
Total
Pwt-
time
1933
1929
1933
1939
ploy-
ees
(oxfr-
Total
Part-
time
UUSIS
K9TUCKT
leoDtlnud)
(eontlnuedl
Tr^
33
»
*1.331
(8,028
68
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68
18,990
118,739
477
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38
388
1,675
86
88
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8
3
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991
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(X)
(XI
(11
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9
123
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13
14
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3
8
37
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4
4
1
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43
49
976
2,621
49
54
3
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80
8,193
6,159
83
76
4
106
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ii
11
261
848
8
13
1
39 lh<<>ffli>
1/
1
88
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314
(XI
(XI
(D
(X)
■lltoo
30
89
413
1,070
38
41
1
4ll! Ibrlon
8
0
360
1,439
13
(3
1
se
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31
442
8,397
81
31
2
35
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4
4
106
170
8
16
6
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31,423
93,353
1,856
1.(68
69
3,513
(•rtin
1
13
(II
9
(XI
(XI
(Xl"
(X)
torr-cmr
Ituon
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Henlfee
s/
38
1
9
3
1
4,386
(XI
4,374
188
. (XI
170
(XI
(29
(II
so
(X)
6,S(9
(XI
Total
8.007
2,087
272.896
528,495
13.017
16.564
1.318
64.113
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(etoslfe
Hj
18
30
3
1,707
3,401
37
(6
96
IS
la
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10
7
366
276
IS
18
.
a
Monroe
3
6
104
140
9
1(
_
4
A11«D
9
e
204
1,276
16
80
8
10
TtontgooBrj
17
10
1,167
8,798
61
96
(
39
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i
7
8
237
620
9
8
1
37
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1/
3
18
308
358
11
IS
(8
8«llart
1
88
IX)
659
(X)
(X)
IX)
(XI
■uhlenberg
14
13
1,096
1,719
41
63
6
176
B«rr«D
&2
13
1,580
2,431
79
103
87
186
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11
8
7(9
360
91
93
3
IT
teth
3
8
86
IXI
4
4
1
3
nioholae
18
10
363
638
83
(1
1
9
B«n
27
83
1,833
3,382
96
184
6
867
Ohio
5
3
188
93
9
13
14
Boooa
1
5
2
9
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4
1
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1/
8
18
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76
(II
(I)
(if
(II
flourbOD
£4
14
3,561
5,698
194
153
16
683 1 0««n
IS
9
19
65
9
8
floyd
50
39
7,937
15,568
445
465
7
768 0w«l«y
.
•
.
Boyla
23
18
2,681
19,157
109
171
32
1431' Pendleton
a/
80
6
878
304
(3
30
1
11
Braelc«n
2/
16
e
62
84
15
8
-
2
Perry
19
13
1,616
8,630
88
1(7
9
(66
Br««thltt
>
2
a)
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(X)
IX)
|X|
IXI
Pike
1/
14
88
1,783
3,430
69
87
1
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3r«<3)clarld««
1/
4
19
60
440
8
12
12
Poeell
8
1
(xi
(XI
(X)
(XI
(I)
(I)
Bullitt
2
1
w
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
Fuleakl
86
19
1,335
1,742
101
((
(6
16*
Butler
1
4
(X)
59
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
Itoberteon
4
«
9
8SS
4
1
-
.
CAldvell
5
6
193
179
16
16
17
Roekosetle
9
8
110
(X)
S
10
1
B
C«llow»7
^,
19
9
1,089
1,123
46
87
18
299
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7
3
(49
460
(0
19
.
S8
Cuipbell
^/
89
17
1,096
2,077
96
187
14
77
Riieeell
1
3
(XI
43
(X)
(XI
(XI
(II
Carlisle
i/.
7
18
125
1,062
10
13
8
16
Soott
7
13
847
646
1(
(8
1
10
Carroll
a/
19
8
2,430
1,948
41
54
10
13
Shelty
17
8
8,436
3,731
8(
.61
T
38
Carter
4
7
119
271
11
11
-
26
Sinpaoo
11
16
448
1,458
(0
(9
IS
14
Caeey
2
3
(X)
19
IX)
(X)
(XI
(XI
Spencer
-
8
.
(X)
.
^
Christian
V
32
38
4,690
11,528
890
866
25
1,006
Taylor
1/
8
(4
764
1,S99
36
SI
3
13(
Clark
IS
IS
627
8,114
36
48
6
80
Todd
9
8
leo
(79
6
9
.
(3
Clay
4
4
23S
649
10
10
1
26
Trigg
3
3
73
(3
6
7
.
B
Clinton
V
-
12
127
-
-
Triable
3
8
11
(XI
4
(
Crittenden
S
9
886
466
10
14
8
27
Union
10
13
(18
440
86
38
.
17
Cumberland
4
t
147
246
6
7
14
Warren
46
87
8,487
6,449
873
189
6
196
Oavieea
60
61
6,425
18,741
836
364
58
2,471
laeMngton
8
6
617
783
(0
37
4
31
BdaoQsOD
e
7
19
110
1
-
..
Wayne
6
9
197
488
10
11
IS
miiot
i/
-
3
-
120
.
«
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_
fetiter
7
6
879
417
(0
SO
-
U7
BetUl
7
6
31S
340
18
88
1
73
Ihltley
80
14
1,936
1,680
97
98
(
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FWyette
8/
144
106
36,453
43,534
1,455
1,847
817
11,743
Wolfe
_
Plenl&c
14
19
198
654
18
26
8
4
Woodford
8
1
(XI
(XI
(X)"
(Xl "
(I)"
(I) "
Floyd
9
4
616
86?
35
49
1
49
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8/
17
9
664
728
60
70
1
74
LOUISIAHt
Fulton
28
80
830
1,731
36
48
3
92
CallatU
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8
12
8
8
220
18B
796
360
8
10
14
11
3
1
5
8
Total
8.097
1.789
495.381
836.197
17.99(
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78.B7
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14
e
224
139
80
19
10
leadla
86
84
8,110
6,466
00
lis
6
16S
Crarea
34
87
8,957
6,646
100
159
48
991
Ulen
18
16
624
1,341
3(
' 48
(
69
Orayioo
10
11
219
461
14
16
1
4l
Aacenalon
V
81
18
889
1,880
48
64
3
34
Green
11
IS
497
629
10
88
4
17
iaeomption
9
8
194
(XI
17
is
1
10
Creenop
»
10
168
984
8
9
_
7!
iToyelloa
tl
44
11
1,331
1,387
77
66
S
141
Hancoak
7
6
109
107
13
16
1
13'
Beauregard
9
14
934
1,014
39
43
1
B(
Rardtn
s/
17
7
807
695
93
54
8
97 1
Bienville
8
8
(99
901
(0
88
1
19
Harlaa
IS
11
8,162
8,963
183
183
1
3791
Boaeler
4
(
(99
(II
19
a
_
SS
Rarrleon
Hart
neoderaoa
2/
14
16
736
3,381
40
36
1
23
Caddo
168
146
31,875
74,646
2,028
(,76(
79
3,488
19
7
1,478
3,010
95
88
37
126
Caloaaleu
•a/
78
SO
88,895
9,531
373
607
a
(SB
CS
31
1,651
7,148
189
808
66
946
Caldeell
6
3
394
330
12
15
.
»
Benry
y
10
8
344
696
18
15
8
4
Caaeron
8
3
18
107
(
3
_
1
Flckaaa
Hopklaa
2
18
(X)
899
(X)
(I)
(XI
(XI
Catahoula
8
(
438
994
(4
3(
.
46
y
24
18
1,541
1,336
IIS
116
4
90
Claiborne
IS
«
9iS
7(0
38
SO
1
B4
Jackson
1
11
(X)
488
(X)
(«
(X)
(XI
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830
643
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ss
(
TI
Jefferson
Jessaalae
JohnaOQ
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biott
Cboz
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lAvrenoe
Ue
Uelie
Utoher
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49«
936
140,196
275,216
6,361
8,668
317
23,929
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18
10
735
1,048
40
SI
1
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s/
8
28
7
14
144
1,316
l'>2
8,688
7
76
6
68
3
8S'
208
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bat Carroll
91
10
37
10
8,188
687
10,017
1,153
483
17
68(
(4
14
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IS
38
36
3,883
7,380
8(9
388
11
960l
bat nlicia
«ft
18
7
319
338
(1
(0
1
40
1
-
(X)
-
IX)
(X)
(X)
(XI
nangellne
8
18
796
1,558
86
30
.
44
4
?
898
(X)
le
19
19
Preoklln
13
8
1,066
1,617
35
46
-
4«
3
7
466
666
17
13
.
50
Orant
8
10
417
483
(8
33
1
3(
7
4
831
818
(6
31
1
98
Iberia
(4
19
3,018
3,671
136
179
(
346
7
4
300
878
IB
16
8
15
Iberillle
18
18
1,090
1,488
"63
78
(
163
4
4
73
78
4
8
,
7
Jaokaon
7
4
(96
SOS
19
81
.
10
18
9
968
1,489
(7
46
5
90
Jefferion »/
Jefferion Daele
45
88
14
(0
(,968
699
10,311
(.399
390
57
346
85
11
6
an
9
B
169
114
1(
8
-
6
Lafayette
37
94
3,168
4,149
143
158
9
ITS
33
37
469
B40
(7
«
1
(4
latfourohe
V
(4
13
(,957
(,334
110
143
.
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3
t
108
(X)
.
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6
7
114
3S8
1(
(1
1
e
18
16
937
1,8(3
48
41
6
11
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18
10
1,(13
6,0(6
46
(6
(
<o
lorw
4
3
104
68
9
7
-
4
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V
T
36
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1,769
•
IS
1
(
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9.— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UKITED STATES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(All values expressed in thousands of doUars)
[An (X) in column indicatea that information must be withheld in order to avoid disctoeing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount lees than $500]
Nduber op
1
Full-
"~=~
Number of
1
Full-
i
ESTABUSH-
Net Saies I
time
Pat Roll |
Stocks
Establish-
Net Sales |
time
Pay Roll |
Slocks
MENTS
em-
ploy-
ees
(aver-
age)
OD
hud
(tndo/
year)
County
ments
em-
ploy-
ees
{otter-
age)
on
hand
County
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
(end(i
year)
umaiiu
ussicHossns
* *
(•utioaH)
10
T
•i.oae
tl,6S4
38
»B1
«8
m
Total
B.144
6,066
1,469,107
5.065.856
45,174
»77,407
tl.661
H18.669
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10
«
tsi
335
IS
84
8
16
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35
a
8,458
8,575
130
219
5
838
■atsliltoaliM 1/
IT
40
l.its
6,65T
4T
6T
1
75
Bartahlro
107
108
It.TTt
18,568
575
913
tl
l.Slt
Crl«u>
me
n«
3S4,4St
601,981
11,418
14.584
845
66,810
Briatol
517
558
43.567
95,988
1,960
668
73
5,005
OauUta
ss
41
11,800
14,080
SOT
630
8
1,889
Dnlni
7
5
(X)
836
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
fiMqam:!a0t
8
I
tro
(I)
17
SB
3
14
Caiai
598
4t4
44.560
98,945
2,873
3.606
143
5,087
MllttCoipM
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a
S«<
588
40
58
1
79
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34
te
t,448
5,901
153
881
5
t64
kplln
5<
4S
6,1T6
14,T18
395
500
11
796
Bamixlen
395
364
96,098
140,578
5,776
5,900
134
8,064
ki Rlnr
6
e
Me
(X)
6
IS
-
4
nanpehire
53
to
8,718
3,456
137
879
63
330
lUolilsid
11
11
683
1,960
89
57
1
17
Uddlgiei
15/
573
405
160.048
163,404
4,980
7,111
133
18,440
3>«ill>
11
8
ess
915
36
60
8
49
Santaokat
1
-
(I)
-
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{X)
(X)
(I)
3«. B.ni«ri
T
a
875
4,966
S6
«B
8
IB
lorfolk
66
53
11,346
19,400
748
1,166
10
1,103
St. dvu-lai
»
T
814
I.ISS
9
88
.
7
PlTaouth
184
lie
15,819
40,887
748
1,153
48
1.483
St. UXnA
■
3
-
6
•
•
-
-
Suffolk
8.905
3,788
1,016,676
8,567,819
86,093
49.957
1,069
77,868
St. JUM
»
«
684
T6a
tl
40
1
48 i
Woroaatar
349
387
56.386
97,695
8,776
4,164
137
7,699
3t. John tu >>p'
lat e
3
lae
109
8S
17
-
51
St. UndlT U
S9
B3
1,694
10,985
180
157
8
158 i
lOCEItiAI
St. brtlB
B
S
IBT
505
11
IT
-
9
St. Ihi7 ^
to
u
13
1,S30
844
8,660
656
64
S3
13S
68
80
1
156
97
Total
5.603
5.878
896,588
S. 172.409
35,203
53.009
l,4tl
75.833
St. U^MBT
^osipahoa
s«
S6
4,768
11,979
166
36T
14
886
Aloona
5
6
96
410
4
9
-
8
vw«««
14
S
687
655
34
48
t
56
llgar
10
6
195
160
18
17
4
83
farraboBM
30
84
8,160
3,349
1ST
190
17
191
Ulagan
86
19
1,381
1,714
68
93
9
109
Union
S
S
440
644
16
81
-
6 Upans
86
19
1,330
1,516
76
98
5
113
Tnalllon
u
u
866
1,813
34
55
8
76' JntrlB
9
16
885
8t0
15
20
1
40
Tornon
10
9
876
1,19T
87
36
1
46
Irenae
9
8
555
558
13
15
t
36
Wuhlagtoo
IS
1«
1,S«8
1,666
Bl
T4
t
109
Baraga
18
4
153
140
18
16
-
88
fobitar
11
IS
676
1,S10
35
38
1
86
Barry
50
30
i,tst
l,8tl
61
64
7
66
leit Baton loaca
3
1
574
(X)
10
84
-
86
Bay
75
71
7,tU
19,540
467
613
19
1,180
Waat Oarral"!
«
4
1S4
633
10
13
.
88
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5
4
too
t06
5
10
-
16
Taat rallolaan
4
«
804
307
8
18
.
IS
Barrian
16/
61
39
5,569
5,656
216
266
11
554
fin
a
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40S
346
18
88
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Braneb
W
44
84
t,ei7
8,639
108
154
4
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U/
91
69
5,706
9,988
551
488
14
456
■UB
Caaa
CtaarlavoU
88
ts
to
10
671
561
1,750
315
51
39
64
51
4
4
65
56
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8M
•87
109.496
189.9T8
8,460
T.888
898
13.699
Chakorpm
cblppaaa
17
37
9
87
6t6
8,454
694
3,479
52
168
36
206
3
4
65
487
InOroaooggln l/
43
TO
8,816
14,187
359
S86
6
654
Clara
15
17
468
716
27
26
2
58
Iroaitook
ITS
SST
17,771
t8,048
T03
1.308
186
8,34t
Clinton
40
33
4,t01
S,064
145
let
9
897
naabarlanl
«0»
tss
49.358
86,719
8,406
3.358
39
B,T76
Cr«»fort
4
8
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89
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3
234 airaliall
10
a
1,083
1.991
SO
39
1
U7
Ion>i
SI
70
1,679
, 3,191
88
"
t
17911 fcoroa
17
to
1 649
3.323
•40
S6
3
108
OlHtad
40
40
1,979
i 3,461
133
206
12
290 BtntfoMrr tf
19
7
533
679
19
11
S
as
tl
Ottar Tall
101
88
8,934
3,140
let
214
IS
366|! laahoba
le
10
1,164
1,113
56
48
1
?aanJa<toD
IS
10
1,868
3,481
147
184
11
278 la<too
9
18
487
l.OSO
31
44
€
4S
Itt
naa
t7
SI
7a
864
41
88
4
65 lonbaa
11
9
l.MO
1,918
It
37
1
Plpaatoaa
S«
44
1,939
6,364
139
190
5
teSlOttlbbaba
14
8
547
613
43
40
9
1
1
(Il
t
TB
lU
38
(Il
US
folk
101
117
4,3«
7,313
196
286
t4
532 Panola
U
e
1,788
4.968
46
87
Popa
ts
19
796
2,318
30
38
1
lOiiPaarl tuar
9
89
381
1.318
tl
36
•a« uka
444
16
470
16
107,987
708
111,«33
674
6,149
13
8.310
S3
109
3
13,327
51
Pa.Tr
Snka
18
3
•4
(I)
1,161
96
3,778
(X)
74
(Il
106
'^' WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Census of
American j^bie, 9.— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
Business
{All valties expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a ieader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500]
Number of
Full-
Number of
Ful)-
=
E6TABUSH-
Net Saixs
time
Pat Roli,
Stockg
ESTABLIBH-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll
Stocks
County
MENTB
em-
ploy-
ees
on
hand
{mi of
County
MENTS
em-
ploy-
ees
on
hand
(mdof
Part-
time
Part-
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
j/ear)
1933
1929
1933
1929
(owr-
age)
Total
time
year)
l03SI33lrPI
nssoDiti
(oontlooM)
(oontiraudl
Pontotoc
8
14
»832
tl,291
9
»7
_
»19
Uncoln
15
81
»517
tl.551
53
♦56
ts
♦41
Prentlfli
IS
7
373
704
14
82
*3
94
Linn
so/
35
80
1,406
981
144
lis
4
81
VultMii
17
33
1,117
3,033
20
19
-
52
LlTlngaton
55
26
1,609
4,853
105
133
11
153
»»wH»<
a
33
ID
314
IX)
(X)
(X)
m llfcDoiiald
IS
13
227
457
14
18
15
3oott
10
18
423
1,017
20
27
1
88 Vac on
34
41
1,152
4,370
72
73
3
96
Shu-toT
10
4
831
460
IS
22
•
14 jlbdliion
9
18
280
896
9
14
8
26
Siapaoa
4
14
250
707
9
21
1
13
■arias
1
6
(X)
140
tx)
IX)
IX)
(I)
Silth
t
2
(1)
(«
{!)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Harion
35
33
1,814
3,856
113
203
10
174
3 tons
5
3
93
130
S
12
-
5
Itorcsr
18
18
S82
812
14
15
1
15
SmifloMr 1/
n
75
2,979
10,448
39
es
5
813 iUllor
10
14
198
598
19
80
2
16
Tsllatutohlo
13
28
354
2,836
21
31
8
43 Bsilsslppl
14
88
943
1,712
26
44
7
39
T.tt
3
11
93
487
5
8
-
4i|l<onlteaii
to/
34
19
788
1,710
42
44
8
48
IIpp^
9
<
818
548
13
15
1
33
Honroe
21
26
2,375
6,173
160
110
4
59
Tithoalogo
8
20
134
1,089
«
13
2
S6
■ontfOmsr7
22/
87
16
687
498
33
40
8
40
TonlOA
13
10
1,160
759
54
67
_
86
•organ
23
17
600
958
35
37
2
64
Union
11
le
463
3,357
26
30
-
36
Haw Ibdrld
1/
11
56
834
2,739
9
81
8
18
W»l thill
4
7
80
675
5
8
*
3
Isrton
39
40
1,823
2,430
135
186
18
818
■u-r«&
27
38
■ 4,347
13,458
252
880
8
900
Hodawax
42
44
1,297
2,662
60
68
4
94
tsaMOffton
4«
73
11,691
33,428
817
303
6
478
Orogon
1/
3
S3
88
689
7
6
-
5
IVi»
7
18
212
586
15
18
m
17 Osaga
to/
24
15
389
919
21
20
1
SO
W«btt«r
2
4
(X)
453
(X)
(X)
m
(X) , Oiark
-
11
-
81
-
-
-
-
Wllkluon
8
11
408
457
19
23
3
47:iPsral»oot
1/
18
43
964
6,160
39
58
8
43
Winston
7
10
3SS
873
81
88
-
23 Parry
9
7
286
847
12
24
1
17
Talolnuha
7
«
882
887
15
13
-
82'!P0ttlB
s/
54
33
4,210
18,665
850
875
11
882
Tasoo
1:
17
1,601
6,057
53
77
1
106
Phslps
Plks
23
24
19
27
970
672
2,642
1,480
43
36
63
48
15
8
94
60
»I330P8I
Platta
Polk
11
SO
20
51
649
1,201
1,618
3,736
18
58
27
71
5
5
15
93
Total
«,107
S.S74
1,444,356
3.561.721
49,588
73,695
1.786
144.389
Pnlaskl
Pntnajo
16
18
85
80
621
397
1,666
789
18
16
27
14
2
1
45
F— — ■ -^
21
liUir
28
88
1,356
2,588
76
91
13
149; Hall.
7
6
630
836
43
46
8
87
Indm
14
IS
173
365
9
18
1
7
Handolph
30
33
8,538
8,520
109
805
3
185
itcMion
23
20
525
1,471
84
38
2
78
8»r
83
80
1,046
1,051
187
148
3
89
Audrain
2<
23
833
1,488
41
58
5
61
RsTnolds
m/
20
1
386
(X)
25
85
18
85
Barry
28
40
1,006
3,377
47
60
4
58
Rlolsy
7
6
267
455
17
15
-
19
Barton
SS
41
887
8,858
80
78
6
70 St..Charlas
80
18
840
943
55
91
3
74
Batai la/
S3
37
1,396
1,586
81
80
5
61!St. C-lalr
V
IS
29
253
1,632
11
16
1
86
Ban ton
12
16
414
1,099
18
28
2
29
St. Pranooli
88
20
1,383
1,548
81
97
3
164
Bollln«ar
4
12
93
407
4
7
-
4
St. Louis
80/
78
41
7,735
5,683
539
831
51
786
Boons 22/
48
28
2,538
8,553
194
831
17
848
St. Louis eitj
1,890
1,940
721.735
1,431,141
26,737
40,548
630
76,090
Boohanaa
178
21s
65,718
207,788
1,367
8,137
61
5,407
Sts. CanaTlava
4
9
98
266
4
18
-
8
Bntlar
23
35
1,098
4,471
76
86
2
144
Sallna
48
58
1.495
3,335
88
91
4
SOS
Caldnll
83
82
606
745
29
34
2
35 Schnylar
19
13
487
1,204
85
20
3
18
Callanjr
18
22
518
907
39
43
2
34:3ootl«nd
18
17
866
957
18
20
3
17
Caadm
5
3
60
82
2
3
-
2' Scott
86
89
3,015
5,973
883
286
7
348
Oapa Clrardaau
37
31
8,766
6,641
139
189
11
304 Shannon
3
3
69
87
3
5
-
5
Carroll
SB
37
1,414
8,796
56
60
11
108 ahalby
83
26
990
5,127
93
77
8
52
Cnrtar
2
4
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
|I) IjStoddart
86
49
1,437
3,502
85
95
1
96
Caaa
29
33
690
1,313
36
61
8
57|atona
3
8
147
642
11
12
«
17
Cadar
7
11
413
1,074
14
14
.
33'3ttlllTan
28
21
777
1,212
58
36
1
46
Cbarlton
38
27
1,187
1,274
63
36
4
esllTanar
9
6
162
186
7
9
-
9
Obrlatian \/
8
25
158
68<
S
10
-
Si tazas
12
80
744
1,231
89
43
S
81
Slark
18
18
601
8,051
31
35
1
30 ! Taraon
27
23
399
1,399
23
34
1
35
Olar
43
33
4,981
18,849
808
347
18
53ei»arren
10
14
176
662
6
14
-
16
eilntoB
23
25
705
1,899
47
54
8
89 laahln^on
8
7
180
343
14
20
1
11
cola k/
32
18
8,060
1,889
117
134
4
820 »ayne
v
4
14
113
192
4
13
.
8
Coopar
37
30
1,818
3,424
89
93
7
125 Wsb.tar
13
IS
798
1,327
38
88
4
S3
Crawford
6
11
804
316
14
19
8
idlworth
17
18
352
550
87
18
1
19
Dada
14
13
318
60S
80
80
1
18
Bright
83
89
1,477
1,820
34
54
4
95
Ballaa
1
5
(X)
8S0
(X)
(X)
tx)
(X)
Barlaaa to/
28
IS
572
408
SO
88
1
30
lOTMl
M lalli
21
80
307
858
17
22
8
19
Dant
14
12
18
5
378
513
742
384
87
17
28
80
1
8
46
34
Total
1,842
1,849
79.441
158, S4S
3,318
4,900
247
18,499
Donclaa
Dnnklln l/
31
72
1,643
6,023
73
110
3
147
Bsavsrhoad
5
4
126
472
10
13
1
11
rranUln
32
33
948
1.263
43
63
2
55
Big Horn
14
10
549
456
19
27
1
20
Gaaoonada
20
13
440
635
86
27
1
41! Bis las
31
83
720
1,819
SS
87
1
125
Qaatry
40
38
1,510
3,051
81
76
5
elf Broad watsr
8
7
115
688
6
8
1
9
Oraana eo/
137
117
25, SOS
43,540
' 1,280
1,669
28
8,89e|;0«rhon
27
85
815
1,348
88
39
1
73
Onindj
22
83
618
3,373
38
48
1
91 Oartsr
1
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(I)
■arriton
3S
44
648
8,731
35
44
S
57*lcaaeads
100
92
11,884
25,302
589
806
S4
2,100
Banrj
40
40
1,679
3,301
78
118
18
145 Choutaan
40
47
1,175
3,746
46
69
2
'210
Blokoiy
I
•
(X)
591
(X)
(I)
(X)
tX) Ci^atar
IS
20
1,834
3,161
42
75
-
158
Holt
M
17
330
635
20
87
2l!iauilela
2r
22
479
8,069
24
84
-
35
Howard
22
81
702
1,822
43
30
s
49JDawson
8T
25
1,889
8,417
36
51
1
104
Hawaii 1/
23
77
1,733
3,418
77
94
>
SSfi'Dssr Lod«s
4
8
76
1,403
5
6
-
7
Iron ^
S
3
103
189
3
10
6 Fallon
18
14
707
(X)
17
83
1
138
Jaokaon
1,303
1,704
515,187
1,408,793
13,138
21, OSS
S48
49,668 Psrgos
73
97
8,817
6,537
100
136
9
561
Jaapar
143
140
16,980
' 50,463
837
1,097
37
2,108i:nathaad
14
18
1,919
3,047
110
, 137
1
366
Jaffaraon
13
IS
616
848
SO
43
I
45;|Gallatln
S3
37
1,759
3,365
74
153
4
342
Johnson
34
38
779
8,066
58
67
2
47,1 Garf laid
S
S
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
tnox
la
IS
304
1,075
7
11
2
83
Olaclar
12
s
■856
513
15
16
-
49
Laelsda
17
IS
719
1,809
36
49
2
99
Coldan VallS7
6
10
79
815
5
4
-
13
Ufajwtta
34
51
1,851
3,851
91
101
3
19S
Oranlts
4
4
61
85
4
5
1
8
lAwraaoa
37
31
1,053
1,485
54
64
4
83
Hill
39
45
3,464
3,455
125
161
2
016
Uwls
22
81
737
1,488
36
37
1
88
Jsffsrson
6
S
138
131
6
9
1
12
AnMriauQ
BiuinesB
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tabla 9 —WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(All TtUtus expressed in thousands of doUars)
(An [\) in column indicates that information must ^ withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual eetablishments, but such data are included in State totak; a leader indkatea do
information or an amount lees than $500)
NiruBEa OF
Full-
"n
NimBEB of
FuU-
1
EaTABUBH-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll |
Stocks
ESTABUSH-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll |
Stocks
HSKTB
em-
on
UENTB 1
em-
OD
County
ploy-
hand
Conwnr
ploy-
hand
ees
Part-
time
(mdof
ees
Pan-
time
i«^of
1933
1929
1933
1929
(awr-
age)
Total
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
(ossr-
<v)
Total
year)
manak
miusu
(oootlniiM)
(oontlnaad)
Jx^lth BsaU
as
36
*466
f 1,189
26
•zs
tl
»96
Boaanl
18
27
*466
tl,792
a
til
^
|4«
Uto
IS
13
ES4
657
17
18
-
20!
Jaffaraon b/
72
39
5,230
7,863
128
129
Is
178
im, ud Clark
37
34
4,108
5,076
206
310
9
728 Johnson b/
58
21
836
4,213
37
39
i
48
UMrt/
11
7
267
691
13
16
-
55
Eaamar
28
86
915
3,237
a
17
2
44
Useoln
10
6
134
138
11
15
1
12
telth
19
13
680
1,927
18
21
3
47
lloOoiia
14
9
E79
591
10
14
1
42
Xajrapaha
81
83
5
8
bdlion
10
9
180
266
12
IE
-
8
Ilaball
14
18
586
2,149
18
84
6
34
■••«>«r
s
4
30
96
2
2
-
3
Ehox
34
33
566
3,306
39
43
t
Ul
Mlntral
s
3
87
52
3
6
-
6
Lane as tar
179
166
21,879
64,155
1,278
1.7X2
63
3,888
Mliioal*
24
n
4,331
6,372
283
385
14
1,104
Lincoln
38
53
1,998
4,748
96
183
3
m
■UMlaUll
11
19
594
828
19
34
-
88! Logan
S
6
87
718
S
a
a
Park
to
19
728
1,947
31
41
8
.60| loup
1
1
tx)
(X)
(I)
(X)
(I)"
(X)
Wtrolma
T
7
189
261
8
11
1
20i MePberaon
-
.
Rdlllpi
ra
30
613
2,185
87
31
1
1X1
IfcdlaoQ
56
58
4,365
7,627
298
308
18
S4S
PoQd*ra
r?
«7
779
5,588
26
32
-
129
■arrlok
51
27
909
2,923
87
81
IS
as
Po«d«r 8lT«r
1
-
m
-
tx)
(X)
tx)
(XI
Itorrlll
16
11
347
759
80
85
33
Ponll
10
6
180
188
12
13
1
17
lanoa
25
15
391
610
17
18
19
Pnlria
11
11
246
814
11
13
-
30
ISMha s/
41
81
1.061
1,311
33
36
91
knlll
e
IS
126
887
6
9
-
9
>u>koUt 1/
57
65
3,740
8,342
65
80
13
137
nouud
tz
33
939
1.815
2S
36
1
117
Otoa
61
41
1,760
3,454
as
as
119
BooatTfllt
3T
3S
1,384
5,468
43
se
1
179
Pavnaa
83
18
498
1,077
29
a
U
Boialnid
16
11
330
714
16
18
-
51
Parkins
55
20
699
4,411
89
. 89
45
Sanden
11
8
218
145
14
19
-
20
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26
24
1,799
2,055
110
104
16
lit
StMrldJUi
41
39
1,217
3,505
41
46
3
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27
18
981
1,198
88
58
88
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100
93
18,607
30,283
534
966
83
1,882' Platta
54
38
2,119
5,734
88
94
148
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1«
B
412
976
19
18
1
19 Polk
24
18
1,088
8,111
89
38
9a
3«««t Craai
T
9
126
367
4
6
2
13! Badwllloa
48
33
1,376
10,347
79
90
198
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H
41
817
3,069
29
42
1
152 Elcliardaon 8/
58
28
8,766
5,411
157
120
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17
19
555
2,002
83
33
3
325 Book
11
4
361
290
11
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3
4
75
123
3
7
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9
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47
3S
3,814
3,508
138
164
n
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38
49
976
2,476
40
44
1
99
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10
8
183
762
8
8
la
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10
13
186
2S4
10
13
1
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42
41
1,339
4,716
47
51
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litem
8
a
272
845
9
13
1
30
Sootts Bluff a/
61
38
4,888
4,406
187
tss
18
396
TallowitoM
81
86
10.50S
19,948
543
799
67
2,144;, saaard
61
39
1,935
4,475
53
56
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sharldan
27
89
741
3,916
45
47
84
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16
17
617
866
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34
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4
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1
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3,41«
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408.476
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4
53
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37
168
1,077
929
3.84S
4
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34
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71
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6,784
33,298
307
359
10
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3
5
16
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1,060
2,397
38
46
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14
to
445
1,031
17
81
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16
16
788
3,810
18
16
sa
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•
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-
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-
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17
81
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924
16
17
43
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6
-
47
-
2
2
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tayna
8
13
62
699
10
9
.
IS
Boona
3S
37
1,030
3,SS3
33
37
3
64
Webster
38
30
1,079
2,980
31
34
6
SS
Box Bntta
a
a
2.589
6,196
104
186
4
151 naslar
T
4
30
68
4
S
•
s
Bojd
IS
9
210
1,136
14
11
1
13 ! Tork
41
47
3,296
S.S03
9S
96
10
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17
t
299
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23
84
I
28
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<s
33
6,760
7,231
159
176
29
2C6
nrmi
Bart a/
33
17
396
1,376
30
43
2
105
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63
39
31
2,005
1,537
3,195
3,783
73
41
U
2
3
126
88
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Ul
96
9.963
13.719
458
786
36
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Cedar
31
n
617
1,764
36
23
4
76
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6
3
325
. 158
80
38
1
5S
Ctaaat
18
11
339
1,921
20
17
8
33
Clark 3/
83
8
2,068
632
64
119
1
119
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M
13
628
1,615
26
37
1
63
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3
2
212
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10
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1
11
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37
33
95S
7,026
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75
8
340
nko
11
7
465
301
81
3S
1
41
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49
49
1,146
4,864
M
54
1
105
ttmaralda
2
8
HI
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Colfax
IS
IS
573
1,208
I 1'
17
1
43 loraka
1
-
(X)
IX)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Cmlat
CO
IS
360
664
83
29
1
48 Huatoldt
6
S
816
180
10
IT
It
Cos tar
36
S8
1.191
5,903
39
40
2
84 '1 Undsr
3
1
81
(I)
4
a
•
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Dakota
6
9
66
492
7
6
-
12 1! Lincoln
3
1
65
IX)
4
8
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s
Daaai
19
tl
545
3,286
22
38
8
140! Ljon
7
3
893
106
IS
21
1
18
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ST
37
2,472
2,044
111
128
18
831 mnaral
2
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IX)
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(X)
tx)
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10
13
522
2,766
12
14
1
32 Ija
8
8
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551
17
38
3
30
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18
IS
250
1,903
14
16
1
27' 0ru1>7
2
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Bod*. e/
74
4S
3,093
7.304
1 192
199
12
5021 Par.Mn*
4
3
ts
180
9
1*
to
Dou^laa
636
657
276,221
707,496
I 7,347
11,323
8S6
18,042! Storay
-
•
m
.
•
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8
16
160
1.884
\ 12
14
1
21
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51
42
3.159
10,713
827
40a
10
898
mi»ora
47
38
1,457
4,666
54
49
8
90
•Mta Pine
9
t
SOS
66e
87
43
1
40
rruklin
3t
33
892
2,786
34
49
4
66
,
rrantlar
IS
13
13
34
358
508
1,736
3,544
80
17
17
17
8
8
34
3S
IB iiiMKjimil
ruraaa 1/
Of
87
IS
70
11
3,207
1 407
e,6oa
801
331
19
891
16
18
1
648
18
Total
331
m
se.oN
61.414
1.073
1.898
n
3.844
Cardan
Oarflald
7
S
1 "
423
S
' 4
-
4
Belknap
8«
10
i.eso
1,445
log
146
4
334
Goapar
7
S
' 94
80t
6
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1
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11
6
638
513
ST
7T
at
Grant
1
3
(I)
64
IX)
(I)
(X)
(X)
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16
26
8,769
4,596
118
190
4
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Oraalaj
14
IC
346
1,B3«
14
1 "
1
le
coos
80
10
8,002
8,S69
S8
188
1
171
Hall
68
S9
11,329
18,851
331
719
36
1,413
Crafton
88
16
8,416
8,339
149
810
•
144
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St
31
1,18C
4,93'
23
34
:
59
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133
159
17,0S9
30, 988
96S
1.843
S3
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Harlan
a
18
3ig
1,98E
3e
87
9
1
■BrrlMSk
51
42
4,134
9,635
830
318
3
580
Raja.
1 3
4
(1)
33!
IXI
(XI
(X)
(XI
looklochaa
38
42
3,864
4,271
807
191
13
ei
mtoboook
' tt
a
441
3,251
81
80
1
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3tr«rford
24
81
2.348
3,355
134
183
■
MS
Holt t/
' 43
a
1,163
1,60(
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46
e
66
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16
14
1,203
1,78S
SS
101
10
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B
1
134
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Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An iX) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500]
NUVBEH OF
Full-
Number of
Pull-
ESTABUSH-
Net Saixs
time
Pat Roll
Stocks
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Pav R
OLL
Stocks
KENT8
em-
on
ments
em-
on
CoDNTr
ploy-
hand
County
ploy-
hand
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
(aver-
age)
Total
Part-
time
lend of
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
{aver-
age)
Total
Part-
time
{evdoj
year)
m JEBSE
TZI/
»
Uf TOK
I continued)
Total
2.700
2,344
8561.537
1.008.881
23,380
»38.615
«942
Harklner
25
43
(1,421
^.143
77
09
»1
»180
Itlantlo
iV
1:2
ee
11,990
24,736
670
929
20
1,155
Jefferson
92
62
9,062
14,227
495
688
8
1,104
B«rgon
87
57
15,290
14,666
608
1,044
20
1,353
Lewla
9
7
581
415
22
52
1
ss
Borlln^on
m/
:4
19
4,238
2,579
884
820
5
4801
LlTtn«8ton
58
37
1,972
2,489
104
149
23
24S
Cuden
a/
ue
72
17,246
23,302
1,108
1,815
28
1,626;
Ifcdlson
24
51
2,399
2,013
97
146
1
188
C«p. br
31
25
2.248
1,618
114
170
17
149
llanJiattun
CumterlMd
fS
71
7,734
9,994
518
585
56
'45,
Borough
14,520
18,948
6,811.486
14,529,671
134,085
272,295
4,109
481,974
Baiaz
84:
735
225,097
416,879
9,298
15,434
323
18,290
Konpoe
»/
636
803
122,596
230,124
4,457
7,347
357
10,809
Gloiac«attr
43
30
3,884
4,115
1«
207
31
195. Itontgomerj
37
58
7,750
33,079
299
529
8
873
Bwlpon
£81
358
98,647
208,889
3,491
5,991
128
24,961, Haasau
135
119
31,329
46,714
953
1,541
31
1,668
Bant*rdoa
21
20
1,713
1,495
83
104
13
78 1 Blagara
119
103
13,875
23,930
701
1.169
64
1,573
■near
142
145
21,962
58,141
1,188
1,717
30
1.726! Onalda
195
211
48,696
62,325
1,556
2.874
34
2,231
KlUlMM
137
103
29,413
59,880
1,070
1,821
38
2,6921 Onondaga
»/
309
498
73,826
182,144
2,629
4.506
89
6,662
llonaoath
100
ISl
15,093
29,227
644
1,001
59
1,251|
Ontario
T
39
69
3,724
13,080
184
243
11
224
Ibrrli
se
51
8,709
8,981
242
565
4
326
Orange
117
160
18,618
41,538
769
1,304
22
1,470
Oe«an
31
21
2,091
2,728
132
188
9
ISO
Orleans
37
33
1,897
2,642
34
163
43
288
PMialo
11/
2eo
194
51,676
86,424
1,787
2,897
84
3,311
Oswego
58
61
5,620
7.905
153
204
11
306
3«laa
18
25
■ 1,611
3,164
85
77
2
82
Otaego
24
39
3,933
6,665
136
347
3
482
SomtrfX
s/
42
11
8,679
4,801
182
S7S
5
133
PntnMi
5
1
187
(X)
13
26
4
10
5iue«z
20
17
1,094
755
51
82
5
83
Queena Borou^
288
400
124,312
202,715
4,935
8,278
235
7,74s
tjT'^a
81/
KO
129
53,030
60,619
1,234
1,531
i02
4,882
Benaaelser
101
104
18,015
37,066
767
1,134
66
1,325
»»r.-m
23
28
2,190
5,708
92
288
5
109
Richmond
Borough
86
77
6,443
11,740
339
488
19
479
0> KEtlCO
Hookland
24
17
2,661
3,335
lie
164
2
298
St. Uwrenca 2/
92
70
16,460
12,096
434
685
18
1,729
»ot«l
448
517
27,892
63,547
1,293
1.937
81
4.161
Saratoga
Schenectady
21
92
25
83
1,650
13,687
4,202
24,608
126
788
183
1.090
3
29
166
1,192
Mnullllo
S8
47
8,885
13,587
328
630
19
903' Sohoharla
4
18
283
609
19
28
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50
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1
.
tx)
-
.
.
-! SclnijrHr
19
11
939
344
66
83
4
243
Cbarw
24
27
2,488
4,409
79
Ill
4
274 H Saneoa
21
19
973
814
46
54
2
227
ColfMi
22
18
1,372
7,149
58
94
2
113 ' Steuben
92
76
8,265
8,052
329
446
16
700
tt^rry
42
28
1,894
5,497
89
12s
10
293
Suffolk
V,
108
140
13,206
28,816
1,037
1,123
78
1,406
M B«»
7
S
74
48
6
8
-
7
SulliTan
V
47
20
2,646
1,844
192
216
3
288
Doha Aha
19
14
1,069
775
68
9S
7
86
Tioga
10
19
1,723
4,289
100
139
230
■1(17
«/
26
IS
652
1,765
S3
87
2
109
Tompkina
22
29
2,369
3,443
153
240
6
334
Grant
IS
9
671
1,152
35
49
1
HI
tllater
57
80
6,638
22,339
365
570
10
929
CoAdAlvpa
u
»
484
533
22
31
-
79
Warren
34
30
3,681
6,448
195
285
4
436
Bud lug
e
2
379
(I)
18
18
1
S3
Waahlngton
22
26
1,842
2,625
214
237
2
628
BUalgo
8
t
218
213
IS
27
1
16
Wayne
V
43
75
2,478
7,816
162
192
15
317
U>
a,'
20
1
537
(X)
28
S3
2
5E8i Woatehastor
266
239
48,604
93,186
2,234
3,034
32
3,563
ULoooljl
«
8
264
274
21
32
-
44 ,j Wyoming
19
11
586
858
43
34
8
78
Lima
e
9
S22
581
IS
24
-
49
Tatee
11
24
532
1,039
45
50
3
79
IfcXlalar
14
15
2.287
4,388
92
134
~
407
■or*
s
12
4
T
(Z)
456
182
337
(X)
22
(X)
39
(I)
1
(XI
72
WOSTH caxolhI
I
n«ro
5«W
e/
1«
9
9
B
388
276
931
250
28
19
32
25
1
33
26
Total
2,387
2.413
423.127
717,438
13.411
18.180
1,542
64,688
:Uo Arrlte
Sooaavalt
20
M
490
648
SO
34
1
60
Alanance
31
23
2,960
3,083
148
193
9
196
saodotAl
S
S
1B9
54
14
18
>
45
Alexander
2
3
(X)
143
(X)
(XI
(XI
(X)
San JWLii
«
t
424
408
17
19
*
29
illeghany
1
-
(X)
-
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
San Mlgnal
10
8
1,279
2,801
49
102
-
267
Anson
12
7
1,279
1,614
45
61
1
182
3«nt» n
18
13
1,595
2,419
110
181
4
359
Ashe
18
16
384
725
11
15
1
35
Sl«rr»
S
2
95
(X)
s
9
-
7
ATery
2
9
(X)
214
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
Soeorro
«
8
170
599
10
16
-
16
Beaufort
45
38
2,993
5,384
264
200
15
310
noa
1
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
Bertie
9
18
367
1,490
15
30
6
75
forruoo
18
11
573
1,948
24
3S
5
128
Bladen
7
4
367
337
12
23
5
47
Ctaion
17
17
2S5
2,460
18
24
.
28
Brunswick
26/
5
4
120
1,843
2
11
7
y*Uniil>
a/
11
4
278
177
17
23
■
29 Soncofflhe
Bnrke
85
8
81
S
10,315
814
23,349
• 242
471
24
816
28
34
1,166
68
m TOM
Cabarrus
Caldwsll
17
7
18
11
2,170
333
3,354
706
89
14
117
21
6
1
138
24
Total
21.899
25.311
8.333.836
17.604.634
194.591
368.116
6.880
590,737
Camden
Carteret
38
3
22
894
61
1,136
47
64
13
53
UIM17
2«/
35S
271
87,478
128,784
2,943
4,943
104
8,800
Caawell
7
2
131
(X)
8
3
19
UlagMjr
35
49
3,349
7,971
217
285
6
853
Catawba
31
S7
2,268
4,850
117
156
6
31S
Bronx Borot«b
567
3TS
150,087
167,913
4,487
7,390
172
9,494
Chatham
11
26
444
882
17
23
1
31
SrookljB Boro^h
1,418
1,818
284,763
899,107
10,869
19,130
518
20,686
Cherokee
10
9
856
914
44
54
1
88
Urooaa
132
1S«
22,573
81,399
1,159
1,710
80
3,070
Chowan
27/
12
5
1.390
625
323
102
1
177
cattarancns
S3
84
5,417
14,336
261
354
12
489
Clay
1
5
(XI
17
(X)
(X)
(X)
(Z|
C«yii««
57
78
5,943
12,400
527
507
13
1,169
Cle>alaad
25
15
2,013
2,789
107
119
2
866
Cbantan^iu
12«
128
11,811
24,930
1,071
1,222
24
1,695 ! Columboa
2^
29
15
4,442
2,572
93
118
8
■137
CtMaig
73
83
11,307
23,576
665
1,104
43
1,726, Craran
42
42
3,472
5,695
142
191
12
264
VhVDAngO
21
22
4,183
5,940
141
159
8
440' Ciubarland
27/
45
21
4,999
4,573
268
339
6
484
Clinton
42
41
4,657
7,127
242
298
10
7581 Currituck
16
6
361
131
6
13
5
10
colnabla
19
32
2,042
3,160
79
148
6
228,1 aar.
22
11
486
493
38
35
1
21
Cortland
32
24
2,122
4,032
115
153
4
351,1 OsTldaon
15
14
1,367
1,878
62
87
10
108
<MU««r«
27
38
3,241
2,2S3
149
184
4
272,, l»7l«
1/
3
36
141
342
5
10
7
Kitshaaa
2/
81
83
14,906
20,372
708
9SS
24
2,061' Duplin
27/
21
7
1,644
422
29
43
2
20
•Pla
973
1,220
272,777
681,898
10,858
18,189
417
, 28,860 I>iirhflo
61
53
16,166
53,342
405
964
345
12,268
aaaaz
IS
15
2,018
1,207
83
113
3
280 UgaoODba
1/
36
73
5,467
10,306
190
197
15
242
rranklin
4S
40
4,643
8,410
227
298
21
812 yorayth
98
84
18,859
38,887
780
884
39
1,345
niton
3>
67
5,060
11,869
167
249
13
902
rranklln
1/
16
35
446
1,613
7
13
3
4
Mnaaav
37
43
4,115
11,734
248
509
25
475
Gaeton
64
57
16,067
34,274
296
347
16
738
Croana
13
9
1,478
2,861
115
164
5
172
Gates
6
4
78
89
8
7
-
4
Baallton
1
2
(I)
(I)
(X)
(II
(II
(XI
Graham
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Censui^tf
Amencui
Businen
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9 —WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AMD COUNTIES
{All mlua txjnt$atd in thouaandt of dollars]
[An (X^ in column indicate that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establiahmeDts, but.sucfa data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount tees than $500]
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NmiiES or
Full-
1
NtncBER OF
Full-
EffTABUflH-
Nn Sales
time
Pat Rou, |
Stocks
E8TABU8H-
NetSalis
time
Pat Rou.
Stooka
HENT6
em-
on
UCN7B
em-
on
CODNTT
ploy-
hand
CotJNTT
ploy-
huid
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
(MW-
Total
Part-
time
(erui of
yeaf\
1933
1929
1983
1929
ees
((i«r-
Total
Part-
time
IW)
lOHTH CAROUBJ
iorth nuoTt
(contimtsd)
(aontiouad)
OrUTllI*
v
s
20
$l,oos
|4,433
23
«sa
*a
tai
Orant
ii
33
«S74
li.sei
20
«>4
•
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Cre«Q«
i'
-
e
-
244
-
-
-
Orlggi
56
38
72T
2,080
SB
48
«
•1
Oiillfort
m
1S6
41,190
64,582
1,208
1,668
3a
e,933
R*ttin««r
36
27
1,362
3,asi
42
7S
S
SM
Hftlifu
43
7»
3,177
4,824
128
160
21
299
KiiitT 1/
25
36
463
2,151
28
31
2
T4
Ikraett
11
21
774
1,153
29
36
1
28
U ltour«
35
65
1,160
3,845
47
39
1
192
teyvood
t
10
eo«
1,432
26
33
1
66|
Lo^aa
31
35
558
2,129
28
20
1
98
BsadsrtOD
IS
14
1,091
1,723
46
56
2
80
HoHanry.
66
69
1,566
3,887
as
74
1
UT
Hertford
u
12
1,774
1,997
52
8S
18
206
Itstatoah
31
44
649
2,892
34
S8
-
es
Boke
1
4
(W
565
(1)
(X)
(X)
(Z) 1 liomizK
27
24
651
1,335
31
39
-
138
nj4«
«
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49
72
2
4
i; HDLaui
61
49
1,510
4,324
38
75
4
1ST
Ir«l«ll
to
21
1,272
3,678
T9
99
3
129
Harcer
23
26
478
2,257
28
S3
-
38
JsokaoQ
e
3
m
361
IX)
(XI
(XI
(X)
llortoa
41
52
1,719
5,152
81
90
3
189
Johnitoa
ss
2«
2,906
3,169
81
101
12
112
louatrall
68
56
1,663
4,940
67
97
4
2S3
Jones
1
1
W
W
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
lalion
42
43
794
2.244
42
38
2
100
Lee
' 21
20
2,133
1,878
ST
7T
E
161
Oil Tar
a
7
124
S41
B
4
-
11
Unoir
£7/
30
28
12,«S0
9,902
23T
324
41
274
Faaliaa
ae
60
1,951
3,621
88
88
2
at
Llocoln
It
IS
1,«21
4,393
43
64
1
203
Plana
37
32
872
2,03T
41
34
S
98
ItoDonll
8
8
382
923
36
32
2
57
Ikuar
79
73
3,235
5,612
166
211
8
328
Itoeon
e
3
w
170
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
teaaoB
40
32
809
1,970
4S
81
S
UT
Hadltoa
«
S
288
519
13
21
32
DanTllla
41
49
746
4,130
38
sa
1
116
Martin
le
17
2,71t
1,743
93
122
36
102
Hlahlaaa
70
69
1,830
3,748
92
1S3
s
S48
Uacklenburg
218
2«e
100,093
165.358
2,162
3,701
as
6,308
Bolatta
SO
37
524
1,987
2<
33
-
119
HI tc boll
9
4
288
449
21
28
2
17
Sargaat
44
32
893
2,763
43
■SI
3
12T
IfcDtfOIMIT'
11
11
524
1,100
25
37
1
34
Sharllaa
19
28
BIS
1,909
20
28
1
n
lioor*
14
IS
733
677
38
S5
4
39
Sloai
12
8
2oe
SOS
12
18
-
2T
l&sh
ee
88
3,789
19,009
132
223
32
161
Slopa
4
S
(X)
(X)
(XI
(XI
(X)
(I)
lev H&noTor
84
SB
11,306
26,300
601
712
20
2,463
Stark
45
34
2,a08
3,912
93
135
T
282
BorthunptDD
18
18
336
566
8
9
1
10
Staala
30
27
989
1,826
31
39
2
98
Onalov
4
3
317
138
9
13
«
29
Statiaaa
68
100
3,767
10,491
168
221
8
443
OrAi«o
3
2
139
Ul
2
7
-
5
Toanar
41
47
831
3,ooe
41
84
2
14B
PBolleo
27/
20
4
aea
286
9
19
11
20
Traill
56
59
2,213
3,9Se
80
8S
8
849
Puqiiotank
31
37
2,710
3,491
1T2
178
16
373
lalah
T7
92
1,669
4,794
101
124
11
234,
Peodtr
14
14
262
299
IS
IS
3
12
Ward
113
111
6,899
16,ST8
3T0
321
9
1,958
Perqnioaai
v
4
13
373
480
10
17
.
12
Valla
49
T2
1,369
4,536
48
39
3
las
P«^on
11
10
«S3
1,926
26
30
1
33
niiUM
62
78
3,274
10,412
99
1ST
2
SOS
Pitt
48
44
26,238
27.606
831
923
127
SS9
Polk
t
1
W
(XI
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
mo
Ruidolpli
13
«
609
888
84
88
1
88
Sielunood
17/
la
EC
12
30
1,372
13,363
1,949
4,90e
56
128
94
202
2
20
93
159
^»al
8,317
e_i077
1,863,684
S.094.100
62.782
9a,B70
2,688
128,328
Robeaon
Roefeio^hja
38
23
10,507
3,218
138
347
321
14,112
Utm
19
10
402
374
21
2T
2
17
aovan
4?
4f
4,147
9,449
178
232
T
330
Ulan a/
100
78
10,339
12,836
57B
78S
30
T9T
Hutherford
U
14
1,334
1,532
32
40
1
78r lllilaal
20
20
«9S
2,039
38
48
3
40
3&apsoo
17
22
1,719
2,684
58
44
1
66, Ubta<nila
83
64
3,700
5,683
231
294
36
320
acotUnd
17/
ST
8
2,290
1,461
132
110
3
162 Hthaaa
3S
24
3,781
3,527
2te
2T6
S
Toe
St»nlx
a
IS
71B
1,602
33
87
1
85 Ala(lali>
49
ST
3,461
7.449
193
233
7
190
Stoket
4
7
83
436
3
S
10 taUont
48
38
3,010
8,961
128
178
IS
233
SXUTJ
3t
31
2,347
3,078
91
119
8
231
Broan
38
34
1,839
2,771
TO
TO
9
ST
Sraia
S
8
307
386
9
16
_
14
latlar
98
TO
13,043
18,847
sao
859
14
898
Truiijlr&nla
1
S
(X)
170
(XI
(X)
(X)
(X)
Oarrall V
S
le
279
297
4
8
-
7
Tyrrell
3
a
103
338
6
12
8
4
ni»paicB
33
19
2,829
1,889
94
113
6
13T
Onion
1/
IT
IS
1,401
a,446
as
90
1
314
Clark
83
TO
6,995
9,831
(X)
sat
488
16
830
Vuiee
>e
21
4,810
9,033
342
328
14
441
Olar^at 8/
23
2
302
22
16
2
9
Teke
120
87
19,283
23, Tel
ees
1,149
•1
9,124
Ollatra
64
54
2,366
3/628
as
73
9
ST
Yerren
1/
11
3S
1,326
3,465
40
48
a
69
Oolaablana
77
61
4,701
9,194
310
♦66
16
484
feaMn^on
11
3
260
362
19
18
1
n
Cofhooton
24
26
1,960
1,443
206
207
19
360
¥etAi«e
4
8
135
256
4
6
IT
Craafort
41
43
1,714
7,331
102
122
8
TS
Yejne
3«
3S
4,673
8,960
tM
239
9
212
Cvj*bet*
2,081
2.021
537,808
1,178,022
16,583
31,723
892
44,600
tiikee
IT
13
3,043
2,339
82
66
a
ISO
Sarka
71
70
4,237
6,297
293
286
12
391
fllaoD
1/
33
81
19,985
43,654
607
687
77
862
wflaoaa
58
42
2,521
8,099
144
135
4
398
Tedkln
1
S
(II
136
IX)
(X)
(XI
(XI
Mlaaara l/
17
36
564
1,884
22
29
3
ST
Tencey
t
3
III
39
IX)
(X)
(X)
(X)
■rla
nirritii 1/
89
33
64
56
3,437
1,931
9,800
2,982
381
99
410
103
63
10
848
1T2
/
nr*«ta
16
30
1,416
7,49a
48
68
3
las
rraaklln 2^
427
asa
112,723
233, 167
5,022
8,921
97
8,760
T?A»1
«.49«
e.»t
93.990
262.430
4.348
s.eti
166
nl«<a
34
IB
33
13
1,932
STB
8,672
■ ,8U
81
S9
72
7S
9
I
100
SB
'' Oallla
idJLM
S/
30
24
990
3,538
48
46
3
10» »«»«• J/
a
19
210
397
•
9
1
8
Bame*
70
S3
3,279
6,993
119
160
6
43B Or«M»
32
2T
4,560
B,1T0
188
310
4
968
Sena on
TO
sa
1,261
4,076
SS
77
a
ia«, Oo»rM«j
19
23
1,641
1,308
84
101
7
132
Blllln«a
1
2
HI
(XI
(XI
(X)
(XI
(X) " Hvtltoo
1,301
1,387
34a,TS4
T3S,712
13,231
20,978
308
tf,SOT
Bottlneen
V
Tl
82
' 987
5,392
1 B^
64
2
1401 Itanoook
SS
^s
s.sss
a,992
169
235
11
419
toWBUl
te
23
eic
2,734
23
38
1
101 "»^^ J/
42
T2
2,709
6.388
98
111
14
las
Buhka
41
44
666
2,477
38
41
2
93l flaiTltoa
14
a
814
IX)
23
34
1
IT
9arlel«b
48
OS
4,760
14,128
' 211
332
E
6961] ""^
33
38
1,692
4,298
109
108
3
108
181
39
48
Cevalier
V
1T4
•8
ITS
74
17,379
1,184
48,838
4,416
967
64
1,382
61
40
3
"^0 HolMi
S8
8
IS
40
7
22
2,409
193
466
S,7Tt
284
1,4S7
ISO
11
27
122
18
26
7
1
1
Die key
SO
34
960
1,9SS
S4
48
1
'» IhroD
31
33
1,6S2
3,21a
SO
105,
9
142
Mrlde
SI
32
882
1,960
46
44
1
'~ Jactioa
IS
22
ee
98T
40
64
t
71
itODIt
10
22
4S0
1,798
10
3>
1
♦• Jttfncz
S3
56
4,626
11,307
273
345
8
808
■ddy
10
21
388
1,581
16
22
■
,"l, ««•
U
21
2,014
2,980
lOS
154
IT
203
knona
3«
44
1,040
3,276
39
38
2
107 i^.
SO
20
1,B80
1,443
104
162
11
114
roater
24
28
4S4
l.TBB
29
34
1
101
Laaranaa
18
13
688
2,744
43
51
iS
123
Colden Ulley
le
U
saa
2,2«e
17
26
1
S3
LidfcUkff
44
44
3,131
8,373
244
287
339
Oruid rorkt
8«
104
8,378
16,164
380
490
IT
i.sts
Lao.
41
34
2,143
4,0S1
sa
117
6
100
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRffiUTION: 1933
Table 9..— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AMD COUNTIES
(AU values expressed in thousands of doUoTs)
lAn (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual estabhshments. but such data are included in State totals; a leader 'indicates no
information or an amount less than $500)
Number of
FuU-
Number of
FuU-
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Payroll
Stocks
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll
Stocks
ments
em-
on
ments
em-
on
ploy-
hsDd
County
ploy-
hand
ees
Part-
lime
(mdoj
ees
Part-
time
(mdo/
1933
1929
1933
1929
age)
Total
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
(arer-
dfe)
Total
Jtnr)
cmo
OXUHOU
(coiitimial)
(cantlnuad)
Lonln
6S
66
t3,464
tl6,792
218
»252
*24
t367
Lo Flor«
27
25
(633
»1,177
33
♦37
n
tss
Lacu
4M
425
110,990
189,680
4,696
7,026
163
9,816
LlncolB
45
46
1,283
2,171
64
70
4
189
Itodlaon
11
28
647
4,078
28
25
3
48
Logao
65
64
1,696
4,716
120
164
IS
U9
Uskanlng
208
213
37,138
101,784
1,875
2,342
72
3,070
Lore
10
5
314
141
8
13
-
3
Karl on
«7
4S
2,607
6,519
174
225
6
2,090
MeclMi
41
40
666
3,047
41
41
1
18
UadUui
28
23
2,707
3,016
105
168
5
U9
MoCartalB
23
28
442
1,465
31
38
-
29
IkllKS
18
23
682
1,207
32
38
1
74
Kclntoah
26
14
853
366
46
29
1
30
lUTOsr 8/
*7
26
2,593
2,174
83
82
4
114
Major
46
46
1,240
1,923
51
58
2
126
manl -^
57
56
3,166
U,213
176
217
9
364
Marshall
8
12
266
843
12
16
-
8
Uonroo
14
u
108
265
6
6
1
6
HojM
26
31
647
1,201
35
42
«
62
Uojxt^aaarj
2SS
276
50,002
U6,352
2,531
3,521
60
5,588
Morray
17
11
480
731
21
34
1
14
Morgan
8
13
444
508
14
13
1
63
Muslcogee
2/
125
106
15,737
25,814
420
628
46
1,671
Borrow
U
8
428
728
36
39
1
25
Hoblo
34
36
S14
2,424
45
60
8
44
WisklngnD
71
SO
6,504
14,053
407
565
14
1,466
Novata
18
19
436
911
19
3S
8
36
Bobl«
14
7
1,752
713
38
31
37
Okfuskea
29
38
1,044
2,749
44
38
2
68
Ottawa 8/
34
15
1,811
1,810
U7
135
12
50
Oklahoma
y
426
506
94,697
320,186
3,771
6,813
164
11,036
Pauldliig 8/
41
36
6,906
2,816
124
99
4
46
Olonul^ea
SO
69
3,417
6,712
205
262
16
622
Parry
28
26
455
1,310
15
22
1
31
Osage
49
61
1,524
2,266
80
106
6
228
Piofcaway 1/
24
43
1,947
5,877
68
73
6
80
Ottara
39
44
1,630
3,939
SO
107
2
201
Pike •*
e
13
IX)
(X)
<X)
(X)
(X)
(I)
Paanae
24
24
684
1,059
28
44
7
34
Portage
26
17
1,067
1,295
63
9(
2
100
Payne
y
51
36
3,073
2,975
169
203
U
415
Preble
39
32
1,812
1,681
55
73
7
52
Pittsburg
62
53
3,071
7,622
171
261
14
510
Pot nan
57
49
3,462
6,884
144
149
U
166
Pontotoc
33
46
1,736
3,616
84
US
6
230
BtotaAnd
74
63
8,646
16,181
479
657
14
1,300
PottawatomleSl/
52
94
3,292
13,138
198
249
7
414
Hoes
29
31
2,182
4,928
149
166
6
211
PuahiBtahA
9
13
369
259
19
24
1
46
SemduAJcy 1/
33
52
1,430
5,165
82
102
9
Ul
Boger Mills
49
32
799
1,952
41
40
6
46
Soloto 0/
65
43
4,851
8,087
357
441
16
5]£
Rogers
29
24
1,900
1,336
186
190
3
UO
Sen80»
75
60
3,945
5,767
226
243
21
335
Seminole
31/
73
101
3,142
26,379
178
286
28
1,583
Shelby
48
38
5,870
8,572
161
136
8
203
Sequoyah
13
14
326
256
16
18
4
21
Sterk
188
162
27,072
64,235
1,670
2,347
67
2,943
Stephens
57
76
2,352
5,109
110
130
10
295
Sananlt 3^
306
215
132,237
108,418
4,409
8,269
104
7,254
Texaa
53
52
776
6,899
57
67
1
217
Trumbull
48
63
2,769
8,030
150
201
5
338
TlUman
63
79
3,466
7,394
96
104
5
46
TuBoarawas
63
43
3,001
6,122
196
256
46
483
Tulaa
2/
406
306
57,386
107,229
2,331
3,765
90
6,366
QnloD
18
20
770
1,433
52
56
.
41
Wagoner
29
20
960
423
32
32
3
71
van Wert
S6
SI
2,847
5,3U
114
128
13
246
Bwiihington
29
29
4.730
6,176
61
122
3
184
Tint on
2
1
(X)
(X)
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Washita
y
81
59
3.367
6.062
103
100
6
71
H&TTm.
9
10
336
829
21
32
1
39
Woods
61
47
1.269
6.132
69
69
3
130
VasMnKton
3S
44
2,191
6,002
lie
156
14
418
Woodward
4S
36
1.553
3.517
69
94
U
202
■arne 8/
62
39
3,460
6,501
140
187
10
276
WUUau
49
40
5,597
4,798
170
186
10
228
10 od
52
34
2,491
3,330
144
177
18
146
Wyandot
28
19
768
1,572
57
60
3
27
Total
Balcar
y
1.333
1.439
202.146
466.831
9.706
14-511
M8
Zj.*02
OKUkHOU
IS
29
1.642
4.788
77
116
6
366
Benton
11
11
975
1,375
47
74
1
42
Total
4,180
4,179
312.B3S
773.398
12.908
17.998
742
34.012
ClBcluBiias
Clatsop
y
26
28
8
33
819
3,060
412
6,462
31
122
54
190
9
9
54
286
Uair
15
16
441
827
39
32
_
46
Colmshla
12
6
397
263
23
40
4
30
Alfaira
80
70
2,295
3,934
71
65
6
77
Coos
36
30
2,386
3,194
101
169
u
258
Atoka
a
9
189
194
8
IS
1
14
Crook
4
7
97
238
6
6
-
7
BeaTBr 1/
27
39
273
2,863
20
22
1
32
COPIT
1
ID
(X)
tx)
(X)
(X)
(XI
IX)
BeaUum
72
64
4,646
6.955
167
178
33
■• 167
DesohutttS
21
20
1,674
1,792
77
110
2
1S2
Blaine
74
78
1,499
4,218
77
81
10
98
Douglas
26
29
968
1,914
69
90
1
109
Brysn
40
39
3,217
6,368
142
150
2
316
Sllllas
9
9
210
383
17
27
1
17
Caddo
99
90
4,382
4,984
156
1*7
10
179
Crant
2
(X)
(X)
(X)
(I)
(X)
tx)
(X)
Canadian
4B
43
5,103
6,614
122
150
4
290
Homey
4
2
161
(I)
12
12
-
9
Cartar
55
50
3,592
6,063
213
287
14
508
Hood aiTer
6
14
2,387
5,292
293
298
2
431
Cherokee
14
17
470
496
19
21
1
47
Jaolcson
39
36
4,825
6,266
266
416
81
384
Chootaw
26
14
1,465
1,687
54
66
.
603
Jefrarson
6
4
90
310
6
6
-
10
CUoarron
32
21
432
1,819
38
43
2
67
Josephine
18
8
1,101
933
45
66
5
86
Clereland
29
37
778
1,112
66
73
1
78
ELnath
y
44
28
4,074
6,3S7
192
310
9
687
Coal
9
36
199
1,102
9
12
1
U
Lake
4
2
103
(X)
2
4
-
7
COBKiuoha
as
es
5,9U
8,661
331
361
13
388
Lane
y
63
34
4.463
6,690
198
30E
9
428
Cotton
23
35
1,086
2,534
37
24
4
41
Llnooln
10
4
239
131
16
24
1
13
Craig
29
29
951
1,943
36
59
14
89
Linn
25
26
1,471
2,167
78
107
5
246
Creek
70
66
2,831
4,952
158
ITS
8
282
Italhenr
U
10
9U
979
36
68
1
123
Coeter 3/
92
66
3,074
10,128
181
216
12
389
lISXlOB
y
44
63
4,342
4,960
327
312
7
547
Delasdre
5
6
38
132
2
3
_
2
Morrow
y
4
16
107
1,756
4
4
-
9
Dewey
31
40
488
1,696
41
45
S
21
UultnoHh
3/
729
875
156,853
389,959
7,090
10,999
413
21,015
EUlA
39
32
693
3,270
36
43
2
47
Polk
8
12
340
2,060
13
20
2
29
Garfield
121
123
9,283
29,242
412
623
16
1.730
Shernnn
6
3
199
171
6
10
1
9
Oarrln
59
58
1,683
3,198
76
70
12
136
Tlllaoflok
13
8
495
658
23
34
3
44
Srady 3/
94
72
12,614
14,150
226
273
22
1,266
ttnatUla
37
42
2,8U
12,493
167
184
31
1B6
Grant
64
56
2,644
3,384
83
89
4
133
Onton
22
21
1,382
1,642
58
75
3
158
G-reer
36
34
933
2,258
39
47
2
42
Wallowa
4
5
125
746
6
S
-
10
Hanaon
21
43
737
2.370
S3
31
1
49
Waaoo
21
17
1,705
2,186
151
168
21
102
Harper
35
40
414
2.795
31
25
1
24
Washington
U
10
1,238
855
43
73
2
465
Haakall
17
25
314
623
IS
16
1
91
Iheeler
3
1
146
(X)
13
17
1
9
Soghaa
27
42
998
2,816
46
6S
1
146
TaBhlU
20
17
1,276
878
101
136
2
ISO
Jaoksoo
85
89
5,305
14,340
238
275
12
402
Tefferson
41
16
35
36
1,341
360
1,492
654
69
10
69
14
6
6
38
3
PEMN57LV311IA
Johnston
iV 3/
87
48
70
46
5,709
1,739
13,041
2,684
274
70
359
86
16
3
547
117
m^
9.706
.0.642
!,»90,3S1
t, 777, 292
-ia.aM-
U8.071
3.156
169.681
Klii£fl shear
ElOM
102
104
4,757
9,716
170
184
12
158
Adams
y
17
67
670
2,3SS
46
73
3
66
Latlnar
5
5
173
194
7
7
-
23
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Anwnaui
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tabl* 9.— mOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AHD COUKTIES
(AU talufs exjfTtmtd in OumaandM of doUars)
(An (X ) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order U> avoid disclosiDg data for individual efitabliahments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
infonnation or an amount leas than $600]
NlTHBER or
T
Full-
Number op
Full-
KffTABLISM-
Net Salf£
time
Pat Roll j
Stocka
ESTABUSH-
NetSalis
time
Pat Roll
Stooka
MBNTB 1
em-
on
em-
OB
COONTT
ploy-
ees
(owr-
hand
year)
County
ploy-
eee
(over-
hand
(endo/
1»33
line
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
1933
1»2»
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
PSIKSYXVAirtA
(eontinned)
LHU (eoatinuad
■
AlI«eheQr
^
1,713
1,974
»«08,794(
1,562,580
16,136
126,169
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$31,102
lUaidala
S
13
fiso
1891
8
in
_
¥
AnaBtroog
41
17
5,140
3,571
128
223
5
921
Andaraon
i
41
89
8,829
9,287
114
278
ts
no
BoATer
86
65
9,945
12.625
378
501
27
1.414' Bamberg
%
32
U
683
683
47
41
4
48
Bedford
19
21
1,164
1,464
53
83
3
112 BamwU
17
. u
789
408
19
19
.
IS
Berks
217
235
35,067
57.939
1,400
2,090
83
2.573 Boanf<I-t
10
8
682
950
39
45
_
88
Blair
U«
122
20,983
35,623
742
965
30
1.867 BoTkelay
t
6
358
365
17
U
.
18
Bradford
43
41
2,529
2,950
129
lai
U
292 I calhoan
y
7
S3
460
1,791
22
21
9
S«
Buala
23/
98
28
2,816
2,365
141
181
12
219 ObarlestOB
140
lU
S1,9SS
4S.89T
953
1,379
88
1.S48
Butler
76
51
5,477
12,741
2S9
S71
12
622 01uirolt««
12
IS
4S1
1,033
24
28
1
a*
Cabrls
163
130
U,S67
24,784
789
1,101
60
1,625 Cliarter
IS
SI
1,949
2,908
32
78
8
U7
^aaeron
2
" I
(I)
(I)
(I)
(X)
(X)
(II CbeatarfiBld
10
23
713
1,731
33
37
.
87
CarboD
28
17
1,896
3,751
69
98
2
128 Clarendon
1/
6
2S
209
l.OSS
10
IS
.
«
C€ntr«
36
22
2,681
4,824
159
182
2
322|OoUoton
24
15
617
1,151
27
33
-
33
Chaster
75
66
5,780
U,928
510
684
34
1.090 ij Darlington
32
36
S.241
6,675
75
100
812
cun or
• 28
17
2,885
557
77
166
6
280 D I lion
30
24
2,858
1,275
37
46
188
ClMTfleXd
B/
69
38
6,374
6,797
275
370
12
653 DorohflBtar
9
10
3S9
613
13
X
12
Clinton
19
27
1,031
1.690
57
65
3
133
Edgefield
22
7
598
446
16
IS
.10
Columbia
21
19
1,238
8,015
67
80
9
113
Fairfield
10
24
433
937
18
17
S
Crawford
23/
67
42
3,205
4,524
234
S9S
18
420
Florence
80
51
10,877
10,908
269
338
a
880
Cwnberland
44
38
2,754
3,727
137
165
3
217
Georgetoan
13
19
851
1,938
70
70
US
Dauphin
206
186
55,251
51.80*
1,961
2,555
66
4.532 oraeiiTlllo
124
1S7
33,924
93,543
649
533
14
i,9n
DelBvare
90
76
10,046
23,935
653
980
16
895. Oreonaooa
16
31
1,814
4,003
73
84
U4
Elk
13
8
546
597
28
32
-
41 ■ Hampton
13
IS
488
(11
24
29
88
Erie
168
1S4
14,856
34,621
904
1,143
45
1,940
Horiy
23
IS
2,182
1,406
43
95
48
Fayette
83
102
8,091
17.591
431
562
19
776
Jaapar
2
z
(11
(XI
ttl
(11
(11
(Z)
Forest
1
2
(Z)
(I)
(XI
(X)
(X)
(XI
£sr8bas
9
8
905
91S
17
21
38
rrMklln
59
90
4,61S
5,462
271
319
16
489
I^aoastar
8
22
1,027
1,280
40
42
51
Pultcm
7
7
42
40
2
1
-
2
Laorena
24
36
2,000
3,114
67
98
188
Sreene
17
27
634
1.727
33
SI
8
95
Lee
11
14
698
788
16
19
IS
Huntingdon
21
27
2,146
3,091
136
170
1
361
Laxlllgton
26
21
1,460
882
46
69
SO
Indiana
41
29
2,663
3,182
154
175
3
348
IfcConiilek
2
U.
(I)
351
(11
(XI
(11
(11
Jeffereon
41
32
2,124
3,350
125
160
5
330
Uarlon
36/
SO
30
6,767
3,984
121
1S7
IS
eo
Juniata
1
6
(II
W
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
ilarlboro
29
16
2,206
3,264
42
4B
17
Lackawanna
293
315
66,265
U5,e02
2,526
3,327
84
4,719
Newberry
20
24
3,343
4,062
42
95
sr
Lancaster
226
258
27,087
62,262
1,488
1,940
109
6,116
Ooonee
U
23
648
3,076
30
39
IM
Lawrence
70
53
7,761
10,254
385
561
20
1.056
OrengebtDTg
^
SI
74
2,087
8,138
99
109
IS
Lebanon
60
46
3.993
5,923
222
306
27
692
Plckena
9
17
596
4,160
23
31
as
LaMgh
144
138
21,684
48,179
1,520
2.286
39
2.758 Rlohlai^
U4
ise
26,254
47,162
939
1,281
IS
8.»«B
Luzernf
339
366
42,796
82,076
1,952
2,671
98
•t.507 Saluda
10
12
973
763
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U
1
IS
Lyco«lD£
75
72
5,316
9,954
357
438
8
855 ; SJB rtanliorg
y
71
143
13,107
38.588
411
670
1.001
UcKean
51
47
4.717
15,646
292
452
10
831 ij Sumter
34
35
2,595
9,144
109
1S7
174
Uercar
•43
45
11,682
7,802
342
594
11
54i;DnlOT
12
20
836
2,409
39
56
98
KlffUn
1
4S
27
2,384
2,739
199
207
9
207 ViUtemflburg
13
31
S18
1,909
40
28
U
Uonroe
34
19
1,650
1,694
93
135
2
202
Tork
30
40
5,907
S,S1S
67
ee
841
Uontgaoery
139
106
14,843
20.486
719
1,091
30
1,S44
Mod tour
5
8
339
585
18
25
1
114
SOOTS Mmn
Nortbanpton
128
US
19,530
55,001
718
1,198
41
1,268
Borthumberlf
1/
83
8
75
27
7,071
3U
U,792
930
368
17
489
22
22
1
840
12
Total
1.7S6
1.97S
, 73.839
236.880
4.052
5.327
107
11.668
Perry
Philadelphia »/
3,418
4,357
1,047,178
2,280,884
33,980
55,093
1,188
81,355
Amnatrong
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Pike
1
3
(X)
165
(X)
(X)
(XI
(X)
1 Aurora
y
6
IS
103
783
5
5
-
10
Pot tar
16
15
457
552
IS
19
2
79
i Beadle
42
58
2,389
3,970
138
181
u
840
SchuyUdU
23/
191
122
16,129
17,803
944
1,171
30
1.429
; Bennett
1
-
m
-
(XI
(XI
(XI
(ll
Snyder
6
11
144
290
7
13
1
9
Bon Hoiasa
y
20
37
331
2,398
25
17
38
Sonsrset
43
47
1,580
3,273
7S
99
11
225
Brooldaga
44
50
2,429
4,S90
115
188
801
SulllTan
1
S
(X)
5«
(X)
(I)
(X)
(XI
Broan
118
135
7,632
24,610
454
It
80
\.tm
Sosquehanna
21
13
1,277
523
27
91
s
70
Brula
12
10
570
1,894
24
108
Tloea
1/
14
39
585
1,588
33
4E
3
38
Buffalo
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Ooion
a/
19
6
559
349
U
SS
2
180<Butte
19
21
1,29S
2,053
42
70
188
Venanro
^J
51
S3
U,217
39,040
454
628
8
555 CampbeU
14
21
406
1,432
13
IS
^
aa
larren
18
29
2,365
6,200
115
123
2
208 ; Chaxlea Mli
y
24
40
465
3,585
23
34
60
Va A ington
s/
Ut
84
8,922
14,018
430
S6S
3S
940 Ola Ik
33
<J,
773
2,487
a
48
64
■ayne
15
IS
652
664
37
53
2
47 1 Clay
y
12
19
272
1,302
12
20
36
■estwreland 23/
141
as
U,43S
19,335
519
730
68
1.692i Codington
y
49
63
8,639
18,563
US
226
768
VyoBln^
-^
12
9
9S4
786
37
97
1
33 Coraoa
22
23
614
1,884
21
31
88
Tork
IBS
170
17,T4S
18,098
1,060
1,382
33
2.675 jlCuatar
4
3
70
U7
6
13
10
iDarleoa
SO
S3
3,888
9,810
245
284
488
iDay
43
59
1,194
3,286
106
go
ISO
RHODC ISiHD
1
Danel
Dewey
y
34
18
34
28
509
348
1,699
1,634
17
18
19
18
40
87
Total
579
»w
ite.TOi
300.072
_S.281
7.994
w
15.382 'nmirfla.
y
14
2S
28S
2,627
1,925
««7
U
86
18
11
33
SS
17
81
Bristol
S
B
88
89
10
U
1
llrall EIlTar
37
13
87
11
780
244
K«it
9
a
TOO
1,690
B3
73
4
I06!r«.uc
31
41
9U
3,023
31
48
U8
Revport
El
se
2,030
6,399
123
170
3
296 lOrant
33
40
808
t,4B0
40
67
88
PrOTldenoe
y
S2
680
144,974
290,499
5,010
7,677
1B9
14,859 'aregoTT
24
27
619
1,9(1
16
34
88
laAlnston
IS
U
910
1,396
46
63
3
120 Haakon
8
6
323
1,2S4
11
IB
SO
88
'
iBamlla
4S
37
814
.2,402
?o
98
'!b.m
^
16
27
988
2,6 U
IS
21
88
„
yn.Ti
{Hanodi
IS
24
177
1,671
10
11
U
Total
l.«4«
1.981
vn.mu
388.8-
4.9SS
f.m
w
;itlardi.sc
_isjsi,!Bu«h..
8
U
2
19
(X)
498
(XI
i.eeo
(XI
so
40
IS
(XI
as
87
U
(XI
(z>
III
•9
9.
— 1 -
Abbarllle
y
(
18
248
1 1,1=^
9
9
„
':autebinaoB
UE}«e
48
U
42
U
895
337
3,766
833
llkBD
U
21
1,856
1,964
70
77
6
122
[Jaokaon
IS
10
306
1,178
16
34
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Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9 - — WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(All values expressed in thousands of doUars)
[An (X) in column indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
information or an amount less than $500)
Number of
Full-
Number of
Full-
!
Establish-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll |
Stocks
Ebtabusr-
Net Sales
time
Pay Roll ]
Stocks
ments
em-
on
MENTS
em-
on
CotTNTY
ptoy-
ees
age)
hand
(mdo/
year)
County
ploy-
ees
{aver-
age)
hand
ievdof
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part^
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
SOUTH DAZDT&
TElStaSEE
(continued)
(ecntlmisdl
Jerauld
1/
15
19
»258
»1,951
17
$20
_
t22
Ehooc
143
137
127,045
553,712
1,301
tl,749
isi
t2,973
Jonea
8
6
177
266
13
18
tl
12
Lake
3
13
156
1,390
3
5
5
Klngsboiy
48
51
1,461
4,292
85
87
11
76
Lauderdale 37/
Lawranoo 1/
Lewis
7
16
183
8,421
3
6
1
S
Lake
29
25
1,306
3,136
90
102
2
104
11
40
482
2,273
25
30
-
35
Lawrence
32
IS
2,179
2,052
90
157
8
326
4
5
67
86
4
5
-
12
Lincoln
21
26
1,115
2,797
16
24
6
32
Llncolji
35
38
1,612
4,548
74
69
4
126
Lyaan
19
25
39S
1,301
16
20
-
32
Lovdon
9
5
368
128
35
31
2
24
McCook
y
2S
33
286
2,827
18
n
1
35
UcMlnn
17
12
1,194
1,263
52
71
2
67
UoFh arson
«6
37
1,045
2,386
28
38
2
62
UoHelt?
8
9
230
623
17
29
2
21
Uarahall
41
50
678
2,411
39
43
1
74
UacoQ
2
IX)
ID
IX)
ID
ID
ID
UMda
13
13
427
1,126
16
?X
1
44
UadlaoD
43
29
4,227
12,112
224
311
■7
457
Uellette
5
3
77
116
5
10
"
S
Marion
5
4
535
461
18
26
1
29
Ulnar
y
IS
39
197
2,668
15
15
-
21
Uarsball
IB
10
827
658
48
44
2
62
'^^nn'*b"h'^
143
128
15,497
49,963
1,011
1.388
50
3,350
Maury 8/
Msl«g
29
IS
2,927
3,853
121
175
19
278
Moody
19
18
518
1,363
21
24
-
61
1
IX)
-
ID
IX)
-
ID
Panning ton
49
50
3,257
4,439
146
238
11
514
Uonroe
4
12
366
764
21
31
-
46
ParlEins
y
16
14
■ 652
3,313
17
27
3
SO
Mont gomery
54
55
8,684
13,328
386
530
96
2,257
Potter
27
30
767
2,640
23
34
3
65
Moore
2
.
ID
-
-
-
-
Roberta
70
66
1,482
.3,884
114
89
2
156
Morgan
3
2
63
(D
5
9
-
6
Sembom
24
20
448
1,763
37
36
5
44
Obion
26
22
1,038
3,415
56
65
3
131
Shannon
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Overton
3
5
213
810
U
n
1
23
Spink
53
66
1,250
4,069
56
70
1
125
Perry
5
_
62
-
-
-
-
Stanley
4
2
88
(X)
4
6
1
7
PiCKTBtt
„
.
.
-
-
-
-
-
Sully
y
7
15
217
1,499
7
10
-
20 Polk
1
2
(I)
(D
ID
IX)
IX)
IX)
Todd
1
1
(zl
(X)
IX)
Ixl
(X)
(X)
Patnam
23
19
1,642
2,072
74
87
7
95
Tripp
21
42
1,326
4,997
68
94
13
82
Rhea
6
6
125
893
U
20
-
10
Turner
33
35
722
3,083
36
44
-
85
Boane
8
11
836
1,596
43
56
1
69
Union
24
22
564
2,223
19
21
1
37
Bobertson
32
36
5,648
8,253
143
199
38
106
Walworth
28
32
1,887
3,549
65
77
1
167
Rutherford
23
24
1,616
3,048
99
94
1
274
Jaahabaugh
1
-
(I)
-
(I)
IX)
(X)
(X)
Scott
4
4
268
378
14
18
-
28
flaahlngton
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Sequatchie'
4
1
58
(D
4
e
1
5
Yankton
26
32
2,126
4,619
174
164
2
359
Serler
4
12
165
279
10
12
-
14
Zlebaoh
8
6
124
298
7
9
1
18
Shelby 34,
Sfclith 8/
Steeert
415
636
179,500
656,084
6,875
8,657
151
30,840
23
13
970
1,394
35
45
14
12
TBWESSEE
2
_
IX)
_
tx)
ID
ID
IX)
SulliTOn
26
27
4,527
6,559
223
322
5
603
Total
1,967
2,256
390.442 :
_,068j9ai
16,065
20,287
652
51.406
Snaner ^
Tipton
17
8
6
6
1,355
1,057
960
1,980
53
35
63
49
7
77
121
Anderaon
3
1
88
(I)
6
11
-
24
■prousdale
6
4
632
946
16
22
3
4
Bedford
y
13
SO
358
2,422
23
29
2
55
Dniooi
2
IX)
_
ID
ID
tx)
ID
Benton
4
5
90
325
3
6
1
1
Union
1
_
(X)
-
ID
tx)
IX)
IX)
Bledsoa
1
(I)
B)
-
(Xl
IX)
(X)
tx)
Tan '*uren
2
tx)
-
-
-
-
Bloont
S
8
1,061
898
43
74
3
105
Warrwn 1,
Vasbln£tan
14
28
726
1,416
46
54
2
240
Bradley
13
8
697
1,236
49
60
1
68
31
34
4,255
7,987
208
296
7
467
Campbell
IS
15
1,063
1,958
64
39
1
150
veyna
3
2
49
(D
3
8
1
4
Camion
2
1
(X)
(X)
IX)
II)
(X)
(X)
Weakley ^
Shite
f 22
47
1,473
3,605
45
62
8
128
Carroll
y
16
27
877
3,795
36
41
3
66
12
10
496
735
28
39
10
68
Carter
5
3
369
369
19
27
-
35
ViUiamedi
IB
12
516
931
43
39
6
37
Cheathan
-
2
-
txl
-
-
-
-
llla<3i
28
24
1,362
2,900
76
74
3
126
Cheat «r
8
11
790
679
12
8
.
22
Clftlborna
6
13
392
1,104
14
22
4
17
TEXAS
Cl«y
2
1
U)
(I)
(XI
IX)
II)
IX)
Cooke
6
16
8
2«
538
867
858
1,549
21
47
2S
69
1
1
63
96
Total
7.525
9.606
1. 097.400
2.804.51B
39.328
54.455
2.115
160.102
Coffee
1
Crockett
4
5
89
856
7
12
1
4
Anderaon
18
26
1,092
3,407
65
72
1
220
Cumber land
6
3
362
381
19
16
-
31
Andrees
_
_
-
-
-
-
-
Da-rldaon
y
308
235
76,845
139.744
3,090
3,762
115
6,372
LniMkMnm
29
21
3,015
2,425
87
99
1
295
Deoatur
2
4
(I)
(X)
IX)
(X)
IX)
I):) I ,^in.,s
6
7
67
201
B
9
2
4
De Salb
2
5
(I)
IX)
-
(X)
(X)
tx) 1 Arohap
»
12
101
631
8
9
-
6
Dickson
U
17
543
791
31
31
-
63
Ainatrong
10
12
376
1,250
U
13
1
42
Dyer
y
28
42
3,143
9,694
L32
179
7
433
Atasooea
12
28
227
925
23
30
1
40
?ayette
8
6
626
583
36
38
1
51
Auattn
20
31
25?
1,052
23
31
4
22
Taotresa
1
1
m
(X)
(XI
(X)
(X)
ID
Bailey
9
10
502
1,962
16
23
-
22
Franklin
10
IS
386
860
UB
21
3
12
Bandera
2
1
(X)
(I)
ID
ID
ID
ID
Gibson
y
38
94
3,539
10,420
92
124
7
234
Baatrop
Baylor
17
17
660
1,212
18
29
5
31
OHe«
22
24
1,173
2,525
67
72
S
154
16
15
490
654
23
28
1
248
Orali^er
-
2
-
(X)
-
-
-
-
Bee
14
28
1,006
1,918
33
48
1
107
Greene
11
2,972
1,884
75
104
6
73
BeU i
Bexar
37
98
2,049
13,150
105
141
3
221
Omndy
1
42
(X)
2
4
-
2
377
344
60,297
133,886
3,414
4.013
107
8,528
HaBblBn
U
2,451
3,913
127
159
7
245
1
2
(X)
(X)
IX)
ID
ID
ID
Haallton
y
158
13S
29,654
62,754
1,301
1,630
43
2.585
Borden
-
-
-
-
Baaoook
1
(I)
(X).
tx)
(I)
(I)
II)
Boetne
Bowie
28
34
60S
912
26
SI
14
56
Bardeun
9
231
71S
14
20
1
26
22
31
1,913
5,920
148
173
5
140
Hardin
2
(I)
<X)
(X)
IX)
(X)
tx)
Brazoria
20
31
324
701
24
38
2
41
Hawldna
5
431
608
17
22
-
53
Brezoa
20
8
1,819
2,684
100
102
2
260
Haywood
U
354
3,143
16
25
-
24
8
5
53«
1,862
24
35
-
86
EaderaoD
7
755
1,390
30
36
1
75
Briacoe
15
17
371
1,420
10
IB
2
11
Henry
19
664
1,361
46
53
1
241
Brooke
9
5
12C
181
12
^1-5
-
n
ElekBan
7
88
168
10
12
-
9
Brown
64
46
2,89e
15,905
193
199
16
319
Houston
-
m
(XI
(X)
(X)
IX)
ID
Burleeon
7
8
201
3L9
10
IS
-
26
HiBptvrey s
12
429
639
15
19
1
25
Bumet
23
19
S«£
493
8
15
3
20
J'aokson
2
33
(X)
2
1
-
1
Celdwell
20
36
86E
7,002
49
73
3
176
yefferaon
1
69
tx)
6
6
-
u
Calhoun
14
17
15]
597
24
31
12
6
Johnson
2
2
(X)
txl
(X)
(X)
(I)
(X)
CallahBi 1
I 9
27
12<
944
U
15
2
23
Census of
American
Business
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tabla 9 . — HHOLBSALE TKADE OP THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(AU mlu€S expressed in thousands of doUan)
[An I X Wn column indicates that infonnation must be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data (or individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
infonnation or an amount las than $600]
NCUBER or
Full-
Ndmbkr of
FuU-
ESTABUSH-
Nrr
Sales
time
Pat Roll
Stocks
Estabush-
Net
Sales
lime
Pay Roll
Stocks
UkNTB
em-
on
UENTS
em-
on
County
ploy-
lumd
County
ploy-
hand
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
{aoer-
Total
Part-
time
(mdo/
ytar)
1933
1929
1933
1929
ees
(OMT-
Total
Part-
time
'Stf
TEUS
TOIS
(continued)
(ecntinued)
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123
149
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465
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WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9 .—WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES. BY STATES AND COUNTIES
(All values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in cohtmo indicatee that infonnation roost be withheld in order to avoid disclosing data for individual establishments, but such data are included in State totals; a leader indicates no
infonnataon or an amount less than $500]
Number of
1
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Number of
Full-
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NetSaijis
time
Pay Roll |
Stocks
ESTABLISH-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll |
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1929
1933
1929
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time
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year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
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300
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41,791
97,393
2,019
2.790
70
9,081
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3,923
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22
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3,103
4.388
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14,015
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63
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6,040
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1,317
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82,227
277,525
2.448
3.537
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9,483
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82
108
19,222
23,715
613
707
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7,007
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312
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32
4,386
5,176
193
271
9
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28
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2,614
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6
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97
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16
11
765
1,270
37
46
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80
6.776
9,136
8,753
26,344
200
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263
682
13
18
587
1,222
Total
2.382
2,344
359.784
656.309
16.232
22.237
1.324
63.992
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8
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97
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3,387
3,260
153
170
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3,589
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26
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5,592
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28
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2,618
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2,014
44
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24
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19
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1,269
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23
310
3,391
17
27
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16
10
4,046
6,326
241
327
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223
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28
48
4.790
3,220
101
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220
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6.422
30,694
240
246
17
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17
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3,071
3,479
168
234
648
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27
39
1,177
2,402
98
67
113
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21
13
799
1,875
92
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120
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40
17
1,S95
1,332
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49
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29
3,027
5,376
189
237
423
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149
10.326
27,198
610
812
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1,971
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9
9
246
113
23
22
83
nuargor
31
28
2,676
4,257
121
138
1*
423
Badford
IS
14
994
1,058
36
39
46
•lllaei
9
10
162
904
13
20
12
Bind
3
i
91
(Z)
1
3
1
■iUtauoD
42
69
1,999
9,774
98
130
185
Bototoort
9
9
99
142
4
9
9
Illaoa
17
27
339
994
34
ss
47
Bmnaaiole
8
U
972
392
8
14
10
Ilntlax
7
10
380
1,114
20
28
64
BnobflDi^n
1
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(Z)
Ilaa
18
30
488
1,292
27
34
18
Baokli^lunB
1
4
(X)
218
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Tood
26
27
704
2.092
37
42
89
Ciapball
13
17
499
1,367
23
29
34
JoaSam
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Lynohburg elty
87
86
24.283
29,642
1,177
1,692
40
3,517
Took
2S
29
876
2,612
43
98
304
Carolina
9
6
286
266
8
25
28
lapata
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Carroll
17
10
994
1,095
33
42
112
Zaralla
17
IS
1,090
1,963
29
67
27
34
Obaplaa City
1
_
(X)
-
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
Charlotte
4
6
238
738
4
12
39
^aa
ChesterfleU
10
1
330
(Z)
97
90
U9
Clarke 1/
2
9
(X)
483
(XI
(X)
(X)
(XI
IMkl
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736
86.798
180.101
4.972
6.1S4
"S
10.479
Cral«
Cul paper
4
17
2
IS
94
1,139
(X)
2,619
2
46
4
92
2
132
Baarar
s
4
116
92
8
11
-
U
Cmberland
^
2
-
(X)
-
-
-
Boi EUar 1/
Oaoba y
20
47
466
1,429
24
S2
7
46
Dlokalaon
3
9
124
199
7
11
19
17
39
689
2.192
49
68
2
87
Dlnvlddla
9
4
64
202
2
2
IS
Carbon
20
17
1.030
1.372
37
47
2
192
Oaggatt
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
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59
63
7,487
16,087
902
885
370
1,986
IMTla
9
7
3oe
914
8
9
-
16
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3
111
100
11
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-
8
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8
14
1.171
1,733
34
90
75
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1
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-
-
-
-
-
-
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23
«
1.049
-
159
189
82
144
mmi
2
1
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(I)
(XI
(X)
-
(X)
Xaaar
S
S
241
132
7
17
39
Iron
U
7
749
773
30
47
4
73
falrfai
s
2
205
(X)
4
32
29
7
Jnab
u
17
307
847
IS
2S
3
26
IMvUar
7
10
522
617
24
29
31
tmm
2
1
(X)
(I)
(I)
(I)
-
(X)
noyd
5
69
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.
1
S
Ullart
7
9
188
177
10
IS
-
21
nonana
4
9
174
179
9
U
7
Uorgaa
2
6
U>
123
(z)
(I)
-
(X)
TrenkUn
12
3
992
438
14
24
99
Plsta
9
9
94
110
6
10
-
16
Trederldc
2
_
(X)
-
(X)
(X)
(X)
(11
BKH
-
1
-
(I)
-
-
-
-
Ilnohaatar oi«T
28
28
2,114
4,199
122
147
225
Salt Laka
382
sss
62,745
1S3.S66
3.639
4,887
141
7,654
SUia
9
6
288
395
21
26
60
saa Taan
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
Olonaaater
5
8
388
331
17
24
29
S«;ata
U
9
1,631
191
30
32
2
23
Sooehland
3
2
170
(XI
12
"u
34
Sarlar
U
9
309
327
17
23
1
22
Omyaott \/
Q^eona
6
21
483
2,290
19
14
64
aoKlt
7
4
lis
184
9
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-
9
4
7
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TDoala
10
6
197
396
IS
17
1
19
OreenaTllle
u
9
890
576
49
97
192
dntab
S
2
2S3
(I)
IS
29
1
9
Halifax
19
22
3,933
8,129
160
183
12
1,099
UtaJi
42
48
3,390
2,389
Ul
21S
19
460
Hanover
4
2
296
(I)
21
18
2
41
■aaatob
4
e
93
196
9
8
-
16
Eenriee
3
1
96
(X)
33
14
-
-
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Amenc&n
BuaineaB
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Tiblt 9 .— WOLESALE TRADE OF THE UNITED STATES, BY STATBS AND COUNTIES
(AU vaiuM txpn$»ed in thouMnds oj doUart)
[An (X) in cohunn indicates that information must be withheld in order to avoid diacloeing data for individual eatabliahments. but such data are included in State totals: a Uader indicate no
information or an amount leas than $500]
NtnBXB or
Full-
NUHBEBOF
Full-
ESTABLUR-
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time
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Slo^ka
Ebtabush-
NnSALis
time
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Stocks
COCIITT
HBim
em-
ploy-
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{mer-
age)
on
hand
(wido/
IWir)
COOWTT
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ploy-
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(atr.
<V)
on
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
hand
(micf
IMor)
muDiu
(otatlrall
(eaatlimad 1
BlojMul eltt
401
414
tl03,989
t23S,6U
4,737
♦4,994
«B01
«24,$43
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92
41
497,468
1*8,627
SOS
tl,8U
1191
«l.S«f
B«i7 «/
z
9
(I)
1,013
ID
(X)
(11
(Zl
ClalLa
23
16
1,234
1,236
7S
108
5
86
■u-tlMTLUa
Clark
22
22
2,209
1,956
174
217
7
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city Uj
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-
«
-
_
-
-
_
Coloabla
8
6
448
929
24
S3
1
98
13
10
984
388
50
57
-
124
CoeUti
26
20
1,655
2,498
77
98
3
48
I«la of Ilgkt
23
9
1,120
US
2S
74
18
359
Dooglaa
17
10
301
5,893
IS
24
3
TO
!«•• Cltr
3
5
231
305
10
18
1
8
Farry
2
-
(X)
.
(X)
(XI
.
(z)
TlUlaribsre
Franklin
8
10
978
1.498
10
23
8
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-
-
~
-
-
—
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SarfiaU
3
8
423
1,203
7
9
.
9
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3
2
Ul
(Z)
3
4
1
3
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20
16
7S7
4.SSS
21
39
3
98
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.
.
.
-
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_
_
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48
42
8,108
18.444
397
318
22
1.1»4
iring tlUlM
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4
291
299
17
26
.
20
Island
11
3
305
604
32
33
2
n
Laoaatttr
u
7
414
319
41
51
4
35
Jefferaai 3/
4
1
288
(11
19
31
-
10
Lm
«
3
222
230
7
IS
1
U
1,134
1,248
831,491
577.258
9,S14
13.834
4*4
23.888
UmAim 1/
9
81
229
1,598
13
17
1
8
Dtaap
29
17
8,201
1.261
121
199
U
US
Louisa
T
IS
230
449
10
20
2
20
nttltaa 3/
34
19
2,067
2,042
74
109
8
97
4
e
342
e«o
14
29
3
35
ruekltat
10
11
412
713
66
37
1
29
HaUaon
-
4
-
254
-
_
_
«.
Laaie
37
28
2,264
5,232
158
211
4
201
Isttien
9
14
408
381
35
41
1
51
Lincoln
69
45
8,978
8,198
84
ISO
17
286
■tacUenHars
19
2S
1,144
3,031
40
65
5
41
Haaon
4
3
183
134
8
14
.
IS
lUddleaai
U
12
332
537
14
44
10
23
Obsogan 3/
34
80
1,397
3,113
128
177
34
lis
KontgoBATT
ST
10
l.OSS
1,272
38
53
5
55
Paoiflo
14
12
467
738
16
30
8
94
BMford olty
4
1
374
(I)
19
19
2
70
Fasi! OralUa
6
4
183
143
10
88
1
16
lasaaKOd
7
5
240
199
5
24
4
30
Piaroe
201
149
31,992
57,414
1,806
2,713
US
3,173
atffali eltr 2/
43
a.
10,230
3,302
532
494
30
581
aaa jaaa
4
4
U7
47
7
9
-
-
■alacn
10
4
1S8
188
5
10
1
12
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48
33
3.431
2,348
as
338
n
900
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1
1
(I)
(I)
(I)
(I)
tx)
tx)
SJoQBnla
2
1
(I)
CX)
(X)
(X)
-
(I)
BOPfoli
3
6
280
1,S31
12
37
33
SnohcDilab
56
36
5,772
10,394
330
447
34
au
HorfoUi eity
324
319
82,933
153,734
2,7U
4,073
304
9,490
Spokane
272
293
43,614
136,787
2,277
3,196
84
4.786
Itirt^arafth eltr
Z4
29
2,BS9
4,422
216
275
12
207
Sterene
17
U
345
647
22
34
8
28
South Horfoli
Thareton
31
14
1,936
1,825
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167
7
199
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5
_
338
-
24
31
_
181
lahklakiAi
3
.
16
.
3
5
1
3
Bortliavtai
43
49
3,442
7,929
74
112
27
87
■alia laUa
52
40
6,232
14,672
231
415
81
462
■ortltcAarlaBl
34
10
43S
248
387
172
7
94
IbatooB '
71
72
7,0U
10,905
610
693
84
791
Bottoaay
12
IS
940
1,583
33
41
5
63
Ihllaaan
59
71
3,762
U,7^5
123
208
27
294
Omea
10
4
787
1,042
45
51
-
84
lakUiB 3/
139
100
33,357
38.239
1,169
1,838
498
3.U4
Paga
IS
12
385
524
20
20
2
67
Patrto*
3
7
47
124
3
8
-
4
WEST
PlttaylTanla
5
4
433
343
11
20
4
72
7IH0INU
»«TlUa olty
42
48
19,793
33,913
418
749
93
1,686
Poabtttan
1
10
1
10
(I)
1,040
(X)
1,743
(X)
102
(I)
89
(X)
2
(x)
142
Total
1,188
1,132
194,908
344.839
7,656
U.628
320
W.W
PHnoa Uaaid
Prlnea :>aois«
3
2
220
(X)
7
15
3
28
Barbottr
9
21
4Ce
790
33
48
3
UB
BopaveU eity
11
U
320
1,389
34
41
1
65
Berkeley
30
82
4.340
4.3S7
US
128
4
1.920
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S
3
ISO
123
4
IS
1
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Boone
4
5
567
874
17
84
-
as
maea tllllM
3
8
SOS
341
3
8
_
4
Wraiton
3
3
404
458
15
17
1
IS
ralaA^i
14
IS
839
1,202
43
a>
4
108
Brooke
8
7
532
724
19
84
2
IS
Roppaahanaoak
2
(I)
Oabell 2/
187
134
97,992
50,661
1.316
8,120
62
2,998
RiolMial
9
3
144
244
\5
22
4
3
Calhoun
-
1
-
(11
~
-
-
-
Baanoka
5
4
299
352
14
14
_
23
Clay
2
1
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(XI
(Z)
Eiaaaaka aity
lis
128
22,938
38,442
1,038
1,343
22
1,853
Doddridga
1
1
(X)
(I)
tt)
m
(I)
(Zl
Baattrllga
23
20
1,093
1,206
81
90
2
104
Fayatta
U
1*
1,830
9.439
27
tf
-
IS
Baiaa TUta city
1
2
49
(X)
3
4
-
7
Ollnar
3
~
62
-
-
1
I
1
Boeklaglm
10
IS
447
1,713
24
23
.
17
Grant
8
4
376
129
IS
83
1
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BamaoBbarg eity
24
19
2,738
5,430
147
184
14
293
Greenbrier
IS
8
1,075
1.34S
47
49
3
94
BaaaaU
4
21
101
833
5
9
.
6
Hai^ahire
3
3
M8
422
5
4
1
9
Seott
9
9
332
414
10
13
1
23
Hancock
8
7
426
1,104
44
36
1
29
Sbaaaadoali
U.
41
877
2,248
31
40
3
98
Hai4y
3
S
160
83
IS
17
-
9
amjth
7
13
474
1,148
24
38
2
117
HairiacD
7S
88
13.317
88,597
422
382
8
964
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a
IS
2,323
im
303
248
9
388
jeokBoi
10
10
808
1,640
34
40
4
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1
2
(I)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(X)
(z)
Jeffsaon
24
22
878
1,458
37
53
IS
n
mdarickebaic
Ssnaaba
U4
141
40,734
77,929
1,448
2,589
34
'••S
eity
IB
U
2,041
2,584
97
139
2
SIS
Laaie
16
9
740
1,378
44
37
3
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«
_
_
-
Lincoln
2
3
(X)
179
(I)
(X)
(Z)
(Z)
Sarry
2
s
(X) '
49
(I)
(X)
(X)
(Z)
Logan
87
19
2,887
4,288
163
823
s
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3aaa«x
u
s
432
441
30
57
11
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IWoaall
22
21
2,888
3,961
102
1S8
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Taaaaall
22
10
1.134
1,417
67
91
4
lai
Mulaa
42
37
8,414
8,093
241
338
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•«■
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4
4
278
443
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18
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M"^-"
10
15
821
2^31
47
43
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IM
lamak
2
7
(X)
374
(Z)
(X)
(Z)
(z)
Ikaoa
7
8
SS4
714
23
33
»
«
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■ercer
58
EO
10,198
20,199
450
774
IS
1.999
olty
4*
40
3,271
4.188
2U
2S4
8
340
Ulneral
18
4
483
348
34
42
2
N
■aAlactoB
IS
9
1,883
1,480
37
70
3
47
Miaga
20
IS
3,003
6,004
158
240
8
SH
Bnatol city
22
34
2,99S
8,230
140
194
4
332
HoBcagalU
27
19
8,446
4.534
142
171
4
909
laataaralaad
19
9
473
397
IS
28
2
17
Ifenroa 1/
2
80
(X)
1,313
(X)
(X)
(Zl
(Z)
•iaa
29
29
3,414
9,302
134
195
9
500
Morgan
1
2
(X)
(I)
(X)
(X)
(II
(I)
lytaa
U
9
1,84T
737
32
U
3
134
Nlcbolaa
2
3
(X)
U4
(X)
(X)
(XI
(I)
I«i»
IS
10
481
298
24
29
2
9
Ohio
Pendleton
147
127
39,490
72,793
1,647
8,379
SB
2.490
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Pleaaaata
Pooabontaa
3
84
4
40
373
741
1,489
1,358
18
22
■ 97
89
8
2
u
SS
IWi
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940.427
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13
4
20
3
740
48
1,234
478
24
1
34
1
S
us
11
Umm
»
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1,087
7.472
41
78
8
128
Balaigh
24
12
3,236
2,943
139
244
4
918
laotla
3
2
47
(Xl
7
3
1
1
Bandclph
22
SO
1,384
1,899
87
127
10
198
Baa tea
19
13
924
i.oir
84
89
2
32
Rltcbla
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81
4S4
1,453
17
2S
4
44
Census of
American
Biisiness
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
Table 9— WHOLESALE TRADE OF THE UMITED STATES. B7 STATES AND COUNTIES
(AU values expressed in thousands of dollars)
[An (X) in co
umn
ndicate
s that ii
iformation
must be wi
Jiheld in
order to a
void dis
closing da
a for indi\*idual est
abUshm
ents, bu
such data
are include)
d inStat<
totals; a
eader indicates no
information or an amount leaa than $600)
Number of
FuU-
'
Number of
Full-
Establish-
Net Sales
time ■
Pat Roll
Slocks
Estabush-
Net Sales
time
Pat Roll
Stocks
ments
em-
on
MENTB
em-
on
County
ploy-
ees
hand
(mdof
year)
CODNTY
ploy-
ees
(o«r-
hand
(endo/
year)
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
1933
1929
1933
1929
Total
Part-
time
WEST 7IRGIHIA
nsccRsnt
(continuAd]
(oantlnusd)
BoasB
9
9
»696
$673
27
133
n
$121
BwiifJwja
&
26
1479
•669
14
«21
12
tn
SiDiDsra
13
IB
1,606
3,412
64
96
7
188 llimabaco
85
78
5,760
16,813
427
SOS
23
162
Taylor
X7
16
566
2,517
28
30
3
44
■ood
50
43
6,529
10,884
160
226
2*
488
Tuclcer
3
4
58
101
3
5
-
3
Tyler
10
8
319
370
16
22
-
51
npshnr
11
4
565
787
18
24
2
68
layna
7
3
6
S
315
96
1,818
150
21
6
30
6
8
97
4
Total 23/
349
283
U.llT
34.661
847
1.266
SI
2.68*
Sebater
1
Wetzel
V
5
19
155
1,543
14
16
-
SI
AlbanT
12
U
721
i,7a
33
63
96
sirt
3
1
11
W
-
-
-
1
Bi8 Horn
IS
IS
822
1,372
26
33
181
Wood
63
65
6,494
14,484
377
482
15
1,153 Ooipball
6
3
266
282
8
U
16
WTonlng
9
6
637
1,240
27
38
1
87 1 carticii
W
U
647
2.0T9
27
49
37
Conrersft
10
8
3S7
3«E
19.
26
a
Wisconsin
Crook
rr^Kmt
4
er
4
17
64
»70
88
1,068
6
U
8
18
s
u
Total
4,273
3,513
641,783
979,276
23.842
35,420
1,365
66.686
Oo>ta«i
Hot Springs
ao
T
IS
T
636
ElS
976
see
a
u
SO
It
IS
1?
MaBB
S
e
(I)
1,417
(I)
(X)
(I)
{X) 1 Jobuon
4
t
lOT
344
4
6
1
l^mti\»jfA
31
26
2,U6
5,585
U7
162
7
393 larmg Of
98
S8
4,478
8.2(6
280
360
TOB
Barron
60
47
2,644
2,199
125
146
8
lee. i LiMoiB
IS
10
634
950
11
31
Tl
BBTflald
14
12
320
437
26
36
4
42! latroK
42
43
4,476
6,692
172
2(8
TSl
Brow
102
98
24,632
39,824
1,191
1,444
84
3,736 ,, Riobnr*
8
8
14S
244
10
U
U
Boffalo
23
IS
1,203
1,250
31
74
£1
43 Park
20
16
817
1,728
23
SB
UB
Bomett
la
16
679
246
31
40
1
51 I Plrttt
16
IS
4S9
1,364
30
83
42
Calumt
2S
14
1,262
1,662
60
69
4
ISO stixnam 23/
32
U
1,990
1,T9(
T9
UO
sm
Chlppsn
42
50
2,382
3,518
235
254
9
738
SsblMta
6
1
80
(I)
4
6
4
Clait
42
46
1,417
3,556
87
T3
8
169
S»Mtmt«r a/
31
21
l,6BB
2.890
71
111
tax
Columbia
6S
47
2,696
4,343
136
166
U
228
T«too
6
I
TT
(X)
(
1
u
Cr«rford
16
18
647
1,121
a
39
1
US
OUits
«
6
388
tu
10
20
SB
Qaoe
148
140
21,314
34.625
920
1,191
s
3,825
9
T
isr
i.iu
IT
U
-
88
Do4«e
«5/
72
36
2,967
2.250
ise
264
102
9
510
S
iMton
9
«
109
888
6
6
-
1
Door
80
14
938
1,308
66
5
DOUglBB
a/
48
37
8,968
61.775
381
£12
IS
5,050
DanB
«)
19
997
522
42
74
IS
90
San Cloln
<9
62
6,060
11,517
413
1,128
IS
909
m tMltnettm M
• foUi
nnt V
!••
More DCS
1
2
tt)
(I)
(I)
tl)
(I)
(I)
yond du Lao
71
67
7,022
9,463
407
636
25
647
roraat
iS/
19
B
354
(I)
8
14
1
20
lyrmt
4S
31
2,098
2,707
80
U7
4
U2
oresi
«/
98
IS
5,250
2,581
208
180
6
495
Grsflo Lake
15
15
449
1,387
21
36
2
52
Ian
32
24
782
1.483
34
49
4
47
Iron
14
7
402
301
21
28
t
38
jaokson
10
13
302
1.324
13
20
4
27
JefferaoB
48
40
4,397
4,500
141
267
49
756
Tuoeau
23
21
1,008
1,533
31
37
3
46
Esnodia
«/
50
23
5,426
7.293
239
345
36
286
Kamimee
27
14
1,356
1.126
64
71
6
71
lA Croaae
76
74
8,447
17.681
62£
699
25
1,422
LaTaratte
23
31
666
2.642
26
45
2
42
Langlade
33
26
1,364
2.001
84
96
9
103
Lincoln
43/
25
IS
687
928
47
57
3
46
Manitowoc
70
53
8,179
21.910
383
908
IB
2,n6
Marathon
«/
109
71
6,585
12.394
385
491
26
679
Maine tta
58
53
2,233
4,1S4
141
147
U
237
Marquette
14
10
261
402
9
9
1
26
Mllsaukee
45/
1,249
1,088
319,986
561.639
1S,267
20,510
5E1
32,487
Monroe
43
33
6,018
2,012
94
129
18
480
Oconto
4fi/
60
24
1,200
1,245
42
55
7
91
Oneida
32
33
1.561
2,674
66
117
U
230
Outaganle
68
59
6,067
9,056
308
422
16
624
Ozanlcee
IB
12
887
596
54
84
3
70
Pepin
21
16
1.078
774
41
58
1
23
Pieroa
34
25
1.865
1,460
79
U4
S3
B7
Polk
44
27
1.322
1.214
64
84
4
lOS
Portage
52
49
3,398
5.368
141
202
SO
270
Price
17
11
629
1.690
21
37
1
230
Racine
91
86
6.535
13,146
392
612
28
929
Richland
27
22
1.519
2.050
S2
48
6
84
Rock
92
72
5,812
14.339
335
467
58
1,124
Buflk
16
IS
314
400
IS
1»
1
37
St, Croli
37
29
2,359
1,746
83
135
4
236
sank
S/
57
33
2,767
2,977
89
U6
18
111
Sawyer
15
U
274
229
11
17
2
22
Shavano
42
33
1,389
2,347
109
UB
■ 6
29»
Sbeboygon
8T
73
U,674
37,404
486
71S
IS
1.416
Taylor
IB
LS
398
428
21
86
1
36
Trmpealeaa
S/
50
23
1,722
1.112
W
77
u
286
Temon
33
27
1,425
2.734
133
138
25
490
Tllaa
ID
5
249
163
9
14
-
17
Walworth
SI
44
29
4,604
2,600
75
141
8
2as
WaahboTB
a
U
438
331
29
sr
1
9<
WashlnstCB
29
26
977
998
34
51
2
63
Waokeaha
57
58
5,409
10,264
139
227
12
268
laupaoa
GO
94
2,616
6.275
109
123
9
245
WHOLESALE DISTRIBUTION: 1933
^^'■■^'^'' Tabl* 9.— HHOLESALE TOADE OF THE UNITSD STATES. bV STATES AND COWTIES
BusitMHi
{All Ktkuf txpnttad in tiwiiaattdt q/ doUan)
(An iX) in cotunm indiates that information mtut b« withheld in order to avoid duclonng data for individual establiabmenta. but such data are iocluded b State totah; a teada- indicatea no
infarmatioD or an amount leaa than $600)
V Tim d*er««a» la tb« ovsAar <tf »atabU.alB*ntB alao* 1929 aaa dua la part to loss of assaablars and oountry buTara of fan trodoat*.
^ ftm laoraasa Id tba ats<>ar of MtabUahMota aaa dua In part to otaoama ^lloh began oparatlona aobaaquaat to 1029 and to dlffaransaa la aathoda of oparatlag
aad raportla^.
Ttw laoraaaa La tba ouMbar of aatabllahnanta Aoea 1989 aaa doa la part to diffaraoe^a la mathoda at rapo-tlns Aala atcra vsaalmatl caa daallng In patrolavu
Tba Inoraaaa In tba nuBbv of aatabUabnnta aaa dno In part to aholaaala aardbaata ililah begvi oporaticna anbaaiitteiit to 19tt9 In tha oltlaa at Oaklaad,
liiin—il II, SKI Dl^o and san 7oaa.
9/ Tba daoraaaa Ln tba aunbar of estabUsbnaita Aaoa 1929 «aa dns la pert to loaa of ag«ita and brokara and ■Ksufaoturara* aalas braaobaa*
TJ Tlw incroaaa \n tbs manbor of •«tablltfn»Dta ana la part dua to ocnoama Aiob bo^cto oparatlooa mbaaquant to 1929, portloulvlj tboaa «o«a«ad In b«ar» wlaa
and liquor tradaa.
f/ iihaaa tra raviaad 1929 ri^uraa. Ttm data prarloualj iaauad inolods a auaibsr of oonoama tbat aar* arroKxaoualr raportad and olaaainad 1& tba ^lolaaala oaaaaa.
^ Tba Inoraaaa Is tb« ouabar of aatabUidiBMaits aaa doa primarily to aoneama ahlob atartad oparatlona aubaaqtumt to 19S9 «id to oraaa atatloaa aoat of ablob
vara not l&oludad Id 191:9.
9/ "Ria Inoraaaa Id tha numbar of aatabllabawota aaa dua la port to Inora'kjo of wbolaaaJa narohanta io tha oltjr at Oary.
iS/ Tba daoraaaa la tbo aunbar of eatabliabaiaDta aaa Aia in port to loaa of Aolosola nnraliaata and o^vota aad brotora li
"tl/ Tba laoraaaa la the oisnbar of aatabllahiBaita aaa daa primarily to oraaa atatlona ^ilcdi for tba moat part aara oo^ Inoludad In 1929 flKuraa, Alio tba daoraaaa
In net aalaa aaa duo largslr to oondltiooa peculiar to faja produeta tradaa.
Tba daoraaaa in not aales aaa dua prlmarllr to e lari^o tobaooo ooioars vMob did aot report la 1933,
Tim laeransa Id ibe aumbar of eatabliahiasnte aaa due in port to ocnoema wbiob be^an oparatlona eubaoquMtt to I9S9, porttoalarly tboaa Aaallag in sroaarlaa wA
fooda, bear and patrolaua. Tba inoraaaa In tba nat aalaa aaa In a larg* P^rt doa to ocnoama dealing in ootton.
14/ Tba increaaa In tba Dunbar of aatablldxBnta aas dua la part to dlffaranoaa in aaUioda of oioratiiw and reporting coooama abiob bagan opaiatlon oabaataaat te
1929, partioularLjr tboee dealli^ In flab and aaa food.
Ifl/ Dq0 to dlffaranoaa la motboda of reportlae aou lor^ abain atora aarabooaaa, Mlddlaaax Ooanty failed to ahoa tba nornnl daoraaaa la net aalaa*
IS/ Ills Incroaaa lo tbe aiadasr of aatabliahaaata aaa due to dlffanncaa in oaavaaa and aettDda of reporting aoe flab end aaa food deal«ra aad aav aboleaala
aatab 11 ohBOOt s .
17/ Tba Incrvaaa In tba ntB^ar of aatabUebBsnta for T^g***" ^^ Oaneaae ooontiea aaa due to locreaae in aboleaala aacrabaata in tba oltlaa of lanslng atud nijrt*
IB/ Tba dacresae in tbe Qunber of eatabllabnants for Kant ooonty aaa dua prlnarlly to loaa of aboleaala narcfaanta and agaifta aad brokara la tba aity af
Onud Raplda.
19/ Tbe Incraaaa In net aalaa for Ifoaar oounty aaa due in part to dlffaranoaa In tba aatboda of reporting aoae large obaln nrganisationa daallos io sroearlaa
and fooda.
20/ Tbe iacraaaa In tbe au^ar of aa tabliLhoenta aaa dua In part to oonoerna Alob baean oparatloaa aobaaqtMlt to 19a9, partioalM-ly tboaa daaUag la fam prodaatft
aad petrolatiD and to dlffercBoaa in metboda of operating end reporting.
£1/ TtM locreaae In tbe Dud>ar of eatabUabnants alnoe 1929 aaa doa to aararal oaaaaa aaong itfiiob aara aaa aoncama partieulsrly' tboea daallag \m bear, vlnaa aal
apiritous liquora; obugea In aatbods of reporting aona large coMeraa suob as in tbe petroleum trade; and to obangea in el&aaifloatloB*
B>/ Tba Inoraaaa in net aalas aaa dua primarily to dlffarancea in nportli^ aona manufcoturers* ealaa branobea and aoaa aalaa offiaea*
^/ Tba ineraaaa in tba number of eatabllabBsata aaa due la port to coooerna abicb began operstlona axibsaquant to 1929, part i<nila:7l7 tboaa daallag ia baar,
groearlea aad fooda, and petroleum.
84/ The inoreaaa in tba auabar of eatabllahnBnta for Albaay county aaa due prlnarlly to abolaa&le aarotaaata aad aanofaoturara* aalaa braaehaa in tha oity of
Albany abiob began operation aabaattuoDt to 1929.
29/ Tbe deoreaaa In the austisr of astabli sbBBc ta far Srla, Itonroa and Onondaga oountiaa aaa daa pnaarily to loaa of aholaaale aarabsnta and agaata aad brokara la
tbe oltlaa of Buffalo, Hochostar and Syraouae.
26/ Tba deoreaaa ia oat s&laa t;or Brunaaiok oounty «aa due priaolpally to a large obaln organization ah lob did not rapcrt in \933 dealing la faia aappliaa.
^V Tbe Inoraaaa la tba auabar of ostnbLlaliaanta ana dua la part to ooaaama ahich began opapatlona aubaaquaot to 19*9; prlaeli»llT tboaa daaliac in 41 e tai laa
and fooda. ootton and tobaeoo.
8a/ Tba iaoraaaa in tba aia^ar of aatabliduBaata for Allan oowty aaa dua prlnarlly to conoama abiob began operation alnoe 1989, ia a larga part daallag la
groearlea an^i fjcds.
29/ Tha daoraaaa In tlia aun^er of oatabllabiaanta for Franklin oounty aaa dua prioorlly to loaa of tftolaaala laarohBate end aganta mA. brokara la tha otty oT
ColtBibua.
13ia incraaae In tbe aus^er of eataallahmflata for Sun&it county aea dua prlrmrily to aholaaale narcbanta in tha eLXj of Alaon>
Tba deeraasa io tha noi^ar of •atabliabaaota aaa dua prlaarily to lose of aoaoablara and oountry buyara of oottoa and llToatook aad ooaoaraa dacJlag ia all
vail auppliea.
32/ Tba lacreaaa in tba nisfcar of aatabUabnaats for Tulaa oounty aaa due prl-^arily to laoreaae of aboleaala aarohaata in tbe city cC Tulaa.
35/ Tba decreaae Id the noaber of eetabUahnante for iMltnonab county vas due prlsurily to loaa of agaata aad brokara in tbe oit; of Portland.
"51/ Tba deeraaae la tbe ausfcv of eatablialBBntB for Allegheny county vaja due to loaa of aholaaale aerobKite in tba city of Pittabargb.
35/ Tba decivase in tbe aun^sr of eatabUahwinta for RillAdalpbia oounty aaa dua in part to loaa of aboleaala Barcbanta and ag«ita and brokara in tha olty oT
Fbiladelpbia.
36/ Tba Incraaaa Id nat aalaa for Uarion county aaa due prlnarlly to increaae In TOluma of bualaaaa In lafif tobaooo.
3?/ tha deoreaee In net aalea &ad tba am^er of oatabliohiaaata for Louderdalo aaa dua prlnarlly to ooooama *lch oaaaed operation aiaoa 1969 aad to aavarol Lar^a
organliatioaa dealiag iD cotton whloh did aot report In 1933,
36/ Tba deoreaaa in tba aonbar of astabllahneata for Shelby county aaa dua primarily to loaa of aholaaale asrobaate and ageata sid brokara Id tba dty af H^Qbla
iealii^ principally Id cotton and raa aatarlola.
39/ Tl» lacraaaa U tbe aurt>ar of aatabliahmoata for Gregg oounty aaa due prlaarily to oondltlona paouliar to oil buainaaa la a large p*fft to oonama daaUag
in oil well auppllee.
40/ -nn incraaaa In the auB*>or of eatabHahniaat a vaa due primarily to coneema ahloh began oparatloaa aiaoa 1929 and to diffaraaoaa in aathod of oparatlac
and reporting. ^^
41/ iB 1929 tha data for H«tpton city aara Included altb Elixabeth City county and tha data for Martinarilla oity aara iaolndad Htb Haary oouaky*
^/ Tba deoreaae In the auitier of aatabllahiaaota for ECli« county aaa due prinaii.lr to loaa of aboleaala aarobanta Kd agvta and brokara in tba olty of Saattla.
^B/ The Increaae In tha auntoer of eatahllehjneata waa due primarily to concemB atdob began oparatlou alaoe 1929,aHebia a aajor part were daaling U fana
produeta, and to cream atatloaa moat of wblob vera aot included la tbe 1929 data.
44/ The deoraaae In net aalee for Douglaa oounty aaa dua prlaarily to dlfferecoea in method of reportlag and to aoaditioaa preralllag la the graia trade.
"S/ Tb» iaoraoaa In the nud>ar of eatahUahmanta for uilaaukaa oounty aaa due prlnarlly to laoreaae ia #iolaaale aarobants, m«b** •n<l brokara aad aaaufaaturara*
aalaa braaobaa la tba oity of itllaaukaa.
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APPENDIX
Form 2
BUSINESS CENSUS
C.W.A. Project
CONFIDENTIAL GOVERNMENT REPORT
Department of Commerce
BUREAU OF THE CENSUS
WASHINGTON
SUPERVISOR'S DISTRICT
No.
ENUMERATION DISTRICT
No.
NUMBER OF REPORT
CENSUS OF AMERICAN BUSINESS, 1933
A separate report should be prepared for every retail or wholesale place of business, every service business, hotel, theater, or other place of amusement. Combined
reports for two or more establishments, even though under the same management or ownership, cannot be accepted except on special instructions from Washmgton.
Ill *., „V,„.,I.4 ;* ^.^.....-Kl., I-U^ f„^^ tt«o,.V ^r,r.T-^tir.no tnr IQ-il a^arx if r.TT-narch in hap oh.,n(T.aH Hlli-irKT tho VOftr If thC flSCal yeat eUUS Wlthm 2l mOntU DefOre
(The balance of the Information
All reports should cover, if possible, the full year's operations for 1933, even if ownership has changed during the year.
December 31 the flscal year can be reported. Otherwise report the business of the 12 montlis of the calendar year 1933.
Units of chains which must be reported from the home office should fill out this form as far as possible; at least blocks 1, 2, and 3.
■will be obtained by Washington from the chain's home office.) . » . .u n <,., n „,„ „v,i„>.
Only sworn employees of the Bureau of the Census will be permitted to examine your report, and no information will be given out by the tiureau ot tne L.ensus wmcn
would disclose, exactly or approximately, any of the figures in your report; provided that identifying data may be used to compile a central card file of business establish-
ments in the United States for Government statistical purposes. ^_^
1. DESCRIPTION OF ESTABLISHMENT:
(a) Name of establishment..
(6) Name of owner.
/•State -
(c) Location of estab-
lishment. '
Count}' Township
City, town, or village - - - —
Street and number — -
Is this street and number located within the corporate limits of the city, town, or
, village? (Yes or No) ---
(d) Was this establishment in operation in 1929? (Yes or No) ---
(e) Number of establishments in same line of business owned by this organization, anywhere in
the United States — - -— ---
if) Where is the home office (give post-office address)
2. KIND OF BUSINESS:
(DO NOT USE)
Check function
Whole.sale D
Retail- D
(o) Kind of business — - — -I Service D
(Give usual name or designation based on major kind of merchandise sold or major service rendered)
EXAMPLES. — Grocery store (or wholesale grocer), meal market, delicatessen, hardware store (or
hardware wholesaler) , barber shop, department store, restaurant, sugar broker, motion picture thea-
ter, bowling alley, laundry, auto repair shop, parking lot, etc. If several distinct lines of merchan-
dise are handled in substantial amounts, the designation may be general store, general merchandise
wholesaler, variety store, etc.
(b) Name the principal lines of goods sold or handled, or principal sources of operating revenue, in
order of their importance based on volume of business done in 1933:
Amu.'ement D
Miscellaneous D
(1)
(2)
(3)
(4)
(5).
(6).
(DO NOT USE)
TYPE OF ESTABLISHMENT OR OPERATION:
(Check the principal function performed or type of operation; i.e., the function or type that accounts for more than 50% of the business of the establishment.
(See "Instructions to Enumerators.") (Check onlv one.)
FOR WHOLESALE FOR RETAILERS
91. Assembler and country buyer D
81. Auction company D
82. Broker D
21. Bulk tank station D
14. Cash-and-carry wholesaler D
83. Commission merchant D
92. Cooperative marketing association n
15. Drop shipper or desk jobber D
12. Export merchant D
84. Export agency D
13. Importer D
85. Import agency n
10. Jobber n
16. Mail-order wholesaler D
86. Manufacturers' agent (for 2 or more mfgrs.).. n
61. Manufacturers' sales branch (owned by mfgr.)- D
89. Selling agent D
19. Supply & machinery distributor D
31. Warehouse (chain store) D
17. "Wagon distributor" n
10. Wholesale merchant D
1. Wholesaler-retailer (about equally divided).. D
Other type (specify)
Company store (commis,sary) D
Direct selling (house-to-house)... □
Leased department in a store D
Mail-order house... □
Market stand or roadside stand D
Utility-operated store (electric or gas Co.) D
Local independent D
Local chain (all units are in one commimity).. D
30. Sectional or national chain (with more than
local units) D
SI. Retailer-wholesaler (about equally divided).. D
73. Ketailer-country buyer (retailer who also
buys local foodstuffs for shipment to other
dealers) D
Other type (specify)
FOR SERVICE BUSINESSES, AMUSEMENTS, AIRPORTS, AND MISCELLANEOUS
10. Local independent D
20. Unit of chain or system D
50. Concession operator D
What kind of concession?
FOR HOTELS (answer each line)
10. Local independent operation _ D 20. Unit of chain or system D
1. Year round D
2. Seasonal D
1. American plan D
2. European plan D
3. Both n
1. Mainly transient .
- n
2. Mainly permanent D
3. About half of each D
1. It seasonal, open how many months in year? .
2. Number of guest rooms .
4. EMPLOYMENT DATA:
(a) Number of proprietors and firm members (of partnershipa or sole ownershipH only)
iDo not Include salaried officert ofeorporatittni, m inactive partners.)
(6) Number of paid employees, fuU-time and part-time, on pay roU December 30, 1933, or other more representative date.
Males
including salaried executives, salesmen, clerks, operatives, etc.
[Females
(e) Number of all paid employees on pay roll nearest the 15th of each month: (Do not include non-salaried proprietors.)
Montb
January
February .
March
April
FuU-time
Part-time
Montb
May
June
July
August
Full-time
Part-time
Montb
September..
October
November .
December-
Full-time
Part-time
Average.
. OPERATING EXPENSES (NOT INCLUDING COST OF MERCHANDISE):
(a) Total salaries and wages paid to all employees for the year 1933, or period covered by this report...
(Do not Include compensation of proprietors and firm members of partnerships or sole ownerships.)
(b) All other operating expenses (rent, interest, traveling expenses, advertising, overhead, and all other
expenses except pay roll).. _ __._
(In a theater or other place of entertainment the cost of film rental, attractions, and outside professional services Is included here.)
(c) Total operating expenses ("a" plus "6", but not including cost of merchandise)
(d) How much of pay roll (included in "a" above) was paid to part-time employees., $__
6. NET SALES OR TOTAL OPERATING RECEIPTS:
(o) Receipts from sale of merchandise (deduct returned sales)...
(Brokers and wholesale agents must report selling valae of goods and not commissions received.)
(b) Receipts from service sales, parking, storage, repairs, cartage, cleaning, etc
(e) Receipts from room rentals (hotels, auto camps, etc.) $_.
(<i) Receipts from sale of meals (and from fountain) $..
(e) Receipts from admissions (theaters and other places of amusement, athletic contests, dance halls,
billiard halls, bowling alleys, etc.) $..
(/) Receipts from other sources (specify sources) :
_ $.
(<?) Total net sales or o|)erating receipts (total of a to/).
7. STOCKS ON HAND:
(a) Value of merchandise (at cost or replacement) on hand for sale December 31, 1933, or nearest inven-
torv date
8. SUPPLEMENTAL FACTS:
(o) Credit. (To be answered by all.) How much of total receipts (6 g above) represents credit business?
(Include sales made on weekly, 10-day, 30-day, end-of-montb, installment or other credit basis — all except strictly cash sales.)
ft) Sales Tax. (To be answered by all.) How much of total receipts (6 g above) represents sales tax?.
(e) Wholesalers. (To be answered by all types of wholesale establishments.) Of the total sales re-
ported in block 6 above, give the amount of
1. Sales to retailers (for resale) $
$.
2. Sales to consumers (at retail).. _ $..
3. Sales to industrial users - S-
(d) Retailers. (To be answered by retailers.) How much, if any, of your total sales were made to
other retailers? __ $-.
Remarks:
CERTIFICATE
This is to certift that the information contained in this schedule is correct and complete to the best of my knowledge iiuii
belief, and covers the period from , 19 , to - , 19
(Signature and ofBclal title of person furnishing the Information)
(Signature of Enumerator)
o a mTviimtiMT miixtiw* omct in*
(Date of signature)
., 1934.
JUL 2 3 1935
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