L15842 TEMPORARY NATIONAL ECONOMIC COMMITTEE (Created pursuant to Public Res. 113, 75th Cong.) Alternates. JOSEPH C. O'MAHONEY, Senator from Wyoming, Chairman WILLIAM E. BORAH, Senator from Idaho Representing the Securities and Exchange Commission Representing the Federal Trade Commission HERMAN OLIPHANT, General Counsel *CHRISTIAN JOY PEOPLES, Director of Procurement B. CARROLL REECE, Representative from Tennessee REVLORD FIBUVKA CONTENTS Henderson, Leon, executive secretary, Temporary National Economic Lubin, Dr. Isador, Commissioner of Labor Statistics, Department of 3-80 Thorp, Dr. Willard, advisor on economic studies, Department of 81-156 Production of commodities in prosperity and depression.... Employment and pay rolls in depression.. Cost of depression to Government.. Freedom of business opportunity.. 1. Message of April 29, 1938 from the President of the United States to Congress transmitting recommendations relative to the strengthening and enforcement of anti-trust laws... 2. Public Resolution, No. 113, Seventy-fifth Congress, third 3. Procedure with respect to hearings before Temporary Na- 5. Chart: United States national income for years 1850 to 6. Chart: National income in constant prices, for years 1850 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 195 in appendix. 7. Chart: National income for years 1919 to 1935 with comparison of 1929 prices to current prices. Supported by statistical data on p. 195 in appendix.. 8. Chart: Comparing per capita national income of United States, England, Germany, Sweden, and France for years 1934 and 1935. Supported by statistical data on p. 195, in appendix... 9. Chart: Employment lost in depression in non-agricultural occupations. Supported by statistical data on p. 196 in appendix. 10. Chart: Salaries and wages lost in depression in non-agricultural occupations. Supported by statistical data on p. 196 in appendix... 11. Chart: Dividends lost in depression. tical data on p. 196 in appendix_- 12. Chart: Gross farm income lost in depression. Supported by statistical data on p. 197 in appendix_- Supported by statis 13. Chart: National income lost in depression. statistical data on p. 197 in appendix... Supported by 13-A. Chart: Distribution of national income by type of payment, excluding government, for years 1919-1934. Supported by statistical data on p. 197 in appendix.. 14. Chart: Monthly income payments by: payments to veterans, direct relief, dividends and interest, entrepreneurial income, compensation of employees; for years 1929 to 1938. Supported by statistical data on p. 198 in appendix_ 15. Chart: National income by type of industry for years 1919 to 1935. Supported by statistical data on p. 200 in appendix... 16. Chart: Total and per capita United States industrial production, 1863-1938. Supported by statistical data on p. 200 in appendix.. 17. Chart: Physical volune of industrial production: for years 1919 to 1938. Supported by statistical data onp. 201 in appendix... 18. Chart: Output of nondurable, as compared with, durable commodities, for years 1879 to 1933. Supported by statistical data on p. 201 in appendix_- 19. Chart: Federal Reserve index of manufacturing production for years 1919 to 1938. Supported by statistical data on p. 202 in appendix.. 20. Chart: United States total agricultural production for 21. Chart: Value of all construction, total, residential, private 23. Chart: Production and capacity of Portland cement mills 24. Chart: Pig iron production and capacity of blast furnaces for years 1910 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 207 in appendix... 25. Chart: Annual production of automobiles for years 1919 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 207 in appendix. 26. Chart: Annual production of bituminous coal for years 1919 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 207 in appendix... 27. Chart: Annual production of lumber for years 1919 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 208 in appendix... 28. Chart: Annual production of shoes for years 1919 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 208 in appendix......... 29. Chart: Textile fibre consumption (wool, silk, cotton, rayon) by United States manufacturers for years 1870 to 1937. Supported by statistical data on p. 208 in appendix... 30. Chart: Annual production of cigarettes for years 1919 to 1938. Supported by statistical data on p. 210 in appendix.... 31. Chart: Department store sales for years 1919 to 1938. Supported by statistical data on p. 210 in appendix.......... 23 24 226 27 27 27 28 31 35 35 34 34 |