ported finished products on hand valued at $3,903,094,130, as against $4,313,555,890 at the close of 1937, or a decrease of 9.5 percent. . On the other hand, inventories of materials, supplies, etc., at the close of 1939 totaled $5,729,256,326, or an increase of 3.2 percent over the inventories at the opening of 1937.

Total inventories on hand at the close of 1939 were reported as $9,632,350,456, against $9,862,530,938, a decrease of 2.3 percent.

The Tripoli Industry

The tripoli industry of the United States Froduced 29,000 short tons of tripoli in 1939, according to preliminary figures for that year released by the Director of the Census.

Virtually all of the product was ground by the industry in 1939 and had a value of $420,000. Secondary products, receipts for custom milling, and value added by milling materials mined before 1939 amounted to $7,000.

The industry employed an average of 139 wage earners to whom $116,000 was paid in wages. Salaried employees, of whom there were 20 in October 1939, were paid a total of $34,000 during the year.

Supplies and materials cost $46,000; fuels, $16,000: and purchased electric energy, $8,000. These expenses aggregated $220,000. The industry expended $55,000 for buildings, machinery, and equipment erected or installed during the year.

"Tripoli" is a general term applied to a number of relatively soft, porous, and friable silicas. It is found in loosely coherent to

fairly compact masses; in either form the ultimate individual grains are very hard, although the massive material is generally soft.

Tripoli is quarried mainly in the Missouri-Oklahoma area and in Illinois, which accounted for 50 and 38 percent, respectively, of the total production of the industry. The remainder was mined in Arkansas, California, and Tennessee.

Products of the Motor Vehicle Industry

Approximately one-fourth, 26.7 percent, of the products of the motor vehicles industry produced in the United States in 1939 were sold to wholesalers and jobbers, and 17.9 percent went direct from plants to retailers for resale. In addition, one-tenth, 9.5 percent, were marketed through wholesale selling organizations owned and operated by manufacturers and 0.3 percent through their own retail outlets.

Sales from point of production to commercial, institutional, and other users amounted to approximately one-seventh (14.5 percent) of the total 1939 output.

Goods produced for export amounted to 4.6 percent, the greater part of which was sold direct to buyers in other countries. A relatively small amount was sold direct to household consumers.

Of the entire 1939 output, $1,104,158,000, or 26.4 percent, represented bodies and parts transferred to other plants within the same organizations for the assembling of motor vehicles or for further processing.

"Your cooperation is requested in the introduction and use of the new slogan 'KEEP 'EM FLYING!' which is rapidly coming into nation-wide use as an everyday expression by persons in all walks of life.

"KEEP 'EM FLYING! ' is designed as an expression of felicity and high morale, and it can be used as a toast. It pertains to the wheels of progress of the whole National De

fense effort, as well as to airplanes.

... "The campaign now under way is intended to popularize 'KEEP 'EM FLYING! ' to the extent that it will be used instead of such expressions as 'So long!', 'Goodbye!', 'I'll be seeing you!', 'Good night!', 'Alohal', 'Down the hatch!', 'How!', 'Best of luck!', etc.

"KEEP 'EM FLYING!"

approximately 11 percent of Germany's national income. During that same year, the nation with whom he is now locked in a death grip, I mean Great Britain, was spending less than 3 percent of her national income and the United States was spending less than 1 percent. By 1935, Hitler was devoting over 17 percent of Germany's national income to armaments; Britain 3 percent and we, about 1.7 percent. By 1939, we were still spending the same 1.7 percent. Britain's expenditures had risen to about 17 percent, the point which Hitler had reached 4 years earlier. In 1939, Hitler had more than doubled his 1935 figure."

Labor Turn-Over in the Rubber Industry, 1939 and 1940. 9 pp.

Guatemalan Market for Industrial
Machinery in 1939 and 1940.
3 pp.
Market for Electrical Industrial
Equipment in Brazil. 2 pp.
Metal and Mineral Products:

Heating and Cooking Apparatus Indus-
try of the United States. 12 pp.
Copper Consumption in 1940 Breaks
all Previous Records.
5 pp.
Detinning of Used Cans Suggested in
Present Emergency. 2 pp.

Wholesale Trade in General Hardware Lines Approaching 1929 Level. 7 pp. Masonry, Natural and Puzzolan Cement Industry of United States. 1 p. Aluminum Salts Shipments Shatter all Records in 1940. 2 pp.

2 pp.

The Hosiery Industry Grows Apace. 7 pp.

Wcol Carpet and Rug Manufacturing Industry of the United States Operations of Leading Producers. 7 pp.

No. 35.

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No. 36.

Motion Pictures and Equipment:

Current Releases of Non-Theatrical

Films

Educational Film Develop

Part 14 No. 48.

ments. 5 pp. Annual Survey of Motion-Picture Industry in Switzerland. 2 pp.

Tobacco and Its Products:

Tobacco Import Trade of the United States. 5 pp.

Tobacco Situation in Greek Macedonia and Thrace During 1940. 2 pp. Cuba's Tobacco Export Trade in March. 3 pp.

Special Products:

Market for Athletic and Sporting Goods in West Indies (Except Cuba). 5 pp.

Petroleum

Following a survey of transportation facilities available to the industry, the American Petroleum Institute has announced that $300,000,000 will be budgeted by petroleum firms to meet the shortage problem. Much of this amount will be for oil tankers and pipe lines.

The Institute has five regional committees of technical experts reporting upon adequate protection of gasoline storage facilities against any future military attack or sabotage; also special committees to work with the Army, Navy, and other government agencies.

Founded in 1919, the API has over 4,000 members (membership is individual, not companies) who represent firms in various branches of the petroleum and allied industries. These include producers, refiners, and transportation, marketing, and equipment supplying companies.

The Institute staff of over 80 persons serves such committees as those on foreign trade, vocational training, engineering, credit practices, uniform accounting, production, and interstate oil compacts. (50 W. 50th St., New York, N. Y.; Axtell J. Byles, President.)

Housewares

There are more than 20 major fields of trade association activities, and larger associations render services to their members in all or most of these. One of the hundreds of the nation's "single purpose" associations is the Housewares Manufacturers Association, organized in 1939.

Its sole major activity is that of operating exhibitions of housewares and kindred appliances; its membership is made up of firms in such lines as cooking utensils, wash boards, and allied products. (628 Palmer House, Chicago, Ill.; A. W. Buddenberg, President.)

Canners

The National Canners Association was one of the food industry groups participating in the recent National Nutrition Conference for Defense held in Washington, D. C.

Among the conference recommendations were "More widespread education of doctors, dentists, social-service workers, teachers, and other professional workers in the newer knowledge of nutrition... Mobilization of all neighborhood, community, State, and national organizations and services that can contribute in any way to raising the nutritional level of the people of the United States."

The NCA is especially well known for its technical research, and maintains laboratories at headquarters as well as two on the Pacific Coast, in San Francisco, and in Seattle.

This association reports that much of the work of its staff of over 50 persons is freely available to nonmembers, stating, "In general the policy or the association has been to make the results of its work available to the entire industry. However, on problems of the individual canner, services of such bureaus as the laboratory, raw products, statistics, service kitchen, and consumer complaint are available only to members of the association.

"Technological bulletins of the research laboratories are not copyrighted or held confidential, and most of them are reproduced in various trade journals in the canning industry and in other publications." (1739 H St., Washington, D. C.; Frank E. Gorrell, Secretary.

Evaporated-Apple

The Washington Evaporated-Apple Export Association has been organized to take advantage of the provisions of the Export Trade Act, which is administered by the Federal Trade Commission and under which almost 50 associations are now operating.

The Act permits exemption from some provisions of the antitrust laws provided the cooperation as to production and prices in foreign trade work does not have the effect of lessening competition or otherwise restraining domestic trade.

The new association plans to specialize in standardization, traffic studies, and foreign trade problems. (709 N. First Ave., Yakima, Wash., Walter Hallauer, Secretary.)

The AAA

Leading associations in the automotive and petroleum industries are taking steps to cooperate with the office of the Petroleum Coordinator for National Defense, which has just issued an announcement regarding a national program of gasoline conservation.

Active assistance is promised by the American Automobile Association (which is not a trade association or an organization of business competitors, but is composed of approximately 1,000,000 automobile owners who hold membership in 725 affiliated local associations.)

The AAA plans to assist various trade associations to publicize the results of surveys of gasoline consumption.

One test indicated that driving an automobile 500 miles at 60 miles per hour consumes 58 percent more gasoline than driving it 40 miles per hour.

The association states, "It is our belief that cooperation by motorists would result in savings of at least 20 percent, which is more than the amount of probable shortage indicated by the American Petroleum Institute report."

The AAA estimates that the travel industry has become one of over $5,000,000 annually, and further states, "Research reveals that one million goes to hotels, motor camps and cottages; another million to eating establishments; another million for such expenses as gasoline and oil; and the remainder to other types of expenditures by motorists."

Principal activities of the AAA include the promotion of street and highway safety, dissemination of tourist and travel information,

and legislative work in the interests of motorists. (Pennsylvania Ave. at 17th St., Washington, D.C.; Russell E. Singer, General Manager.)

Lumber Products

One of the northeastern associations of producers of cedar lumber products is the Western Red and Northern White Cedar Association, formed in 1898 under another name.

Its members have mills from Minneapolis to Seattle, and among their products are cedar poles, piling, and anchor logs.

The duty of its Specifications Committee includes that of recommending, when necessary, changes in the manufacturing specifications to meet the demands of the trade, while that of the Research and Promotion Committee, is "to determine and promote the research policy of the industry as to its products, and to carry on basic studies looking to improvements in production, manufacturing, and processing, while anticipating the developments and requirements of the user; also to promote salesmanship based on true facts, as determined by research." (716 Peyton Bldg., Spokane, Wash.; W. H. Jones, Secretary.)

Tools

The Service Tools Institute is composed of firms manufacturing such products as pliers, wrenches, chisels, and screwdrivers. The Institute states that "All of these are essential to operation of automotive machinery, airplane motors, machine tools, and the fabrication and parts for such equipment."

Organized in 1939, the STI is active in industrial research, standardization, statistics, and government relations. Its secretary is also the executive head of several other associations in allied fields, such as the National Auger, Bit, and Tool Manufacturers Association, Industrial Instrument Manufacturers Statistical Service, Electric Fuse Manufacturers Guild, and the Bright Wire Goods Manufacturers Service Bureau. (53 Park Place, New York, N. Y.; George P. Byrne, Secretary.)