The Annual Report of the Secretary of CommerceU.S. Government Printing Office, 1921 The first annual report submitted December 16, 1913, "being the eleventh annual report of so much of the former Department of commerce and labor as is now included within the Department of commerce," contains an outline of the work of the department. Another issue is dated 1914. |
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