W.I.B. Price Bulletin, Volumes 1-9

United States. War Industries Board. Planning and statistics division

U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - Prices

Contents

• Aim scope and method of the inquiry: 3
• Movements of the general price level: 12
• Weighted index numbers of prices of wool and wool products class: 41
• The prices of seven groups of commodities: 47
• The prices of 50 classes of commodities: 57
• Further problems: 91
• Hides cattle 6069 Hides cattle light Texas steers: 96
• Page: iv
• Aim scope and method of the international price comparisons 1: 1
• American prices during the war and the peacetime relations between: 7
• United Kingdom: 8
• Fluctuations of prices in foreign countries and in the United States in 1913: 17
• Wool tops colonial 50s: 21
• Wool yarns 248 white botany: 29
• 30 commodities: 30
• 36 commodities: 36
• Wool yarns 240s worsted crossbred: 43
• United States: 44
• Barley fodder: 57
• Beef: 66
• Hops market: 100
• Barley: 158
• Cotton yarn 36 warp 42 woof: 194
• Potatoes white round long: 202
• Coke Connelsville foundry: 209
• Steers choice to prime heavy beeves: 220
• Iron pig Bessemer valley ordinary deliveries: 255
• Bran: 268
• Lead: 286
• Linen shoe thread: 293
• Sheep fattened lambs and young fat sheep: 317
• Flaxseed: 366
• Wool lamb medium: 374
• Bibliography: 384
• The administration of price controls during the warContd: 7
• The Fuel AdministrationContinued: 3
• Page: 19
• Weighted chain index for prices of wheat and wheat products class: 53
• Relative prices of wheat No 1 Northern spring cash by months: 59
• Hides cattle dry and drysalted Central Amer Hides cattle Bogota: 98
• Lead acetate of white Lead acetate of white crystals 104: 104
• Magnesium sulphate of Magnesium sulphate of epsom salts 110: 110
• Petroleum American Petroleum 150 fire test water white 116: 116
• Potassium sulphate of 90 per cent Potassium sulphate of 8090 per cent: 122
• Skins calf light Skins calf New England 79 128: 128
• Steel rails heavy Steel rails standard Bessemer 134: 134
• Tin English ingots Tin Straits pig 140: 140
• Beans Soja Hokkaido medium: 141
• Acid citric crystals Acid citric crystals 186: 186
• Coke national Savona Coke Connellsville furnace 192: 192
• The War Industries Board 195: 195
• Maize domestic Milanese Heights Corn No 3 yellow 198: 198
• Silk raw Italian Silk raw European classical Italian 204: 204
• Barley Barley fair to good malting 210: 210
• Iron sheet for tanks Steel plates for tanks 216: 216
• Sugar beet raw Sugar 96 centrifugal 222: 222
• Barley medium Barley fair to good malting 226: 226
• Eggs Chitama Eggs Western fresh firsts 232: 232
• Nails foreign 68 bu in length Nails wire 8penny fence and common 238: 238
• Shingles Teshu common Shingles redcedar 244: 244
• 24 commodities: 250
• Jute Hessian cloth 101ounces 40inch Jute burlap 40inch 101ounce Calcutta 256: 256
• Skins goat Skins goat India Amritaas 1100 pounds: 262
• Acid citric Acid citric crystals 266: 266
• Cement Australian bags Cement Portland domestic 272: 272
• Eggs Eggs western fresh firsts 278: 278
• Iron galvanized plain Queens Head Iron steel sheet galvanized No 28 gauge 284: 284
• Nails wire Australian Nails wire 8penny fence and common 290: 290
• Resin G grade Rosin common to good strained 296: 296
• Sugar table No la fine granulated Sugar granulated in barrels 302: 302
• Wool greasy good Wool Ohio Pennsylvania and West Virginia: 308
• Wool North German sheep farms medium: 310
• January 1913December 1918___ 311: 311
• Weighted index numbers of prices of hides skins leather: 317
• Weighted index numbers of prices of lumber and all commodi: 326
• Acid sulphuric domestic Acid sulphuric 66 330: 330
• Oats Danish Oats white No 3 336: 336
• Calves full milk 7090 kilograms Calves veal prime 100 pounds 342: 342
• Sheep old fat Sheep carload lots 348: 348
• Lead red chemically pure Lead red 354: 354
• Tallow Tallow packers prime 360: 360
• Mats floor Tatamiomote blue common: 378
• Costs at which different portions of the output of beehive coke: 400
• The Bureau of Labor Statistics index number of all commodities: 411
• Weighted index numbers of prices of all commodities 1366: 421
• Momi timber square Shingu 1 shaku: 471
• months April 1917December 1918: 498
• Relative prices of sugar raw 96 centrifugal net cash by months: 507
• Relative prices of cotton weaving yarns carded white northern: 508
• a Complete descriptions of commodities quoted are given here and not in the tables: 520
• Relative prices of copper electrolytic and copper wire by months: 533
• Relative prices of cotton yarn and raw cotton by months January: 543
• Mutton dressed first to third quality: 555
• Hay alfalfa No 1: 1
• AUSTRIA: 14
• Rye No 2: 2
• Austria: 18
• 1913December 1918__ 422: 3
• Introduction 3: 3
• Coffee Rio No 7: 7
• The classes within the chemicals group__ 16: 16
• Summary and conclusion__ 25: 25
• Hay meadow: 2
• Introduction 3: 3
• Commodities quoted 9: 9
• Commodity weights 16: 16
• Introduction 3: 3
• Fluctuations in the prices of wheat and wheat products 11: 11
• Commodity weights 20: 20

Bibliographic information

• Title: W.I.B. Price Bulletin, Volumes 1-9
• Author: United States. War Industries Board. Planning and statistics division
• Publisher: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919
• Original from: Harvard University
• Digitized: Apr 30, 2008