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they be for the benefit of religious, charitable, benevolent or education institutions or public benefactions of whatsoever name or nature." The discretion of the Trustees regarding disposition of the income from the Fund, for purposes indicated, shall not be questioned, except for a flagrant abuse thereof.

The Daniel and Florence Guggenheim Foundation, New York City, has for its objects "the promotion, through charitable and benevolent activities, the well-being of mankind throughout the world." W. K. Kellogg Foundation, Battle Creek, Mich. Purpose: To advance the health, education and well-being of children without regard to race, creed or geographical boundary. The present program is made up of national and international health promotion activities, the granting of fellowships and administration of the Michigan Community Health Project which involves seven counties in southwestern Michigan...

The New York Foundation was incorporated in 1909. Its objects, for which the income may be expended, are "to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply the income thereof to altruistic purposes, charitable, benevolent, educational or otherwise within the United States of America, as the Trustees may determine."

Phelps-Stokes Fund, of New York City, incorporated in 1911, to improve housing conditions in New York City and to encourage practical education for handicapped people.

The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation is confining its present activities to the field of economic research and education. Within this field it makes grantsin-aid to fully accredited educational institutions of recognized standing to carry out specific projects. Among its current beneficiaries are: The University of Chicago for its Round Table of the Air; New York University for its Educational Film Institute: Stephens College at Columbia, Mo., for its Institute for Consumer Education; the Public Affairs Committee of New York for its pamphlet

series; the University of Pennsylvania, for its Tax Institution; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Denver, for special groups of sponsored fellowships.

vice.

The Cleveland Foundation, a community trust, is an agency organized for the permanent administration of funds placed in trust for public educational or charitable purposes for benefit of inhabitants of Cleveland and vicinity and other communities within Ohio as designated by donors. Illustrative purposes are: assisting public charitable or educational institutions; promoting scientific research for the advancement of human knowledge and the alleviation of human suffering; providing scholarships to young men or women of slender means; care of the sick, aged and helpless; care of needy men, women and children; improvement of living and working condition; providing facilities for public recreation; promotion of social and domestic hygiene, promption of sanitation and measures for the prevention of disease; research into the causes of ignorance, poverty, crime and The Henry C. Frick Educational Commission was set up in 1909 in Pittsburgh with an original fund of $250,000, later increased to $2,500,000, by Henry C. Frick for improvement of the teaching in Pittsburgh public schools. Assets at last report were $2,810,159 and the amount expended $1,379,293. The A. W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust founded by Andrew W. Mellon in a deed of trust dated Dec. 30, 1930, with an indenture dated June 6, 1935, is to be administered and operated exclusively for the benefit of such religious, charitable, scientific, literary and educational purposes as shall be in furtherance of the public welfare and tend to promote the well-doing and well-being of mankind, or for the use of the United States, any state, territory, or any political subdivision thereof, or the District of Columbia, for such exclusively public purposes as the Trustees shall determine.

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How Green Was My Valley, by Richard Llewellyn; 176,280 in 1940.

Kitty Foyle, by Christopher Morley; not available. Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther; 92,000 plus 150,000 book club copies in 1940.

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway; 440,000, including book club copies in 1940.

The Nazarene, by Sholem Asch; 300,000, including book club copies, in 1939 and 1940; 218,456 in 1939, 81,514 in 1940.

Stars on the Sea, by F. van Wyck Mason; not available.

Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Roberts; 300,000 in 1940.

The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck: 473,324 in 1939 and 1940: 53,900 to bookstores in 1940. 137,000 to book clubs.

Night in Bombay, by Louis Bromfield; not available. The Family, by Nina Fedorova; 60,000 in 1940.

Non-Fiction

I Married Adventure, by Osa Johnson; 200,000, including book club copies, in 1940.

How to Read a Book, by Mortimer Adler; 72,000 in 1940.

A Smattering of Ignorance, by Oscar Levant; not available.

Country Squire in the White House, by John T. Flynn: 100,000 in 1940.

Land Below the Wind, by Agnes Newton Keith; not available.

American White Paper, by Joseph W. Alsop, Jr., and Robert Kintner; 64,000 in 1940 through the trade; 20,000 through special outlets.

New England: Indian Summer, by Van Wyck Brooks; 185,000, including book club copies, in

1940.

As I Remember Him, by Hans Zinsser; not available. Days of Our Years, by Pierre Van Paassen; 273,000, including book club copies in 1939 and 1940: 34,246 through the trade in 1940, 22,800 book club copies.

Bet It's a Boy, by Betty B. Blunt: 134,140 in 1940.

Jan. 1, 1941--July 1, 1941 Fiction

Random Harvest, by James Hilton; 121,000 to June, 1941.

For Whom the Bell Tolls, by Ernest Hemingway: 565,000, including book club copies, in 1940 and to June, 1941.

Oliver Wiswell, by Kenneth Roberts; 300,000 in 1940.

H. M. Pulham, Esquire, by John P. Marquand; 223,000, including book club copies, to April, 1941. This Above All, by Eric Knight; not available. Delilah, by Marcus Goodrich; 40,000 to March, 1941. Sapphira and the Slave Girl, by Willa Cather; 285,000, including book club copies in 1940 and to February, 1941.

Mr. and Mrs. Cugat, by Isabel Scott Rorick; not available.

In This Our Life, by Ellen Glasgow; 50,000 to June, 1941.

Mrs. Miniver, by Jan Struther; 250,000, including book club copies, in 1940 and to March, 1941.

Non-Fiction

Out of the Night, by Jan Valtin; 347,000, including book club copies, to March, 1941.

The White Cliffs, by Alice Duer Miller; 118,000 to June, 1941.

Blood, Sweat and Tears, by Winston S. Churchill; 250,000, including book club copies, to June, 1941. Exit Laughing, by Irvin S. Cobb; not available. Winston Churchill, by René Kraus; not available. My Sister and I, by Dirk van der Heide; 35,000 to February, 1941.

The Wounded Don't Cry, by Quentin Reynolds; not

available.

A Treasury of the World's Great Letters, ed. by M. Lincoln Schuster; 270,000 in 1940 and to April, 1941.

The Time Is Now! by Pierre Van Paassen; 50,000 to June, 1941.

Come Wind, Come Weather, by Daphne du Maurier; 162,000 to April, 1941.

$76,000,000 Tolls Paid in Year to Cross Rivers

The Federal Works Agency announced (March | The agency reported that about one-fifth of the

31, 1941) that approximately $76,000,000 was col

lected in 1938 from the public in tolls for using 242

bridges, 660 ferries and five tunnels to cross rivers.

toll facilities were publicly owned and gradually might become free as their original cost and main tenance are paid.

Farmers' Marketing and Purchasing Cooperatives in the U. S.

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Poultry, eggs.

Wool, mohair

Miscellaneous

194 180 181
130 135 134
379 372 360

40 1937-38 1938-39 1939-40 1937-38 1938-39 1939-40
No.
No.
No. $1,000 $1.000 $1,000
350,000 315,000 270,000 110,000 73,000
78,000
700,000 650,000 620,000 686,000 610,000 560,000
179.800 183.000 166,000 315,800 287,000 289,000
360,000 367,000 365,000 475,000
600,000 600,000 580,000 312,000]
106,000

383,000 390.000
280.000

282,000

Total marketing

Purchasing...

Total marketing and purchasing.......

76,000

100.000 104,000) 91,000 78,000
50,000 60,000 62,000 11,300 13,000 11,000
154,200 135,000 133,000 48,900 41,000 43,000

8,300 8,100 8,051 2,500,000 2,410,000 2,300,000 2,050,000 1,765,000 1,729,000
2.600 2,600 2,649 900,000 890,000 900,000 $350,000 $335,000 $358,000

10,900|10,700 10,700 3,400,000 3,300,000 3,200,000 2,400,000 2,109,000|2,087,000 1Based on data collected by mail surveys for specified marketing seasons which include the periods during which the farm products of specified crop years were moved into the channels of trade.

Includes independent local associations, federations, large-scale centralized associations, sales agencies, independent service-rendering associations, and subsidiaries whose businesses are distinct from those of the parent organizations.

Includes members, contract members, and shareholders, but does not include patrons not in these categories.

Includes some intra-association transactions, also the value of commodities for which associations render essential services either in marketing or purchasing and the value of commodities sold by associations either on a commission or a brokerage basis.

Includes associations handling commodities not specified above, those handling several types of commodities, and those furnishing special marketing or other services.

"If adjustments are made for the marketing business handled by the purchasing associations and the purchasing business of the marketing associations, the revised figures for purchasing for the 3 periods are $440,000,000, $416,000,000 and $448,200,000.

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1930-31. 1931-32

1,217 247,000
1,205 398,000
1,454 470,000
1.588 392,000

$135,000,000

1934-35.

128,000,000

190,000,000

1935-36
1936-37

1,906
2,112

790,000 $187,000,000
950,000

254,000,000

2.601 856,000

313,400,000

1,645 533,000

215,000,000 1937-38.
181,000,000 1938-39

2,600 900.000

350,000,000

2,600 890,000

335,000,000

1932-33

2,649 900,000

1933-34.

1,648 542,700 140,500,000 1939-40.
1,848 692,000 152,000,000

Operations of Credit Unions in United States

Source: United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

358,000,000

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1 Most of the difference between the total number of associations and the number reporting is accounted for by associations chartered but not in operation by the end of the year and associations in liquidation which had not relinquished their charter.

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State credit unions only. No Federal credit unions in operation although 1 had received a charter.

1940

1940

593 592
20 17

165,221

Public Lands of the United States

Source: General Land Office,

The term "public domain" embraces all the area that was public land or in control of the Federal Government, including Alaska. This area of 1,442,200,320 acres of land and 20,232,320 acres of water area in the United States proper includes all the States north and west of the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers, except Texas, and includes in addition the States of Alabama, Florida and Mississippi. It was acquired in the following manner;

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Department of the Interior

State grants for educational or other
purpose

Canal and river improvement grants
to States

Wagon-road grants to States.
Grants to States in aid of railroads..
Railroad grants to corporations.

Total area disposed of
Pending and unperfected entries.
Title remaining in the United States:
National forests, estimated net area

of public lands

National Parks and Monuments?
Indian reservations (estimated net)
Military, naval, miscellaneous reser-
vations (approx.)

Unappropriated, but withdrawn (part

estimated)

Miscellaneous disposals

Grand total (exact public land

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199,842,600

4,333,294

area) 1,442,200,320 1This estimated figure includes each year's land disposal minus one and one-half per cent for patent cancellations.

The National Parks and Monuments figure of 13,864,245 acres includes a small percentage of lands purchased and other miscellaneous items.

This is an estimated figure supplied by the Indian Service.

The withdrawals run in terms of gross acreages and actually include a certain per cent of pat419,117,998 i ented lands.

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The above total is composed of 64,865,302 acres of swamp and overflowed land; 7,830,000 acres agricultural college scrip land; 77,523,220 acres of school sections; 31,756,742 acres for education and public purposes, and 48,410,746 acres for canals, river improvements, wagon roads and railroads. There has been reserved for and in Alaska an estimated 21,447,459 acres for common schools, agricultural college and school of mines.

AREAS ADMINISTERED BY THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IN PUBLIC LAND STATES

3,163,552

-4,139,209

3,651,074
3,095,760

230,286,010

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Farms in U. S.-Number, Acreage, Value, 1940

Source: United States Bureau of the Census

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321,242,430

In 1935, farm land and buildings were valued at $32,858,844,012; in 1930, at $47,879,838,358; in 1920, $66,316,002,593.

In 1929 (1930 census) woodland on farms totaled 85,321,900 acres, including woodland pasture. In 1940, farms operated by full owners numbered 3,084,138; by part owners, 615,039; by managers, 36,331; by tenants, 2,361,271; by croppers, 541,291.

Whites in 1940 operated 5,377,728 farms; non-whites, 719,071.

Farms and Farm Lands, by States, 1930

Source: United States Bureau of the Census

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219,296 21,514,059 Tot. U. S... 6,288,648 986,771,016

In 1935 there were 6,812,350 farms, containing a total of 1,054,515,111 acres.

In 1925, the total extent of farm lands was 924,319,352 acres; in 1920 it was 955,883,715 acres; in 1910 the total was 878,798,325 acres.

The farm acreage in previous years was: (1900) 838,591,774; (1890) 623,218,619; (1880) 536,081,835; (1870) 407,725,041; (1860) 407,212,538; (1850) 293,560,614.

States

Farm Mortgages by States, 1939, 1940

Source: United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics

The figures are as of January 1. The Dist. of Columbia is included with Maryland

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Data cover only continental U. S.; joint stock land bank figures include banks in receivership: data "banks" column 1935-1940 include insured commercial banks, prior to 1935 open state and national banks; figures for state credit agencies relate to Minnesota and the Dakotas. The "others" column covers loans of individuals, mortgage companies, the Farm Security Administration, etc.

The states in which the life insurance companies had outstanding, on Jan. 1, 1940, over 20 million dollars in farm mortgages were-Iowa ($197,516,000); Illinois ($103.782,000); Texas ($85,460,000); Indiana ($55,566,000); Kansas ($53,319,000); Minnesota ($50,489.000); Missouri ($50.097,000); Nebraska ($44,822,000); Ohio ($30,429,000); Oklahoma ($25,923,000); Mississippi ($23,480,000). The farm real estate held by life insurance companies, to cover their loans, was valued, Jan. 1, 1940, at $700,530,000. On the same date the farm real estate held by Federal Land banks and the Federal Farm Mortgage Corp. was valued at $155.237,000; by Joint Stock Land banks, at $46.827,000; by insured commercial banks, at $42,045,000; by state credit agencies in Minnesota and the Dakotas, at $68,324,000. The Farm Credit Administration had outstanding on Dec. 31. 1940, a total of 2,580,171 small loans to farmers, aggregating $2,972,913,351, which included 1,046,324 farm mortgage loans, totaling $2.499.514,239.

Farms, Mortgaged and Otherwise

Source: United States Farm Credit Administration
Federal Land Bank Activities

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1913 22.89 30.21

1.20

1.17

Yr. Incf. Excl. Incl. Excl. Yr. Incl. Excl. Incl. Excl. Yr. Incl. Excl. Incl. Excl. Board Board Board Board Board Board Board Board Board Board Board Board 1909 $21.21 $28.10 $1.09 $1.30 1920 $51.73 $65.40 $2.98 $3.46 1931 $28.77 $38.38 $1.32 $1.62 1910 21.22 20.08 1.12 1.39 1921 33.62 44.67 1.77 2.12 1932 20.85 28.88 1911 21.49 28.54 1.13 1.39 1922 32.75 43.33 1.73 2.07 1933, 18.07 25.67 1912 22.23 29.34 1.18 1.43 1923 37.24 48.25) 2.25 1934 20.24 28.19 1.46 1924 37.92 49.32 2.29 1935 22.42 30.24 1914 22.62 29.74 1.43 1925 38.77 49.90 1915 22.97 30.06 1.18 1.44 1926 39.87 50.83 1916 25.17 32.84 1.31 1.58 1927 40.11 50.85 1917 31.11 40.52 1.65 1.98 1928 40.11 50.72 1.98 1918 37.96 48.80] 2.15 2.54 1929 40.61 51.22 1.96 1919 43 29 56.63 2.54 3.031930 37.59 48.10 1.76

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1.89

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1.94

1.07

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1.97

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The supply of farm labor in the United States as a whole was 92.5 per cent of normal on Jan. 1, 1938, 94.8 per cent on Jan. 1, 1939; 93.1 per cent on Jan. 1, 1940. The demand for farm labor was 80 per cent of normal on Jan. 1, 1938, 79.2 per cent on Jan. 1, 1939, and 1.2 per cent on Jan. 1, 1940.

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