Includes bars, hot rolled-carbon and alloy, reinforcing; semimanufactures; pipe and tube; plates; rails; sheets; strip-cold and hot rolled structural shapes, heavy; tin plate and terneplate; wire and wire products. 2Data for January included in February total. Source: U. S. Department of Commerce, Survey of Current Business, compiled by American Iron and Steel Institute, and Office of Price Stabilization. INDEXES OF WHOLESALE PRICES OF SEMI-FINISHED AND FINISHED STEEL 80 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1950 Source: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and Office of Price Stabilization. SELECTED INCOME DATA-PRIMARY IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES The top line plotted represents this column of net sales excluding provision for other income or deductions which are minor. Source: Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Quarterly Industrial Financial Report Series For All United States Manufacturing Corporations, and Office of Price Stabilization. PROFITS PER DOLLAR OF SALES BEFORE AND AFTER FEDERAL TAXES PRIMARY IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES QUARTERLY, 1947-1951 Before federal taxes 5 After federal taxes 1947 1948 1949 1950 1951 Source: Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Quarterly Industrial Financial Report Series For All United States Manufacturing Corporations, and Office of Price Stabilization, RATE OF RETURN ON STOCKHOLDERS' EQUITY BEFORE AND AFTER FEDERAL TAXES Ratios are figured on stockholders' equity ("Reserves," "Capital stock, capital surplus," and "Earned surplus and surplus reserves") at end of period. Source: Federal Trade Commission and Securities and Exchange Commission, Quarterly Industrial Financial Report Series For All United States Manufacturing Corporations, and Office of Price Stabilization. 1947 1948 |