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Building Safety devices and measures-Cont.
perience with a safety organization on a
Easter-
typical construction job, by P. B.
brooks; Report number two of the Statis-
tical and standardization committee on the
subject of a standard list of causes for
use in classifying accidents on construction
work; with discussion. table In Nat. safety
council. Proceedings, 1921, p 207-36 '21
Uniform accident
↑ National safety council.
statistics for construction companies: re-
port of Statistical and standardization com-
mittee, adopted by the construction sec-
tion at the 1920 and 1921 annual congresses
of the National safety council. 8p tables
25c '22 168 N. Michigan av, Chicago, Ill.
house-building.
Suggestions for safety in

diags Travelers Standard 10:21-9 F '22
Statistics

Building operations in 1920. In Financial re-
view, 1921, p 129-32 '21

Chamber of commerce of the U.S. Civic development dept. Building situation in 44 cities during part of 1921. 4p (Mim.) '21 Mills bldg, Washington, D.C.

• United States. Bur. of labor statistics. Building operations in representative cities, 1920. (Bul. no. 295, Misc. ser.) 49p Ja '22 Building, Cooperative Co-operative building

W. J.

America. in Hoggson. il Bldgs and Bldg Management p 14-17+ D 26 21

Discussion of the plan of the cooperative Hotel Commonwealth, now building in New York city.

Building and loan associations

How building and loan associations help solve the housing problem: these institutions bear a very intimate relation to the real estate profession; they are the most democratic and economic form of financial organization. J. S. Fisher. Nat Real Estate J p 36-7+ N 21 '21

Address before the annual convention of the Pennsylvania real estate association, Pittsburgh, Oct. 27-28, 1921.

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Statistics

States

in trade United South American building materials. H. M. Hoar. Commerce Repts no 14 p 12-14 Ap 3 '22 Building trades Building trades employers' assn. of the city of N.Y. Handbook, 1921: a list of members; the rates of wages; the joint arbitration plan; provisions of trade agreements setting forth the work claimed by each union; decisions governing in questions of jurisdiction of trade. 176p '22 30 W. 33d st, N.Y. Landis' ruling quickens building world: gento expected follow eral improvement is judge's decision fixing wages and working regulations. Chicago Commerce p 11 S 10

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See also subhead Building trades under: Guilds; Trade unions; Wages

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Decisions

• Decision of Judge Kenesaw M. Landis. tables Associated Builders of Chicago Bul Extra 15p S 7 '21

Omits the concluding paragraph. Judge Landis serves the world. Ill Soc Architects Mo Bul p 1-3 S '21

Contains full text of the decision of Judge Landis.

Tremendous impetus given building. il tables Am Lumberman p 1+ S 10 '21

Contains complete text of Judge K. M.
Landis' decision.

Wages award by Judge Landis in Chicago
building trades, September 7, 1921. table
Monthly Labor R 13:824-8 O '21
Complete text of the award.

Laws

† Czecho-Slovakia,

act: encouragement building; act for the encouragement building; dated 11th March, 1921. Internat Labour Office Leg Ser 1921 Cz. 1 4p 11⁄2d

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* Adler, Felix. Ethical program for business men, endorsed by the business men's group of the New York society for ethical culture. 11p '21 Am. ethical union, 2 W. 64th st, N.Y. Babson, R. W. Making good in business. 175p *$1.25 '21 Revell

Contents: Who succeeds; Obstacles on the road of making good; The six "I's" of making good; The woman's part in the six "I's"; Constructive aids to developing the six "I's"; The six "I's" and general business conditions; Need of vision; Some personal testimony.

* Commercial standards council. For improved business ethics. (Bul, no. 1) 11p 22 19 Park pl, N.Y.

Council aims to foster and maintain higher standards in business. Comprises a large number of business associations of national importance.

Ethics in business. Ann Am Acad p 203-36 My

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Jordan, D. F. Business forecasting. 270p bibl tables charts $5 '21 Prentice-Hall

Pt. 1, Relation of forecasting to business; pt. 2, Barometers of business; pt. 3. Business crises in the United States. Leigh, E. B. What will effectively restore business? 13p charts '21 Frank W. Noxon, sec., Railway business assn., 600 Liberty bldg, Philadelphia, Pa.

Lincoln, E. E. Problems in business finance. 525p bibl tables *$5 '21 Shaw

Contents: pt. 1, Introductory; pt. 2, Sources of capital; pt. 3, Problems of internal financing: pt. 4, Financial difficulties and their significance; pt. 5, General problems.

Need of a vital code of ethics: professionalizing the construction of industry. F. M. Feiker. Constructor p 15-17 JI '22 Address before the organization meeting of the American construction council, Washington, D.C., June 20. 1922.

• Southern wholesale grocers' assn., inc. Bur. of business research. Stock turnover. C. S. Duncan. (Business studies, pam. no. 5) 19p S 15 '21 Jacksonville, Fla. Stock turnover: a deceptive index. C. S. Duncan. tables Annalist 18:271 S 19 '21

See also Booksellers and bookselling: Brokers; Corporations; Drug business; Dry goods business: Government regulation of business; Grocery business; Jewelry business: Mail order business; Music trade; Real estate business; Retail trade

Bibliography

Indianapolis, Ind. Pub. lib. Business books for profit and pleasure. Ethel Cleland. 12p 122

Bibliography compiled for the American library association, 78 E. Washington st. Chicago. Ill. from whom it may be purchased at $3 a 100, $20 a 10000.

Directories

Anglo-American year book and international directory, with which is incorporated Americans with British titles and the Anglo-American who's who containing an authentic commercial, professional, and residential directory of Americans in Great Britain and British business houses in America, 1922. B. M. Gardner, ed. 567p tables *15s '22 Internat. development co., ltd., 4 Trafalgar sq. London, W.C. 2

Financial, industrial and commercial directory: a list of British companies and firms with head offices, branches, or agents in Latin America. In Anglo-South American hand book, 1922, p 761-888 22 New England business directory and gazetteer, for 1922, containing classified list of all merchants, manufacturing, financial and professional interests in the state of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut; also a gazetteer. giving concise information about each city, town and post office, how reached, etc., state and county officers and courts. (No. 30) 2442p tables $10 '22 Sampson & Murdock co., 377 Broadway, Boston, Mass. White-Orr's reference register: a compendium for general business reference. comprising the financial, commercial, industrial and legal interests of the cities of New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston and Newark, N.J., 1921-1922. 1008p $15 '22 White, Orr & co., 156 5th av, N.Y.

Statistics

Distribution of retail and wholesale dealers in the United States. In Thompson, J. Walter, co. Population and its distribution, p 303-35 '21

National lumber mfrs. assn. Bur. of lumber econ. Graphic summary of business statistics. 1p Ag 1 '22 Wilson Compton, sec., 750 McCormick bldg, Chicago, Ill.

Business conditions

† Business prospects year book, 1922. D. W. Lloyd, ed. (V. 16) 373p 10s '22 Business statistics co., ltd., Baltic House, Cardiff, Wales

Contents: Coal; Shipping; Cotton; Iron and steel; Tin; Tinplates; Money market; Wheat; Oil; Rubber; Copper; Spelter; Supplementary statistics. Capital situation and business recovery. H. A. E. Chandler. Commerce Mo p 3-13 My '22 Causes of the industrial depression: what other countries are doing to meet the situation; a world review by the Ministry of labor, England. Bloomfield's Labor Digest 8:832-3 S 24 '21

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How to forecast business and investment conditions: the fundamental canals of price changes; international price variations; a new series. H. P. Willis and E. D. King. table charts M Wall St 29:448-9+ F 4 '22 Improvement in British business. W. S. Tower. Commerce Repts no 20 p 451-2 My 15 '22

Is our business affected by Europe today? D. W. Morrow. Current Affairs (Boston) p 9+ JI 10 '22

A Monthly Supplement to the United States Commerce Reports (weekly) is being issued under the title Survey of Current Business. The first issue is dated July 1, 1921. It contains the information compiled by the Commerce department in its study of current trends in business and industry. The data have been coded into relative figures, or index numbers, where necessary. National bank of commerce in N.Y. [Business conditions]: address by president at annual meeting of the shareholders, January 10, 1922. J. S. Alexander. 15p tables '22 31 Nassau st The New York Evening Post Annual financial and business review appeared as section 2 of the issue for December 31, 1921. Part 1 contains replies of the country's leading bankers, business men, and economists to a series of questions dealing with the business outlook for 1922 and views of railroad presidents with regard to the country's transportation problems: part 2 contains articles on the country's

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Business conditions-Continued

basic industries by experts, and a review and forecast of business conditions from all sections of the United States; part 3 contains the year's review of the grain and cotton markets; special articles on Great Britain, France, Germany, Latin America, China, and India; the full stock and bond market price movements for the year; reviews and forecasts of price movements, government finance, foreign trade, the labor situation, and affairs at Washington. † Persons, W. M. Interpretation of the index of general business conditions. 11p charts ?price '22 Harvard econ. service, Cambridge, Mass.

Review of the first quarter of the year [1922]. W. M. Persons. tables charts R Econ Statistics 4:53-61 Ap '22

Rogers & co. New era in business. 23p charts
O '21 461 8th av, N.Y.
Statistical record, 1921: monthly data. E. E.
Day, ed. tables R Econ Statistics Sup v 4
sup 1 Ap '22

Contents: Agriculture; Mining: Manufacture; Internal trade and transportation; International trade; Finance; Prices; Index numbers and cycles.

Where do we go from here? L. P. Ayres. tables charts Current Affairs (Boston) p 4-5, 8-9+ N 7-14 21

Abstract of address before Boston chamber of commerce, Oct. 20, 1921.

Business cycles

† Business cycle. 32p charts 6c '21 N. Y. Evening Post, 20 Vesey st

Reprint of a series of articles originally published in the New York Evening Post, beginning October 17, 1921. Three phases of the subject are discussed: the theory and principles of the business cycle; the practical application of the principles of the business cycle to the management of business; the present position of the country in the business cycle. The contributors are economists, bankers, wholesale and retail merchants. Clark, W. C. Business cycles and the pression of 1920-1. (Queen's univ. depts. of history and political and econ. science bul. no. 40) 24p table Ag '21 Queen's univ., Kingston, Ont. Commodity price index of business cycles. W. M. Persons and E. S. Coyle, charts R Econ Statistics 3:353-69 N '21 Employment and the business cycle. W. A. Berridge. charts R Econ Statistics 4:12-51 Ja '22

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† Hansen, A. H. Cycles of prosperity and depression in the United States, Great Britain and Germany: a study of monthly data, 1902-1908. (Univ. of Wis. studies in the social sciences and history no. 5) 112p bibl tables charts $1 '21 Univ. of Wis., Madison

Lavington, F. Trade cycle: an account of the causes producing rhythmical changes in the activity of business. 113p 3s 6d '22 King

Contents: Nature of the phenomena; Some essential conditions of modern organization; Business confidence: the expansion of confidence; the overestimation of success and failure; the influence of price: Course of a trade cycle: the growth of prosperity; the period of apprehension; the growth of depression: summary; Some social aspects of modern industrial organization. Personnel problems and the business cycle. P. H. Douglas. tables Administration 4:15-27 JI '22

Secretary Hoover, as chairman of the Presi

dent's conference on unemployment, has asked the National bureau of economic research to prepare for the use of the conference a report on unemployment and business cycles. Six months will be devoted to this undertaking. Then the staff will try to fill in other gaps in our present knowledge by special investigation. A summary volume on business cycles will be published, including the results of these new studies by the staff along with the results reached by other investigators.

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Failures in 1920. In Financial review, 1921, p 133-6 21

Business law. See Commercial law
Business libraries. See Libraries. Business
Business organization and management

Basset, W. R. Organization of modern business. 271p $2 '21 Dodd

First Wis. nat. bank of Milwaukee. Budgetary control for business. 27p bibl il 21 Mairet, G. Principles & practice of business, with examination questions in the theory and practice of commerce, business organization and commercial correspondence. (Macmillan's life and work ser.) 301p il tables $1.60 '21 Macmillan

Marshall, L. C. Business administration. 919p il tables charts $4 '21 Univ. of Chicago pr. Place of a personnel department in a business organization. H. W. Casler. Nat Assn Corp Training Bul 8:433-46 O '21

Extracts from an address before the 9th annual convention of the National association of corporation training.

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See also Electrical industries-Accounting Cacao. See Chocolate industry Cafeterias. See Restaurants

Caicos Islands. See Turks and Caicos Islands Cairo, Egypt. See City planning; Prices-Statistics

Calcutta, India. See Municipal government
California

See also Alien land ownership-Legislation; Camping; Civil service: Continuation schools-Bibliography; Cooperative associations: Copper industry-Statistics; Crop statistics; Drainage Statistics; European war-California's participation; Farmers' cooperative movements; Fig industry; Fire protection-Forests; Fish, Canned; Fish laws; Forests and forestry; Game laws;

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Canada. Dept. of immigration and colonization. Canada: descriptive atlas. 80p il maps '22 Ottawa

resources

Natural * Canada. Dept. of the interior. intelligence branch. Compact facts, Canada, 1921. 19p tables charts '21 Ottawa

Canada. Dept. of the interior. Natural resources intelligence branch. Lower Athabaska and Slave river district: a synopsis of all available and useful information of the district lying in the valleys of the lower Athabaska and Slave rivers from McMurray north to the Great Slave lake. 44p bibl il maps '21 Ottawa

Canada and the Empire. E. M. Burwash. N D Univ QJ 12:3-21 O '21

Address delivered at the convocation of the University of North Dakota, April 14, 1921, in the exchange lectureship with the University of Manitoba.

E. J.

Canadian parliamentary guide. 1921.
Chambers, ed. 612p tables $3 '21 Ernest J.
Chambers, P.O. box 513, Ottawa
Laut, A. C. Canada at the cross roads. 279p
$2.50 21 Macmillan co. of Can., ltd., St
Martin's House. Toronto, Ont.
Sherbrooke [Quebec] bd. of trade. Future
Sherbrooke: its great prosperity and its
wonderful possibilities; ideal factory loca-

tion; hub of southern Quebec; the New England of Canada. 48p il tables chart maps '21?

• Winnipeg, Man. City clerk. Municipal manual, city of Winnipeg, 1922: containing facts and figures about the city and the various departments of its government. 224p tables

'22

See also Agriculture: Banks and banking; Barytes-Statistics; Boot and shoe industry -Directories; Bottle industry-Conferences; Boundaries; Chemical industries-Directories; Child labor; Coal-Statistics: Commerce -Treaties: Cost of living: Crop statistics; Dairy industry and trade: Drug industryDirectories; Education-Statistics; Education-Surveys: Electric plants (central stations): Electrical industries; Engineering— Associations; Family desertion-Treaties; Forests and forestry; Fur industry; Gas industry-Directories: Glass industry-Directories; Grain-Trade-Statistics; Grain elevators-Directories; Grocery businessDirectories; Heating: Hosiery industryDirectories: Hospitals; Hours of laborStatistics; House organs; Immigration; Industrial hygiene; Industrial research; InUnemployment; surance, Knit goods inLabor departmentsdustry-Directories; Directories; Labor departments-Reports; Labor legislation; Legislation; Legislative manuals; Maple sugar industry: Margarine industry: Mines and mining; Municipal charMunicipal ters; Municipal government; leagues-Conferences; Municipal statistics; Music Directories; Newspapers-Directories; Nickel industry; Oil industry; Optometry-Directories; Packing industry-Directories; Paper industry-Conferences; PenRailsions, Prices-Statistics; roads, Foreign; Scientific research; Smallpox; Soldiers, Disabled-Rehabilitation; Strikes-Statistics; Textile industry-Directories; Tuberculosis-Conferences; ployment; Trade unions-Conferences; Wages-Statistics; Warehouses-Directories; Water International; power: Waterways, Women; Wood pulp industry; also subhead Laws under: Animals, Fur-bearing; Taxation; Wages

Military;

Unem

Census Preliminary anCanada. Bur. of statistics. nouncement of population of [various] cities as shown by a preliminary count, subject to correction, of the returns of the sixth census, 1921. 19p (Mim.) tables '21 Ottawa Population of Canada according to the census of 1921. table Econ World n s 23:448 Ap 1 '22

Commerce

Commercial Intelligence Journal is the new title superseding the Weekly Bulletin of the Commercial intelligence service, Department of trade and commerce, Canada. The volume numbering is continuous, the change in title taking effect with v. 26, no. 935, January 2, 1922. Dominion of Canada as a market for British goods, being a general survey of the Canadian conditions, post-war market under from the point of view of the British exporter and of the manufacturer contemplatbranch factories ing the development of overseas; with special reference to the opBritish competition portunity created for with American manufacturers as the result of the new United States tariffs on Canadian exports to that country. 242p tables map *7s 6d '22 Selwyn

† Great Britain. Dept. of overseas trade. Report on the conditions and prospects of British trade in Canada, August, 1921. 73p tables map *2s 3d '21 H. M. stationery office

Statistics

* Canada. Dept. of trade and commerce. ComImports into mercial intelligence service. Canada from the United States: being a classified list of imports into Canada for manufacconsumption of fully or chiefly

tured articles from the United States for

Canada-Commerce-Statistics-Continued the fiscal year ending March 31, 1921. 42p '22? Ottawa

Supplement to "Canada as a field for British branch industries". Canada's export trade (pre-war and postwar) in relation to that of other leading exporting countries [United Kingdom, United States, France, Japan, Argentina, Belgium, Australia, Germany, Italy, Spain]. charts Commercial Intelligence J 26:965-8 Je 17 '22

Preliminary statistics of Canadian trade for 1921-22, compared with 1913-14 and 1920-21. Commercial Intelligence J 26:820-41 My 27

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Economic conditions

* Canada. Dept. of trade and commerce. Commercial intelligence service. Canada as a field for British branch industries. 132p il tables charts maps '22 Ottawa

Contents: Economic areas of Canada; Natural resources in relation to industry; Canadian trade, past and present; Labour in Canada; Water-powers and their industrial importance; Canadian tariffs and trade agreements; Transportation facilities; Company incorporation and taxation; Note on the Canadian banking system; Analysis of industrial capital in Canada; Problems of the Canadian market.

Canada. J. G. Foster. (Trade and econ. review for 1921, no. 5) tables Commerce Repts Sup 19p '22

Finance Statistics

† Canada. Dept. of customs and inland revenue. Report, containing accounts of revenue, with statements relative to the imports, exports, customs and inland revenue of the dominion of Canada, for the fiscal year ended March 31, 1920. [No. 11-1921] 557+70p 40c '21 Mulvey

Cost of government in Canada, 1920: combined per capita costs of national, provincial and municipal government for 17 Canadian cities. (Story no. 4) Can Citizenship Bul no 27 [4]p Je 22 '22

Government and politics Borden, R. L. Canadian constitutional studies: the Marfleet lectures, University of Toronto, October, 1921. rev ed 163p $1 22 Univ. of Toronto pr., Toronto, Ont.

bibl

These lectures "were designed as an introduction to the study of the constitutional development of Canada from 1760 to the present time; and they include a short sketch of the system of government which prevailed during the French régime from 1608 to 1760, as well as a glance at problems confronting democracy in the immediate future".

Canadian Pacific railway co. Dept. of colonization and development. Canadian government. [4]p '22 Montreal

Statistics

• Canada. Bur. of statistics. Canada year book, 1920. 768p tables chart maps '21 Ottawa Canal Zone

United States. House. Com. on interstate and for. commerce. Proposed legislation for Panama Canal Zone: hearing on H.R. 4809, a bill to amend sections 8 and 9 of the Panama canal act to regulate divorce in the Canal Zone, and for other purposes, November 9, 1921. (U.S. 67th Congress, 1st sess.) 32p '21 Apply to Congressmen Canals Lake Erie and Ohio river canal: a great waterway, the completion of which will link up the Mississippi and the Ohio valleys with Lake Erie and the Atlantic ocean. B. S. Patterson. map Miss Valley M p 8-9+ N '21

• United States. House. Correspondence concerning the purchase of the Cape Cod canal: communication from the President of the United States, transmitting letter

from the director of the budget, with a letter from the secretary of war, regarding the purchase of the Cape Cod canal. (U.S. 67th Congress, 2d sess., H. doc. no. 139) 8p table '21 Apply to Congressmen Will it lower the cost of living: why the New York state barge canal, on which has been spent $167,000,000 has not yet fulfilled the intentions of its sponsors. William McCarroll. il Am Bankers Assn J 14:489-91 Ja '22

See also Panama canal

Governors' messages, 1922

New Jersey-Gov. Edwards recommends the abandonment of the Morris canal, if it can be accomplished on terms fair to the state. New York (state)-Gov. Miller recommends that provision be made for modern equipment and shops for the maintenance of the state barge canal, and that provision be made for through shipments by rail and water under through bills of lading.

Laws

New Jersey-Act to authorize the acquisition by the state of the Morris canal (as defined in this act), in whole or in part, and all the stock of the Morris canal and banking company and the rights of all stockholders in said company and in said canal property and water rights, and all or any part of the right, title and interest of the Lehigh Valley railroad company in said canal property and water rights by virtue of its lease of said canal from the Morris canal and banking company, or otherwise; to provide for a commission authorized to negotiate and agree upon terms of settlement with the Morris canal and banking company and the Lehigh Valley railroad company, in relation to the said canal property and water rights, and to invest in said commission certain powers necessary for carrying out the terms of settlement and to make such other provisions as may be necessary to effectuate the objects aforesaid. (Ch. 212. Laws 1922) *New York (state). Supt. of pub. works. New York state canals: laws relative to their navigation, and the structures on and connected therewith; also rules and regulations for their safe and speedy navigation, protection and maintenance. 63p 21 Albany

South Carolina-Act to provide for the operation, management, control and disposal of the Columbia canal. (No. 867, Laws 1922)

Terminals

Development of barge canal terminals, by F. M. Williams; Export terminal for the barge canal a state necessity, by N. B. Killmer. In New York state waterways assn. Eleventh annual report. 1920, p 1623. 120-4 '21

Canary Islands Bannerman, D. A. The Canary Islands: their history, natural history and scenery; an account of an ornithologist's camping

trips in the Archipelago. 365p il tables maps 30s '22 Gurney

Economic conditions

↑ Great Britain. Dept. of overseas trade. Report on the trade and economic conditions of the Canary Islands, dated March, 1921. 29p tables map 1s 3d '21 H. M. stationery office

Cancer

American society for the control of cancer announces a National cancer week, Nov. 12-18, 1922. Particulars may be obtained from the society, 370 7th av, N.Y.

Cancer. F. C. Wood. Health N n s 16:170-3
Ag '21
In New
Cancer problem. Chancey Adams.
Hampshire med. soc. Transactions, 1921,
p 93-108 '21

Commonhealth for September, 1921, is a Cancer number.

Ohio's Health for January, 1922, is a Cancer number.

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