Transportation Security Administration's Acquisition of Support Services Contracts

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1906 edition. Excerpt: ...included in the Report on Wholesale Prices, Wages, and Transportation, submitted by Mr. Aldrich from the Senate Committee on Finance, March 3,1893. Many articles which were included in that report are no longer manufactured, or, if still manufactured, have ceased to be important factors in the market. On the other hand, a number of articles not shown in that report have become of such importance as to render necessary their inclusion in any study of the course of prices. The commodities covered in 1904 and 1905 by the 259 series of quotations have been classified under 9 general groups, as follows: Farm products, 16 series of quotations. Food, etc., 53 series of quotations. Cloths and clothing, 76 series of quotations. Fuel and lighting, 13 series of quotations. Metals and implements, 38 series of quotations. Lumber and building materials, 27 series of quotations. Drugs and chemicals, 9 series of quotations. House furnishing goods, 14 series of quotations. Miscellaneous, 13 series of quotations. Table J.--Wholesale prices of commodities in 1905, pages 388 to 37.--This table shows in detail the actual prices from which thesubsequen tables of index numbers are calculated. As stated previously, the 259 series of quotations have been classified under 9 groups of commodities, and this grouping has been uniformly adhered to in the several tables which are given. The prices quoted in ever' instance are wholesale prices. Wholesale prices have invariably been used in compilations which have been made for the purpose of showing changes in the general price level of all commodities. They are more sensitive than retail prices and more quickty reflect changes in conditions. Retail prices usually follow the wholesale, hut not generally in the...