Excerpt from United States Census of Business, 1948, Vol. 5: Wholesale Trade, Area Statistics; Establishments, Sales, Pay Roll, and Personnel for the United States, Geographic Divisions, States, Metropolitan Areas, Counties, and Cities Report forms - Five report forms were used in can vassing wholesale establishments in the 1948 Census of Business. Form BC - 30 was used for reporting operations of merchant wholesalers and manufacturers' sales branches and offices primarily engaged in selling consumer goods such as foods, clothing, jewelry, Form BC - 31 was used for enumerating merchant whole salers and manufacturers' sales offices engaged in selling industrial, commercial, or professional goods such as electrical goods, machinery, beauty supplies, etc.; Form BC - 32 was a specialized questionnaire used for reporting operations of petroleum bulk stations and distributing terminals; Form BC - 33 was designed for enumerating agents and brokers; and Form BC - 34 was used for reporting activities of assemblers and marketers of farm products. The five forms Were identical with respect to the basic information presented in this volume on num ber of establishments, sales, personnel, pay roll, and inventories. However, they differed materially in the amount and kind of detail called for on sales by commod ity line, expenses, cash and credit business, truck's, etc. Information on these subjects, for Wholesale Trade, is presented in volume IV. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.