Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1951: Nos. 1039-1046 (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1951: Nos. 1039-1046 (Classic Reprint) written by United States Department Of Labor and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-02-17 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics, 1951: Nos. 1039-1046 Economic, military, and legislative develop ments during the summer of 1950 made necessary certain interim improvements in the Consumers' Price Index in advance of the comprehensive revision scheduled for completion in June No major changes in procedures or weights had been made since the full scale revision of 1940. The need for revision in a number of respects was recognized soon after World War II, and in 1949 Congress authorized a large scale 3-year program for modernization of the Index. This program is still in progress. 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.