Active Cotton Spindles for United States (M01091USM449NNBR)

Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Millions of Spindles, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly

Data Cover Non-Cotton Growing States. Data For 1912-1930 Were Also Checked With Nourse, America'S Capacity To Produce. In April Of 1939 The Census Bureau Reports That There Were 432,366 Spindles In Cotton Mills Working Solely On Rayon. These Were Excluded, As Were Some Few Spindles Working On Rayon And Wool, And Rayon And Silk. Further, There Were Over 100,000 Spindles Working On Rayon In Mills Which Were Formerly Cotton, Now Wholly Rayon Mills. Source: U.S. Department Of Commerce, Data For 1912-July 1938: Cotton Production And Distribution, Bulletins 131, 140, 150, 156, 162, 167, 169, 170, 175. Data For August 1938-1944: Activity In The Cotton Spinning Industry, Monthly Press Releases.

This NBER data series m01091 appears on the NBER website in Chapter 1 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter01.html.

NBER Indicator: m01091