Source: National Bureau of Economic Research  

Release: NBER Macrohistory Database  

Units:  Millions of Dollars, Not Seasonally Adjusted

Frequency:  Monthly, End of Month

Series Is Presented Here As Two Variables--(1)--Original Data, 1938-1946 (2)--Original Data, 1946-1969. Source: U.S. Department Of Commerce, Data For 1946-1947: Office Of Business Economics, Unpublished Table, Comm-Dc-7838, "Retail Inventories, 1946-1961"; Data For 1948-1958: Unpublished Obe And Bureau Of Census Tabulation, "Manufacturing And Trade Inventories"; Data For 1959-1960: Survey Of Current Business, February 1966; Data For 1961-1969: Scb, November 1968 And Following Issues

This NBER data series m05108b appears on the NBER website in Chapter 5 at http://www.nber.org/databases/macrohistory/contents/chapter05.html.

NBER Indicator: m05108b