Abstract
ONE of the largest industrial expansions in the nation's history took place in chemical manufacture between 1939 and 1947. The Census of Manufactures, a detailed survey of production, sales, labor, materials, and other costs in American industry, shows that between the prewar and the postwar years chemical manufacture in this country more than trebled in point of production and sales, and that some of its branches such as medicinal chemicals increased more than 800%. It will be seen from the accompanying statistical summaries that organic chemicals led all other divisions of the chemical industry with shipments of more than $3 billion, a gain of almost four times over 1939, the last previous census year. For all chemicals and allied products (Table II), the total volume measured in terms of dollar sales or shipments was $12.1 billion, as compared with $3.5 billion during the prewar year, an increase of about 3.5 ...
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