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Excerpt from United States Census of Manufactures, 1954, Vol. 3: Area Statistics for Geographic Divisions, States, Standard Metropolitan Areas, Counties and Cities Manufacturing is the largest of the industrial sectors in the economy. Table A below shows that manufacturing accounted for approximately 30 percent of the total national income. The next largest sector, wholesale and retail trade, contributed only slightly in excess of 17 percent. 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.