No. 649. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES-NUMBER AND LIABIlities, by [Liabilities in thousands of dollars. Excludes Alaska and Hawaii. See footnotes 2 and 3, table 648] No. 650. INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL FAILURES-Number and LIABILITIES, BY STATES: 1957 To 1959 1 Represents number of names listed in July issue of the Dun & Bradstreet Reference Book. See table 649 for class of industries covered. 2 See footnotes 2 and 3, table 648. Excludes Alaska and Hawaii. Source: Dun & Bradstreet, Inc., New York, N. Y. No. 651. BANKRUPTCY CASES Filed and PenDING: 1905 to 1959 [For years ending June 30. Covers only U.S. District Courts including those in Alaska and Hawaii. A bankruptcy case is a proceeding filed in a U.8. District Court under the National Bankruptcy Act. "Filed" mean the commencement of a proceeding through the presentation of a petition to the clerk of the court; "pending " is a proceeding in which the administration has not been completed] Source: Administrative Office of the United States Courts: Tables of Bankruptcy Statistics, 1940 to date; earlier years, annual reports of the Attorney General of the United States. No. 652. BANKRUPTCY CASES FILED, BY TYPE OF BANKRUPTCY: 1940 To 1959 [For years ending June 30. Covers only U.S. District Courts including those in Alaska and Hawaii. The majority of cases filed are voluntary straight bankruptcy petitions filed by employees and individuals not engaged in business (see table 653)] 1 Includes petitions filed under Chapter X (Corporate Reorganization) of the National Bankruptcy Act. 2 Includes petitions filed under Chapter XI (Arrangements) and Chapter XII (Real Estate Arrangements) of the National Bankruptcy Act. * Includes petitions filed under Chapter XIII (Wage Earners' Plans) of the National Bankruptcy Act. No. 653. BANKRUPTCY CASES FILED, BY OCCUPATION OF DEBTOR: 1950 to 1959 [For years ending June 30. Covers only U.S. District Courts including those in Alaska and Hawaii] Source of tables 652 and 653: Administrative Office of the United States Courts; Tables of Bankruptcy Statistics. Section 18 This section presents statistics relating to the usage, finances, and operations of the various communications and related media. Included are data concerning postal service, telephone, telegraph, radio, television, newspapers, and books. The principal sources of wire and wireless data are the Federal Communications Commission's annual Statistics of Communications Common Carriers (prior to 1957 titled Statistics of the Communications Industry in the United States), and Annual Report. Data concerning the postal service are included in the Annual Report of the Postmaster General. Statistics as to revenues, volume of mail, and the distribution of expenditures by classes of mail and services are presented in the Post Office Department's annual Cost Ascertainment Report. Statistics on number and circulation of newspapers and periodicals and on sales of books and pamphlets are issued by the Bureau of the Census in reports of the Census of Manufactures. Annual data on number and circulation of daily and Sunday newspapers appear in Editor and Publisher's International Yearbook Number. Monthly data on new books and new editions of books are presented by R. R. Bowker Company in Publishers' Weekly. Since the establishment of the Federal Communications Commission in 1934, statistical coverage of wire and wireless communications has been concentrated in that agency. According to the Communications Act of 1934, as amended, only carriers engaged in interstate, or foreign, communications service by means of their own facilities (or through the facilities of another carrier under direct or indirect common control) are subject to the full jurisdiction of the Commission. The Commission requires the filing of annual and monthly reports by these carriers except from the smallest carriers. The companies controlling any but the smallest of these carriers are also required to file annual reports. Postal Service.-"Cost ascertainment" is the term applied in the Post Office Department to describe its plan or system, partly accounting and partly statistical, for developing through the medium of a sampling procedure, data on the revenues, expenses, volumes, and average hauls fairly attributable to each of the several classes of mail handled by the Postal Service (first, second, third, fourth, foreign, penalty, franked, free for the blind, and air mail) and similar revenue, expense, and volume data for each of its special services (special delivery, money order, insurance, collect-ondelivery, registry, certified, and postal savings). Telephone and telegraph systems.-Practically all of the wire-telegraph, ocean-cable, and radiotelegraph carriers are subject to the full jurisdiction of the Federal Communications Commission. A large number of telephone carriers engaged in interstate or foreign service only by connection with the facilities of another unaffiliated carrier are not subject to the full jurisdiction of the Commission. However, it is estimated that the gross operating revenues of the telephone carriers reporting annually cover over 90 percent of the revenues of all telephone carriers in the United States. The term "system" is used, in general, for aggregations of lines operated by the larger companies, with appropriate intercompany duplications excluded. The "Bell System" consists of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co. and its Principal Telephone Subsidiaries. Broadcasting. The number of broadcast stations refers to the number licensed or holding construction permits. Total broadcast revenues are defined as total time 505 sales of all networks and stations, less commissions to agencies and plus incidental revenues, such as sale of talent, program material, etc. Reports filed with the Federal Communications Commission by broadcast stations and networks cover substantially all units in the industry which operate in the United States and its outlying areas. Alaska and Hawaii.-For a general statement concerning the treatment of data for Alaska and Hawaii, see preface. Historical statistics.-Tabular headnotes (as "See also Historical Statistics, Colonial Times to 1957, series R 139-141) provide cross-references, where applicable, to Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1957. See preface. FIG. XXX. NUMBER OF RADIO AND TV STATIONS: 1945 TO 1958 FIG. XXXI. MILLIONS OF DOLLARS 1,050 900 750 BROADCAST REVENUES OF RADIO AND TV STATIONS: 1945 to 1958 [Excludes FM (independents). See table 678] LESS THAN $ 500,000 Source of figs. XXX and XXXI: Charts prepared by Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. Data are from Federal Communications Commission. |