1 Data are on a net basis, representing the value of new awards and contract increases
minus the value of contract terminations and decreases reported by the military de-
partments.

2 Data cover the period Jan. 1 through June 30, 1955, except that those areas and indus-
tries which have been designated as labor surplus areas subsequent to Jan. 1, 1955, include
only contracts awarded after the date of designation, and those areas whose surplus desig
nation have been withdrawn include only contracts awarded prior to the withdrawal
date. Contracts awarded prior to Jan 1, 1955, are summarized in preceding issues of this
report.

3 Prior to Jan. 1, 1954, the date of Office of Defense Mobilization approval. Beginning

with Jan. 1, 1954, this is the date the Department of Labor designated the area as group IV
(area of substantial labor surplus).

Net value of all procurement actions for the period of time each area was a designated
labor surplus area subsequent to Jan. 1, 1955.

5 Department of Navy includes contracts of $10,000 and over.

• Contracts awarded to the textilei ndustry are excluded from the data on contracts awarded in the geographic labor surplus areas.

Source: Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Supply and Logistics), Aug. 24, 1955.