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Figures compiled by the U.S Bureau of the Census show that the big cities of the country with populations of 250,000 or more have lost ground in their share of the total United States retail business over the last two decades to the rest of the nation—the small and medium-sized communities as well as the suburbs.
This trend is of relatively long standing and is apparent in the first four Censuses of Business taken between 1929 and 1939. It is more pronounced in the latest of these censuses, that for 1943," figures for which are just being made public. Thus along with evidence of a similar nature m other sectors of the economy, this trend in retailing provides another indication of the greater than average growth of small and mediumsized business and the broadening of opportunity in general that have accompanied the record expansion of the population and the spectacular economic progress of recent years.
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