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large by example and because of the substantially higher aver* age cost of the Federal civilian payroll than that of state and local government.
M and Payroll Treads
An analysis of the public employment figures of the decade shows that the number of Federal civilian employes rose from' 1.1 million in October, 1940 to a record high of more than 8.8 million in July, 1946, at the peak of the wartime expansion. The number then declined to total 2.1 million last October, a level still nearly double the 1940 figure. The Federal civilian payroll, however, has fallen much less sharply than has the number of jobs. It amounted to $686 millions a
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