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month lost October, a decline of about 1150 miffioBs a month or',p less than 20 per cent from the wartime high, as. compared with a Federal civilian employment drop of 45 per cent in the period.
State and local employment " has shown a marked increase since the end of World War II after having declined in the (wartime period. The total number of combined state and local jobholders last October'-was 4.0 million, up IVa million since 1945 arid nearly a million since 1940. The'dollar payroll figure was 9915 millions a month in October, 1960 as against $468 millions a month in the corresponding 1-945 month and $889 millions a month „ in October, 1940.
50.5%