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Four California Cities Listed Among First Twenty in Building in U. S.

Four California cities were listed among the first twenty in the United States reporting the largest volume of building for the first eight months of 1940. Los Angeles was in second place with a total of. $49,34O,281, San Francisco was sixth with $22,307,574, San Diego was seventeenth with $9,138,063, and Oakland was nineteenth with $8,951,287. New York was in first place with a total of $153,798,8m.

Following are the twenty cities showing the largest permit valuations for the first eight months of the current year and comparative figures for 1939 as compiled by Dun & Bradstreet, fnc.:

New York, N. Y.

Los Angeles, Cal.

Detroit, Mich.

Chicago, Ill. ..

Washington, D. C.

San Francisco, Cal.

Baltimore, Md.

Philadelphia, Pa.