A comparative study of the changes in net earnings of manufacturing workers and enlisted personnel in the armed forces of the United States during the period 1939 to 1950

The problem under consideration in this study has bean, "Who made the greater gains in net earnings between the years 1939 and 1950, the average factory worker or the average enlisted man in the armed forces?" Another broader aspect of the problem was to discover what, if any, were the trends in these net incomes during the period under study.