This work that I had originally assumed, icorrectly as being the work of Lee Lawrie, is actually the work of Cal Paul Jennewein. A clipping in one of Lee Lawrie's scrapbooks at the Library of Congress.
According to the article, the figures represent the "nine industries which are [were in 1937] of importance to the economic structure of the British Empire."
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The figures represent the industries of "fishing, shipping, coal mining, salt mining, tobacco products, sugar production, wool herding, wheat growing and cotton raising," according to the article mentioned above.
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