between the constitutional convention year ( 1935 ) , when the fear of alien domination and control of the retail trade already filled the minds of our leaders with fears and misgivings , and the year of the enactment of the nationalization of the retail trade act ( 1954 ) , official statistics unmistakably point out to the ever-increasing dominance and control by the alien of the retail trade , as witness the following tables : ( estimated assets and gross sales of retail establishments , by year and nationality of owners , benchmark : 1948 census , issued by the bureau of census and statistics , department of commerce and industry ; pp .