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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer of Manhattan, on hearing of this news, immediately telegraphed the U. S. Postmaster General offering to finance an issue of one billion two-cent stamps bearing the likeness of his wife, Miss Billie Burke. Mr. Ziegfeld stated his offer was "made in good faith...
Damage. It was confirmed that the damage to property during the quake amounted to about one billion dollars ?$13 for every Japanese. This increases Japan's per capita national debt from...
Reconstruction. Tokyo is to be rebuilt "quakeproof and fireproof." The Japanese Government proposes to raise a billion-dollar loan for reconstruction purposes, part of which will be raised...
...winter, large crops are anticipated. The prospective value of the twelve principal American agricultural products, on the basis of farm prices on July 1, 1923, will be $7,829,912,800, as compared with $6,768,208,000 for the same crops in 1922. This gain of over a billion dollars in value this year is, however, conditioned by coming weather conditions, as well as the trend in cash prices for agricultural staples...
...cotton crop, owing chiefly to the great rise in price during the last year, is estimated at $1,493,400,-000?about a half-billion dollars better than the value of the 1922 crop. An even greater gain was registered by corn at $2,488,605,000 compared with $1,798,202,000 last year. Increased value was forecast for the current crop of corn, oats, barley, flaxseed, cotton; but wheat, rye, white and sweet potatoes, hay, peaches, apples showed a decrease. The 1923 wheat crop is estimated at $780,771,000 compared with $884,412,000?a loss...