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Each & every U. S. citizen last year swallowed 133.2 lb. of meat inclusive of goats. Since the end of the beefsteak era meat consumption has tended to decrease. Pork has supplanted beef as the prime item of U. S. meat diet. Highest per capita meat consumption was in the panic year 1907?155.1 lb. As Food Administrator, Herbert Clark Hoover brought it down to 120 lb. in 1917, but it had climbed back to 149.7 lb. by 1924. Theories of balanced rations and a trend to vegetarianism have since cut it down sharply...
...Among the few securities which have held their own in the current business depression are government bonds. Should the U. S. cancel War Debts the public would be left holding the bag, to the extent of $78 per capita, or would have to pay themselves...
...humble cobbler's son, was managing his own shoe factory with 50 working partners. He drank milk, urged them to drink milk, ruled them for what he conceived to be their own good (and his) with a will of iron. Today Zlin boasts the largest per capita per day consumption of milk on earth...
...Next to the U. S., New Zealand and Canada have more cars per capita than any country, 125 cars per 1,000 people. The U. S. has 188 per 1,000. Other countries: Australia 91 England 36 France 36 Belgium 20 Spain 8 Japan...
...should decide to borrow $240,000.000 and spend this sum to make jobs for the jobless, Washington would be doing proportionately the very thing that Melbourne did last week. Significantly it was not an Australian radical who proposed to borrow $2 per capita of Australia's population to make jobs. Instead the plan was unfolded at Melbourne to a Commonwealth Conference of State Premiers by Australia's new Roman Catholic and comparatively conservative Federal Premier, Joseph Aloysius Lyons, father of nine, famed "Man from Tasmania...