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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...before, $1,255,000,000 in 1933. Residential building, which reached a low of $248,000,000 in 1934, was up to $801,000,000. About 260,000 new homes were built compared to 75,000 in 1935. Yet last year the U. S. spent less than $12 per capita on new housing as against $61 at the height of the home-building boom...
...interesting observations really deserve to be mentioned. One of these highly significant items is the question of the national debt. Hot-headed conservatives who cannot sleep over the "preposterous" and "dangerous" debt of the United States should find a mild form of Ovaltine in the fact that our per capita debt is considerably less than half that of the British. Another illuminating observation is the discovery of the high cost of rent necessary to maintain the new houses in the Administration's "slum clearance" program. As much as $7 per month per room with the government carrying almost half...
These indices differ because they are figured on different bases. Dun's was started in 1860, is compiled from more than 200 items. The magic base of normality-100%-is not used. Instead, figures expressing a total in which each item is "weighted" according to per capita consumption, allow the index to run where it will. For customers used to the Bradstreet index started in 1892 Dun & Bradstreet also computes the combined per-lb. prices of 96 items. This monthly index was at $6.35 in March 1933, is now at $11.14. The Annalist uses a long list of commodities...
...Manhattan last week Missionaries said that their messages had reached a total of 1,000,000 people. Biggest per capita turn-out for their meetings was in Billings, Mont. (pop. 20,000) where police daily counted 2,000 to 3,000 automobiles and some 8,000 people on the fair grounds where the Mission set up camp. The Mayor of Omaha proclaimed a minute of silence on two of the mornings the preaching team was present. In Seattle 8,000 people crowded the Civic Auditorium while 5,000 were turned away. In Chicago 30,000 attended a series of meetings...
...return of women factory workers to domestic employment: 5) return of peasants who held jobs in factories to the land; and 6) new public works. Britain's Counselor estimated that in decreasing the number of the wholly unemployed the German Government spread work so thin that the per capita earning of the average employed worker has fallen. Simultaneously the cost of living has risen but the number of Germans who actually support themselves and neither require nor get State aid today has certainly increased...