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Chaplains claim that church attendance per capita in the Army is substantially higher than church attendance in civilian life, and that "the Army is the most churchgoing group in the nation." Figures for July 1942 (latest month available) show that with 211 reports missing (mostly from chaplains overseas, where Army churchgoing is even better than in the U.S.), chaplains held 52,758 services with a total attendance of 2,667,793, administered the sacraments to 321,759 soldiers, held 316,103 personal conferences, made 40,690 visits to hospitals and guardhouses and had 5,359 professions of religion and adult...
...worth was sold, or roughly two-thirds of the College's weekly total. A general report of sales made since the beginning of the summer was delivered at the rally by John W. Ellison '44, who revealed that in 16 weeks the College has bought $5220.15, a weekly per capita contribution of exactly 11.5 cents...
Broken down House by House, figures show that Adams has maintained a consistent lead with a total sales of $1071.05, leaving Leverett in second with $933.82. Winthrop holds third place $31.08 behind Leverett. Smallest total is Dunster with $459.60, while Eliot has the smallest contribution per capita, 6.9 cents per week...
Alaska, one of the drinkingest spots in the world (per capita average: 3 gal. of hard liquor a year, compared to 1½ gal. in the U.S.), is drying up. It is all the fault of: 1) the 13th Naval District which issued an order restraining "nonessential" cargoes to 10% of the total cargo; 2) War Shipping Administration which has ordered that liquor be shipped to Alaska only if it did not displace war materials. Some Alaskan liquor dealers started rationing stocks to stretch them out, others threw open the doors in an effort to get the "agony over with...
...leading Protestant denominations (membership: 23,120,929-about two-thirds of U.S. Protestantism) collected $350,807,172 in fiscal 1942-an increase of 36% from the low of 1934 but a decrease of 30% from the peak year of 1927. Per capita giving has dropped from $23.03 to $15.17 in 18 years-although automobile registration has doubled to 28,804,793, movie box-office intake has doubled to a billion dollars, consumption of soft drinks has risen from $1.28 to $2.71 per capita...