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...municipal disease caused partly by the city's antiquity, partly by the large immigrant groups, even more by geography. The city's real problem is one of the decreasing value of land, Since 1906, the assessment valuation of properly in Boston has remained very close to $2000 per capita. As the cost of living has risen, this valuation which normally should follow the trend of the owner's prosperity, has remained steady; the land is so poor for industry and residence that even in good times it cannot command a reasonable price on the real estate market. The facts that...
...fire departments are efficient services as far as doing their job goes. Reports by an impartial group of observers hired by the Boston Finance Commission, indicate that the services rendered by these departments are adequate but that they are both run too extravagantly. Boston pays the highest rate per capita for its fire department of any city in the country...
...different kinds of Bibles plus multidenominational religious supplies ranging from Sunday-school buttons to Torahs for synagogues. But this is a sideline to a fervently commercial trade that sells 70,000 secular titles to some of the country's most avid book buyers. Dallas spends about $6 per capita on books annually (the U.S. average...
...interested to know that one country in the world now has as many English-speaking readers of TIME per capita as the U.S. That country is Canada. This generous acceptance of an American news publication by another country had its beginning in 1924 (TIME'S second year of publication), when 172 copies were sold in Canada. In 1928 circulation had reached 1,000; in 1936, 9,000; today it is 108,000. These subscribers and newsstand buyers get their own edition, TIME Canadian, which is the same as TIME'S U.S. edition except for a maple leaf insigne...
This is because when extra men were placed in rooms during the post-war housing crush, the rate per persons was reduced below its original price. Now, with a return to normal rooming conditions, the old per capita rate goes back into effect...