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...total U. S. wheat crop which (allowing for a normal consumption of five bushels per capita) will fall about 45,000,000 bu. short of the U. S. annual consumption. But the incredible spectacle of the U. S. importing wheat was not in prospect because...
Ninety per cent of all New York poultry is consumed by Jews, who eat two pounds of kosher fowl per capita per week (see p. 24) and pay an estimated $16,000,000 a year to racketeers thereby. A swarthy man will say a blessing over the broiler when his end finally comes, and pass a sharp knife across his knotted gullet. This man will be a shochet (ritual slaughterer), and he will probably belong to an association ruled by gangsters. Even dressed and plucked, the broiler is not yet free of violence, for if his owner does not string...
Costs. A few dimes for each resident measured the difference between noteworthy communal health and run-of-the-nation conditions. The 38 healthiest cities averaged $1.44 expenditure per capita. Other cities averaged 89? per capita...
...capita, compared to the current French deficit of $9.80 per capita and the U. S. per capita deficit...
Excerpts: "In the year of my advent upon these scenes, the annus mirabilis 1880, they took but $78,094,687 for flogging the elements into 15,065,767 pupils, which worked out to but little more than $5 per capita per annum. ... In 1914. the year of fate, there were 26,002,153 boys and girls in the schools, and making them fit for democracy cost $555,077,146 . . . four times as much as in 1880. . . . But then the pedagogues began to fall upon the taxpayer in real earnest, and presently they had him down and were turning his pockets...