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...nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take messages for other Yalemen, send telegrams, seek from professors forgotten assignments. C. Last week from New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. came more Yale telephone news. The publicity department had found that undergraduates at New Haven telephone more per capita than any other group of people in Connecticut. During the academic year they make some 4,600 calls a week, most of which are handled on Friday and Saturday...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Fortunes in Faces | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

Shell, Meyer and Deterding, have fought for the custom of 50 million East Indians, of 320 million Indians of India, 400 million Chinamen. Now they are fighting for the custom of a public that possesses automobiles about as plentifully per capita as Orientals possess cats and dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Again, Socony v. Shell | 9/9/1929 | See Source »

...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Intoxicated | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

...bills (6 5/16 X 2 11/16 in.) are about two-thirds the size of the old (7 7/16 X 3⅛ in.). With between four and five billion dollars of currency in circulation, the Treasury had prepared $3,640,000,000-about $30 per U. S. capita- in new bills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Money | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

Where roses and strawberries can be had in any month, where trade winds keep the temperature between 70 degrees and 80 degrees day in and out, where life is so easy that the per capita wealth is higher than anywhere in the world, Hawaii is not boasting much when it calls itself "Paradise." Many are the other U. S. executives who may well envy Governor Judd...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRITORIES: Paradise | 7/8/1929 | See Source »

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