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...capita consumption of paper should also increase. Careless school children and flighty stenographers would spoil countless sheets headed January 29 or August 30. Busy executives would dictate letters beginning, "Yours of the 30th instant received and contents noted." Thus paper men saw paper-profits. One of the convention delegates suggested as a campaign song for the new movement, "Will you love me in December...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Sol Cheered | 3/4/1929 | See Source »

...women & children bought and paid taxes on 105,925,765,651 cigarets in 1928. It was the first time U. S. cigaret sales reached the 100-billion mark-a per capita consumption of approximately 1,000 cigarets a year. About 8,700,000,000 more cigarets were smoked in 1928 than in 1927. U. S. smokers had a 1928 cigaret bill of almost exactly two billion dollars...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Billions | 2/11/1929 | See Source »

...Fernald, who desired the models for the Dental School Museum. The impressions were made on one of MacMillan's most recent Artic expeditions. From the impressions, models have been constructed. Commander MacMillan said that "the Smith Sound Eskimos average about four ounces of vegetable matter each year per capita...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ESQUIMO TEETH PROVE HEALTH OF MEAT DIET | 1/29/1929 | See Source »

Average per capita expenditure for postage during the year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Report | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

John Moody, President of Moody's Investment Service, last week predicted that the next few years would see "the greatest boom in the history of this country." He foresaw the greatest advance in commodity prices since 1921, a large increase in per capita consumption of leading products, and a redistribution of prosperity which would include the small merchant and manufacturer as well as the large corporation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Index: Dec. 17, 1928 | 12/17/1928 | See Source »

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