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...During the same period, per capita consumption of alcohol was multiplied more than two-and-one-half times...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silk Hat | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...deathrate from alcoholism,* the only index to per capita drinking when the sale of liquor is illegal, was at its lowest point in 1920, the year after national prohibition became effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PROHIBITION: Silk Hat | 12/3/1928 | See Source »

...manufacturers, also at Chicago. Olive-skinned, dark-eyed, they shouted Vivas when they heard Chief Noodle-maker Henry Mueller of New York announce that the average Italian eats four miles of macaroni a year. But they shook their heads dolefully at the pitiful 211 feet which is the per capita ration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Conventions | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...Jersey City, N. J., the net public debt per capita is $241-higher than in almost any other U. S. city of 30,000 or more population. The mayor of Jersey City is Frank Hague, a member of the National Democratic Committee, close friend of Candidate Smith. Upon these two facts, with colorful amplification, a one-man spectacle was staged in Jersey City for several weeks, up to last week, when the one man's amplifier, his voice, broke down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLITICAL NOTES: Jersey Giant | 5/21/1928 | See Source »

...only the third richest nation when its total wealth is divided by its 118,000,000 inhabitants, according to new calculations of Redmond & Co., Manhattan investment house. Per capita wealth of New Zealand is $3,317.70; of Switzerland, $2,998.20; of the U. S., $2,941.90; of Rumania, $2,808.90. Poorest are Bulgaria, $403.10; Greece, $395.80; Soviet Russia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Per Capita Wealth | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

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