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...country with 120 million people, interest at 4% on an 18-billion dollar public debt is $6 per citizen per year. With interest at 4%, billion-per-annum reduction of the debt means easing the public burden 34 cents per capita per annum. In practice, the annual burden per capita is being reduced more swiftly than that because when an astute Secretary runs the Treasury, he refunds the debt at lower rates as he goes along. Therein lies the banker's art, to buy in 4¼% Second Liberty Loan with $400,000,000 of borrowed money for which you only...
...were inclined to take such things as statistics and reputation seriously to heart. The Rev. Charles Francis Potter, speaking at a meeting in New York, having recently made a survey of the "high and low spots on the American cultural map," apparently taking as his standard the per capita appropriation for library maintenance, disclosed the fact that Cleveland has within the last five years passed Boston as the cultural center of the country...
...fact that the dairy business is the most stable business in which they can engage. Present outlook indicates that in 1928 the dairy business of this country will receive its greatest impetus. The national consumption of cheese is increasing at the annual rate of about one-half pound per capita. This makes it necessary to increase production of cheese at least 40,000,000 pounds annually...
...Columbia had said: "In the absence of any evidence that health, as revealed by vital statistics, is less good in the U. S. in 1927 than it was in 1920 [when prohibition became law], and since we have good reason to believe that less rather than more alcohol per capita is now being consumed in this country than when traffic in alcoholic beverages was an industry acceptable under the law, and since we know that alcohol used by healthy persons does not add to their health, it is my opinion that some of the general improvement in health since Prohibition...
...present conditions of the Soviet oil industry: pre-War crude oil production was 9,230,000 metric tons, while production for the Soviet fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 1927, was more than 10,000,000 metric tons; pre-War annual consumption of kerosene in villages was 8 pounds per capita, and last year's consumption was 9.4 pounds per capita; pre-War wages of workers in the Baku fields were 35 rubles per month, while during the year just ended the wages averaged over 75 rubles monthly...