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...This waste results from conditions which justify a sense of shame and horror. ... As a result of careful inquiries, I am informed that whereas the absolute as well as the per capita fire loss of this country tends to increase from year to year, the same losses in comparable European countries tend to decrease. For the most recent comparable periods fire losses in Great Britain are calculated at less than $1 per capita per annum, while those of the United States are placed at approximately $5 per capita. . . . Therefore, I, Calvin Coolidge, President of the United States, recommend that...
...Sweden, situated between two prohibition countries-Norway and Finland, claims to be soberer than either. Each household is allowed four liters of liquor per month. Since 1911 when liquor restrictions were adopted, consumption has fallen from 2 liters per capita per annum to 12 liters, "public offenses" from 47 per 1,000 population to 19 per 1,000 population, drunkards treated in hospitals from 1.2 per 1,000 population...
...capita conversations number 182 a year in the U. S. (Denmark, Nor- way, Sweden-124, 109, 95-follow next in order. Russia averages 4 conversations per capita annually.) ¶ The city with the most telephones per capita is San Francisco with 28.8 per 100 population. Other cities in order are: Omaha (28.3 per 100), Minneapolis (24.8), Stockholm (24.6), Washington (24.1), Chicago (23.8), Denver (22.7), Los Angeles (22), Toronto (21). ¶ Cities with less than five telephones per 100 population include : Amsterdam, Osaka, Buenos Aires, Brussels, Antwerp, Glasgow, Liverpool, Prague, Manchester, Marseilles, Birmingham, Tokyo, Milan, Shanghai, Naples. ¶ The world...
...last week, estimated to reach 73 billion by Commissioner of Internal Revenue Blair, who stated that, this year, the tobacco industry would yield more revenue to the Government than all sources of internal revenue prior to 1914, or about $345,000,000. Tobacco taxes amount to $3.12 per capita. The U.S. leads in the production of cigarets, and the Governmental revenue derived from them. It is second only to Belgium in per capita consumption...
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