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...tons of it herself. This year drought cut the French yield to 3,300,000 tons. Without dollars to buy wheat abroad, Frenchmen will have little bread, their basic food. The bread ration has already been cut to 200 grams a day (75 grams lower than the lowest ration during the German occupation). Probable November level: 150 grams (less than four average U.S. slices) daily...
...Thereafter, Treasury spokesman Albert Gallatin, a strong advocate of high taxes to cut public debt, got it into the habit of trying to stay in the black. The U.S. has managed surpluses in 95 of its 158 years, but has never been entirely out of debt. Lowest point of the national debt was $37,513 (in 1835); the peak was $279.2 billion (Feb. 28, 1946). Current national debt: $258 billion...
Corn Casualties. Hot weather in August shriveled corn crop prospects by another 223 million bushels. The Department of Agriculture put the total 1947 yield at 2,437 million bushels, the lowest since 1936. As a result, meat supplies will probably be sharply reduced next year, meat prices sharply raised...
...Indians were still among the world's poorest people. Seventy-five percent hovered perpetually between gnawing hunger and outright starvation. Malaria, bubonic plague and a host of other diseases made an Indian's life expectancy at birth the world's lowest - 27 years...
...been carefully ignored. Philadelphia kept to its policy of promoting all pupils in its public-school classes, regardless of whether they had made the grade. Purpose: to keep backward students in their own age groups. Result: the dullards retarded the whole class; teaching was geared to the lowest instead of the highest common intelligence...