Word: pers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...While traveling 269,831,975 miles in 4,651 postoffice trains per day, 21,229 railway mail clerks handled 17,955,115,373 pieces of mail...
...Per Bacco!" swore Boxer Carnera, "I have never fought in an undershirt and I never will...
...per Day. When railroads use freight cars belonging to other lines, they pay $1 per day. Last week the Boston & Maine purchased 2,000 new box cars, costing $5,000,000, from the Mellons' Standard Steel Car Co. Unique in the deal was the fact that the B. & M. will pay in daily installments of $1 on each car plus 5% on the unpaid balance...
...Houses comes as a gesture of sympathy to the widespread opinion that the former charge was too high. A few men will benefit by the change, but the chief evil in the system has in no way been mitigated. With an average price of $.75 per meal, only the most wealthy can afford to take advantage of the plan and by eating breakfast in the House free themselves from the necessity of eating a disproportionate number of lunches and dinners there. Since these are the meals which are normally the ones to be taken in clubs, or in some convenient...
...mountain" and the "coast" gorillas. To his study he appends a map which limits the area within which gorillas are to be found in Africa to not more than 40,000 square miles but of 11,500,000 square miles in the entire continent, or 3-10 of one per cent of the entire area. It is a feature of the work which is bound to interest laymen, because it shows for the first time how narrow are the areas within which all the gorillas in the world, outside of zoos, are confined. The map also raises a problem...