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...sense of the mysterious, shadowy glory of the play and its production can be translated in these brief sentences. The sorrow of centuries and the majesty of a great ration are prisoned in the tiny theatre. And strangely enough Mary Ellis, once original prima donna of the highly colored, highly contemporary musical comedy, Rose-Marie, is the leading actress, giving a performance for which a playwright prays...
...about 14,000 bachelor's degrees were conferred. In 1910, 22,687 degrees. In 1920, 38,552. In 1922, 47,854. In 1924, about 76,000. In 1900, the colleges graduated one person for every 5,400 of the country's population. In 1910. the ration...
...Washington, D. C, 24 carrier pigeons were prepared for an Arctic expedition to accompany Explorer MacMillan polewards (TIME, Apr. 20, AERONAUTICS ; see also Page 20) in June. Although denied all other luxuries, the birds, passionately addicted to tobacco, were provided with "an ample chewing ration...
...present the United States is producing only about half as much per acre as the intensely cultivated European countries, such as England. Denmark, and Belgium. Taking a soldier's ration as the standard, the European countries produce about one soldier's ration from three acres of land. We produce only one ration from six acres today. If we increase our effectiveness of production to the European standard, which is about the limit, we would be able to produce about 170,000,000 soldiers' rations...
...average man or woman, however, does not consume quite so much as a full soldier's ration per year, so that we might make a rough estimate, that the country could support 190,000,000 people with our present living standards. This would mean, of course, that the present rate of production would be increased to the European standard...