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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Presented with a list of 1,081,952 lost soldiers in 1919, the Commission has done so well that today the whereabouts of all but 326,256 are known. Corpses "identified and buried" total 582,783, while only 173,213 have had to be interred as "unknown soldiers." Especially tasteful has been the advice of Artistic Adviser Sir Frederic Kenyon, in collaboration with seven Principal Architects, five of whom are knights...
...Against American automotive competition, Europe has just begun to fight!" Thus, vehemently, cried Minister of Commerce Anton Novak last week to Czech and Slovak motorists assembled in Prague for the inauguration of the Czechoslovak Automobile Club. Today U. S.-made cars imported into the Republic total more than one-third the number of cars produced within Czechoslovakia. Against this influx Czechoslovakia is struggling Piccolo withher home-made cars, the littlePiccolo Six ($800), the Zetka Six ($1,000), Tatra Two, Four orSix (top price $1,200), Praga Eight ($8,000 to $10,000), and the Skoda Eight ($8,000), made...
...dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...
...annual U. S. drugstore expenditure is $1,250,000,000. In city stores each person spends $14.91 yearly, each family $64.10; in rural stores each person $5.95, each family $25.57. Of the total, $125,000,000 (10%) is for prescriptions, $275,000,000 (22%) for proprietary medicines, $125,000,000 (10%) for toilet articles, $175,000,000 (14%) for sodas & candies, $100,000,000 (8%) for cigars, cigarets & tobacco, $450,000,000 (36%) for sundries...
...volume increase that should materially contribute to the development of the U. S. citizen into a creature with two arms and four wheels. Having produced more than 1,000,000 cars in the first three months of record-breaking 1928, the automobile industry proceeded to dwarf even this total by a first quarter 1929 production of no less than 1,500,000 cars. Thus production was stepped up from a third of a million to over half a million a month; thus a 50% increase was gratifyingly recorded; thus surprising 1928 bowed to amazing 1929. March production totaled...