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Twelve thousand million is twelve billion. Or, assuming there are 30 million people earning a living in the U. S., it is about $400 per wage earner...
Number of customers 13,400,000 Number of employees 300,000 Incandescent lamps per customer 37.85 Residences wired 10,500,000 PHONOGRAPHS Number of phonographs manufactured per year 981,635 Number of records 98,104,279 Wage earners in the industry 23,505 CINEMA Feet of film made per month 65,000,000 Miles of film made per year (over) 150,000 Cinema houses in the U.S -17,836 Proportion of U.S. population estimated as attending cinemas regularly...
...Davis at the annual convention of the Glass Container Association of America at Atlantic City regretted that, despite a 55% tariff on glass utensils, $22,017 more worth of glassware was imported in 1924 than in 1923. He concluded : "We are determined to keep American labor employed at a wage which will enable it to maintain the high standard of living upon which American prosperity is based...
Some time ago, the union miners in the bituminous coal fields enacted high-wage contracts with the operators. As a result, operating costs in the union soft coal fields shot up; and competition has proved difficult with the non-union fields of West Virginia, where lower costs enable operators to cut prices to consumers...
...House of Commons at Ottawa. Miss Agnes MacPhail asked if the Government intended to sit calmly "while thousands are starving in Cape Breton." James A. Robb, Minister of Finance, stated laconically that no change of policy was contemplated. The strike grew out of an attempt to apply a 10% wage cut, but did not become active until the coal company contended that the workers had overdrawn their credit at the company's supply stores, cut off further credit. Twelve thousand men promptly walked out and have since been reduced to desperate straits...