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Tourists. The U. S. had a favorable trade balance (exports over imports) of more than a billion dollars last year. This asset was liquidated by the spendings abroad of U. S. tourists who, in national economic effect, had a free trip over and back. When the stockmarket crashed, its effect was felt even in Switzerland where resort bookings for U. S. tourists were heavily cancelled, U. S. children withdrawn from Swiss schools...
Even more profitable than advertising space bought in newspapers is publicity slipped into news columns. From the Association of American Soap & Glycerine Producers, meeting in Chicago last week, went press despatches telling that three billion pounds of soap are used annually in the U. S., that "two or three times a week is the bath average where tubs are installed...
...human fingers and toes in the world (somewhat more than 30 billion) were free electrons and were multiplied by a billion and again by a billion, all those electrons would weigh just about one ounce avoirdupois. And yet one of those almost weightless electrons, a negative charge of electricity, as it shoots from the cathode of an X-ray tube or from the filament of a radio tube engraves its path on metal...
...potential of 103 billion dollars assembled in a Manhattan convention room last week at the annual meeting of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents. That sum is the major amount of life insurance held in the U. S.† In the past year alone, policies totalling 19.8 billions were written. The investments the insurance companies have made with premiums now amount to 17.6 billions...
...their assets to an organization for research in their favorite thing: the prolongation of life. "The funds would finance the greatest organization the world has ever applied to a specific problem," observed Mr. du Pont. The funds would be $20,000,000 yearly, the equivalent of a half-billion-dollar endowment...