Business: National Wealth

Assembling their summaries, reports, surveys and other economic data, statisticians in the Washington Bureau of Internal Revenue last week finished their logarithmic and slide-rule computations and put the total U. S. income for 1926 at nearly 90 billion dollars—3 billions more than in 1925. It was only an estimate. Two more years of statistical accumulation will be necessary before an actual figure can be determined.

About 40,723,981 persons of the U. S. 117,000,000 population last year were workers and, share alike, they each earned $2,210. So...

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