The Bureau of Census, subdivision of the Department of Commerce, calculates diligently; but diligence takes time. Last week, it gave out its estimate of the total wealth of the U. S.at the end of 1922. The sum is quite inconceivable, consisting of twelve figures, five of which are ciphers: $320,803,862,000in other words 320, going-on-321 billion dollars.
Of course the whole thing is a guess but as compared to a previous guess of the same kind made ten years earlier, it shows an increase of 72.2% in the country's dollar worthan increase from 186 billion dollars to 321 billions.
The chief components of Uncle...
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