Show I Interesting I Facts At the end of 1945 the average amount of insurance held by the policy holders In this country was 2190 The ownership of oC life insurance eighteen times since 1000 Forty per cent of or our rice crop goes to feed the super plantation workers The rest is shipped to Canada the Philippines and to The bulk of the rice pro pro- produced produced in this country is grown in in Arkansas Texas and California The people of the United States Slates are eating more rice than ever be be- fore Yet less than one half the rice produced in this country is consumed consumed ed in this country American rice is marketed throughout the world In nine states girls may marry marryat at the age of 14 with their parents consent Of all the bituminous coal mined underground in America more than 90 per cent is mined by machines and more than 50 per cent is load load- loaded loaded ed by machines Only about 5 per percent percent percent cent is mined by pick and shovel |