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Show J Here Is Cost of ; j War.Expressed in Terms of Business j $120,000,000,0001 ' It is the var bilt the allies 1 render to Gtrminy, What doe it represent? I The value of the entire gold J I production of the United States 1 ard territories for 1296 years. At &0 cents a meal and three meal a day it woijld feed the entire world for forty-ftve days. It would buy 1 .200.000.000.000 one-pound loaves of bread. Reduced to bulk, it would require re-quire 24 i, 89 7 one -ton trucks to , carry tt. ( vVith the trucks running at a' speed of twenty mii an hour, it woulc'.'be eighty and one-half hours before they passed a ytven point. In a single line twenty fet - apart y- wftm-.l - eeeeh fee- - New York to Oklahoma City, i OkU. 1 But if the war ccet were re duced to radmm inttead of gold. IbO trucks would haul it. Fo radium is $25,000 a troy ounce. ; And three hills, wit nn a mile square. near Jmtov-n, Colo., contain enough radium to pay such a bill. Tnat's one little bit ol the wca'tfi of the United Mates. Pound for pound, it would take ; j Six Washington monuments, or 24 t 87 L.bcity belts, to equal t's ve.ght of qoid in 120.L ;C.OO0 00. 'K uliu'-' rorrC5 high i ). |