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Show uu MINT WORKING DAY AND NIGHT PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 30. So extraordinary extra-ordinary is the demand for pennies that the United States mint hero, despite de-spite the fact that It is working 24 hours a day Is unablo to keep up with the demand. Tho superintendent of the mint said today tho institution is 10,000,000 pennies behind In its orders. An avorago of 1,500,000 pennies aro coined each day. There is also a corresponding cor-responding demand for other subsld-ary subsld-ary coins. With tho application of tho war tax on amusement tickots and other objects ob-jects of taxation and tho annual heavy demand for small coins for the Christmas Christ-mas holidays, tho shortage is expected to become much" greater. |