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Show ' WAR COSTING AN ENORMOUS SUM Belligerent Nations Expending . 6,500,000 an Hour to Carry on War. U. S. PAYING MOST One Fourth of Staggering Sum Being Expended by America Rate Greatest of All. NEW YORK. Oct. 1C The war is costing the belligerent nations of the world at the rate of $160,000,000 a day $fi,500.000 an hour and the United Uni-ted States ia paying at least one-quarter of this staggering sum, according to estimates made today by the Mechanics Me-chanics National bank of New York. The estimated daily cost at the beginning be-ginning of the war was $50,000,000 and a year ago it was $100,000,000. This country's rate of expenditures is greater great-er than any other nation, Great Britain being-second and Germany next. no |