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Show The Nation's Drink Bill $46 Per Capita C. V. Hansen Editor Progressive Opinion: : A report just issued by the Department of Commerce said this nation's drink bill for 1943 amounted to move than $6,000,000 000. This amount is 17 per cent above the nations drinking bill for 1939, and represents 7 cents out of every dollar dol-lar the people spent for goods and services of all kinds. On a per capita basis, the outlay for alcoholic beverages amounted to $46 last year for every man, woman and child in the country, count-ry, compared with $39 in 1942 and $26 in 1939. In view of a statement made a few months ago by Secretary of the Treasury Trea-sury Morgftnthau that the amount of boot eg liquor being sold was something like half as much more as that sold through legitimate channels, it would seem that some Americans are doing a big job of drinking hooz". Stop Drinking. Stop Killing! Many thousands of people are killed each years, caused by drinking alcoholic beverages |