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Show JLsk -IMG AnfwwsOffering ,7 6 Information on JinOliLQl' E3 Various Subjects 1. How much money was spent on armaments throughout the world in 1937? 2. How many women flyers in the United States hold pilots' licenses? li-censes? 3. What is the difference between be-tween two square feet and two feet square? 4. How many employees are there in the Empire State building? build-ing? 5. Has the Vatican City its own complete coinage, and, if so, when was it struck? 6. How many farms are there in the United States? 7. What is the mousetrap quotation? quo-tation? 8. How did the Bull Moose party get its name? 9. Does the sun rise in the west and set in the east of the Isthmus of Panama? 10. What was the first house built on Lafayette square after the White House? The Answers 1. The "Armaments Yearbook" of the League of Nations shows that the world's expenditures on armaments in 1937 amounted to $11,857,000,000. 2. Four hundred eighty-six licenses li-censes are now held by woman flyers. fly-ers. 3. The latter is twice as large as the former. 4. There are approximately 6,500. 5. A complete coinage was struck in 1931. 6. There are about 6,812,350. 7. "If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap than his neighbor, though he builds his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door." 8. This nickname for the Progressive Pro-gressive party in 1912 came from a remark of Theodore Roosevelt, "I feel as fit as a bull moose." 9. It does not. However, it does rise in the Pacific ocean and it sets in the Atlantic, since at this point the land has a configuration configura-tion so that the Pacific ocean is east of the Atlantic ocean. 10. Decatur house was the first. It was built in 1818 by Commodore Stephen Decatur with the prize money he received in the wars with the Barbary pirates. The house still stands and an effort is being made to save it for posterity. poster-ity. I |