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Show It's Too Bad About It's too bad that the five hundred hun-dred and thirteen individuals in the United States who in 1929 had taxable Incomes of one million dollars or more are being afflicted by the terrible depression, so that for the year 1930 only one hundred hun-dred and forty-nine oi these hard working managed to get hold . of more than one million dollars income in-come per year. So bad is the depression that their combined incomes aropped from $1,185,135,330 to $355,661,695. While it Is impossible to ascertain the exact income of the downtrodden down-trodden 513 citizens of wealth for the year 1930, a lesson in arithmetic arithme-tic reveals that the average income ofthis group dropped from more than $2,000,000 to not quite $700. 000 each. |