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Show BRINGING HOME THE BACON THE U. S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR has calculated the minutes of working time required to earn enough money to buy a pound of bacon in ten countries. It is a revealing example of the superiority of our living standards as against those of the rest of the world. The average American worker works 30 minutes for his round of bacon. His equivalent in Canada works 45, and in Crreat Britain. 53. In Ireland he must put in 96 minutes. Fi-i-.-My. the Soviet Union that wonderful "workers' paradise" i i last on the list, with 4G6 minutes of work needed for that precious pound of bacon! The communist v. or!:crs see bacon at long, cr. iiilerva's. if at all. |