Some Interesting Figures

Review and Herald Publishing Association · Takoma Park Station, Washington, D. C. · Oct 9, 1913

Some Interesting Figures

THE United States is the largest beer-drinking nation of the world, consuming annually 500,000,000 gallons more than England, 100,000,000 gallons more than Germany, and 1,000,000,000 gallons more than any one of the countries of France, Austria, Belgium, Russia, Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Switzerland, Italy, Australia, and Canada. Our annual consumption of wines is but a little over 60,000,000 gallons, while that of France is 1,500,000,000; that of Italy is 1,120,000,000, over eighteen times as much as ours. In the use of distilled liquors Russia leads the world with 232,000,000 gallons, the United States coming second, consuming a little more than half that quantity, and Germany, France, and Belgium following with 95,000,000, 70,000,000, and 54,000,000 gallons, respectively. It has been reckoned that the various kinds of liquor used in this country would fill enough cars to make a train that would stretch from New York to San Francisco. The nation's drink bill is almost half as much again as the total of the necessaries of life. The people of this country spend annually for bread $154,154,000, for meat and milk products, $150,500,000, for wearing apparel $281,000,000, for building material $232,500,000, for publishing $69,000,000, and for other necessaries a little more than $100,000,000, making $1,000,000,000, and the drink bill for one year is far more than that.— The Christian Herald Almanac for 1913.