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42.

number of countries that were charter members of League of Nations in 1920

56.

combined number of battles.h.i.+ps in German and Austro-Hungarian fleets, 1914

74.

number of battles.h.i.+ps in British fleet, 1914

90.

percentage of Austro-Hungarian military personnel killed or disabled in the war 340.

weight, in pounds, of U.S. president William Howard Taft in 1912 728.

number of minutes it took to build a Model T Ford in 1913

93.

number of minutes it took to build a Model T Ford in 1915 452.

U.S. stock market industrial index in September 1929

58.

U.S. stock market industrial index in July 1932 3,000.

number of people killed in earthquake and fire in San Francisco in 1906 10,000.

number of people killed by typhoon in Tahiti in 1906 250,000.

estimated number of people killed by bubonic plague in India in 1901 48,909.

number of U.S. soldiers killed in action during 1917 and 1918 55,985.

number of Americans killed in motor vehicle accidents during the same period 8,500,000.

number of soldiers killed in World War I 21,000,000.

number of soldiers ga.s.sed, wounded, or sh.e.l.l-shocked in World War I 20,000,000.

number of telephones in the United States in 1929, twice as many as the rest of the world combined 186,000,000,000.

estimated cost, in U.S. dollars, of World War I

TO THE BRINK OF THE ABYSS.

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