Search Harper's Index: Numbers and statistics filed under "1930s"

4/85Number of beer cans manufactured since they were introduced in 1935: 610,000,000,000

11/90Number of Democratic presidential candidates since 1932 who received the majority of U.S. newspaper endorsements: 1

12/91Projected average annual growth rate for the U.S. economy during the 1990s, according to Merrill Lynch: +2.2

Average annual growth rate of the U.S. economy during the 1930s: +2.1

Projected 1991 growth rate for the Soviet economy: -14

1/93Number of the four cats who have lived in the White House since 1933 that were owned by Republicans: 1

10/94Portion of Germany’s Jewish population killed between 1933 and 1945: 1/3

8/98Ratio of the number of raises Congress has granted itself since 1938 to those it has granted minimum-wage workers: 21:19

9/99Number of U.S. presidents besides Bill Clinton who have made an official visit to an Indian reservation since 1937: 0

1/00Number of U.S. banks in 1921, 1933, and 1999, respectively: 30,456, 14,207, 8,675

1/00Number of years between the invention of the first photocopier technology in 1938 and the first commercial-copier sale: 21

Average annual number of copies produced per American six years later: 52

1/00Percentage change since 1930 in the annual U.S. death rate for cancer: +11

Percentage change since then in the U.S. death rate for all cancers except that of the lung: -20

6/03Ratio of the top weekly fee paid a Munchkin in 1939’s The Wizard of Oz to the weekly fee paid for Toto: 4:5

4/05Back taxes on Mein Kampf sales owed by Adolf Hitler while chancellor in 1934: $11,500,000

4/05Estimated number of visitors each week to the grave of Harry Potter, a Briton buried in Israel in 1939: 45