The National Geographic Magazine, Volume 29National Geographic Society, 1916 - Geography Indexes kept up to date with supplements. |
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... reaching around the globe to seat them . For every ounce of food they ate , the dinner - giver would have to provide 53,000 tons of pro- visions , and if the dinner were no more than a democratic dollar - a - plate affair , it would ...
... reaching around the globe to seat them . For every ounce of food they ate , the dinner - giver would have to provide 53,000 tons of pro- visions , and if the dinner were no more than a democratic dollar - a - plate affair , it would ...
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... reaching eight times around the earth , to haul this material . THE AVERAGE RATION The fact , however , is that the average inhabitant of the earth probably uses more than two pounds of provisions a day . The steerage passengers on Eng ...
... reaching eight times around the earth , to haul this material . THE AVERAGE RATION The fact , however , is that the average inhabitant of the earth probably uses more than two pounds of provisions a day . The steerage passengers on Eng ...
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... reached its limit of cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and ...
... reached its limit of cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and ...
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... reached its limit of cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and ...
... reached its limit of cultivation on American soil ; but those who have studied the question most closely tell us that the wheat - grow- ing industry has heretofore simply fol- lowed the lines of least resistance , pick- ing out here and ...
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... COFFEE CUP The people of the world annually con- sume more than two and one - half billion pounds of coffee - enough to load a train of cars reaching from Philadelphia to A CELERY FARM IN MICHIGAN Photograph by T. P. Robinson.
... COFFEE CUP The people of the world annually con- sume more than two and one - half billion pounds of coffee - enough to load a train of cars reaching from Philadelphia to A CELERY FARM IN MICHIGAN Photograph by T. P. Robinson.
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