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The Story of the Match ~ a Great World Industry - Modern Mechanix 1930.
Modern methods and modern machinery have trans formed the making of matches from a dangerous, disease-producing business into one of the world’s great industries. Here we have the story of how science has made the present-day match possible. HOW many matches have you used today? You should, according to America’s premier match making company, have struck seven, if you got the daily share allotted to every man, woman and child in the United States. In other words it takes 840,000,000 matches a day to supply the fire making needs of a nation of 120,000,000 people. That’s at the rate of 306 billion, 600 million for normal years of 365 days.
There's many a day where I don't use even one match. The statistic of seven a day per person must be skewed wildly by smokers. It is probably further skewed by the fact many matches are never used and are squirreled away in drawers.
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