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The Federal Office of Education last week totaled up its final column of totals for the academic year 1931-32, announced that U. S. oldsters had paid an average of $39.99 each, a collective sum of $2,964,073,024, to keep U. S. youngsters in schools and colleges, public and private, during that year.
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