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Statistical Sam Spouts Skillet Statistics in Kitchen Cabinet
In a late fall report Sam, a chief figure of the Fifth Precinct’s Kitchen Cabinet, explains his shift from politics to “statistical” thought. He offers exaggerated measures of United States skillets, estimating millions of families own them, and imagining vast skillet scales, ships, and fuel costs for a single breakfast.
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Fifth Precinct
Twenty-Sixth Ward
Sam
Kitchen Cabinet
Les Sam
United States
Uncle Sam
New York City
Mother Earth
United States Navy