40%
Percentage of U.S. exports shipped to developing countries Source: From EconSouth's article, "Credit Storm Sinking Global Trade"
$1,367
The price of an Atlanta-made Ford truck in 1947 when the first one rolled off the assembly line Source: Ford Motor Company
$5,125
The annual per capita cost of crime in the United States in 2007 Source: From EconSouth's article, "Paying for Crime and Punishment"
1912
The year Key West, Fla., was connected to the mainland by rail Source: Library of Congress; photo courtesy of Library of Congress photographic archives
$8.7 billion
The combined annual earnings of the 197,000 people in the Southeast who work in the forestry and logging, wood products, and pulp and paper industries in 2007 Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
74
The number of U.S. Secretaries of the Treasury prior to the newest, Timothy Geithner (formerly president of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York) Source: U.S. Treasury Department
$2,300
The amount Atlanta's Asa Candler paid chemist John Pemberton for the Coca-Cola formula he created Source: The Coca-Cola Company
38,000,000
The number of U.S. currency notes produced every business day (as of 2007) by the U.S. Bureau of Engraving and Printing Source: U.S. Treasury Department