Word: capita
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...households, with a maximum allowance of three pounds a person a month. This, applied to every individual, would cut our year's consumption in two. There is no difficulty in getting along in the home on the amount the Food Administration specifies. Thousands do regularly with much less per capita. New York...
...solved. One of the most serious problems confronting us is the threatened shortage of foodstuffs. Owing to the failure of the winter wheat crop, one-third of which is ruined, we probably will not even be able to raise the six and one-half bushels of wheat per capita which the people of the United States consume annually. To meet the emergency, every effort must be made to stimulate production, avoid waste, and better the distribution of articles of food. The problem of transportation includes the transportation of seeds, tools, fertilizers and labor to the sections of the country...
Nominal Tax Per Capita...
...very nearly the same whether 1300 or only 800 are served. The running expenses on the contrary, which are principally the cost of raw food can be made to vary directly with the number of boarders. The result is that if only 800 eat at Memorial, the per capita cost of feeding them is greater than for a greater number...