Word: capita
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject vilifying the censors, the one thing that has been overlooked is the possibility of disclosing an insidious publishers lobby. All books printed in a foreign language are admitted duty free into the country and they may sometimes compete with American publications and thus reduce the per'capita spendings of each man woman and child on American printed books. It has been shown lately that American "Big Business" stops at practically nothing, and a Senate, investigation might find Shearer's brother stifling the import of French publications...
...Industrial development goes hand in hand with the progress of electric energy." . . . In Great Britain the use of electric energy is much less per capita than in the United States and the energy is not produced or sold as cheaply as here. ... A cheap and abundant supply of electricity is our aim. . . . This will have a beneficent effect upon British industry and tend to alleviate the unemployment problem...
...nuisance. Yalemen who have them are expected to take messages for other Yalemen, send telegrams, seek from professors forgotten assignments. C. Last week from New England Telephone & Telegraph Co. came more Yale telephone news. The publicity department had found that undergraduates at New Haven telephone more per capita than any other group of people in Connecticut. During the academic year they make some 4,600 calls a week, most of which are handled on Friday and Saturday...
Shell, Meyer and Deterding, have fought for the custom of 50 million East Indians, of 320 million Indians of India, 400 million Chinamen. Now they are fighting for the custom of a public that possesses automobiles about as plentifully per capita as Orientals possess cats and dogs...
...Southerners work too little and brag too much. . . . We have become intoxicated with our own prosperity and progress. . . . The South is not yet an educationally advanced section of the U. S. ... In public libraries we are at the bottom of the list. The average per capita expenditure for public library service for the country is 33?. In the Southern States it ranges downward from 18? in Florida ... to 2? in Mississippi...