Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...calculate how much food the 125,000,000 residents of the U. S. need to keep in normally good health Mr. Doane used a table of per capita food requirements prepared by the Department of Agriculture. In the course of a year this diet would, among other things, provide every citizen with 100 lb. of flour and cereals, 155 lb. of potatoes, 310 qt. of milk, 135 lb. of leafy and other green vegetables, 165 lb. of meat and fish, an egg for breakfast every day. Researcher Doane discovered that with 1929's good crops every citizen could have been...
Twelve thousand Saints sat one day last week beneath the vast, umbrella-like roof of the Latter-day Saints (Mormon) Tabernacle in Salt Lake City. Members of that bustling sect which has 700,000 communicants and the largest priesthood per capita in Christendom (158,045 of the worthiest Mormon males), they had come from every white nation and from Hawaii, the Philippines and the South Seas, to attend their church's 104th annual conference. As always, this opened on the anniversary of that day (April 6) in 1830 when Prophet-Founder Joseph Smith with six others organized the Church...
...cotton (TIME, April 13, 1931). He had already boosted Wrigley sales in Canada and attracted wide publicity by buying quantities of Canadian wheat in a depressed market. By the time he died in 1932 the U. S. consumption of gum had risen in 18 years from 39 sticks per capita to 100, and more than 50 of them were Wrigley sticks...
...facts became apparent: 1) the CWA which has in two months handed out about $2 per capita for every inhabitant of the U. S. has become the most popular part of the New Deal; 2) like the British dole this form of relief was going to be far harder to stop than to start. Mr. Hop kins himself is in favor of preserving CWA, or something like it, as a permanent measure for unemployment relief, a substitute for unemployment insurance. Other CWA Administrators predict that "it is going to last longer than most people imagine." Socialist Norman Thomas cried...
...Some unforeseen expenditures may be required, but we hope to keep them as small as possible. Certainly the deficit for 1935 will be far smaller than for any fiscal year since 1931." He might also have added: "When all this is done our public debt will be $260 per capita compared to $870 per capita in Great Britain." The difference between this statement and the President's actual message is merely a matter of bookkeeping practice, and human optimism...