Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Iowa, hot bed of revolt, is the most heavily farm-mortgaged State in the Union. The total debt on its land for 1930 was $1,098,000,000 or nearly one-third of its farm value. Every lowan carries an average farm mortgage of $445 compared with a per capita burden of the same sort of only $75 for the rest of the country...
...increase in per capita expenses since 1913 is not as out of proportion as many people think, when the great growth of population and wide industrialization of the country since then are taken into consideration. On the whole it may be called reasonable and perhaps too little. The increasing interdependence of the sections of the country has gradually thrown more public services on the hands of the federal government. Nonetheless the bill will go to Congress where portions of it will be accepted because of the strong pressure the various economy leagues are exerting, but also where, because of politics...
...committee goes on to report that "the students of Harvard form a small world in themselves, and among them may be both high and low standards of morality. Although the dangerous influences at Harvard are many, less crime is committed here per capita, than in other communities of similar size. This indicates that a comparatively small number of men in Harvard join the criminal class. On the whole, we may say that the moral tone of Harvard is worldly...
...operate radio station KFNF, while the Earl E. May Seed & Nursery Co. own and operate radio station KMA. Mistakes of this nature are quite common among people not within a listening radio radius of Shenandoah, due to the fact that Shenandoah has more radio stations per capita than any other city in the U. S. Shenandoah has a population...
...Washington, D. C., there are more apartment dwellers per capita than in any other city. Rents dropped 8⅓% when Government wages were cut to that extent. Landlords are installing electrical refrigeration in place of giving a rent cut and few leases are being demanded. Vacancies run at 27%, big apartments go begging...