Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...True in the sense that the Irish Free State buys more from Great Britain per capita than any other country buys per capita. But British India alone buys twice as much as the Free State, even with St. Gandhi's boycott in force
...architects predict a 21% increase in Protestant church building this year over last year. It is estimated that Protestants in the U. S. give from 500 to 600 million dollars a year to their churches for strictly ecclesiastical causes (excluding Prohibition, community charities, unemployment relief). Per capita gifts tabulated in 25 denominations averaged $22.62 in 1931; $22.04 in 1929; $23.38 in 1930. According to an estimate of Wayne Griffith Miller of the Christian Herald, not a single church with "sufficient excuse for existence" has been dispossessed of its property. Eight Protestant denominations show a total indebtedness...
Taxation per capita is tremendously on the increase. To decrease expenditures, even when deficits are inevitable seems impossible, even to check the giddy rise of state spending is a problem of the greatest difficulty. One of democracy's remaining anchors to windward is sensitivity and consequent self-corrective possibilities. When demand for a product ceases, the producers soon discover the change and production is curtailed. The public as a whole does not continue to pay for unwanted produce as it must in a rigid Communistic system, where wants are dictated. When politicians or business leaders of a certain type...
...organize our talent for producing medical services economically and efficiently, we shall undoubtedly find that the cost is not too great for our present society. For inadequate medical services, produced with all the wastes inherent in the individualized practice, we now pay about $30 per capita annually. With organized, coordinated effort we should be able to provide ample medical services of good quality to all people, and with proper remuneration to the professional personnel, for costs of somewhere between $20 and $50 per capita per year...
...finances of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Corp, From 1920-24 Mr. Dewey was a vice president of Northern Trust Co., Chicago, then served three years as assistant Secretary of the Treasury. In Warsaw he advised Poland on its foreign borrowing policy, kept its national debt down to $15 per capita, initiated a budget balanced monthly I instead of yearly...