Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vatican last week papal dignitaries claimed that with 800 telephones and 500 citizens the Papal State now has more telephones per capita than any other nation. In His Holiness' private study, they announced, electricians will soon set up a solid gold telephone of more than usual size, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, emblazoned with the papal arms on a great gold disc...
...diamond industry last week included the following facts: world diamond production was 7,348,000 carats, estimated at $72,960,000 (3% less than the 1928 output); the U. S. purchases 80% of all cut diamonds; 50% of diamonds consumed in the U. S. are smuggled; the per capita wealth of diamonds in the average U. S. family is more than $200; there was no overproduction last year. "The industry," opined Manhattan Mining Engineer Sydney H. Ball, "is sound...
...United States spent about $1,670,000,000 for tobacco products in 1928, and the expenditure for 1929 is estimated to have exceeded $1,750,000,000. These figures represent over 4% of our total retail expenditures and about 2% of our total money income. The per capita expenditure ... is now running at the rate of about 4? per day and the average annual expenditure per family is about...
...about $200,000,000; its sales from $13,000,000 per year to almost $300,000,000. Thus the company has more than shared in the growth of the $3,000,000,000 dairy indus-try which, according to President Mclnnerney, has seen U. S. per capita consumption increase 50% during the last ten years, will see it rise another...
Since 1925, when a dividend of 5% was paid, the Bank has shown no profit. Meanwhile the country at large has been hugely prosperous, swiftly progressive. Proportional to the number of her 103,000 inhabitants, that is per capita, Iceland now has the largest foreign trade of any nation whatsoever ($19,912,400 exports in 1928, and $15,008,000 imports, thus leaving a favorable trade balance of $4,904,400 which is more than frugal Iceland's na- tional debt). Moreover, neither France nor England has as many telephones per capita as Iceland. Amid such evidence of soundness...