Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...benefit of dairymen, 24 States tax oleomargarine. Some are thinking of banning each other's milk, butter, cheese. Meantime, while the per capita consumption of milk stays too low for public health, Southern States whose cottonseed goes into margarine threaten to forbid or restrict imports of dairy products...
Birmingham. Author Leighton likes Birmingham, Ala. least of his five cities. City of unkept promise, he calls it, with vast natural resources and the lowest per capita public expenditure of any big U. S. city-near the bottom in appropriations for education and public health, near the top in its murder rate. Author Leighton's explanation of its unkept promise: racial conflict, absentee ownership...
...great pride in the fact that ours is one of the most crimeless cities among metropolitan cities of the world. We have never had racketeers or gangsters here; we have not had a kidnaping for ransom since the turn of the century; sex crimes of violence are lower per capita of population than any city of comparable size in the U. S.; bunco-men and pickpockets fight shy of San Francisco; robberies and burglaries are constantly decreasing; in short, no less an authority than Director J. Edgar Hoover has described San Francisco as the "white spot of the nation...
...Eccles claim that while Federal spending makes taxes higher, it makes it easier for taxpayers to pay them: a table of relative per capita income and taxes...
...took five years to complete a four-year high school course there. "This is the case with 45 per cent of Brookline's high school students." he stated last night. "This situation is due to inefficiency and incompetence on the part of our school committee. Besides, the annual per capita is $150, the highest in the Commonwealth...