Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weeks' respite from his duties in Warsaw, gave some international advice to American business men. To the Merchants' Association of New York he spoke of the country whose economic resources he has studied for two years. With a national debt of only $15.50 per capita, one of the lowest in Europe, Poland should attract American capital, said Economist Dewey. He advised U. S. manufacturers to become partners in Polish firms and thus get in on the ground floor of the prosperity he foresees for Polish industry. "Because of her natural resources and because there is a possibility...
Amid Turkish cheers roughly translatable as "economy forever!" the Grand National Assembly voted confidence in Prime Minister Ismet, took under favorable advisement his plans for curtailing Turkish imports not only of perfume but also of silks, tea, coffee. On imported tea and coffee alone Turkey spends $1.57 per capita every year...
...that has been thrown at it could be hurled with equal and even more exactitude at the other metropolises of the East. It is absurd to say that Boston is the bawdiest of cities for it ranks only eighth in population. Unless "Plain Talk" can produce per capita statistics for indulgence in vice showing that five out of five in Boston deserve the scarlet letter, one should continue to believe that it is in precisely eighth place and no higher. For the city fathers to keep clapping hands over their rubrous noses and shouting their innocence before the Lord...