Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Before trying to digest any of its unpalatable, stupendous totals, an average taxpayer in any of the seven Great Powers might well ask: "How much per capita are we all paying for defense? How much did we actually...
...figures have been released. Using the League's figures for the other Great Powers, and taking for the Reich 1936 estimates which the British Statesman's Year-Book presents, the latest statistics show total expenditures in 1937 by each of the Great Powers such that per capita...
...anti-foreign alarmists in general Author Seabrook wags his finger: "You can find more 'parlor reds' per capita in Harvard, Smith, Vassar, Barnard . . . than you can find actual revolutionists among any foreign-language race group in America. . . ., The Melting Pot is a real thing. It boils and bubbles. It gives off a lot of steam and some scum, but what remains is a good conglomerate...
...prove that underconsumption (not the cattleman's frequent other trouble, overproduction) is to blame, Chairman Thomas E. Wilson of Wilson & Co. announced that while "normal" U. S. per capita consumption of meat is 146 lb. per year, consumption last year was only 120 lb.. a difference equivalent to 5,600,000 head of cattle. Normal cattle population of the U. S.: 65,000,000. I. A. M. P. plans a nationwide advertising campaign to make people eat up the surplus. Theme: "Market supplies of livestock are such that there is an abundance of meat of improved quality available...
Priming the pump is, as Governor Earle admitted, only a temporary expedient even though our per capita debt is less than that of France and England. Purchasing power can be permanently maintained in the absence of government spending only when prices are within the people's ability to buy. When the United States Steel Corporation gave its workers a pay rise and then raised the price of steel by more than enough to cover the rising wage bill, Ben Fairless's giant paved the way for an ultimate reduction in the number of customers for steel products...