Word: capita
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Since 1933 the price of fresh delivered milk has been kept relatively higher than the cost of U. S. living in general, and from 1929 to 1936 per capita milk consumption dropped...
...Stepping up per capita kilowatt-hour sales some 148% in twelve years, it has given seven rate reductions. In 1926 the average rate was 8.74? per kwh: today...
Industries. There was less consumer goods per capita than in 1913; the Gorki Paper Plant, accounting for 15% of Russia's newsprint, filled only 20% of its quota, hundreds of freight cars were needed at once...
...Lathrop did considerable prospecting. He located every mine and outpost in the vast Alaskan interior within KFAR's expected range, which is more than the U. S. Government has ever done. For expected sponsors the census showed a potential audience of some 25,000, with a per capita buying power five times that of the average U. S. consumer and very little else to do evenings but listen to a radio. Expecting a short-wave network connection with some U. S. chain, KFAR nevertheless intends to broadcast home-made programs for Alaska's own needs. It will announce...
...working class (approximately 40% of the population) has lost relatively less income than the upper, upper middle and lower middle classes-and with the unemployed now at work the class as a whole has gained. The farmers (approximately 21% of the population) receive about what they were getting per capita in 1927. Hence it can be argued that Naziism has a mass base, even though forced contributions (party dues, winter relief, etc.) subtract considerably from workers' incomes. The decline in quality is most noticeable in upper and middle class goods; working class goods are maintained in comparative quality...