Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With meat scarce, people ate more eggs. The annual rate of consumption had reached 400 per capita as against 350 in 1944. In large eastern cities the demand had about tripled; Army requirements were higher...
...spite of a decrease of 13% in the sugar available for the U.S., the Army has increased its sugar demands 25%. The armed services are now claiming sugar at the rate of 220 lbs. per capita per year, compared to 70.8 lbs. per capita left for civilian consumption...
Truth is that the 25,000 employes of the motion-picture industry in Hollywood give more per capita in approved charity campaigns-and more closely approach 100% participation-than does any comparable group or community anywhere. In the recent War Chest drive an alltime high of $1,170,407 was contributed by a record number of 24,741 donors...
Women of native U.S. birth now produce more children per capita than their foreign-born U.S. sisters. In 1920, the foreign-born women had an annual birth rate one and a half times that of the native-born. In the following 20 years, the natives caught up, achieved an annual birth rate of 50.7 children per 1,000 women, as compared with the foreign-born figure...
Sunny California took a cloudy view of the future last week. The state whose citizens earned $12 billion in 1943 (and the nation's second highest per capita income: $1,452) must prepare for a sharp drop to $9.5 billion within a year after the war. So warned California's postwar planning Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission...