Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmers have unloaded. But when the livestock is finally reduced in numbers to a point where it balances the amount of feed available, meat rationing will again be necessary. Food Distribution Administrator Roy E. Hendrickson estimated next year's supply of meat at twelve lb. less per capita than during...
...years after the early Dutch settlers ruined the scarcity value of wampum by mass-producing shells with holes in them, there was almost no money. The U.S. Mint did not get started till ten years after Independence, and even in 1795 produced less than 4? of currency per capita.* For years currency in different parts of the country included tobacco, coonskins, honey, wild turkey and venison. Peace with England cut off many profitable early sources of income, most notably "legalized" privateering, which had formerly employed more men than there were in George Washington's entire army...
...Governor was a shade too self-conscious about his State. Among the 48 States, Georgia ranks eighth from the bottom in illiteracy, fourth from the bottom in wealth per capita, and second from the bottom in its lynching record. Outstanding Mississippi ranks third, first, first...
...also had a department in which we Pointed With Pride (to "the annual taxes of $90 per capita which Britons bear without grumbling")-another in which we Viewed With Alarm (the "taller Japanese to be evolved by straphanging in Tokyo's new subway")-and still another called Imaginary Interviews in which the newsmakers of the past week "explained" why their names had made the headlines...
India's health budget (less than $30,000,000 in 1939), like the national income ($20 per capita), is meager, but Dr. Grant says that disconnected administration and overlapping agencies prevent the Indians from getting even $30,000,000 worth of medical service. Dr. Grant believes that only a beginning can be made in a public health program at present (e.g., by establishing a few school health services), that real health progress must wait until India's 88% illiteracy rate is reduced, since much of India's bad health and insanitary practices are due to the ignorance...