Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...slap-happy 1941, when the war program took a far smaller share of total output than its 40% bite by the end of 1942. This year there is no more slack to take up in manpower and materials; civilian production will nosedive as war production rises. Overall per-capita consumption will probably be off 20% from last year...
...prove his forecast's reasonableness Mr. Collyer pointed out that before the war China's annual per capita rubber consumption was only .03 lb., Russia's only .3 lb. v. a 10-lb. average for U.S. citizens. With even a slight increase in foreign consumption, synthetic rubber and natural rubber could live together in peace & quiet...
...virtually disappeared because bread is the most severely rationed of all foods except meat. Prized Iceland and Norwegian fat herring are no longer available, good cheese is scarce. The greatest loss is that of coffee. Swedes like it hot, strong and often, were the world's greatest per-capita consumers before the war. They now have 300 ersatz types...
...endorsed Ruml bill, all designed to soften the blow of new taxes or increased tax rates on the mass of voters, by some measure of doubling up on 1942 and 1943 tax payments. They were sponsored respectively by Senators from Louisiana, Georgia, Alabama and two from Texas. (Average per capita income in these four states in 1940 was respectively $395, $315, $257, and $411, against a national average...
...smokes most? Last week the Federation of Tax Examiners, studying records of the 17 states which levy cigaret taxes, discovered that cigarets sell best in Connecticut (per capita consumption: 98.8 packs a year), Massachusetts (97.8), Rhode Island (91.5), New York (91.3). Other state averages: Washington 85.5, Maine 83.4, Illinois 77.2, Ohio 75.8, Wisconsin 60.8, Texas 55, Utah 50.4, Kansas 48.8, Kentucky 41.8, South Dakota 41.7, Oklahoma 35.9, Arkansas...