Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although the base rate for all College rooms will remain the same during the coming year, individual students will have to pay more per capita in cases where the total number of occupants in a suite is reduced...
...socked away $10 million in Government bonds during the war, "and it's still back there in those lockboxes, at least $8 or $9 million of it," said Russell Martin, president of Tipton's largest bank. Many mortgages had been paid off in full; the per capita debt was the lowest in 25 years...
...wells were sunk, including one 27 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico; 8,000 miles of pipelines were laid, and 62 tankers were being built to bring in oil from South America and the Middle East. Domestic demand kept rising also until it reached 622 gallons per capita, v. 464 in 1941. Yet oil production at year's end was 17% above the wartime high; the shortage had been licked so thoroughly that some oil prices had started to drop...
...million ingot tons, while it was about 4% above 1947, was still below 1944's record production. Although steelmen blamed the shortage on "abnormal demand," the fact was that steel capacity and production had not even kept pace with the normal growth of population. In 1948, capacity per capita was only slightly more than it had been in depression 1932; production per capita -.as below 1941. Those who talked of "abnormal demand of the boom" failed to take into account the fact that much of it would be normal demand from now on, not only for steel...
...Huey had soaked the rich and paid the poor. Earl taxed rich & poor alike. Because of his taxes, cigarettes cost 27? a package, gasoline 29? to 31? a gallon. There was a tax on car parking and even on laundry. Louisiana's per capita income was among the lowest in the nation, but its per capita tax was the highest...