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...Russians on the Control Commission have been cut to a mere 200. Every Finn I met wanted to get along with Russia, but not many of them liked the Soviet system. The Finns are doing their best to meet all armistice and peace treaty terms, including the highest per capita reparations of any World War II loser. Last year, reparations took one-fourth of Finland's total industrial production and more than one-eighth of her national income...
...tons. In all, the U.S. expects to get 6.8 million tons of sugar, or almost half of this year's total world sugar supply of 15 million tons. The U.S. share is 1.4 million tons more than last year. The supply, enough for 85 to 90 pounds per capita, will still be short of the prewar consumption of 96.5 Ibs., and sugar men think that present demand is enough to push consumption up to 100 Ibs. if consumers could get all the sugar they want. So even if rationing is maintained until the Oct. 31 deadline, the sugar industry...
Along the way, Gunther gleaned many a curious fact. The annual per capita Coca-Cola consumption in New Orleans is 120 bottles; in New York City, six bottles. The names of the New England towns of Berlin, Calais, Paris and Peru are locally pronounced Berlin, Callus, Pay-rus, Pee-ru. Los Angeles ("Iowa with palms") is the world's second largest Mexican city...
...gave away $3,230,452,079.19 in cash or goods to nine allies (most of it to Great Britain). It all totted up to just under $2,000 for every man, woman & child in the Dominion. Equivalent U.S. costs: $339,000,000,000, or just under $2,400 per capita...
...Equality under segregated system is a legal fiction and a judicial myth," replied Attorney Marshall. Dean Charles Thompson of Howard University testified that Texas last year spent $2.01 per capita for white higher education, only 44? for Negoes. The University of Chicago's Anthropologist Robert Redfield testified that Negroes and whites do not differ significantly in intellectual ability...