Word: capita
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...could stand the drain on its food resources without even tightening its belt. Production was high. The Agriculture Department predicted a bumper 1947 wheat crop of 1,240,000,000 bu., compared to 1,185,000,000 last year. Despite 14 million more mouths than before the war, per capita food consumption in the U.S. had increased 16%. In 1946 the U.S. supplied the world with a net of $6.6 billion of goods and services, but this was only 3.4% of the total value of goods & services produced by a comparatively fat and wealthy land. Far from scraping the bottom...
Slippery Ladder. Ecuador has long been envious of the wealth that oil has brought to other Latin American countries and it has hoped to reach prosperity itself on the slippery ladder of petroleum. Little (pop. 3,000,000) Ecuador is industrially undeveloped, politically backward (3% vote) and poor (per capita imports amounted to $4.33 in 1938, compared with oil-rich Venezuela's $30.63). It was glad to get Shell's $30,000 yearly for exploration rights in one-third of the nation's territory-in El Oriente jungle, on the eastern slopes of the Andes, a region...
Schumpeter's rebuttal channeled the argument into the historical advances of capitalism in lifting the general standard of living and per capita well-being. By taxation and labor ascendance, he predicted, this progressive revolution of increasing plenty will be complete in about forty years...
...Licensed Beverage Industries, Inc. blew the dust off some rare old statistics on the state of the U.S. thirst. The per capita consumption of distilled spirits was 2.86 gallons in 1860, only 1.22 gallons...
...strong, repressive arm of law & order would be no permanent solution in a country where the average per capita wage is 5? a day and a quarter of the population of Bombay and Calcutta sleep on the streets. But the other horn of the dilemma is unrestrained freedom for communal and class conflict which, in a weak, new state, might disastrously degenerate into chaos. Patel is obviously going to try it his way. The Boss has performed miracles of organization before...