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...take care of only one-fifteenth of the world's population and one-nineteenth of the world area. This means that while your national income per capita is approximately $1,117, the average income of almost two billion other people is only $30 per capita. A steady yearly increase in the present world income, more equitably distributed and diffused, would . . . assist in the consolidation of democracy and the prosperity of all countries...
...Sabin took her new job seriously. Out to survey Colorado's health came two doctors from the American Public Health Association, backed by money from the Commonwealth Fund. They found that: 1) Colorado had the third worst record among the states in per capita deaths from scarlet fever, was almost as bad in diphtheria, pneumonia, infant mortality; 2) in five years more than 1,600 Coloradans (in a population of 1,123,296) had died unnecessarily of preventable diseases...
Canada still had meat because she had kept rationing, along with her price controls. Normally, Americans get more meat than Canadians (1946 estimated per capita consumption: American, 141 Ibs.; Canadian, 136 Ibs.). But Canada had not mismanaged her meat supply the way the U.S. had (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Now she had ample meat and low prices, stable at their ceilings (about 33? a Ib. for prime rib roast, 37? a Ib. for veal chops, 49?^ a Ib. for porterhouse steak...
Today Paraguay has more police and soldiery (14,000) than industrial and commercial workers (13,171). The annual per capita income of the 1¼ million population is only $6. Because there is just one 274-mile railway and little more than 500 miles of improved roads, oxcarts still carry the bulk of the country's cotton, tobacco, quebracho extract (tannin...
Highest average per capita contribution for 1945: the Nazarene Church with $55.79. Lowest: Southern Baptists, with $14.18. The Northern Presbyterian Church, with an average contribution of $27.59, edged out the Episcopalians' $27.22; Southern Presbyterians outdid them both, with $31.90. Average contribution...