Word: capita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hand of "the peace forces" in fighting crime. Washington was depicted as the "crime capital of the world." To the cheering audiences, it scarcely mattered that the facts were sometimes awry. For instance, though Washington does indeed have a serious crime problem, the capital ranks twelfth on a per capita basis in crimes of violence on the FBI's most recent tabulation of major U.S. cities...
...read with interest your article regarding the aggressive market-development work of the H. J. Heinz Co. [July 12]. I am sure it would be of interest to your readers to know that of the 11.5 lbs. per capita annual consumption of beans in Britain, a major part of these are grown in Michigan. Michigan farmers, who produce 99% of the navy beans grown in the U.S., used as baked beans in the U.K., sold 1,091,000 hundred-pound bags of beans to the U.K. in 1966, the last year for which the figures are available. Since...
Cricket and Rugby. Europeans founded black African colleges on the premise that natives ought to be first Westernized, then educated. Despite the fact that political leaders fulminate against the West and neocolonialism, the universities' goal remains the same. In Uganda (pop. 6,845,000), where per capita income is $8 a year, students at Makerere University College attend Oxford-style "Old Boy" dances, eat in for mal dining halls, and join in such rousing un-African activities as squash, cricket and rugby. Nowhere on the campus is there evidence of Africa's rich musical, artistic and folk heritage...
...Fortnum & Mason, sold Britain's most prestigious grocer a line of Heinz horseradish, pickles, and ketchup. From that beginning, Heinz eventually established a thriving British company, ended up selling its 57 varieties in 150 nations. The company sold so well, in fact, that it pushed British per-capita annual consumption of baked beans to 11.5 Ibs. -twice the U.S. input. Foreign sales increased steadily, until earnings from abroad represented as much as 85% of the company's total. While Heinz prospered abroad, it no longer seemed to pay much attention to a U.S. food market that was more...
...population (increasing 3.4% a year) and depressed economy, Ecuador indeed needs action. "A rich man here," says Ecuador's retiring interim President, Otto Arosemena, "is poorer than a porter on Wall Street." The 2% of the population that the government considers to be rich has an annual per capita income of only $1,167. Most of the country's 5,400,000 people-40% Indian, 50% mestizo and 10% white-live in abject poverty, either scratching out a living in the scabrous, rock-strewn Andes or drifting into the reeking slums that blight the cities like open sores...