Word: capita
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lung-cancer patients and 200 victims of other chest diseases, made by the late Dr.David M. Kissen of Glasgow's Southern General Hospital, revealed that the cancer patients were less able to release their emotions. What's more, researchers reported last week, emotional inhibition parallels high per-capita cancer incidence among many peoples...
When the Globewas established in 1872 it was a home-town paper in what Menzies calls "the most competitive news town since the word go." Boston, until recently, has had more papers per capita than any city in the United States. In the 1880's and '90's, six papers competed with the Globe;advertisers, by threatening to switch to other papers, wieled crippling power. If rain was predicted for Easter, advertisers forbade the Globeto print the weather on Good Fritay for fear that sales would slip. The Globetad no choice but to comply...
...save and reinvest 36% of the gross national product-compared with 18% in the U.S. Emphasizing tomorrow's growth at the expense of today's income, Japan this year will rank third in the world in G.N.P., after the U.S. and the U.S.S.R., but 20th in per-capita income. One of the secrets of Japan's 11.4% average annual growth rate, compared with the U.S.'s 4.3% during the 1960s, is that Japan permits its businessmen to deduct from their taxes nearly twice as much depreciation as does...
...other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then sat back and began taking in income. The settlers, in turn, imported...
Chicago probably has more collectors per capita than any other city in the U.S. And in Chicago, when a collector develops a taste for art, he is,likely to treat himself to gargantuan helpings. Walls full of it. Rooms full of it. When the rooms fill up, he will glass in the porch or build an annex. When these are full to the rafters, he simply buys another house...