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Then, in an answer that he used as his peroration, he apostrophized the American free enterprise system in a way that few of his predecessors have done. "I am so happy to be a part of a system," he said, "where the average per capita income is in excess of $200 per month when there are only six nations in the entire world that have as much as $80 per month, and while the Soviet Union has three times as much tillable acres of land as we have and a population that's in excess of ours...
...billion. Last week, totting up the figures after 21 years of Munoz and Bootstrap, Puerto Rico's Economic Development Administration could report a breakthrough to a G.N.P. of $2.2 billion. Unemployment is down to 12.8%, and while the population grows by 2.4% each year, per capita income is now $740 annually -low by U.S. standards, but still the second highest in Latin America, surpassed only by oil-rich Venezuela. Things are so much better that migration of Puerto Ricans to the U.S.-running as high as 75,000 in 1953-dropped to 4,800 last year...
...second-class insurance risk. His life expectancy was low, his income meager, his dependability in paying premiums suspect. Stepping in over the years where white agents waivered, the U.S. Negro community gradually formed its own insurance companies, which now number about 60. With the Negro's per-capita income rising, white-run insurance companies are anxious to get some of his business. They can expect a real battle from the Durham-based North Carolina Mutual Life Insurance Co., the largest Negro-owned firm...
...Progreso remained the top conversational subject in U.S.-Latin American relations. The Alianza pledged $20 billion in aid (mostly U.S.) over ten years, plus a highly ambitious investment of another $8 billion annually from Latin American business and government. As its goal, the Alianza aimed at increasing the per-capita growth rate of each country by a whopping 2.5% a year. To get the cash, each Latin American country would submit a blueprint for social reforms-from schools to housing to tax collection to cutting up the wealthy landowners' huge holdings for small farmers...
...practically all of its hard coal. But competition from cheaper imports has leveled off its steel production, and the general switchover from coal to oil has cut its coal output 10% and cost the jobs of 100,000 Ruhr miners in the last five years. Population and per capita income have grown more slowly in the Ruhr than in the rest of the country...