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...bring new industry to the state. Under Rockefeller, the A.I.D.C. has helped bring in a total of 523 new industries, gained 70,684 new jobs, boosted Arkansas' industrial payroll by $212 million and the state treasury's annual income by $10.3 million. Today, Arkansas' per capita income is among the fastest-rising in the country...
Whence the Wherewithal? From the way he talks, Bosch sounds like everything the Dominican Republic needs, and right now it needs plenty. Two years after the overthrow of Dictator Trujillo, more than 20% of the country's labor force is still unemployed or underemployed, the per capita growth in gross national product is almost at a standstill, and the illiteracy rate stands...
...record $3.8 billion; defense expenditures alone jumped 70%, to $1.8 billion. But Desai refused to squeeze the money out of the government's costly Five-Year Plan or even to rely on large-scale deficit financing. The cost will be borne by India's population-whose per capita income last year...
...unlike the sorry case in many other underdeveloped areas, U.S. aid to Formosa has been dispensed wisely and put to work intelligently. Formosa's gross national product has been growing at the rate of 7.7% a year, and industrial production is up 11% from last year. Per capita income has been rising, and so has consumer buying...
...named Jamelle after his wife. Folsom's successor Gordon Persons apparently felt that his wife Alice was entitled to have a yacht named after her, too; anyway, he bought an 80-ft. craft for $100,000, named it Alice. Alabama, one of the poorest states in per capita income, thus earned the distinction of being perhaps the only state in the union with a two-yacht Governor...