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MARGARINE topped butter for first time last year. U.S. consumed 8.6 lbs. of margarine per capita v. 8.5 Ibs. of butter. In 1935, spread was 17.1 Ibs. for butter, only 3 lbs. for oleo...
...outburst gave popular expression to what seems to most Pakistanis the major fact of international life: India's neutralism has been rewarded by the big U.S., while their own loyalty has brought them continued poverty and no support on Kashmir. The fact that, on a per capita basis, Pakistan has received more than three times as much as India is seldom remembered, never mentioned. All that the Pakistani sees is that he has become completely dependent on the West-and there is nothing whatever he can do about it. "Who in America or Britain or elsewhere," asked the influential...
...Jamaica (pop. 1,600,000), the largest, exports bauxite, sugar, rum. bananas and cigars, makes shoes and textiles, imports rich tourists. Kingston is where Harry Belafonte had to "leave a little girl" in the famed calypso song. ¶ Trinidad (pop. 622,500). the richest (per-capita yearly income: $434), bustles with its prosperous oil industry. It stages the hemisphere's most tireless pre-Lenten carnival dance, in which the performer leans over backwards and wriggles under a bar nine inches off the floor. Racially, it is a polyglot of Negro. East Indian, Portuguese and Chinese. ¶ Barbados grows seven...
...islands went into the final week of the campaign, a growing awareness of the realities confronting the new state-too many people and too little income (e.g., 1,382 people per sq. mi. in Barbados have a per-capita income of $239 a year)-dampened fiery nationalist expectations of years past. Observers predicted only a 40-60% turnout of eligible voters, and the Jamaica Times called the campaign "dreary." Admitted Probable Prime Minister Adams: "The federal government is going to be weak with a chicken-feed budget...
...effect was to create a whole new industry. Overall poultry production climbed 334% nationally in ten years, while prices to the housewife dropped more than 30% as the market broadened and the quality of chickens improved. In 1947 the U.S. per capita consumption of chicken was 18.1 Ibs.; last year it was 25.3 Ibs. Success in broilers encouraged turkey breeders to try contract farming. Originally a holiday bird, turkeys are now year-round fare; production is up, and as prices dropped, per capita consumption almost doubled...