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Kishi traveled in a U.S.-built Japan Air Lines Skymaster (DC-4), accompanied by 15 advisers and 13 Japanese newsmen. "Economic diplomacy," he called his mission. He spoke for a nation whose per capita income is over $200, three times that of India, whose steel production is five times that of India, and whose rice yield is the envy of all Asia. In Washington he will argue that it is Japan, rather than more populous India, that in Asia could balance the growing economic weight of Communist China...
...Comrades," cried Khrushchev, "successes achieved in agriculture and good prospects for its development permit us to set and solve a task of great nationwide importance: within the next few years to catch up with the U.S. in per capita production of meat, milk and butter...
...Bureau's requests amount to about twenty-four cents per capita in taxes. The House's cuts would reduce this to twenty-two cents. It is almost ludicrous to sacrifice important strides in weather services for an annual saving of two cents per taxpayer. Professor Brooks notes that, in 1956, there were about 175 million calls requesting weather information. At an average of seven cents per call, the Government netted over one and a half million dollars in taxes from these calls, which more than compensates for the expense of the reporting services...
...doctors, all but 700 signed up for the National Health Service; 18,000 work full time in hospitals, more than 21,000 as family doctors. The family doctors serve patients (up to 3,500 on a single doctor's panel) for a fixed per-capita fee, paid by the state, of $2.38 a year regardless of how much service the patients need. Since their one pay raise in 1951, the G.P.s have averaged only $6,221 a year from N.H.S. (for cruelly long hours, including night calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees...
...Most favored nations in U.S. aid during the period 1948-56, based on U.S. aid per capita: Israel $131, Greece $108, Austria $104, The Netherlands $100, United Kingdom $74, France $72, Norway $70, Formosa...