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...getting wetter. Chief offenders: France (accused of boosting alcohol consumption in her African colonies by dumping surplus wines and brandy there) and the U.S., with a 44% increase in alcoholism in 13 years, and a rise in beer consumption from 8 to 16½ gallons a year per capita since...
...home ownership, for example, means that millions of families pay the banker instead of the landlord; when a family buys a car or a TV set, its cash outlay for public transportation or entertainment decreases. Moreover, while the U.S. citizen in 1956 owes more, he also owns more. Per-capita savings have risen to $1,300 from $330 in 1939. Consumers' assets (including $200 billion worth of stocks, equities in life insurance and pension funds, etc.) are worth $600 billion, more than four times the 1939 level. Unlike 1929, the U.S. investor owes proportionately little ($2 billion) on stocks...
...Billion-Franc Bet. Last week, at the start of Deauville's most fashionable fortnight, André prowled his domain from 9 a.m. to 4 a.m. each day, checking the activities of his 2,000 employees (per capita wine allowance: 5 gals. a season), the kitchens that dish out one ton of roast beef and 30 lbs. of caviar a day, the cellars from which 20,000 bottles of champagne flow each season...
...reins of power, it scarcely seemed as if he had even the raw material for a nation. The people with whom he had to work were among the world's poorest and most backward. Even today 325 million Indians (85% of the population) are illiterate, and their per capita income is only $57 a year (v. $49 in China, $143 in Japan). Some 68 million-the equivalent of the total U.S. labor force-are unemployed. In summer in 120° heat, millions of city workers go without water because they cannot afford to buy it at one-fifth...
...bases his argument in part on the economic status of the Southern Negro. According to him, the Negro has "no mobility in employment. Teaching is one of the few professions open to him, which is one reason why there are so many more colored teachers in the South per capita than in the North...