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Total national production of goods and services now approaches $400 billion -20 times our national output in 1900. When you make allowance for price rises, national production is still seven times what it was in 1900. Our population has more than doubled, but our national output per capita is three times what it was then...
...good and bad budgeting. ¶Assuming that almost any amount of money can be raised if enough people work hard enough. The league has concluded that a definite relationship usually exists between the size of a community and its orchestra's budget. Theoretical safe maximum: 50? per capita. Big-city orchestras, with different financing problems, vary widely from the norm, from 13? per capita in New York City to $1.88 in Boston...
...that period, they have been caught in a squeeze that has pushed net farm income down 27%. But another factor has tended to ease the blow. As a result of technological improvements on the farms and increased job opportunities in cities, farm population has decreased. Consequently, the per capita net income on the farm has been held to a 7% drop since 1951. It is actually 11% higher today than the average of 1947 through...
When John Harvard left his three hundred-volume library to establish the first college in America, he founded a community of sometime scholars who have probably purchased more books per capita than any other similar group in the western hemisphere...
...losing their taste for pork because 1) they are cutting down on fatty foods, and 2) they followed the advice of the Agriculture Department to eat more beef (which was a propaganda maneuver to raise beef prices) back in 1953. From the 1933-35 period to 1954, U.S. per-capita beef consumption jumped by some 24 lbs., to an estimated 79; pork consumption edged up by less than...