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Consumption ranges all the way from 130 lbs. a year per capita in Australia down to six in Siam. In most places where consumption is low, it is because the price is high. In Spain, for instance, when raw sugar was selling for 4.2? a lb., refined sugar cost 29? retail (v. a U.S. price of 9.5?). Asks Lamborn: "Is it any wonder that Spain's per capita consumption of sugar continues low-a mere...
...Israelis had been expecting something drastic. Their new country simply has not been able to make ends meet. All but $2,000,000 of the $200 million in loans and grants-in-aid from the U.S. Government has been spent. (Israel has received a larger share per capita of U.S. grants and loans than any nation in the world.) The last $11,500,000 of the $65 million U.S. grants-in-aid intended for capital improvements had to be diverted to pay current bills. With an expensive army and ambitious capital improvements to be paid for, with imports running eight...
This situation has produced an economic tug-of-war between the South and New England. One of the chief indications of this, Harris states, is that the last 20 years per capita income in the South has risen two-and-one-quarter times as much in New England and population has increased along with...
...colonies enjoyed. In such countries as Bolivia and Ecuador, backward, illiterate, aborigines who do not even speak Spanish far outnumber the whites. The entire area sags below the standards of health, education and economic development that political scientists consider essential for durable democracy. Even in relatively prosperous Cuba, per capita income is $300 compared to the U.S.'s $1,600; average life expectancy is almost 15 years less than in the U.S.; illiteracy is seven times as great...
Distance Shooters. In contrast, the shortsighted indifference to customers of some utilities in other U.S. cities also means smaller per capita electric sales. New York's massive Consolidated Edison Co. (no kin) sells less than 1,200 kilowatt hours per year to its average home customer v. Detroit Edison's 2,168. One-third of Detroit Edison's customers use electric stoves v. 22.8% average for all U.S. utilities. President Cisler concedes that the cost of his "free" services (about 50? a month per customer) gets added to the bill, but Detroit Edison's rates...