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...farm problem is not maldistribution of land, but the fact that there is not enough land to feed the people as long as the land is worked by present methods, which will take years to change. For example, after land was redistributed in Honan province, the per capita holding was only six-tenths of an acre. Disillusionment over land reform had certainly given rise to much peasant resentment, contributed heavily to guerrilla activity, especially in south China...
Smith's finances are delicate. To make up for a piddling endowment, the smallest per capita of any girls school, it depends on tuition revenue and annual alumni gifts, which have to come to six figure sums, even after extra drives, like last year...
...fluorinated Kingston; the number of Newburgh youngsters reaching the age of six without any cavities at all had more than doubled. Dr. Hilleboe was confident that fluorination had proved its worth, recommended that other New York municipalities-including Kingston-put it into effect. The cost: about 10? per capita a year...
Said Howe: "On a per capita basis, we shall probably carry more [of a defense load] than many of our allies ... To you in the United States who are used to thinking in astronomical totals, the figures may not appear large, but relatively, they represent something like a comparable drain on the national output...
...capita burden of taxes was another contested point. "I compared the burden of state and local taxes in the 12 most industrialized states, while Mullins picked states at random and ones with larger populations than Massachusetts," Harris claimed...