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...cost down to family-budget size. Said Defense Mobilizer Charles E. Wilson: "Over a period of two years or so, this will carry a price tag of about a thousand dollars for every man, woman and child in the country." That is more-much more-than the total per capita income of most of the 2 billion human beings in the world...
...establish Roosevelt Scholarships to Harvard would serve a double purpose. Not only would this plan honor FDR, but it also means that more foreign students would come to the University, which has previously had fewer foreigners per capita than the University of Chicago and Yale...
...Englanders ate most of the corned beef in the U.S., preferred their corn yellow, their eggs brown, and liked a wider, fatter bacon than most other Americans. They found that prim-mouthed Philadelphia was the nation's biggest market for dried prunes, and ate more ice cream per capita than any other city in the world. Richmond liked "triple succotash," a mixture of lima beans, corn and potatoes; Scranton, Pa. bought more butter per capita than any other city...
Harris stated that "Under Governor Dever, the per capita state tax is only $69.53 while the national average is $81.12. While the per capita tax all over the country was rising 13.8 percent, in Massachusetts it rose only half that amount...
...taxpayers heard a report from another quarter. During fiscal 1950, Chicago's Commerce Clearing House estimated, state taxes reached a record $9 billion, a $618 million increase over 1949, and an average of $60.72 for every man, woman & child in the U.S. The highest per capita state tax: Washington ($97.76). The lowest: New Jersey...