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...every resident the American government allots one ration card which provides 1,500 calories. This is supplemented by food from Switzerland which brings the daily per capita consumption up to a maximum of 3,000 calories still below the average U.S. standard...
...enrollment dips back to normal in 1949 and 1950, per capita costs will climb again, Bender explained...
...first time in history, the U.S. generated more energy from oil (plus natural gas) than from coal. Per capita consumption was 608 gallons in 1947 v. 367 in 1938. In 1948, demand is estimated at over 6,000,000 barrels a day, some 700,000 barrels more than supply. Some of the factors in the astonishing rise...
...expected to exceed the 1945 wartime peak by some 14%. Among the reasons: over 90% of the locomotives now on order are oil-burning; oil-burners are being installed in homes at a record clip, and farmers are mechanizing their farms at a record rate. Since 1938 U.S. per capita oil consumption has increased 66%. The shortage, said Secretary of the Interior J. A. ("Cap") Krug, might last for three years. Most oilmen agreed...
...several years our Association has sent Christmas seals to the students of Harvard and other colleges in Cambridge. The response in interest and money has been spontaneous and generous. Last year the per capita return from Harvard students was only 1 percent less than that of the institution with the highest rate. The heavy returns coming in daily this year from Harvard students and from students of other colleges in Cambridge demonstrate individual and personal interest in the cause for which the Christmas Seal stands...