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Sunny California took a cloudy view of the future last week. The state whose citizens earned $12 billion in 1943 (and the nation's second highest per capita income: $1,452) must prepare for a sharp drop to $9.5 billion within a year after the war. So warned California's postwar planning Reconstruction and Re-employment Commission...
...elimination of overtime, the shift to lower-paying jobs, etc. Likewise, the small businessmen and professional men will see their income drop about 20%. Totting up, Mayer then sets the postwar national income at $123 billion. Furthermore the "percentage increase in 1947 over 1940 in real per capita income would be between 6% and 11% . . . a far cry from the 50% assumed by Ruml...
...Lieut. Commander K. P. A. Taylor (retired) reported in the Naval Medical Bulletin that the larger the city, the smaller the per-capita donation. Harrisburg (pop. 84,000) gives a pint a week for every no citizens, New York (pop. 7,500,000) gives one pint per 1,570. Commander Taylor thought big cities would give more if they had more than one center apiece...
...Zealand put up a strong case for a bigger Fund quota, because she has the highest per capita world trade of any country in the world and it is subject to big fluctuations. But Finance Minister Walter Nash announced that in spite of the fact that his plea was rejected he was going back to New Zealand and fight for ratification of the Fund agreement...
Although Harvard did not participate in the Fifth War Loan Drive through PBH, it contributed over $20,000 in War Bonds and Stamps since September of 1943, giving it one of the highest per capita college ratings for War Savings contributions in the nation...