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...leading Protestant denominations (membership: 23,120,929-about two-thirds of U.S. Protestantism) collected $350,807,172 in fiscal 1942-an increase of 36% from the low of 1934 but a decrease of 30% from the peak year of 1927. Per capita giving has dropped from $23.03 to $15.17 in 18 years-although automobile registration has doubled to 28,804,793, movie box-office intake has doubled to a billion dollars, consumption of soft drinks has risen from $1.28 to $2.71 per capita...
...most disappointing features of the drive, according to officials, was the extreme low per capita investment among the members of the various Houses. The combined average of the seven Houses was only 14.1 cents per person, with Winthrop again leading the parade with 18.7 cents. Lowest single House was Eliot, whose residents, rang up only 5.3 cents per person on the stamp sales...
...Worshippers brought scrap to churches, children became "scrap commandos." For three weeks the World-Herald, which has a monopoly in Omaha and blankets the State (circulation 185,632), talked of almost nothing but scrap, had Nebraskans talking the same way. Result: 67,000 tons of scrap (103 lb. per capita), half the State's quota for six months...
Optimistically predicting a post-war "per capita real income 35 to 50 percent higher than before the war," Alvin H. Hansen, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, stated that far stiffer taxes and compulsory savings are vitally necessary to bring about victory...
...meatless days, rationing and wartime redistribution of income each in its way has a substantially similar levelling effect. And there will be only a small war sacrifice involved. The nation as a whole will continue to eat about as much meat as ever-2½ lb. weekly per capita...