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Stressing the poverty of the nation and its paralyzing internal disuntiy, the professor asserted, however, that great strides had been made in Indian production and rearmament. "A nation whose average yearly income is $40 per capita has, by concerted national effort, raised an army of a million men, and has raised steel production to a million and a half tons. Further, Indian manufacturing of small arms, rifles, machine guns, and other smaller weapons and pieces of equipment has tripled in recent years," he claimed...
...citizens consume about 115 lb. of sugar a year per capita-twice the sugar ration of any other country, almost ten times what the U.S. used less than 100 years ago. Many dental researchers are sure that this excessive proportion of sugar accounts for the fact that caries (tooth decay) is the commonest U.S. disease. Fruit can satisfy the craving for something sweet, and the chemistry of the saliva and the digestive juices automatically convert the starch of bread, potatoes, corn, etc. to the sugars the body needs...
...Episcopal Church is the richest per capita in the U.S.-but the wealth is all east of the Alleghenies. West of Nebraska (and excluding the Pacific Coast), the Episcopalian U.S. is mostly a missionary area. Episcopalians, who may know these facts but are not altogether aware of them, had their ears seized and shouted in this week, when the Rev. J. Lindsay Patton of Berkeley, Calif, not only declined his election as Bishop of San Joaquin but said the bishopric ought to be abolished...
...Population grew faster than income: "real" national income per capita and per person gainfully occupied declined over the period. But wages and salaries, as a percentage of total income, rose (from 57 to 61%), while business savings and withdrawals showed a sharp decrease...
...great, sprawling town, which is fifth largest of U.S. cities, cannot stop growing, cannot be controlled. Only big city in the U.S. accessible from all sides by highway, it has 2,000 miles of streets, the highest per capita automobile registration (807,000) in the world. In 30 years it has grown four and a half times bigger, from 101 square miles to 451. In the past year it sprouted three years ahead of itself in population (normal increase: 60,000 a year...