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...Cinewigs did not "alcoholically splurge for a couple of hours. . . ." There was far less alcoholic consumption per capita on that occasion than at any other representative American gathering...
First act of the reshuffled Central Committee was an order to the State Planning Commission for a new 15-year plan "to surpass the most advanced capitalist countries in per capita production of iron, steel, fuel, electric machines and consumers' goods...
Premier Pattullo thought the report "fundamentally wrong." His Government, he said, had attained its present position "only after an arduous struggle up the hill of public economy" and did not want to be pushed down. Since British Columbia spends nearly twice as much per capita as the average provincial Government, this did not make much sense. Even less sense was made by Bible Bill Aberhart, who wanted the Dominion to stay out of provincial affairs altogether but to underwrite Alberta's debt. By this time it was clear to everybody that three politicians had effectively scuttled the reform...
...pontificated 66-year-old Edward Lee Thorndike, famed psychologist, emeritus professor of education at Columbia University's Teachers College. Creator of an intelligence test that bears his name. Dr. Thorndike has made studies of the "goodness of living" in U. S. cities, based on such factors as per capita value of schools, libraries, parks, percentage of home owners, infant and general death rates (TIME...
...advocated spending as much money per capita for Negroes' education as for whites...