Word: per
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...consumption of meat was 155.2 pounds per person in 1947-the highest in 39 years, the American Meat Institute reported...
Just to make the picture clear where it counted, ECA sent ex-Assistant Secretary of the Navy H. Struve Hensel down to Buenos Aires (with his bride-his second) to pass the word to Juan Perón & Co. "Why should we pour dollars down here," he asked Argentines, "for something we can buy cheaper elsewhere...
Getting the information was no airborne picnic. The planes that did the job were tough, night-fighting Black Widows. They "penetrated" 1,600 thunderclouds, often coming out with their noses deep-dented by hail. The worst gust encountered blew at 43 ft. per second (29 m.p.h.) almost directly upward. Said the pilot who flew through it: "The jolt was so severe I thought I had collided with another plane. I was unable to keep my hands on the controls, they banged around so much...
...began to eye the state capital with increasing suspicion. When Jim Duff presented his bill, they yowled for vengeance. To raise an extra $133 million in state revenue he increased cigarette taxes from 2? to 4? a pack, slapped new taxes on beer (½? pint) and soft drinks (1? per 12 ounces). Then he prevented repeal of the five-mill tax levied on manufacturers' capital stocks and franchises...
...ideas are no longer pushed around by police; all troublesome ones have been removed, and a new law permits political opinion and activity-so long as it is in favor of the regime. Newspapers which thundered against Castillo's decrees have with but one exception been silenced by Perón's subsidies and newsprint restrictions ; and even great La Prensa is visibly weakening. Recently the government decreed that either Argentines or foreigners may be jailed for such general crimes as 'promoting discords or antagonisms dangerous to the public tranquillity...