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...value of our foreign trade and its great future possibilities. Mr. Farrell pointed to Cuba as an example of the way American investment of capital abroad had paved the way for an expansion of our exports. Cuba's consumption of American products now amounts to $44 per capita. The demand for American goods in other Central and South American countries, he declared, could be similarly increased as soon as American capitalists begin to develop the rich natural resources of these territories. Foreign trade, he stated, has become an economic necessity for this country, if our people are to continue...
Malaria investigations in the U. S., Brazil, Nicaragua, Palestine, the Philippine Islands, Salvador and Porto Rico "offered additional proof that under ordinary conditions many communities can reduce malaria to an almost negligible point, at per capita costs which are within the limits of local taxation...
Last week the Department explained that meat consumption in the U. S. increased from 143.9 Ibs. per capita in 1921 to 149.7 Ibs. in 1922, to 167 Ibs. in 1923-and that five-sixths of the extra meat consumed was pork, pork being now 54% of the meat diet of the world's greatest meat-eating nation...
...Philip Snowden, Chancellor of the Exchequer, in a written answer to a question, gave the following figures on per capita taxation...
...cost of maintaining our Army is about $2.34 per capita of the population...