Word: census
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Made legislation for reapportionment and the 1930 census its unfinished business...
...navy is the damage that would be done to U. S. industry if a hostile fleet should reduce the Manhattan skyline to a horizontal position. Statistics indicating somewhat the size of this damage were last week released by the Manhattan Merchants' Association, Quoting from the 1927 Federal Census of Manufacturers, the Merchants' Association stated that in 1927 factories in New York City produced 9% of the total U. S. 1927 output. New York factories turned out nearly six billion dollars' worth of merchandise. Production of the entire country was valued at about 63 billion dollars...
...Authority for the 1930 Census, reapportionment of the House of Representatives, repeal of the national origins immigration provision...
Other Legislation. Being new, the 71st Congress sought to undertake many another task than those for which it was called. Plans were laid for legislation to repeal the national origins provision of the immigration law, effective July 1, to reapportion the House of Representatives, to provide for the 1930 census. Demand was also heard for measures on flood control, prohibition, conservation, Wall Street speculation. Ambitious House members had hopefully prepared more than 300 bills for introduction...
...great mass of his public cherishes him for quite another reason: dean of mystery and detective fiction, he has written 400-odd short stories, and, at the last census, 140 full-length yarns. One in every four books sold in England is by Wallace, and the tremendous sale in Germany, the U. S., Australia and South Africa, brings his yearly total to 5,000,000 copies. His U. S. publishers are boasting "a Wallace per month" for the next twelve months, and his German Verlag distributes a catalog two-thirds of which concerns Wallace Detektiv-Romane and Theaterstücken...