Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sirs: In a recent article (June 22) you credited South Carolina with 55% colored population, which is rather untimely, when for the first time in the state's history the majority of the population, as shown by the 1930 census, is 54% white...
TIME'S figure for South Carolina's black population was wrong, but so is Reader Gibbes's. The Census Bureau reports 996,856 whites, 1,009,718 Negroes, 3,247 other races...
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TIME boasts of its accuracy, but not entitled to boast is the Census Department on its figures for cities and towns of over too population. I selected 36 cities and towns from each State at random and noted how many times the figure zero appeared in the second column from the right. I found that in 30.2% of the cases the figure was zero. Examples: 101, 1003, 504, 10,007. Obviously Cornerville was trying to get ahead of Centerville: Waterville was trying to get into the 200 "class." The figure five also appears an abnormally large number of times...
...first time in seven years, New York City's health authorities, intent on stamping out house flies, last week took a census of all the horses within their province. The total counted was 22,156, as compared with 50,053 in 1924. In the total, however, were included 1,729 saddle-horses, an increase of 25% in the past two years...