Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Toledo's public-spirited John David Biggers last week resigned his job as administrator of the U. S. Unemployment Census, resumed his job as president of big Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. (flat glass). To his friend Franklin Roosevelt, Mr. Biggers left many a fact & figure underlining the extent and the why of unemployment. In a letter announcing that the census was complete, he wrote: "The most significant fact ... is that 2,740,000 more persons have entered the labor market since 1930 than were to have been expected from past experience. This entire increase is made...
Self-styled a "national forum for problems of distribution," the Boston conference generally produces more concrete discussions than do broader conclaves like the International Management Congress. As a basis for this year's chief topic, the U. S. Chamber of Commerce submitted a history of the U. S. census of distribution of commodities by wholesale and retail merchants. Need for such a statistical breakdown was first felt in 1922. By 1925 a committee headed by Owen D. Young was at work on the idea. First nationwide census was made by the Bureau of the Census for the year...
When Lord Leverhulme departed from Washington the British soap tycoon was supposed to go to Boston for the tenth annual Boston Conference on Distribution. That too had an international theme - discussion of a world census of distribution - but with things getting hotter abroad every minute, Lord Leverhulme decided to go home, left his speech to be read to the 400 conferees...
...Europe, however, a report from the International Chamber of Commerce showed, only Ireland has carried through a similar census, in 1933. Elsewhere statis tics are extremely spotty. Britain has no complete tabulation of its retail establish ments, France of its consumption of tex tiles, Germany of its volume of advertising...
...students are very well aware the backbone of college education is books, in spite of what they may have been told about the educating influence of human relations and what are mysteriously referred to as "contracts." And this University has 3,479,267 of them, according to the census of 1933, scattered throughout the 76 units that compose the University Library...