Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...think I have ceased to breed!" announced Humorist Herbert, 47, father of four. "But no one is going to ask me about that. The questions which census agents are to ask from door to door under this Nosey Parker bill are an insult to the nation's women...
...provide likely couples with free holidays at the seaside. This drew guffaws, but dapper, dynamic Sir Kingsley Wood easily shoved his bill through second reading 197-to-125. To get the statistics wanted by the Ministry of Health, he declared, is now "a matter too urgent to await the census of 1941," and within a few weeks British housewives will either be slamming their doors against Nosey Parkers or taking these Ministry of Health bell-pushers into their parlors and their confidence...
...winter the underwater entrances freeze up and the muskrats must build houses. A muskrat house is a haphazard domelike heap of reeds and marsh grass. Muskrats are vegetarians, so if necessary in the dead of winter they can eat their houses. Mostly each family lives alone, which makes muskrat census-taking easy. Walter Abner Gibbs, who is the biggest muskrat breeder in the eastern U. S., used to wade round his 700 acres of Maryland marshland in hip boots, counting muskrat houses to see how large his next year's catch would be. But last week impatient Walter Gibbs...
...getting tired of supporting a bunch of politicians' relatives in bookkeeping jobs under the present plan. If they must have jobs, let them come up here and make a census of the wild life of our fair country...
...Washington, Administrator John David Biggers sent out the first batch of his 85,000,000 unemployment census report cards. In Toledo, Mr. Diggers' Libbey-Owens-Ford announced plans to close down four of its plants (Reason: oversupply of glass), turning 900 workers into 900 unemployed...