Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Holy Russia. By 1918 Nicholas Romanov had lost his job and his life: by 1930 not only was Carol Hohenzollern very much alive, but after four-and-a-half years of self-exile, he was back in Bucharest and able truthfully to describe his profession to Rumania's census-takers as "mostly a king," secondarily a "farmer." The Tsar lost his throne primarily because he did not know his job. Rumania and the world have become gradually convinced that Farmer-King Carol thoroughly knows all the ins & outs of how to be a King in the Balkans...
...Illiteracy in Soviet Union (according to American Russian Institute): about 20%; in U. S. (1930 census...
...count in the official survey) and concentrate on four years of hard study. The higher ranking the student, the greater chance for children. Let the midnight oil flow, let the pages of Aristotle turn, and the Princeton boy will grow to manhood and become the apple of the census-taker...
Three old men of the prairie bestride the back of U. S. agricultural economy: Corn, Wheat and Cotton. Of these the most corpulent is Cotton. At the end of the cotton marketing year on July 31 the Department of Commerce and the Census Bureau set out to measure him. Last week they reported the 'awful facts. In spite of the reducing corset which AAA pays him to wear, he has battened on bountiful crops, gobbled the rich cream of New Deal crop loans and, deprived of the exercise of foreign trade, grown more ugly and obese...
...Agriculture winced at the facts. The Department of Commerce reported that only 3,327,000 bales of the 1938-39 crop were exported, a 60-year low, 40.6% less than the previous year, 69.4% less than the high of the 20s (10,927,000 bales). To top this, the Census Bureau announced its count on the U. S. carryover of cotton: a record total of 13,032,611 bales, up 1,499,172 from last market year's hoard...