Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Wilson, still stand as the best works of their kind. He was elected a member of the Royal Irish Academy as a young man, and some years before his death won, for his historical researches, the highest award the Academy could bestow. He was Ireland's Medical Census Commissioner. The Wilde home was a center of the city's scientific and literary life, and the Wildes themselves were one of the sights of Dublin. As a small boy, George Bernard Shaw saw them at a concert: Sir William, small,-"dressed in snuffy brown [with] the sort of skin...
File & Remember. In Shanghai, perplexed municipal authorities asked the Ministry of the Interior how to explain on census forms the family status of concubines. The prompt answer: write it in under "Noted for future reference...
Born in Pugwash, Nova Scotia, 52 years ago, MacKenzie quit his studies at Dalhousie University to go overseas, won a Military Medal and Bar. Back at college, he took 39 courses to the average student's 20, worked his way through by digging postholes, taking census, parking cars. Then he took postgraduate courses in law at Harvard and Cambridge. For four years he worked on a Saskatchewan farm. He has long been one of Canada's top men in international affairs, was called by the Government in 1943 to head the Wartime Information Board...
...estimate: Canada's population is now 12,119,000. up 612,345 from the 1941 census figure. Three provinces (Prince Edward Island, Manitoba and Saskatchewan) have declined in population. Ontario has gained 216,345 and crossed the 4,000,000 mark. British Columbia has made the biggest proportional gain of all, with 131,139 new citizens for a total...
...other half of the answer is suggested by a curious fact. There are lots more business executives in the U.S. today even though there are fewer U.S. businesses. The number of manufacturing executives in the U.S. has grown twice as fast as the total population-although the 1939 census shows fewer manufacturers than in 1919. This is because the businesses we have are being conducted differently...