Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...college graduates grew eight times as fast as the total population . . . high school graduates twelve times as fast . . . women college graduates ten times as fast. So a large part of the answer to how TIME has grown so big can be found in the education figures in the U.S. Census Office...
According to U.S. census reports, some 225 citizens kill themselves every year by deliberately overdosing themselves with sleeping pills (e.g., Lupe Velez), and another 225 die the same way by accident...
...dizzy pace. In 1936 it had a population of 4,000 and was a hell-roaring mining camp in a valley in the middle of nowhere. Prospectors got there by plane, dog sled or canoe until a road was built. Beer was $1 a bottle. A town census registered 46 different nationalities. Shady characters prospered like green bay trees. In 1936, the first year that Val D'Or had a police force, Chief Leo Therien led a raid through the town's 300 unpainted board-and-tarpaper shacks, arrested 112 prostitutes, gamblers and bootleggers. Only 61 could...
Quebec's records tell the rest. The 1681 census discloses that Jean and Marguerite owned two guns, their 30 arpents, eight cattle, and had four children at home. Church records reveal that practically every other year for more than 30, they became either parents or grandparents. All told, they had eleven children, who produced 60, who in turn produced 226 more. One Trudel had 16 children, ten of whom married; the ten begot no less than ten children each...
Minister Pleven also asked for a 3% to 20% tax on increment of wealth during the war (a "moral" necessity aimed at collaborationist profits). He calculated his two measures would yield revenues of 130 billion francs. He based his figures on a Government census of fortunes, in itself a radical departure from French financial tradition. Hitherto a passionate anonymity has shrouded the wealth of individual Frenchmen. The Government, said Minister Pleven, had discovered that France had 1,300 billion francs of national wealth in liquid form. His levies on wealth would siphon off 10% of this liquidity...