Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...prove its respectability, True Confessions has just spent $50,000. It was a year's job. During the first five months, interviewers rang doorbells all over Dayton, Ohio (picked by the Census Bureau as a typical wartime U.S. city) and badgered Confessions' readers into answering 600 questions. It took seven more months to find out what the answers meant. Last week the results were in: since most Confessions' readers are between 20 and 34 years old, they are obviously neither frustrated old maids nor sex-stirred bobby-soxers; 72% are married; they pay more rent...
Campus Insolvency? University of Cincinnati's President Raymond Walters, in his current 25th annual report as volunteer census taker and trend-spotter for the nation's colleges,* predicted that dwindling registration will make 1945-46 one of the financially shakiest years in campus memory. His forecast...
Before the U.S. business year of 1944 was well into its second half, it was already on its way to becoming a museum piece. In August President Roosevelt commissioned a full-length statistical portrait of the year. He asked that the regular Census of Manufactures, scheduled for 1945, be moved up to 1944: "The record should include an account of our industrial system while it is geared up for maximum production. This may well be the peak year of production for many years to come...
...arctic realism, the vital-statistics reports of the U.S. Bureau of Census have no rival. In a report made available last week, one lonely note of promise shivered among lowering facts: whereas in 1900 some 3,080,498 U.S. citizens lived to the age of 65, today the number is 9,019,314, and by 1980 it is estimated that double that number will reach 65, even make it past the classical three-score...
Quick to qualify this promising note, the Census figures go on to say that in the past 44 years post-65 life expectancy has increased only slightly. Women (white) of 65 can now expect to live a year longer than they could have in 1900 (to 78.2 v. 77.1) ; male expectancy has increased only half a year...