Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Forty-eight U.S. states were ranked, educationally, last week. The ranking, published by School and Society, educational weekly, was based not on literacy but on the percentages of high-school and college graduates over 25 in each state's population, as shown in the 1940 census...
...nation's wartime birth rate is declining (from a peak of 3.2 million in 1943). The Census Bureau expects the birth rate to level off, for the remaining war years, at about 2.1 million annually. Peace will probably bring a temporary birth boom as war marriages begin producing and postponed marriages get under way; then the birth rate is expected to slump again. The U.S. is faced with the prospect of a declining population within 50 years...
...North Dakota lost almost everything but its weathered denims and its prized "elbow room." Last year the state came back as one of the nation's biggest breadbaskets: first in spring and durum wheat production, first in barley, second in certified seed potatoes. North Dakota farms (average 1940 census value: $8,742) brought in an average 1943 income...
Tell-Tale. In Tell City, Ind., Silver Raley advertised that he was "doing hauling of any kind with old, geed up, no good 1½ ton truck when it runs . . . charges are plenty high." Illusionists. The National Beauty and Barber Manufacturers' Association chided the U.S. Census Bureau for underestimating by some 33,000 the number of U.S. beauty shops...
Undeceiving Census. Then (in 1937) the Soviet Government took a census. One question asked about religious faith. When the returns were in, the authorities took one look, gasped, ordered most of the census bureau liquidated as Trotskyists. The census is believed (since the figures were admitted by Godless Headman Yaroslavsky) to have shown that, after 20 years of intensive persecution of the Church, one-third of Russia's city population and two-thirds of Russia's peasants were still Christians, and would not conceal the fact from the official census takers...