Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There will soon be fewer men than women in the U.S., figured the Census Bureau. For 33 years the proportion of U.S. males to females has narrowed. Each year, with 100,000 fewer men, the U.S. has acquired 100,000 more spinsters. In 1910, men outnumbered women by 2,800,000. Soon - some time this year - women will be in the majority, regardless of war casualties. The U.S. will then be classed by census experts as an "elder" nation (in a "youthful" nation, men predominate...
Pressure from Within. Up & down the long corridors of Washington's huge new Census Bureau Building raged a pitched battle. OPA's "slide-rule boys," the Leon Henderson carryovers headed by gangling "5-ft.-20-in." Deputy Price Administrator J. Kenneth Galbraith, grappled with the new "let's-be-reasonable boys," headed by stocky Lou Russel Maxon, the Detroit advertising wizard whom Prentiss Brown hired to humanize...
...Congress, balding, soft-spoken Representative Herman P. Eberharter, New Dealer from Pittsburgh, introduced a bill to forbid between-census reapportionment. But even he admitted sadly that: 1) his bill had no chance of passing; 2) it was too late anyway. He and other Democrats threatened a court fight. Republicans stayed smug and happy...
Examinees were asked to name the principal body of water on which are located Cleveland and St. Louis; two specific powers granted Congress by the Constitution; four freedoms in the Bill of Rights; the first U.S. census which could report railway mileage. Also: to identify the Nullification Act and the price of public land before passage of the Homestead...
This extensive survey of radio advertising will be conducted by Professor Charles H. Sandage, Visiting Professor of Business Research and head of the 1935 Burean of the Census' investigation of broadcasting...