Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...From the Census Bureau came significant estimates on the shifts of U.S. war-workers during 25 months of World War II. Between April 1, 1940 and May 1, 1942, Detroit population jumped 336,000 (21%); Washington, 231,000 (35%) ; Chicago, 149,000 (4%); Los Angeles, 131,000 (9%); St. Louis, 97,000 (12%); San Diego, 97,000 (47%). And while all this was going on, New York City and northeastern New Jersey lost...
...show called Eyes Aloft (Mondays, 6 p.m. P.W.T.). Mainly responsible for the show's success is a smart Hollywood free lance radio writer named Robert Leigh Redd. Vetoing stuffy talks, Redd sold NBC and the Army on a heartwarming story of A.W.S. volunteers at work. Like an efficient census-taker, he visited 2,000 observation posts and filter centers, jotted down true stories of the modern air Reveres that give the program its dramatic highlights. Some of them...
...crew of the St. Roch set out in June 1940 to: 1) take the schooner from Vancouver to Halifax for patrol duty in the Atlantic; 2) supply the permanent Mounted Police arctic posts along the way; 3) take the Eskimo census. Before they reached Sydney, N.S., the tough team and the tough ship had backtracked Explorer Roald Amundsen's famous three-year east-to-west trip across America's top. They had added valuable information to the world's expandingly accurate geography, survived the Arctic's most treacherous dangers, dutifully performed their assigned tasks...
They took turns on census treks, the longest of which was 61 days in weather never milder than 48 below...
...Though the U.S. birth rate is now booming, census officials predict a severe slump next year as the Army sends men overseas...