Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...death rate from diabetes is still going up and has been going up alarmingly since 1900. The death rate for 1940 is three times as great (27 deaths per 100,000 population) as it was 40 years ago, and last week the Census Bureau reported it was still rising. Even more striking: the diabetes death rate is now 68% higher than in 1922, when insulin was discovered by Toronto's late Sir Frederick Banting and diabetics were presumably given a new lease on life...
...Excluding British India and conquered European nations. Included are 49 million Chinese. Figures complied by U.S. Census Bureau from latest official censuses with projections brought forward to July...
...they were illiterate. Quick as a gallus snap, "furriner"-hating Gene up & said: New York is "the most illiterate state in the Union." He knew it, he said, because he'd been there, and had heard waiters who could hardly talk English. Without bothering to point to the census facts (in 1940 Georgia had 30.1% with four years or less of schooling, New York 12.1%), New York City's Mayor LaGuardia snapped back: "When it comes to illiteracy, the distinguished Governor of Georgia talks as an expert and speaks for his own class...
...days later the Census Bureau issued a reassuring report: 86.5% of U.S. adults have at least a fourth-grade education; more than half finished grammar school; almost a quarter graduated from high school; 4.6% are college graduates. People were still confused...
...reason for their confusion was easily explained: between the 1930 and 1940 Censuses the nation had changed its definition of illiteracy. In 1930, the Census listed as "illiterates" those who could not read or write (4.3% of the population); in 1940 it dropped the reading & writing questions as no longer significant. Now educators class as illiterate adults who failed to finish the fifth grade (13.5%). The Army uses the same yardstick...