Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kokomo hoped by its census to get more defense orders (its seven big factories had only $3,000,000 worth), thus to stave off priorities unemployment. In the process it resurrected the fact that the U.S. is a land of skills, and that there is more than one way to break a bottleneck...
Died. Dr. Thomas Herbert Norton, 90, chemist who studied European chemical industries while he was U.S. consul at Chemnitz, Germany (1906-14), returned home to compile the famed "Dyestuff Census," on which the beginnings of the domestic dye industry were founded during World War I when German dyestuffs were unavailable; in White Plains...
...thousands of large and small concerns, and its companies to a large extent are the assemblers of parts produced by others. In 1937 for example (latest year for which segregated figures are available), total value of products manufactured in motor vehicle plants was $3 billion, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, whereas dollar value of bodies and parts manufactured under the "farming out" plan totaled $2 billion. In addition, $744 million was represented by accessories and supplies made by "nonautomotive" concerns...
...birth rate has hit a ten-year high in 1941, with an estimated total of 2,500,000 new babies. Every minute during the year, more than four babies were born. Such was the summing up of the U.S. Census Bureau last week. Reasons for this increase, which represents a gain of 140,000 babies over the 2,360,339 born last year, were given by Dr. Philip M. Hauser, assistant chief statistician for population. Said...
Despite this year's increase, Dr. Hauser and Acting Census Director Vergil Daniel Reed were gloomy about the future. Declared Dr. Reed: "The momentum of our population growth may carry us forward to 150,000,000 or more in the next two generations-about 1980-but, unless factors change, growth will stop and a slow recession probably...