Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...accomplished witness, Odium told the Senate Defense Investigating Committee his difficulties and his plans. After much bickering he had obtained from the Census Bureau as many detailed figures as the law permits them to reveal, had broken them down...
Eldon Gerald Smith, a rancher, regarded Census queries as an invasion of his rights. Last spring he refused to fill in his draft questionnaire, on the grounds that there was too much red tape in the Government. And he meant it. Alienists examined him. Draft boards harangued him. Finally he was indicted and sent to jail to await trial for draft-dodging. Nothing could budge him. Said he, still wrathy at the memory of the draft questionnaire that had started the whole fuss: "The tone was overbearing and impertinent. It asked questions I thought the Government had no right...
...someone knocks at your door within the next week and tells you he is taking a census of studio couches, don't give him the cold stare or the unfriendly door-slam. He's not working his way through college; he's helping out the Emergency Defense Service Committee of Phillips Brooks House, which hopes to provide overnight accomodations for draftees on weekend leave...
...census gave New Hampshire a population of 491,524, raised the number of seats in the House of Representatives from 423 to 443. Thus New Hampshire's 1943 House will be the second largest parliamentary body in the world...
Super markets will have gross sales this year of about $2,000,000,000 - 22% of all U.S. retail food sales. This is the estimate presented last week by the U.S. Census Bureau's John Guernsey to a Philadelphia convention of the Super Market Institute (owners of more than 1,000 markets). How much larger a chunk of the nation's food bill super markets might eventually get, no one could guess. The U.S. had 9,250 super markets at year's beginning, has 10,100 now, is getting more all the time...