Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army announced a tabulation of religious preferences showing 59% of all U.S. soldiers are Protestants, 31% Catholics, 2% Jewish and 8% of no denomination. Comparable breakdown for the 55,807,366 church members listed in the latest (1936) official U.S. religious census: 55% Protestant, 37% Catholic, 8% Jewish...
...like a torn and faded snapshot that turns out to be crucial evidence at a murder trial, the Treasury's order may serve one long-term purpose. This was the only aspect of the census that really frightened the big international camera-duckers: the U.S. might use it as a club in post-war negotiations. With assets physically under its jurisdiction, and so recorded under oath, the U.S. could dicker as to their release to their country of origin after the war; could if need be insist that they be invested in U.S. industry (rather than withdrawn...
...reader will consult the census of the U.S. for 1930 he will note a very curious relationship between all the communities that contain at least 2,500 inhabitants. Thus he will find that New York was first in size . . . that the second largest city had 1/2 as many inhabitants as New York; that the third largest city had 1/3 as many . . . that the fourth had 1/4 as many; the fifth 1/5-indeed, that the nth largest community had i/n as many inhabitants as New York...
Babies, quite properly, were also having a banner year. After glooming for years over the falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S. Census Bureau sheepishly announced that 1941 will have the highest rate in a decade. In the first four months of 1941, about 20,000 more babies were born in the U.S. than in the first third of 1940. Dr. Halbert Dunn, chief vital statistician for the Census Bureau, began to talk of "an increase of about 7% in population per generation...
...Treasury will also take a census of all foreign-owned property in the U.S., whether controlled by countries whose assets are frozen or not. Aliens will be required to list any U.S. property worth more than $1,000 which they own now or have acquired since last June.* Thus it may be possible to track down the maze of transfers whereby Germany and Italy have concealed their actual holdings...