Word: censuses
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Conference's discussion was war: how to keep rising prices from skyrocketing, whether national defense would increase or diminish the supply of consumer goods. The most significant address had little concern with the war. It was a "preview" of 1940's census results (TIME, Sept. 30) by Vergil D. Reed, assistant director and bright idea man of the Census Bureau. He i) smartly summed up the effect of population shifts on distribution, 2) described the trends in retail sales (mostly up), 3) brought out facts from the first complete nose count of U. S. time-sales companies. Sample...
...drafted). Informal but angry protests failed to shake the legal fact that all aliens between 21 and 36, unless specifically exempted, must register (but can be drafted only if they have applied for citizenship). Though the fact was not heralded, the U. S. will thus get a complete census of all aliens of military...
Reason for lower levels-despite growing defense prosperity-was the long-term trend of urban decentralization. A vague spectre to urban real-estate men for years, it became a reality with the 1940 Census figures. Since 1930, while suburbs gained population, most mother cities gained less or none at all (TIME, Sept. 30). Realistic realtors at last concluded that the big cities, relatively speaking, had passed their population peak...
...Biggest rap was taken by swank East Side apartments (seven rooms or over), where realtors found tenants beginning to economize by taking smaller units. Landlords, leery of giving tenants any weapon which might be used to beat down rents, did not talk, but last week the U. S. Census Bureau put New York City vacancies at 7.6% of all apartments (normal: 5%). Thoroughly alarmed at what Manhattan Realtor Robert H. Armstrong figures is a "25% increase in six years in available accommodations for tenants who can afford more than $50 per month," landlords and agents met to ponder methods...
Cost of the Census (which required 108,700 enumerators...