Word: censuses
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Chase Osborn is a metallographer, zoologist, ornithologist, theologian, explorer, publisher, charitarian, author, Elk, Odd Fellow, honorary Boy Scout and onetime (1911-12) Governor of Michigan. He is also a geographer. Last year comprehensive Mr. Osborn lodged a geographic complaint with the Census Bureau, whose chore it is to compute the areas of States and Territories. The complaint: in figuring Michigan's area the Bureau had overlooked 39,960 square miles of Lakes Superior, Michigan, Huron, Erie and St. Clair that lie within the State's borders. Bombarded by Osborn letters, wires, facts & figures, the Bureau finally gave...
Last week the State of Michigan suddenly but soundlessly expanded-from 57,980 to 97,940 square miles. No cataclysm, no Blitzkrieg, not even litigation was the cause. The U. S. Bureau of the Census, which was already having trouble enough with its decennial count, simply capitulated to Chase Salmon Osborn...
...April to millions of city homes and country farms-catting on you at your door, and yours, and yours-to gather vital information that enables you to know your nation! One half as large as the standing army of the United States, this is the peacetime army of census takers. . . . You can't know your country unless your country knows...
This is a typical howdy-do from Uncle Sam Calling, eight-week radio series now planted on 662 U. S. radio stations by the U. S. Census Bureau. Many a censusee does not like the prospect of being asked, and having to answer, a raft of Nosy Parker questions: whether he has a bathroom, a mortgage; where he lived five years ago (for an insight into migrant labor), his race (which most anthropologists say is unanswerable), whether he has been on WPA, CCC, NYA, etc. For the first time in history, the April census will also ask the "amount...
...familiar and crude census of the "gainfully occupied'' will be made more searching by a long list of questions: during the week of March 24-30 were you employed, if so was it with private industry or Government agency? If unemployed, since when? Were you seeking work? Have you had previous experience? Was your unemployment due to vacation, illness, or strike...