Word: censuses
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More In, More Out. U.S. imports increased $84,200,000 in March to reach an alltime peak of $666,200,000, said the Bureau of the Census (most spectacular gains were in raw wool and newsprint). Exports also showed a slight increase (up $54,700,000 to $1,141,000,000), but they were still 11% under last year...
...CRIMSON computed these odds last night after viewing census figures and the terms of the bill, which passed the House Armed Services Committee on Monday by a thumping 28 to 5 vote. The measure would make men aged 19 through 25 liable for two years of military service...
...Rugged Individualism. He has determined the complexion of the U.S. people with near-mathematical exactitude (see chart) from census statistics, Government reports, etc., has made his own calculation of the U.S. voting population by such adjustments as canceling out non-voting Southern Negroes & poor whites. He knows, for instance, that 28% of U.S. voters live in the Middle Atlantic states, that 34% of them live in cities of over 100,000 population, that only 23% of them are of average means (i.e., skilled workers, white-collar employees, small shopkeepers), that 43% of them are between the ages...
Spring Thaw. The Bureau of the Census reported that March employment, helped by spring weather, showed an increase all around. Nonagricultural jobs reached 50,482,000-up 114,000 over February and 1,662,000 over the same period last year. Farm jobs totaled 6,847,000-up 76,000 over February. But U.S. employment was still down 2,750,000 from last year's July peak...
...prosperity, the U.S. added 2,800,000 more consumers to its population in 1947. With an estimated population of 144 million today (v. 132 million in 1940), the U.S. has already hit a total the statisticians did not expect it to reach until the 19503. (The Bureau of the Census, whose population estimate of a year ago has proved 2,000,000 too small, gravely laid the unprecedented wartime growth to "maternity benefits, allotments to dependents . . . and occasional furloughs...