Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...population has jumped 10,986,725 since 1940, the Census Bureau reported, and now stands at a whopping 142,656,000. California made the biggest gain-2,485,000, as of July 1, 1946-to become the third most populous state. In the 1940 census, it ranked fifth; now only New York and Pennsylvania are ahead of it. Of the ten leading states, only Missouri dropped in population; it lost 8,414 residents...
...readers of the faded Seattle Star (circ. 70,000), the two editorials were a little hard to reconcile. One ran on the editorial page. It boasted that the city had grown 33% since the 1940 census. Crowed the headline: SEATTLE'S BEST YEARS ARE AHEAD. But on Page One another, sadder editorial said that the Star would not be around to enjoy them. Bled by "terrific increases in every item" of publishing costs, the paper was folding up that...
...years. The ripest old age ever verified was that of a Canadian who lived to be 113.* But according to Dr. V. G. Korenchevsky of Oxford University, an authority on longevity, more & more people are crowding the Canadian's record. Dr. Korenchevsky, reporting last week on a census of Britain's centenarians (oldest: 112), found that, percentagewise, the number of people over 100 is rising faster than the population. Between 1938 and 1945 Britain had 873 centenarians, a gain of 145 over the preceding eight-year period. Women now outnumber male centenarians five...
...last week: "The favorite roosting perch of the visiting sailors ... is Piccadilly's statue of Eros (TIME, July 7), reset up just in time for this naval occasion. Happy, contented, their jaws working overtime, there they sit, apparently hypnotized by London's traffic swirling about them. Quick census ... at 3:30 yesterday: 37 sailors. There were a few girls too-about...
Latin America is the fastest-growing region in the world, according to Demographer Kingsley Davis, a member of the Department of Economics and Social Institutions of Princeton University. Recent census results seem to indicate that he is right. Last week Argentina announced the results of its May count: its population now stands at 16,107,930. Estimates in 1941 placed it at 13,318,320; at the last official census...