Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for uniformed police and soldiers, some 3,000 shivering high-school and university students were the only figures moving on the streets of Quito one morning last week. The students were there to take the first scientifically organized census in Ecuador's history. The police and soldiers were there to keep all other Quiteños in their homes until the census was completed...
Promptly at 6 a.m., the boy & girl census takers fell to their task. Some housewives, expecting a complete checkup of their homes, proudly showed results of thorough housecleanings; some thought that the Government should want to know whether their husbands contributed enough to household expenses. Others brought blushes to schoolgirl faces by detailed accounts of marital unhappiness. The canvassers were welcomed with coffee and cakes; the only grumbling came from businessmen who lost trade and had to give their employees full pay for the day. One thorough census taker waited in front of a maternity hospital to find...
When sirens blew the "all clear" after eight hours, people rushed from their homes in holiday mood, greeted each other with Que tal del censo? (How did the census fare with...
...city of Quito fared well. Provisional figures released at week's end showed a population of 211,174; the estimated population in 1941 was 142,440. The census for all Ecuador, to be taken in 1950, is also expected to show surprising gains...
...Census estimates for 1946 showed that the number of U.S. families in which both husband and wife are employed had jumped 66% since 1940, now totaled 5,070,000, or nearly one-fifth of all U.S. families...