Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Oregon, the U.S. Census Bureau reported, is now the fastest-growing state in the union. In nine years of Pacific Coast boom the state's population has increased 59.3% (to an estimated...
...after listening to one bureau confess a mistake, economists and businessmen raised their eyebrows at the Bureau of the Census, whose optimistic employment estimates for August (51,400,000) had set off a hallelujah chorus of hope for a big upturn. The Bureau of the Census coldly replied that it was not in error, pointed out that it uses a different computing method, and that it includes several types of employment not covered...
...ranks of the jobless dwindled by 333,000 in September in the second successive monthly drop in unemployment shown in the late-summer business upswing. The Census Bureau reported a decline to a total of 3,351,000 unemployed...
This cautious optimism was provoked by the fact that industrial production and employment were again rising swiftly. The Bureau of the Census reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment...
...Squeeze. Industrial employment was also still falling. The U.S. Census Bureau reported that non-farm employment dropped 225,000 in April, though farm jobs rose by 427,000. But even that was less (by about 275,000) than had been expected. Overall U.S. employment of 57,819,000 was under last year's 58,333,000 at this time...