Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis in Little Falls, Minn., Charles A. Lindbergh's home town. The film played in two theaters, not one, grossing a near record of $1,380 at the Falls and $239.20 at a smaller theater for a total $1,619.20 in one week. Latest Little Falls population census is 6,717. So Lindy is still a big hero in his home town...
...week's end the Labor and Commerce Departments announced the biggest sea sonal decline in employment for January since 1949. although the drop was accentuated by a late labor census in December that caught many Christmas employees, e.g., students, housewives, not normally included in the total. The result: though employment dropped 1,700,000, unemployment rose just under 500,000. Even so, nonfarm employment in mid-January was still the highest for any January on record. Despite all the talk of an impending bust, it looked as if reports of its imminence were greatly exaggerated...
...immigration bill calling for the entry under parole of an estimated 67,000 refugees a year, a change in the quota-basing system to 1950 census figures that will raise quota immigrations from 155,000 to 220,000 a year, and a change in quota procedures that would allow southern European and Mediterranean nationals to utilize unused quotas for northern Europeans...
Close behind this neighborhood in delinquency problems follow the Central Square area, the Western Avenue section behind Dunster House, and Census Tract Seven, a long thin district running along the Cambridge-Somerville line. All of these exhibit the same characteristics of poor housing and overcrowding...
...been the two federal housing projects of New Towne Court and Washington Elms. Built in 1937 and 1941 respectively as slum clearance undertakings for families of low incomes, the developments are comprised of three-story brick and concrete apartment structures. In housing quality they rank better than any census tract in the city, but in human relations they show up very poorly. It is mostly the lower elements of society which tend to gravitate to these projects, and the more ambitious families are continually moving out. In addition, the projects crowd together a large number of juveniles in a fairly...