Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last fall, said the Census Bureau last week, enrollments in U.S. schools and colleges were up to a record 36 million-a jump of 1,540,000 over 1953. Most surprising statistic: since 1948, the number of pupils in private elementary and secondary schools has gone up 49%, while the public schools have increased only...
...Census Bureau estimated that the population was 163.9 million, up an amazing 2,800,000 in a year. Nearly all of this is natural increase, i.e., excess of births (rate: 25.2 per 1,000) over deaths (rate: 9.2 per 1,000). Immigration, which around 1910 increased the U.S. population by about i% a year, is now down to about a tenth...
...demographers estimated that the 1975 population would be 180 million. Now the Census Bureau believes that the 1975 population could be 221 million. Nobody is alarmed. At low and static levels of technology, more people bring misery and famine. In an advancing technology, more people mean more plenty...
...Kingdom of Heaven." Writes Critic Malcolm Cowley in his appraisal of The Literary Situation: "Aside from the hard-working authors of textbooks, standard juveniles, mysteries and westerns, I doubt that 200 Americans earned the major portion of their income, year after year, by writing hard-cover books." The 1950 census counted 16,184 authors in the U.S. (6,235 of them women...
...field of social welfare, especially, the President's proposals seem far less than adequate. With fifteen million homes classified "substandard" in the 1950 census, the President has asked Congress for the authority to build only seventy thousand public housing units in the next two years. Since the 83rd Congress refused to grant even this pittance, there is a danger that the new Congress may accept the offer. The Democrats should not be content with doing better if it is less than good enough...