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This is partly due to Colby Junior College, 400 girls strong and a scant 15 miles over the hills. It is also partly due to the half dozen Hanover-sized towns scattered through close valleys. The 1950 census revealed that one-sixth of the population of these towns was composed of young women, ages...
After every census since 1790, Government mathematicians have been put to work on a problem calculated to burn the numbers off their slide rules. Its terms: if the country were a rigid plane, encumbered by nothing but its human population, and if every man, woman & child had exactly the same weight, at what point, if placed on a fulcrum, would it achieve exact balance? Object: to find the geographical center of U.S. population...
Sixty Years in Indiana. After the first census in 1790, the center was the upper Chesapeake Bay. It has moved west ever since, never straying more than 30 miles north or south of the 39th parallel. Between 1850 and 1860 it hopped 80.6 miles from western Virginia to Ohio and by 1890 it had jumped clear into Indiana, where it stayed for six decades. This year, when the mathematicians finished calculations on the 1950 census, it was obvious that the center had made the biggest westward hop since 1890, and, because of the industrial rush to Texas, the greatest southerly...
...somehow, Manilal did not seem to have the Mahatma touch. He cut a lone figure. Durban's whites, who in this year's census for the first time in history found themselves outnumbered by Indians, are more anti-Indian than ever. Manilal tried to sell his case to the Natal Indian Congress, founded by his father in 1894. But the Congress ignored their founder's son, and, led by the Communists, spent their time denouncing "American imperialism in Korea." Worst of all, Malan's government also ignored him, and proved that passive resistance might...
Findings of Britain's latest census, first in 20 years...