Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...With the census seven weeks old and still unfinished, the nation was acting as apprehensive as a housewife getting a new hairdo. Many a city had a horrible premonition that it wasn't going to look as flashy as it had hoped when it finally got to the mirror. The alarm over a short count was greatest on the West Coast; city officials were using everything but moose calls and native beaters to get every last bum and baby located, quizzed and accounted...
...Francisco, mortally afraid that it would be credited with fewer than the 827,000 inhabitants who were officially counted during a special census in 1945, was sending cops, firemen, and meter readers out to track down uncounted citizens. Seattle, which has 508,096 names in its city directory, had a fevered hunch that the census count would be less than a half million (1940 pop. 368,000). Its city council appropriated $800 to provide enumerators with free bus fares. Idaho Falls cried that it had been robbed by census-takers of 15% of its population...
...Well," said the tired gentleman, "One of you folks done broke the law by not filing your census blank with the guv'ment...
...buoyant talk of boom and the signs of it in company earnings, cautious prophets had kept a nervous eye on one critical statistic. That was the figure on unemployment, which by January had reached the 4,000,000 mark. Last week, for the first time this year, the Census Bureau reported that the nation's unemployed had dropped well below...
Sorry, Wrong Number. In Odessa, Texas, a woman called at the census office to be counted because she was not on speaking terms with her next door neighbor, the enumerator. In Canton, Ohio, a man phoned the census office to correct the income figure he had given when interviewed at home, explained that he did not want his wife to know exactly how much he made. In St. Louis, the census director agreed to mail out forms to three spinster sisters who feared that the neighbors would talk if a male counter entered their home...