Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ever since the first census was taken in 1790 (there were 3,929,214 people in the country not counting Indians), the U.S. had reacted to the process as enthusiastically as a growing boy getting his height chalked up on the kitchen wall. Over the years a few census takers had been pinked by squirrel guns or heaved down long flights of stairs, but the percentage of objectors was unbelievably small-in 1940 the Government did not find it necessary to prosecute one census evader. As the 1950 census taking began last week, the country smirked as happily and self...
Exhibit A. In Youngstown, Ohio, Census Supervisor John Gillespie asked a middle-aged schoolteacher who applied for a census job if she could qualify on good handwriting, was told: "I ought to. I taught you how to write...
...Bureau of the Census lists 202,000 physicians (M.D.s), many of whom are retired, or working for the Government, insurance companies, medical colleges or research groups, leaving an estimated 150,000 in active private practice, general or specialized. There are also 11,233 osteopathic physicians...
Furthermore, by latest census, the Fon has only 110 wives, not 600.* Forty-four of them are very old ladies whom he inherited from his predecessor. All of them, the Fon explained, lead useful and happy lives, and they are all free to leave the compound. Often the older wives themselves ask the Fon to take new wives to help with the housework. The U.N. investigators found no case where a girl had been forced into marriage. The wives of the aged Fon had only one regret: he was too old to sire any more children...
...hrer. To blaze the way for another New Order, Zizendorf murders the unsuspecting Leevey and then beats to death harmless, helpless Herr Stintz, who had discovered the murder. As the census taker follows meekly along, as Madame Snow cheers enthusiastically and Jutta waits in bed, Zizendorf becomes Germany's new Fiihrer...