Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...annual "mobility index," the Census Bureau reported last week that during the twelve months ending last March, recession or no, a normal one-fifth (19.8%) of the population (i.e., 33 million) had changed homes. Score for the more mobile Western states...
...census figures provide wholesale proof of a mushrooming demand for knowledge in gerontology and for the services of geriatricians. In 1900 the life expectancy of a U.S. male at birth was 49 years, and there were only 374,000 Americans aged 80 and over-one in 200 population. Now it is estimated that there are nearly 2,300,000, or almost three in 200 population; nearly 1,300,000 are women, slightly fewer than 1,000,000 are men. Projecting present trends in death rates, the National Office of Vital Statistics predicts that by 1980 there will...
...practical level, the Brown-Knowland race can shape California politics for years to come. California's delegation to the U.S. House of Representatives now stands at 13 Democrats to 17 Republicans from 30 districts carefully gerrymandered by a state legislature long under G.O.P. control. But after the 1960 census, California will probably rate 37 House seats (v. 40 for New York). If Pat Brown can lead his party to an across-the-board sweep this year and come even close to maintaining his pace while in office, then a Democratic state legislature will control the post-census redistricting...
...House of Representatives, whose 435 members are apportioned to the states by population, is due for a reshuffle after 1960. By then, predicted the Census Bureau last week, the national nose count will be 180 million, up 29 million from 1950. On this basis, booming California, which gained seven seats after the 1950 census, will probably get another seven, boosting its total to 37. This would put it just behind New York (now 43, but slated to drop to 40), and well ahead of Pennsylvania (30 now, 27 after 1960). Other probable gainers: Florida, with three; Michigan and Texas...
Designed by Manhattan Architects Peter Blake and Julian Neski around the theme of transportation, the exhibition, using a figure of 60 million as its U.S. auto census, shows how Americans use and enjoy their cars, and how architects try to solve the problems of resulting congestion. The display includes the maze of Los Angeles expressways, multiparking garages and motels. It shows the plazas of Rockefeller Center. I.M. Pei's Denver Mile-High Center, and Mies van der Rohe's Manhattan Seagram Building. It chronicles the mass move to the suburbs by displaying a variety of housing, ranging from...