Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York's solid, plodding Mayor Robert Wagner is no man to gamble, but last spring he thought he saw a sure thing. For a mere $1,500,000 fee, he could get the Federal Census Bureau to count the city's population; certainly with growth everywhere New York was bound to show an increase-and each new nose would entitle the city to an additional $6.75 in state aid in the interval before the regular 1960 census count. The contracts were signed, the counters went to work, and Wagner saw to it that the census takers even counted...
Last week the Census Bureau handed in its final report, and the sure thing gurgled down the drain. New York's population is now 7,795,471, down 96,486 in seven years. Mayor Wagner refused to accept the figures. Then the state attorney general eased the pain by ruling that state aid would not be reduced unless the next regular count confirmed the decline. Net result of the gamble: a $1,500,000 loss to the municipal pocketbook and a stiff blow to municipal pride...
Burning Thirst. Jesuit Davis is distressed at what he feels is a Jewish tendency to put Jewish interests before those of the rest of society. As examples of this he cites Jewish opposition to inclusion of a question about religion on the U.S. census and the lack of public Jewish support for the Catholic position in the Hildy McCoy adoption case (TIME, April 1 et seq.). "Too often . . . the question Is es gut far Iden? (How will it affect the Jews?) seems to determine official Jewish action on public issues...
ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION is increasing, says Senate antimonopoly subcommittee. Its 18-month survey of latest Census Bureau figures shows that 50 biggest U.S. companies accounted for 23% of total value of U.S. manufactures in 1954 v. 17% in 1947. Top four automakers had 75% of auto and truck market v. 56% in 1947; top four appliance makers held 50% of market v. 36% in 1947; top four steelmakers held...
Tiny Lebanon prospers by being the toll bridge between the West and the Arab world, and it preserves its bit of independence by a masterly balancing of opposites. It has not held a census in 15 years, because a census would probably undo the useful fiction that it is almost exactly half Christian, half Moslem. Its electoral balancing act is unique in all the world. Having long been plagued by bloody religious feuds, Lebanon now sees to it that every man running for the same office is of the same religion...