Word: influxes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...office of Advisor opened originally because of the influx of veterans' wives. Now, although the veterans are vanishing, the proportion of married students is almost the same: about 37 percent of the Grad School and six percent of the College. This indicates that the abundance of Harvard wives was not merely a result of the war. It looks now as though Mrs. Baker's office will be busy for a long time...
...Wilderness. World War II tripped off the biggest influx of newcomers in the Northwest's history; it had gained a million and a half people. The population of Washington jumped from 1,700,000 to 2,500,000 between 1940 and 1950, Oregon from 1,000,000 to 1,600,000. For the first time, the Northwest, risen from the raw wilderness in little more than a century, seemed to be within range of becoming an industrial dominion, rather than a mere outpost of Eastern manufacturing and finance...
...Oregon registration, Democrats outnumbered Republicans, 354,572 to 346,036, for the first time since the state began listing voters in 1905. Everybody ascribed the change to the postwar influx of job seekers, who have made traditionally conservative Oregon the fastest growing state in the Union...
...Committee's suggestions left restrictions on the influx of Annex students wholly to Radcliffe...
...corrugated tin hovels or sagging tents, with no capital left to drag a flock of youngsters to the next harvest area, and no claim to relief. For some, only federal surplus foods staved off actual starvation. With the onset of tireless, efficient mechanical picking machines and the growing influx of unemployed from the cities, their numbers were swelling again to the highest figure since the days of the Joads...