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...rural turnaround" has again turned around, with metro areas growing faster than non-metro areas. But one aspect of the 1970s trend endures. "People are moving to smaller, less crowded communities," says Peter Morrison of the Rand Corp.'s population research center, "particularly those with a population under a quartermillion." Notes Bryant Robey, founder of American Demographics: "America's past has been one of steady centralization; its future is likely to be one of steady population deconcentration...
...occupied in April when the Reds launched their bloody spring push. Washington's estimate of enemy casualties for the second phase, including those inflicted by allied air action, soared to 162,000. Added to the 90,000 estimated for the first phase, this made a total of a quartermillion. U.N. soldiers found a grisly new way to occupy their time, when they were not fighting: counting the enemy dead whose bodies drifted past them in Korea's muddy, rain-swollen streams. At one point on the east-central front, one G.I. counted 80 in a single...
...Unemployment is now around a quartermillion. Every second worker who has unemployment insurance is jobless...
...National Automobile Chamber of Commerce showing 195,000 cars turned out (compared with 95,000 in June 1932). Ford is not a member of the auto C. of C. So Ford's estimated output of 55,000 cars brings June 1933 production up to a round quartermillion. In spite of the fact that automobile production lagged behind 1932 until last April, production for the first six months of this year was (including Ford) 1,000,000 cars compared to 870,000 year ago. Steel, cotton and some other industries have had comparable booms but buying of steel and cotton...
...been Lawyer Littleton's to the effect that a man like Sinclair, if he were going in for a conspiracy, would not have stopped at the trifling cost of $304,000; and Fall, if he were selling Teapot Dome, could easily have gotten more than a quartermillion...
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