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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Five decades ago, when U. S. population numbered 60,000,000, its rate of growth was 2.5% per year. From 1920 to 1930 it grew 1.6% per year. Now the growth rate of the post-adolescent...
...years immigration outweighed by far the natural increase of the population. It does so no longer. Despite a birth rate which has fallen irregularly since Depression's onset in 1931, U. S. births are this year estimated to exceed deaths by 916,000-, while immigration exceeded emigration by only...
...discussing the German-Austrian influx last week (see p. 9) her subordinates at Angel Island immigration station in San Francisco were wrestling with a Chinese refugee problem. Wives and children of U. S. Chinese are admitted under citizenship laws. They are now filtering across the Pacific at a rate of 225 per month...
...critics found it notable chiefly 1) because, as might have been expected, its story, of which the title is an adequate synopsis, appears to be a composite photograph of the innumerable other pictures on the same theme and 2) because, as might not have been expected, it is first-rate entertainment. Typical product of Producer Goldwyn's 16 authors: Gary Cooper and Merle Oberon, kissing...
President Roosevelt (after eloquent lobbying for publishers by his old friend Lawyer Morris Ernst) proclaimed the postage rate on books containing all reading, no advertising matter, cut from 8? to 1? a pound. Publishers, who have long chafed against higher rates for books than for magazines (previous cost of mailing a 2-lb. book from New York to Los Angeles: 26?: a 2-lb. magazine: 3?), urged the reduction to enable them to reach the 32,000,000 U. S. rural and small-town dwellers who have no access to bookstores...