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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts: in twelve months ending April 1, Chattanooga had 720 marriages, 1,563 divorces. At this rate it would take 3,271,152 years for each of Chattanooga's 51,503 nubile females to marry all of its 45,750 nubile males...
...Osborn's basic thesis is reasonable. Improvements in food-getting require better organization and discipline than most nations possess. And even if all of them were put in practice, that would only postpone the crisis. The human race cannot continue to increase indefinitely at ts present rate without reaching the starvation point-as India has done already...
Massachusetts and Connecticut, the only two states which still prohibit the dissemination of information on the use of contraceptives, were tied for third lowest birth rate in the country in the five-year period 1936 to 1940, he pointed out. Zimmerman termed the present prohibitive law "not only immoral but cruel...
...bill would have no effect on the birth rate," Professor Sax said, "since 90 percent of the married couples in the Greater Boston area already use some form of contraceptive...
Granted there is much to be said for the type of socialism which the compulsary 21 meal contract involves. If an option were to be given for 10 or 14 meal contracts, the rate for the full 21 would have to be raised somewhat is order to lower the rate to any extent for the limited contract basis. But it is not purely a question of those who can afford paying for meals they do not eat in order to help those who cannot afford. Because of the diversity of the groups involved and the position of the administration...