Word: takers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile, Uncle Sam Calling, with a cast of characters including Census Taker ("bright, cheerful"); friendly Farmer John Dawson, survivor of five nosy censuses; Mrs. Virginia Boswell, "attractive young homemaker"; sundry objectors, alarmists, was on the air with soothing Government answers. The soothe...
...Each census taker will have learned a little etiquette. Census questions can be answered in 15 minutes, housing survey questions in ten more. In most cases (75% in cities and towns) the questions will be answered by the woman of the house. For refusing to answer, the penalty can be $100 fine or 60 days in jail. For intentionally giving false information, $500 or a year. For census takers who gossip: up to $2,000 fine, or five years in jail. Census dossiers are available to no one but the censusee and the Census Bureau. Reassuring note to balky censusees...
...culture are quotations from Walt Whitman and an album of U. S. folkways, covering U. S. unions, U. S. salesmen, the 30,000 U. S. industrial managers and the 32,000.000 U. S. farmers. In other articles, FORTUNE covers U. S. opinion in a survey, conducted by Poll Taker Elmo Roper, that measures U. S. opinion about itself...
...since 1810, the first official census of all U. S. business (retailing, wholesaling, construction, service industries, etc.) was conducted under Herbert Hoover in 1930. The only ones since then, in 1933 and 1935, were unsatisfactory because businessmen were requested but not compelled to answer the questions. When a census taker asks a question, a businessman answers or may be fined $100 and put away for 60 days...
Wags in busy, whirring Seattle joke about the woman who told a census taker: "I have three sons, two living and one in Portland." Easy-going Portlanders scorn their frenetic rival to the north, refer with somnolent pride to their "city where it's always afternoon...