From Washington came provocative news last week. Its cud could and would be chewed for the next decade by manufacturers, economists, biologists, social planners, realtors, politicians, dreamers, speculators. It was the near-final figures on the 1940 Census.†
Cherubic, soft-voiced William Lane Austin, director of the Bureau of the Census, met newsmen in the long, hot conference room of the Department of Commerce Building and made public his figures. Total population of the U. S. as of April 1, he announced, was 131,409,881. To his report of last spring's painstaking national nose count, he had few remarks to add. Chiefly...
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