The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. correlated some figures about the U.S. male & female, came up recently with the following news:
Men are growing taller. The average height of men aged 20 to 29, examined at military induction centers in May 1943, was 68.15 inches, two-thirds of an inch more than the height of the same age group among the first million mobilized for war in 1917. The proportion of six-footers among men in their 20s is now about a third greater than it was 25 years ago.
Women of native U.S. birth now produce more children per capita than their foreign-born U.S....
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