There were two new faces in the list of the 20 biggest U.S. citiesSeattle and Houston. Houston, in fact, had jumped from 21st to 14th. The first 20 (1940 rank in parentheses):
1. New York7,841,023 (1st)
2. Chicago3,631,835 (2nd)
3. Philadelphia2,057,210 (3rd)
4. Los Angeles1,954,036 (5th)
5. Detroit1,837,613 (4th)
6. Baltimore939,865 (7th)
7. Cleveland909,546 (6th)
8. St. Louis852,253 (8th)
9. Washington792,234 (11th)
10. Boston788,552 (9th)
11. San Francisco760,439(12th)
12. Pittsburgh673,756 (10th)
13. Milwaukee 632.938 (13th)
14. Houston 593,600 (21st)
15. Buffalo 576,506 (14th)
16. New Orleans568,407 (15th)
17. Minneapolis 517,410 (16th)
18. Cincinnati 499,749 (17th)
19. Seattle462,981 (22nd)
20. Kansas City453,290 (19th).
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