Show TRENDS AND TRENDS AND HOW THEY AFFECT US Total population of the United States grows so fast you lose track of it it Forty years ago million 10 years ag million Now million according to the Kipa Kiplinger Kip Kip- a linger Washington Agency By million and J trials trial's tha s 's alot of people to be fed clothed housed and serviced People will overflow the landscape around the cities cities far farther far far- ther they than now They will migrate to new places and fillup fill fillup up UJ areas now sparsely settled Look at t the new babies Back in the birth rate waslow w was low It jumped in the during the war Now it continues on and on very high Rate steady near 25 per 1000 1900 of population making higher total each year Young mothers now are having more babies than their mothers had Families larger too more seconds fifths Young Yo ng folks nowadays start start out to have more A Average age for marriage of a young woman is 20 of a ayoung ayoung young ung man 23 First baby comes two years after marriage son on the average other babies at intervals of two years Birth wave wave ve from 1 1940 40 on will bring a marriage wave 20 years years' later with another housing boom The present housing boom boom about about new homes in 1956 is 1956 is down from its peak mainly because there were fewer births in the This slack-off slack is likely to continue two or three years apart from tight money factor Consider autos In 1956 six million In 1957 By 1965 probably up to with some peak years of 10 million Late teen teen-agers add to the total with their older Ider cars And everything upgrading upgrading bigger bigger better Incomes are rising 41 per cent of all families are arenow arenow arenow now in the bracket Most of these people are between between be be- tween 25 and 55 Many are professionals managers self self- employed and as a rule have more education Most of them live in suburbs or fringes not within big cities hence the 56 per cent growth in fringe areas during the past six years Land values are rising Figures are seldom int interesting resting But these figures from rom Kiplinger who s a specialist on figures mean much to us here ere The tren trend should be anticipated |