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Show MARRIAGE AND DIVORCE 1950 Marriage Rate Climbs 6 Per Cent Je 'U.S. public health service re-d re-d recently the marriage rate e and the divorce rate dropped year SUtes durin2 the past n,, Nicy's figures show the tauher oi 1950 marriages-1,669,934 1949 "tv,rSe nearly 8 Per ceht over Th ' , increase since 1946. aJ0tal of 1950 divorces esti-lalel esti-lalel at 385,000-was the smallest since 1943. The drop was 3 per cent from the preceding year and marked the fourth successive year of declines. The agency gave no explanation ex-planation for the increase in marriages mar-riages or decrease of divorces. Statisticians calculated that 11 out of every 1,000 men, women and children chil-dren in the nation got married last year. Only 2V4 of each 1,000 found it did not work out. |