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Show 1936 Population During recent weeks the Right Reverend Monsignor D.JG. Hunt of Salt Lake City has given radio talks on the peril of the falling birthrate in America. Last week the Metropolitan Metro-politan Life Insurance company released re-leased statistics that confirm figures given by the radio speaker that predict pre-dict that American population will ' soon reach a stable number. 1936 brought the lowest birth rate ever recorded in the 'United States. The death rate was up slightly, and the natural increase in population (excess (ex-cess of births over deaths) was about S per 1,000 an all-time minimum. |