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Show 1947 Baby Crop Broke Records Makers and sellers of products for the youngest set are warned not to plan for another toaby crop like last year's record-breaker. But there's small comfort in that for the school ma'arm. She is expecting a 30 per cent increase enrollment in the next decade. And taxpayers may be asked to put out $10 billion for new schools. Last year there were 23,932.000 enrolled in public schools. Next month teachers are looking for 24 373,000 bright and shining faces. By 1957 they expect 33,561,-000 33,561,-000 All because of the bumper baby croos during the war and 5after. The present 870,000 teaching staff must expand by 300,000 to take care of all these new children, the National Education Association Associa-tion estimates. Th-e national birth rate has risen ris-en 56 per cent since 1933, they report due to "favorable economic conditions and special psychological psycholog-ical factors engendered by the war." This year's baby crop is likely to be the second largest in the nation's history. In the Pacific Coast states the birth rate doubled between 1933 and 1947. The smallest increase was in the South Atlantic states where it was 43 per cent. In 1933 the Pacific Coast contributed con-tributed 5.2 per cent of all births in the nation, and last year 9.2 |