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Show OFFICIAL CENSUS i" Ij U.S. Population Now 150,697,316 ! ! As of April 1, 1950, there were 150.697.316 persons in the United States. That is the official count as recently released. This represented an increase of I 19,028,068 since the 1940 census. ; In the last 10 years there has j been a considerable shift in the ( , ! concentration of the population. As '! a result seven states will gain a i ! total of 14 seats in the house of i ' : : 1 1 : " ' ! representatives; nine states will lose that many seal ). The reapportionment reap-portionment will take effect in the congress convening in 1953, assuming as-suming the 435-seat total of the house is not changed in the meantime. mean-time. Congress could change the membership mem-bership total of the house if it wished, but most observers believed be-lieved this unlikely. |