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Show rU.S. BABY BOOM Julation Increases 2.5 Millions Yearly cording to a statistical bulle-isued bulle-isued by the Metropolitan Life ance Company, the United s may soon break all world's Ms in population growth. Amer-J, Amer-J, are being born at the rate of ,1.000 and more each 10 years. ""' estimated that by 1962 there gM 3e 181,500,000 o us. fVVOhs in the United States set an !g vine record of more than 3.900,- 000 last year. After subtracting the deaths, the gain amounts to 2,650.000. This reflects, the report said, the increase in marriages after the start of the Korean War-There War-There is a general trend to break away from the one-or-two-child family fam-ily that prevailed before World War II, the report adds. Also, there is a general trend in the United States toward earlier marriages. |