Statistical Abstract of the United States

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1976
 

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Page 283 - The purpose of the reserve components is to provide trained units and qualified persons available for active duty in the armed forces, in time of war or national emergency...
Page 179 - Inventory Report on Real Property Owned by the United States Throughout the World as of June 30, 1970.
Page 522 - ... by him. When a landowner has one or more tenants, renters, croppers, or managers, the land operated by each is considered a farm.
Page iii - Published annually since 1878, this handy and indispensable volume is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political and economic organization of the United States.
Page 3 - ... children under 18 years old, living in a household and related to, but not including, either the householder or the householder's spouse.
Page 3 - family" refers to a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such persons are considered as members of the same family.
Page 381 - Members, 2 from each State, who are elected to serve for a term of 6 years. Senators were originally chosen by the State legislatures. This procedure was changed by the seventeenth amendment to the Constitution, adopted in 1913, which made the election of Senators a function of the people.
Page 283 - Defense to a military officer who performed exceptionally meritorious service in a duty of great responsibility with the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Organization of the Joint Chiefs of Staff...
Page 3 - household" comprises all persons who occupy a "housing unit," that is, a house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room that constitutes "separate living quarters.
Page 29 - Survey, includes members of the Armed Forces living off post or with their families on post, but excludes all other members of the Armed Forces; refers to 243 SMSAs as defined in 1970 census publications.

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