Word: answer
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that much more inquisitive financial questions had been asked in the 1850, 1860 and 1870 censuses (TIME, March 4), that some of the new questions had been inserted this year at the earnest request of business and sociological institutions; that no one had ever been jailed for refusing to answer a census question...
...official acts encouraged them. As Europeans noted with fear in their hearts the brightening skies, the lengthening days, the first flowers of spring, it remained to be seen whether the U. S. envoy could smoke out from London and Paris the terms of peace that would be a sufficient answer to the warlike challenge of Berlin...
Sample question: "You are helping to load a sanitation truck at night. A passing pedestrian asks you the location of a street address. You do not know the answer. . . . Of the following, the best procedure is to tell the pedestrian a) that you are a sanitation man and not a traffic cop, b) not to interfere with a city employee in the performance of his duties, c) to ask another man in the crew because you are busy, d) that you do not know and refer him to a nearby traffic officer, e) to look it up in the telephone...
...change, since it will be up to him to accept or reject and to prove the success or failure of any new plan. After due consideration of what has gone before, all that can be said for these proposals is an abrupt "Next"! No doubt, plenty of "nexts" will answer...
...Each census taker will have learned a little etiquette. Census questions can be answered in 15 minutes, housing survey questions in ten more. In most cases (75% in cities and towns) the questions will be answered by the woman of the house. For refusing to answer, the penalty can be $100 fine or 60 days in jail. For intentionally giving false information, $500 or a year. For census takers who gossip: up to $2,000 fine, or five years in jail. Census dossiers are available to no one but the censusee and the Census Bureau. Reassuring note to balky censusees...