The Cities

There were two new faces in the list of the 20 biggest U.S. cities--Seattle and Houston. Houston, in fact, had jumped from 21st to 14th. The first 20 (1940 rank in parentheses):

1. New York--7,841,023 (1st)

2. Chicago--3,631,835 (2nd)

3. Philadelphia--2,057,210 (3rd)

4. Los Angeles--1,954,036 (5th)

5. Detroit--1,837,613 (4th)

6. Baltimore--939,865 (7th)

7. Cleveland--909,546 (6th)

8. St. Louis--852,253 (8th)

9. Washington--792,234 (11th)

10. Boston--788,552 (9th)

11. San Francisco--760,439(12th)

12. Pittsburgh--673,756 (10th)

13. Milwaukee --632.938 (13th)

14. Houston --593,600 (21st)

15. Buffalo --576,506 (14th)

16. New Orleans--568,407 (15th)

17. Minneapolis --517,410 (16th)

18. Cincinnati --499,749 (17th)

19. Seattle--462,981 (22nd)

20. Kansas City--453,290 (19th).

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