The Figurama

Year-end inventories brought some interesting figures. Among them:

LABOR

Strikes involving 3 1/2 million workers cost the U.S. 55 million man-days of work last year (22.9 million in 1951). The 55-day steel strike starting last June accounted for 23.8 million man-days, two-fifths of the total lost.

THE VOTE

For the second national election in a row, Utah (pop. 709,000) outranked other states in percentage of voter turnout (80%). Runners-up: Delaware, Idaho, New Hampshire, Rhode Island. In the whole U.S., 63% of the population over 21 went to the polls.

LAW & ORDER

For the first time in the 71 years during which records have been kept, no lynchings were reported in 1952. Since 1882, there have been 4,725 deaths by mob violence in the U.S., but only eleven lynchings have occurred since 1942.

THE AIR

In 1952, military transport planes winged over the Pacific on an average of one every 45 minutes; an Arctic flight or an Atlantic crossing took place every hour and 15 minutes. One Alaska-based squadron chalked up 700 North Pole crossings over a five-year period.

THE JUDICIARY

The federal judiciary, after 20 years of New Deal-Fair Deal rule, was made up of 248 Democrats, 59 Republicans (including 46 survivors of pre-Roosevelt days) and one judge without party affiliation. Roosevelt and Truman appointed 242 Democrats to judgeships and only 17 Republicans. Eisenhower will have nine vacancies to fill after Jan. 20.

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