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4. Edited by Alexander Szalai and published in The Hague and in Paris by Mouton in 1972. see p. 213ff for Susan Ferge's study.
5. Ibid, p. 213.
1. For a social history about the discovery and use of energy sources, see David J. Boorstin, The Americans—The Democratic Experience (New York: Random House, 1973), p. 717. See also U.S. Department of Labor, How American Buying Habits Change (Washington, D.C., 1959, Chapters 1, 2 and 8). Chapter 2 in this book relates how several households have recalled family experiences over one or more generations.
2. Boorstin, op. cit., p. 105.
3. Ibid., p. 530.
4. U.S. Bureau of Census, Census of Population, 1970, Vol. 1, Part 1, Characteristics of the Population, U.S. Summary (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972), p. 46.
5. U.S. Bureau of the Census. Statistical Abstract of the United States, 1973 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973) Table 2, p. 5 and Table 900, p. 547.
6. U.S. Department of Labor, How American Buying Habits Change (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1959) p. 182.
7. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Historical Statistics of the U.S., Colonial Times to 1957 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1961) Series Q252, p. 458.
8. U.S. Bureau of the Census, Statistical Abstract of the United States 1973 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1973) Table 2, p. 5 and Table 900, p. 547.
9. Merchandising Week, February 28, 1972, p. 22.
10. Ibid.
11. United Nations, Statistical Office, Department of Economic and Social Affairs. United Nations Statistical Yearbook 1972 (New York: United Nations, 1973), pp. 353-356.
12. Joel Darmstadter, "Appendix: Energy Consumption Trends and Patterns," in Sam H. Schurr, ed., Energy, Economic Growth, and the Environment (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins Press, 1972).
13. Anthony Astrachan, "Problems Behind the Population Boom," The Washington Post, August 21, 1974, p. A-14.
14. U.S. Department of the Interior Release, "Energy Use Up Nearly 5 Percent in 1973," March 13, 1974, p. 1.
15. Geoffrey H. Moore and Janice Neipert Hedges, "Trends in Labor and Leisure," Monthly Labor Review 94 (February 1971), Table 5, and U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (January 1974), Table 25, p. 157.
16. Moore and Hedges, op. cit., p. 7.
17. John P. Robinson, "Historical Changes in How People Spend Their Time," in Andrée Michel, ed., Family Issues of Employed Women in
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