Male & Female

The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. correlated some figures about the U.S. male & female, came up recently with the following news:

Men are growing taller. The average height of men aged 20 to 29, examined at military induction centers in May 1943, was 68.15 inches, two-thirds of an inch more than the height of the same age group among the first million mobilized for war in 1917. The proportion of six-footers among men in their 20s is now about a third greater than it was 25 years ago.

Women of native U.S. birth now produce more children per capita than their foreign-born U.S. sisters. In 1920, the foreign-born women had an annual birth rate one and a half times that of the native-born. In the following 20 years, the natives caught up, achieved an annual birth rate of 50.7 children per 1,000 women, as compared with the foreign-born figure of 49.5 per 1,000.

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