Tabulation of unemployment census returns begun in capital. Washington, D.C., Nov. 24. Counting of the returns from the millions of unemployed census questionnaires sent out last week was begun today in a specifically rented warehouse by hundreds of clerks employed for the task. This is a general vi
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