COMING SHORTAGE
i. MARRIAGEABLE SPINSTERS SCIENTIST'S FORECAST (Received September 6, 9.40 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. A shortage of marriageable spinsters, bachelors being compelled to marry younger girls, was foretold by Sir William Beveridge, at a Science Congress, i He explained that owing to the1 decline in births during the Great War there will be a shortage of probably 50,000 spinsters by 1943, causing the average marriage age of spinsters, 25 years, to fall sharply. He prophesied a resultant slump in marriages in 1945.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 9
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83COMING SHORTAGE Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 58, 6 September 1937, Page 9
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