Word: censuses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Asked to define a "small business" last week, Alabama's Democrat John Sparkman, chairman of the Senate Small Business Committee, replied: "The Defense Department defines it as any plant that in itself and affiliates employs not more than 500. The Bureau of Census breaks down the definition into type of business, volume and number of employees. I have also heard that a small businessman is one who is not big enough to maintain a representative in Washington...
...addition to this preparation for the Outside World the college's administration has taken one other precaution. It has adopted a "census" system limiting a girl's power while in college and providing for decentralization of student executive power...
Because of this system the President and the Vice President of the College Government Association, members of category one, can hold no other offices. In addition to this, and according to the by-laws of the census system, they must maintain a C-plus academic rating. This rating requirement drops in the lower classifications, as do the limitations. A girl who is a Corridor Representative, for example, may hold three other jobs in Group six, a category which includes such positions as N.S.A. Alternate Delegates, and the Chairman of the Girl Scouts...
Other remarkable features of extra-curricular life are the existence of two weekly news-papers and an elaborate "census" system (described on page three) which rates and regulates membership and office holding in the undergraduate organizations...
...skeds' best argument against CAB is the fact that they fathered low passenger rates, thus converted thousands to air travel and helped all airlines. (Bureau of the Census surveys showed that 75% of non-sked passengers would have traveled by bus, train or not at all if it hadn't been for aircoach.) In places like Alaska, non-skeds have helped bring a revolution in transportation. Says Alaska s Governor Ernest Gruening: "The Civil Aeronautics Board has been blind to our needs and deaf to our appeals...