Word: research
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scholar than as a political radical, and on an academic basis only should the merit of his appointment be judged. In selecting Mr. Hicks, the University took into account that he has produced the best historical attempt at American literature, since the Civil War and has done other valuable research work. Nowhere along the official line was there opposition to him, which is proof enough that Harvard has determined to give substance to its oft-mentioned shadow of liberalism...
Harvard has learned by the New York Times that her Bureau of Traffic Research is migrating to Yale. University officials have been completely taken by surprise, for they were not admitted to the secret before the general public. The circumstances immediately call to mind the case of Professor Baker's "47 Workshop," and arouse dark thoughts and suspicions of another New Haven "grab." But consideration will show these to do utterly baseless...
...Traffic Research Bureau has no close financial connections with the University. Its support comes almost entirely from the American Automobile Manufacturers' Association and the individual motor car companies, which pay the operational expenses and contribute the fellowships for study under the Bureau. At the most, Harvard furnishes a few facilities. Hence, the Bureau has no restraining obligations here, is perfectly free to leave whenever it so desires. Any debt which it owes to Harvard for publicity has been amply repaid in kind...
Pulling up its stake at Harvard, the Bureau for Street Traffic Research will move to New Haven this summer to train Yale graduates for professional work as traffic engineers...
...Weld of McCann-Erickson, Inc., the chart was based upon Federal Reserve Board figures for bank debits, wholesale sales and department store sales, R. L. Polk & Co. figures on new car registrations, Editor & Publisher's statistics on advertising lineage and Life Insurance Sales Research Bureau statistics on new policies. Aside from variations in the price level, for which Dr. Weld made no provision, the Dun & Bradstreet analysis gives about the best picture of the current distribution of depression. Published monthly, it is particularly useful to salesmen, many of whom make a policy of telephoning Dun & Bradstreet where...