Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked overtime. One super-diligent engineer stayed on the job for 48 hours straight following Hitler's epochal Reichstag speech. Someone finally made him go home. When he had been asleep only an hour, his telephone rang. "This," said a velvet voice, "is the Crossley radio survey. Will you tell me what program you have been listening...
...FORTUNE'S September survey deflated all 1940 balloons except Franklin Roosevelt's, found that no honest-to-goodness Republican bandwagon exists. Polices were asked first: If you had your choice in 1940, would you choose Mr. Roosevelt or someone else? Answers: 34.9% would choose Mr. Roosevelt, 53.3% would not, 11.8% didn't know. Who else? was the next question. The polices said: Don't know, 63.8%; Dewey, 9.6% ; Garner, 8% ; Vandenberg, 6.1% and on down to a vanishing point with Taft, Hull, Hoover, McNutt, Landon...
...fattened into one of the fastest growing businesses in the U. S., with an annual gross of some $36,000,000. Every disc-buying jitterbug knows that records have been booming, but why, and just how much, has been anybody's guess. Last week in a figure-packed survey, FORTUNE put an end to guessing...
...about an education which is administered by a force pump. I do not believe that, by and large, students of science, let us say, obtain much of permanent value when they are compelled (note, I say "compelled") to take a course in "general literature" or "universal history" or a "survey of western art since 1200"; and I am sure that those of a literary or artistic bent are not educated by being forced to take freshman chemistry or physics...
Last month, the New York Times's scholarly Berlin correspondent, Otto D. Tolischus, cabled home a learned, heavily statisticized summary of an official survey of Nazi economics. Appended to his cable was a casual last paragraph which remarked that unofficial estimates placed Germany's secret debt at between 20-25,000,000,000 marks, and her total public debt at upward of 64,000,000,000 marks ($25,683,200,000). Last week SEC embarrassed the Nazi Government by asking it to tell all about its hush-hush bookkeeping...