Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Panama City (?). No doubt but that the trail blazed by Señor Divo is the forerunner of the Pan-American Highway through this jungle and we wish to announce that our Service Stations have gained a decided jump on the engineers by moving in prior to the survey of the road...
Landscape- Returning to his upper Fifth Avenue home after an energetic survey of polling places, Mayor LaGuardia felt a tug at his coattails, turned to shake hands with an 8-year-old admirer who cried: "It's a landscape. LaGuardia...
According to the athletic records for 1936. Harvard ranks sixth in a nationwide survey conducted by College Humor's John R. Tunis '11 to determine what universities are "tops" in sports...
...Washington statistician hired by the commission for the purpose, Cecil Vearl Maudlin, made a survey and joyfully "discovered" that eight of the ten big anthracite producers and seven of the nine anthracite railroads were "controlled" by Morgan interests. In 1920 the Supreme Court ordered the anthracite carriers to divest themselves of their coal properties. According to Mr. Maudlin, the result of that order was that both mines and railroads fell into the hands of Morgan & friends. And Mr. Maudlin reported: "Under such a situation they can forego profits on the production of anthracite and recoup them in high freight rates...
Soap is famed. It has a magazine named for it and has limericks written about it,*but until this week no one apparently had ever fully investigated world soap statistics. This week Soap, a monthly magazine, publishes what it claims is the first such survey. Among its findings...