Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aerial mapping in cooperation with the Navy and the results of systematic surveys from 1898 to the present come under the ken of R. H. Sargent, of the United States Geological Survey. Profiter from 25 years of Alaskan experience, he is scheduled to give an illustrated lecture at 2:30 o'clock in the Geographical Institute...
...automobile, boat, blimp, bombing plane, autogiro and snowshoe, agents of the Bureau of Biological Survey, game wardens, State police, collegians and private volunteers have for months been quietly scouting lakes, ponds, marshes and ocean inlets from Canada to Mexico. Last week the Biological Survey announced their findings. They had counted some 9,500,000 wild ducks and geese, estimated as one-quarter of the North American wildfowl population. For 5,000,000 U. S. wildfowlers that was cheering news. It marked the second consecutive year of duck increase. Duck Recovery to oldtime abundance, however, was still a long...
...than this from private show business, The Billboard states and accepts two main statistical premises: 1) average life of all new Broadway shows in 1936 was 5.12 weeks; and 2) six out of seven actors are engaged in only one play per year, a figure established by a Billboard survey in 1934. On this basis, an overwhelming number of actors who earn $40 to $90 a week averaged between $204 and $504 as their annual theatrical incomes in 1936. In the $100-$199 wage bracket the yearly figure was $510 and $1,014. These figures were apparently more than guesswork...
...Anderson planted three cocoanut palms there and the U. S. Geographical Survey finally put it on charts, but not until transoceanic aviation suddenly zoomed into commercial and military importance in 1935 did the U. S. formally claim jurisdiction over Kingman Reef. Some 1,100 miles from Honolulu, this coral atoll is part of the Territory of Hawaii, is in the exact geographical centre of the Pacific. Its five-mile horseshoe is awash at high-tide except for one patch of sand. But the barrier breaks the combers, provides a quiet lagoon which is a mid-ocean lake, perfect...
...most accurate and complete data yet available for this region, the new "encyclopedia" is expected to be of use to weather scientists in their predictions and in research on origins of various climatic phenomena. Prepared largely by Charles F. Brooks '11, director of the Blue Hill Meteorological Observatory, the survey has been published as part of a massive German handbook of climatology which upon completion will present the important weather facts of the whole world...