Word: survey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Source of the Journal's exclusive story, quickly picked up by other Manhattan newspapers, was a special survey started last March by 35 WPA investigators to find out whether WPAbsentees needed medical attention. So astounded by the first findings that it had its own investigators trailed, the WPA kept its report secret. By some remarkable prestidigitation the Journal produced a copy, spread it flamboyantly over the front page. Investigators found, the survey stated, that 27% of the 2,084 absentees could not be located at the addresses given, that the residences named turned out to be vacant lots, playgrounds...
...sociologists made an exhaustive survey of tourist camps near Dallas, Tex., discovered that nearly 75% of the patrons were not tourists at all, but local couples who used the cabins few about an hour. Many proprietors admitted that "couple trade" was the foundation of their business. Some even admitted discouraging legitimate tourists because they stayed all night, brought less revenue than local lovers. In one camp, a series of "couples" rented one cabin 16 times in one night. In ten weeks, one camp was patronized by 254 "couples," 109 of whom came from Dallas. Only seven gave their right names...
...ended his 417-mile cruise at Campobello Island, seeing his summer home for the first time since 1933. At week's end he planned to journey to Quebec for a one-day call on Canada's Governor General, Lord Tweedsmuir, then set out on a short motoring survey of New England's flood-control needs, ending at Hyde Park...
...requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many a U. S. educational observer. Last week Professor Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia University's Department of Educational Research reported a survey of normal schools that provided their critics with authoritative ammunition. Said...
...frank to state that it would be an inexcusable waste of your money and a senseless waste of our time to proceed further with the work of survey unless and until such changes are made in management as I deem an essential preliminary to any continuation of my work...