Word: survey
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Grand Rapids provisionally accepted the calamity but never really believed it. It was certainly not the fault of Grand Rapids, said its citizens, but of the evil loose in the world and the merchandising policies of Simmons. In 1934 the City of Grand Rapids hired an industrial engineer to survey the possibilities of reopening Berkey & Gay. Grand Rapids businessmen went into a huddle with promoters. Promoter Frank Donald McKay, who had worked in Grand Rapids furniture factories as a boy. had a long string of organizations and reorganizations to his credit. Poker-faced, astute, potent in Michigan politics, he served...
...total of 280 students graduating this year from Middle Western secondary schools have applied for the available Harvard College Prize Fellowships, a recent survey has disclosed. Of this number 133 rank first scholastically in their respective classes...
...since last term. We felt that in general both the caliber of the section men and the methods of teaching had risen above previous levels. We offer this second report in a spirit of constructive criticism, in the hope that it may accomplish as satisfying results as the first survey. Because of the nature of the Guide, it is impossible to recite commendations of the courses; we are concerned with bettering the curriculum set-up. But this does not mean that we found only undesirable conditions in our survey of the Freshman year...
...Babson's survey, based entirely on Congregational figures, shows that U. S. Protestant church attendance reached its peak in 1880, has since been "running downhill." In 1921 Protestant churches signed up 1,710,000 new members, in 1935 only 990,000. Although other church statisticians have arranged their figures to indicate that total U. S. church membership keeps abreast of the increase in U. S. population, Roger Babson declares that while 12% of the population attended Protestant churches in 1930, the rate was down to 10.8% last year. Dejected by his findings, good Congregationalist Babson concluded through his spokesman...
Paramount Pictures, Inc. retained him to "survey" its practices, problems and policies. Though Paramount emerged from a 77B reorganization last year, the company still has its troubles. Since much of both his fortune and experience was derived from cinema companies and their stocks, Joe Kennedy was as logical a choice for this overhaul as he had been for RCA's. Said Repairman Kennedy: "How long the engagement will be is undecided...