Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sitting here at my desk . . . [when] I happened to glance at your hypnotic "The Finest Time of the Year" [TIME, Oct. 11]. I got as far as "First graders brought home cutout paper pumpkins," and fled from the factory for a personal survey of Dubuque County under "October's bright blue sky" . . . I found everything in this part of the Upper Mississippi Valley as advertised in your excellent paper. The sumac along the river bluffs is in excellent shape, "the greatest corn crop in history" awaits picking, down in Nine Mile Island slough the advance guard of "honkers...
Before Hollinger can move a ton of ore, it must build a railroad to the St. Lawrence at Seven Islands, where it is ice-free about ten months out of the year. The survey for the 360-mile rail line ($100 million to build and equip) will be finished next year. The line will take three years to complete. Hollinger already has an eye on Eaton Canyon's 350-ft, waterfall, with its 500,000 h.p. potential, for a power source. Production in Ungava is probably five years away, and some $200 million will be poured into it before...
...Museum Director Francis Henry Taylor and such ardent defenders of the new faith as James Johnson Sweeney and Columbia's able Professor Meyer Schapiro. After two days' discussion, the fog was thick, but an island of agreement seemed to loom in it. Last week LIFE tried to survey the island through...
Freeman proves, contrary to schoolbook accounts, that George didn't survey the Lord Fairfax estates at 16. He went along for the ride with young George William Fairfax (whose wife, Sally, he later fell in love with). Washington helped out but actually the two youngsters got tired of it and quit before the job was over...
Last week Churchcraft Pictures, which makes religious films for distribution to churches, completed a nationwide survey on whether or not the figure of Christ should be used on the screen. Yes, said four out of five pastors, parochial-school heads and Sunday-school superintendents. Ordinary churchgoers agreed, almost as emphatically...