Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never before has farming been so full of faddists making loud claims and crying simple cures. In the latest issue of the authoritative Scientific Monthly, Dr. Charles E. Kellogg, head of the Division of Soil Survey, U.S. Department of Agriculture, assesses them all with a skeptical eye. Some of the popular theories, he believes, have good things in them, but none of them tell the whole story...
...When. How long would it last? A firm answer was given this week in the Federal Reserve Board's third annual survey of durable goods spending. With minor reservations, it was what businessmen wanted to hear: for at least the rest of this year there will be no letup in the demand for durable goods (autos, refrigerators, etc.), the backbone of the boom. About 20 million spending units (families) bought autos, radios, washing machines...
...less in 1947 than in 1946 and more of them went into debt, they still had enough cash in their pockets to keep demand at its peak. Up to 4,100,000 planned to buy cars, as many as at the beginning of 1947. "There is no change," the survey noted, "in the prospective demand for other selected durable goods...
More to Come. An increasing amount of such buying would be on credit, said the survey. But consumers were making more (total money income had risen 10%), and the added income was well enough distributed among all income groups to support this financing. Of the 48.4 million spending units, about 2.5 million more had incomes above $5,000 in 1947 than...
...moron as one grade above an imbecile, two above an idiot. He has a mental age of eight to twelve, an I.Q. between 50 and 70. How does he get along, or does he? Dr. Ruby Jo Reeves Kennedy, sociologist at the Connecticut College for Women, made a survey of 256 morons, decided that in these days of full employment, the moron is generally employable and doing surprisingly well for himself...