Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong-minded men stated strong-minded opinions, and for the most part they differed only in detail and in intensity. Rear Admiral Ralph Ofstie, in his younger days one of the Navy's hottest pilots, a wartime carrier commander, Navy member of the U.S. Strategic Bombing Survey of Japan and of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Evaluation Group at Bikini, declared that atomic area bombing would be little more than "random mass slaughter" and militarily unsound. Strategic bombing, he said, did not have a decisive effect in World War II. Cried Ofstie, "It is time that strategic bombing...
...dogma of Darwinism instead. Soon Orr became convinced that food or the lack of it was the reason for most human ills. "He began," one writer said, "tracking down scientific clues like a detective on the trail of a mass murderer." In World War II an Orr survey provided the basis for British food rationing. He never stopped lecturing people on eating the right kind of food; once he complained that he could get farmers interested in feeding their animals properly "but I canna get them interested in the food of their ain bairns, far less in the bairns...
Professor Talcott Parsons, Chairman of the Department, announced yesterday that he is heading a group which is studying the inter-relation of the three divisions of Social Relations: sociology, psychology, and anthropology. This is the first such survey ever made...
...strikes were having much effect on business. It would be several weeks before most auto manufacturers felt any real pinch in their steel supplies. Some businessmen were cutting down on forward buying, and steel warehouses were planning to allocate their dwindling supplies. But Mill & Factory magazine, in its latest survey of 1,000 manufacturers, found that 63% of them thought that the business outlook was brighter now than six months...
Fiddlesticks. In Brisbane, Australia, Minister for Transport J. E. Duggan announced the results of a survey: only 2% of Australian longshoremen swear, while 29.8% of Members of Parliament use cuss words...