Word: survey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Harmful? If a "Dr. Binsey" made a scientific survey to prove that 99 out of 100 boys steal, said Father Harold Gardiner, S.J., an editor of America, parents would not demand a change in the larceny laws. Demanding a change in laws regulating sex on the basis of Kinsey's findings is just as senseless, he said; moral laws are unchangeable. The book may do harm Father Gardiner thought, because "indiscriminate knowledge improperly acquired and applied is an incentive to a lack of virtue. . . ." It would be far better, said he, if the Kinsey report were in the hand...
Under APICPPAS, the branches of the Armed Services are submitting requests to the board for tentative allocations of productive capacity. The board will allocate the best sources of supply, as determined by a survey of U.S. industrial plants. Representatives of the military and of the supplying plants will then get together to work out details...
...survey will cover about 25,000 plants, representing about 90% of total U.S. industrial capacity. The board has already tagged and allotted 11,000 of them. The services to which they have been assigned will begin canvassing managements this week to discuss what and how much the plants can produce...
...corporate profits were not too big, said the National City Bank of New York, after a survey of 3,102 corporations representing about 45% of the total U.S. corporate net worth. The companies had netted profits of $9,228,038,000 (37% more than in 1946), for an average return of 12.2% on net worth v. 9.5% in 1946. But. profit margins on manufacturers' sales, although up from last year, said the bank, were narrower than margins in "other years of active business...
...leading cinemag publishers* are now making a strenuous bid to get their movie advertising back. Their method: a $50,000 "presentation" to studio heads, based on a two-year survey made by Columbia University's Dr. Paul Lazarsfeld. The Lazarsfeld survey, made public last week, contends that movie-magazine readers are 1) the "opinion leaders" among moviegoers and thus 2) make or break a film at the box office...