Word: surveyals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the National Safety Council announced that there were 17,200 deaths from motor accidents in the first six months of 1937-an alltime high (TIME, Aug. 16). Last week the American Automobile Association issued less vital but more controversial statistics when it announced that a survey of 10,000 persons between 20 and 40 years old in 35 U. S. cities had proved clearly that men are better drivers than women. Their average wheel grip measured 114 lb. against 63 lb. for women. They could withstand 58 units of light, whereas women could withstand only 55.1, and could...
Last week it was disclosed that Dr. Humason has put to work the world's fastest lens, for further survey of the abysses beyond the Milky Way. Designed by Dr. Wilbur Bramley Rayton, technical chief of Bausch & Lomb Optical Co., the lens has a speed of f:0.59, six and one-half times faster than commonly used in minicameras (f:1.5). The necessary time for spectographing remote nebulae has been cut in half, in one instance from 120 hours to 60 hours. "It is now possible," said Dr. Humason, "to observe faint objects which have heretofore seemed hopeless...
...Bishop suspected for years that she had radium ore on her property, kept it quiet until her claim was cleared in the courts. Last week the excited little woman did not know just how extensive her deposit was, but she and her lawyers laid plans for a thorough survey and hoped to write a new chapter in the shifting course of world radium production...
...profitable competitor also sent free to dentists each month is Dental Survey, edited by Dr. Elmer Best...
...Bradley survey showed that of 207,000 Hupmobiles licensed in the U. S., 57 % were still being driven by their original owners, that 78% of Hupmobile owners wanted to "stick to Hupp...