Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letter about our survey of TIME-reading men (all 1,800,000 of them) moved many of you to compare yourselves smugly, humorously or wistfully with this statistically -average, $7,600-a-year TIME-reader -knowing, in many cases, that an average does not, of course, mean a majority. Here are some excerpts from your letters...
...Denver, Msgr. John R. Mulroy challenged a survey on religious beliefs and attitudes among 788 Protestant and Roman Catholic students at the University of Denver. Said he: "A survey to reveal differences in their attitudes has no validity in the Catholic Church. If students do not believe alike, then they are not Catholics...
...commits suicide has to turn his back on the church, the law and his own strongest instinct, self-preservation. Yet in an average year, 22,000* people in the U.S. kill themselves; 100,000 more try and fail. Why? According to a survey circulated last week, a large percentage of them are mentally unbalanced, and presumably incapable of making sound moral judgments...
...survey, reported in the magazine Diseases of the Nervous System, three members of the Chicago Psychiatric Institute made an intensive study of 100 people who lived after trying to kill themselves. Of the 100 cases, 40 were sent to mental hospitals, another 26 needed psychiatric care...
...survey of finance companies, the weekly Automotive News found that many thought the industry was beginning to price itself out of the market. Associates Discount Corp. reported that monthly payments "now run almost as high as two weeks' pay for the average factory worker." Gene Pratt, vice president of Detroit's Contract Purchase Corp., figured that 70% of potential new-car customers had been "absolutely" frozen out, thought the market could crack overnight...