Word: surveyers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This cautious optimism was provoked by the fact that industrial production and employment were again rising swiftly. The Bureau of the Census reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment...
Only about one out of ten Americans has ever gone to college, but almost all of them have ideas on the subject. Last week FORTUNE gave its summary of their views. With Pollster Elmo Roper, and an advisory board of educators, it had just completed a nationwide survey probing into everything from costs to Communism and coeducation...
...want to send their daughters too. Professional men and executives are the most anxious to have their sons win their degrees (only one out of 100 think they should "do something else" besides going to college). But more than two-thirds of the farmers and wage earners in the survey also want a college education for their sons. A smaller majority (56%) think it would be a pretty good idea for the U.S. Government to start passing out federal scholarships to send "qualified" youngsters who "otherwise couldn't afford...
While brokerage firms were hustling in the hustings, there was still a virgin market in at least one big city. The 1949 consumer survey made by the St. Paul Dispatch-Pioneer Press reported that 90% of St. Paul citizens in top salary brackets had never bought a share of stock or a corporation bond...
...Some of the more familiar targets for trustbusters, according to the FTC survey, showed a much greater spread in control. U.S. Steel, for example, owned only 28.6% of the steel industry's net capital assets...