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Word: surveying (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Motion Picture Research Project, headed by Dr. Leo Calvin Rosten and financed by a Carnegie Corp. grant, took offices on Hollywood Boulevard, to conduct a year-long survey of movies, moviemakers and movie society, findings to be published in book form by Harcourt, Brace some time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Known to readers of the New Yorker for stories above his pen name of Leonard Q. Ross, Dr. Rosten is no stranger either to eccentric research or to Hollywood. In 1937 he published The Washington Correspondents, based on a similar survey subsidized by Social Science Research Council. In 1937 he worked as a screen writer for Major Pictures Corp., to acquire "the neurosis of the profession...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shorts: Jan. 30, 1939 | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Augusta, Ga. has lately witnessed such agitation. During the height of the campaign, according to a survey by the Southeastern Chain Store Council, 13 Augusta chains had sales increases of 12% over the preceding weeks, while total retail trade in the district, as measured by the Federal Reserve Board, gained only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRADE: Boomerang | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

...which his father founded in 1901 on an original investment of $5,000. Monsanto is a family name (President Queeny's mother's), but Monsanto Chemical is not a tightly-owned family business. This week the Company's house journal devoted 39 pages to a survey showing that thousands own, millions have an interest in the business...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC RELATIONS: Who Owns Monsanto? | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

Favorite sports of handsome Edgar Queeny are shooting moose and ducks, sniping for new divisions and-dearest of all-knocking off public relations stunts. He calls public relations "business manners and morals," espouses complete candor. Last week's survey of stockholders-lavish to the point of including pictures of "typical" Monsanto stockholders in the "typical" city of Cincinnati-was frankly designed to prove that Monsanto is not owned or run by any of "America's 60 Families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PUBLIC RELATIONS: Who Owns Monsanto? | 1/30/1939 | See Source »

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