Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...soon as the ship's anchor dropped, the President was off in a small boat to survey the island's shores and to fish...
Squire Spencer's quarrel with his neighbor dates from the 1932 campaign, when Squire Roosevelt began publicly calling his mother's house "Krum Elbow." After election the U. S. Geodetic Survey hastily named it so on official maps. Mr. Spencer insisted that his family place had always borne that name, a claim which the President's mother supported. The real name of the Roosevelt estate, says Mr. Spencer grimly, is "Crooks' Delight," after a British merchant who once owned...
...York Herald Tribune Syndicate, Cartoonist Jay Norwood ("Ding") Darling, onetime (1934-36) chief of the Bureau of Biological Survey, produced an apt allegory": "Life in an Iron Lung"-Uncle Sam in an artificial respirator, with Drs. Roosevelt, Ickes, Morgenthau and Nurse Democracy experting and little John Taxpayer manning the pump...
...question for meteorologists and geologists was, what caused this wall of water which, if it had occurred at sea, would have been called a "tidal wave"? Engineers of the U. S. Lake Survey at Detroit advanced several hypotheses. One was that the wave had been kicked up by a high wind or thundersquall in midlake...
Sandwiched neatly between winter boom and summer slump of sponsored radio, the week of March 6 was chosen by the Federal Communications Commission's statisticians as typical for their first large-scale survey of what was coming over the air. Reports from 633 stations, released last week, revealed the percentage of broad casting time given to the seven major types of radio programs. One item surprised listeners...