Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anti-price-discrimination statutes. Governmental agencies such as the Federal Trade Commission have wondered just how much these 20th Century laws have improved or hampered trade, how much they have raised the cost of living. In April, WPA announced that it would find out, through a marketing laws survey, since estimated to require two years and $2,000,000. Last week it set about establishing offices in 200 cities from which to interview businessmen and consumers, spy on prices in their native haunts...
Published this week by FORTUNE are the full results of its extraordinary survey on the popularity of Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Oct. 4, 1937, et ante). Using the same scientific sampling of the electorate which predicted the results of the 1936 election with an error of less than i%, FORTUNE presents a page of charts and statistics giving a balance sheet of Franklin Roosevelt's popularity-probably a more complete, objective picture of the basic political situation in the U. S. than has ever been drawn up. Its prime facts...
...utility industry both come to heel, SEC's next major move is the long-awaited regulation of investment trusts. After three years' study, SEC last week sent Part I of its report to Congress, will send other installments this summer, later recommend legislation. Largely a survey of the field, Part I produced the following gloomy statistics: 1) since 1929 assets of investment trusts have shriveled from $7,000,000,000 to $3,700,000,000; 2) of 1,272 investment companies existing at one time or another between 1927 and 1936, only 961 were still active...
When Biochemical Sciences first appeared in the College catalogue, it was designed primarily as a field in which the undergraduate, with an eye towards medicine could survey the applications of physico-chemical methods to the problems of biology. Today the end remains unchanged, but unfortunately the means of accomplishing that end has not changed, either. Instead of slowly expanding the funds and facilities in the department, the University has left the field rigidly alone. As in previous years a hardworking, well-informed board of tutors forms its nucleus, but organization beyond this is conspicuously lacking. There is only one half...
...preference of 42%. While 88% feel that no overseas war is justified, 64% feel that war is justifiable on occasion, but by a quirk of feminine logic 87% regard invasion of the U. S. or its possessions as such an occasion. These opinions appeared this week in another nationwide survey of women conducted by the news-nosy Ladies' Home Journal. Other opinions...