Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombs hitherto used in war." The primitive: "There are no proper trenches anywhere [with the exception of those outside Madrid]. The ditches and ravines in these dusty clay hills take the place of trenches and are sometimes supplemented by small dugouts along their sides. There are no ordnance or survey maps at all-Spain has never been surveyed. The only maps available are the tourist road maps put out by the big French companies, Michelin and Taride. It is a terrible thing to see an artillery or infantry operation in open country being carried...
...designed and colored to suit the housewife's fancy, was installed last week inside the radio of an average-income family in Chicago. Installer was A. C. Nielsen Co.,'s Executive Vice-President Hugo L. Rusch, who is out to start a new and much better listener survey service for advertisers. Two hundred similar "Audimeters" will soon be placed in private homes and the Nielsen firm, Chicago marketing research organization, expects by the end of the year to have more than 5,000 spotted in radios throughout the country...
...remain dark mysteries. The price is three hours a week, and there is such a large number of subjects which do not require technical knowledge or intensive study that wide choice can be had. In the category of courses attractive to auditors are Music 1, Fine Arts 1e, and survey courses in Philosophy, Psychology, and Sociology. English literature, history, and special fields of government-such as international relations-all offer a wealth of interesting information. Even if the auditor absorbs less than half of what the regular in-course student learns, he is adding much to his intellectual equipment...
...decline, and that in the future long-run we are faced with a problem of over-saving. "No technical events are in prospect at the present time which in their expansive force can be compared with the development of the railroads, with electrification, or with motorization." The statistical survey indicates that in a normal future year the capital needs of the country will be about eight billions of dollars while the amount of savings will be around fourteen billions...
...expedition aims to make maps of this region, which is described as one of the few which still is unknown. Most of the work can be done by aerial photographs, but it is necessary to survey triangulation points from the ground and take panorama photographs with a special 120 degree opening...