Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Educational Commission's survey also recommended that the retirement age be raised to 70 to keep qualified, talented people on jobs beyond the time that they now retire...
...storm sweeps northward, shore stations and offshore Texas towers will measure its waves. Their radars will plot the streams of rain. If the hurricane hits land, Army engineers will collect flood data; the Hydrographic Office and the Coast and Geodetic Survey will observe wave effects. The enormous mass of information will be put on punch cards, fed into a machine and turned into a clear report of how the hurricane is behaving and is likely to behave...
...with a pair of Brazilian promoters who hatch a scheme to build a dam in the hinterlands of the upper Amazon. In order to show their prospective customers that some work is actually progressing, they send out an American engineer and a young college student to make a preliminary survey. But the plane in which the two are travelling crashes, and the student, after a delirious conversation with a Bahian sea goddess, finally dies. What all this means, and indeed whether the other survivers ever get out of the jungle, never becomes clear...
Rotted Crop. In 1950 the division made a six-week survey of the university, promptly "nagged" (i.e., marked for elimination or downgrading) one out of ten university posts. In spite of the campus' growth, the division still stands by that 1950 report. Once, when Mather appealed for extra hands to help with the school of agriculture's bumper crop, the division said no. The crop rotted, and at considerable expense the university had to buy its food on the open market. All in all, the setup has been so suffocating that the Phi Beta Kappa senate has refused...
...chemical industry scheduled $1.6 billion worth of new plants in '56 and '57, according to a Manufacturing Chemists Association survey...