Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...signs of a slow-up in buying by well-heeled consumers. (Auto workers got the fattest paychecks ever, an average $103.09 weekly - $13.28 more than last year - at General Motors for the first six months.) In a June sampling of 2,000 families, the University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found that 75% thought it was a good time to buy large household items (appliances, furniture, etc.), while more families than last year were in the market for new homes. A full 25% of the families quizzed said that the family breadwinner had won a raise...
...survey of 407,000 homeowners, the Veterans Administration last week reported on what kind of a man takes out a VA-guaranteed home loan. The conclusion: by any standard, he is a solid citizen. According to the VA, the average veteran with a VA loan is 32 years old and has a yearly income of $5,780, with another $2,000 socked away in the bank. He spends an average $11,640 for his house, pays $1,100 down and makes monthly payments of $95.15 for interest and amortization. Of all 407,000 homeowners, 60% bought new homes, 40% older...
...property assessed at at least $20,000, but in some of the towns in suburban Cook County, the assessment per student runs as low as $6,000 to $12,000. Furthermore, many houses do not even get on the tax rolls until years after they are built: a recent survey in Palatine revealed that residents owned some $2,500,000 in built-up property that had never been taxed. But even if the assessors were working at maximum efficiency, the school districts would still be in trouble. About 27% of them have reached the legal tax-rate limit, and almost...
...hours after the conferences began, the prisoners had won all of their key demands : 1) a promise that prison authorities will try to circumvent a state law providing special punishment for rioting or holding hostages, 2) transfer from "the hole," 3) establishment of an inmate council, 4) a survey of parole practices and an annual review of sentences. 5) a study of mail-delivery practices. Then the prisoners swaggered back to their cells...
...Plateau, published by the Museum of Northern Arizona. William C. Miller of Mount Wilson and Palomar Observatories reported a novel collaboration of astronomers and archaeologists. Miller's avocation is to look for Indian remains in Arizona, and he was immediately interested when a survey party from the Museum of Northern Arizona found two Indian rock drawings, each showing the crescent moon and near it a large round object. Crescents are rare in Indian drawings, and the round objects were hard to explain...