Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...almost all the Conservation Fellows have come from various federal agencies within the Agriculture and Interior Departments, groups such as the Forest Service, the Soil Conservation Service, the Bureau of Land Management, the Geological Survey, and the Production and Marketing Association. Others have come from the Tennessee Valley Authority and state conservation departments; eventually the fellowships, which carry a maximum of $3,000 may be extended even to employees of private companies which have a significant interest in the development of the so-called "renewable natural resources...
Curry's proposal resulted from a survey made by the Cambridge Police and Traffic Board, which revealed that the "safety islands" designed to protect passengers leaving a street car have caused 98 accidents during the past two years. His plan called for the use of buses on Massachusetts Avenue from Harvard Square to Arlington, thus eliminating the islands...
OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTIES are on the way out. The Employers' Association of Chicago took a survey of 265 companies, reported that less than half will hold parties this year. Nearly 40 companies that had office parties last year will discontinue them in favor of extra time off, gifts to charity or parties for people who really enjoy them: employees' children...
...survey, using the Class of 1952 as a typical sampling of graduates, revealed that 66 percent of the men who go on to further study attend one of three professional schools medicine, law, and business. The fields of the rest of the class ranged from American history to zoology...
Newby observed that on the basis of the questionnaire sent to the Class of 1952, successful applicants to graduate schools come from a wide variety of undergraduate fields of concentration. Law and business schools accepted qualified men with either physical or social science backgrounds, the survey showed. Medical schools had equally broad standards, although applicants have to fulfill certain basic scientific requirements...