Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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According to a yearbook survey taken three years ago, 21 percent of Harvard students' parents are in this group. Altogether, over 50 percent of University students--coming from families earning from below $2000 to almost a million dollars a year--work at some time during the year...
Many Europeans live in more crowded, less comfortable houses than they did in 1937. This depressing fact emerged from a housing survey published last week by the U.N.'s Economic Commission for Europe. Wartime losses-some 10 million European homes-have not yet been made up. In many countries, the number of dwellings per capita is lower than it was prewar: Greece, by 20%; West Germany, 16%; Italy, 9%; France...
...Salisbury got an eyewitness view of how little Russia has actually changed in a 12,000-mile trip that he made through the Soviet North and eastern Siberia. "It was," says Salisbury, "probably the most extensive survey of this . . . region by an American since the 1880s." That part of Russia, said he, is "an empire-within-an-empire, the slave state of prison labor and forced-residence workers" that extends thousands of miles and is ruled by the MVD. "All life in those regions is incredibly harsh and grim." Salisbury saw hundreds of labor gangs of men and women going...
...countries would end the manufacture of atomic weapons. Although the Soviet finally seems to agree that inspection is a vital part of a disarmament program, the U.S. must be sure that the inspection control commission is ready to operate before atomic reduction, and that Russia will allow a thorough survey of its plants...
Stealing from Square book stores is at a minimum this year in spite of the Coop's new self-service system, a survey made yesterday revealed...