Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...little known fact but a source of pride to all Amherst alumni and faculty that its survey of post-war education slightly preceded Harvard's celebrated and supposedly original "Report on General Education." Remarkable point about the Amherst program is the number of its observations and recommendations that later appeared incorporated in Harvard's report. The "new curriculum" went into effect with the class entering in the fall of 1947, and now serves as the basis of Amherst's realistic approach to education...
...years ago, Elmo Roper conducted a survey to find out which groups were thought to be doing the most good for the nation-religious, business, governmental, congressional or labor. Business garnered 20% of the votes, second only to the religious category (34%). But when Roper ran the same survey last year, business slumped from 20% to 10%, while the religious groups rose to 40% and Government jumped from 11% to 18%. On the question of who was doing the least for the country, business, which got only 6% of the votes...
...McCarran-Walter Act have created a jungle of arbitrary and unfair rulings. The result has been a growing resentment towards the United States on the part of foreign government who feel that America is excluding their nationals. On the opposite page of today's paper there is a survey of some of the shortcomings in U.S. immigration practice, including examples of the bias in the present quota system based on national origins and the absence of a uniform right of review and appeal...
...felt like the Detroit housewife who told a telephone canvasser: "I was just saying to myself, 'Who is this Schine guy?'"; but the drama of men struggling through the mazes of facts to get at truth was still greatly exciting. Said a Denver TV executive, after a survey of bars and appliance stores: "It's being regarded as a sporting event. 'Who's winning it?'-that's what people...
...mammoth Alcan project is a prime example of the Morrison method. When the preliminary survey work was done in February 1951, MK's No. 2 man, Jack Bonny, called a big, hearty Swede named Ole Strandberg who was vacationing in Honolulu. "Come on back," said Bonny. "We have a job for you-some dams and tunnels-the kind of stuff you like." Some "dams and tunnels," recalls Strandberg, turned out to be "a ten-mile tunnel, a 50-mile transmission line, the biggest underground powerhouse ever built...