Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This week the Securities and Exchange Commission served up another reason for optimism. Based on its latest survey, said SEC, industry plans to spend $27.3 billion on new plants and equipment this year, only 4% less than in record-breaking 1953. In the first quarter, such outlays are running at the record annual rate of $28 billion, v. a $27.8 billion rate in the first quarter...
Memorial Hall dining hall, which for many years had been the College's main eating center, had been abandoned in 1925 for lack of patronage. A survey taken about this time revealed that 3,100 students ate daily in the square eateries for lack of an adequate University dining hall system. Faced by a growing crisis, President Lowell promised to erect a new dining hall on Mount Auburn Street if enough students were interested, but not even 500 signatures could be obtained. Students had not yet forgotten the old days at Memorial Hall...
Miss Du Bois was selected for the professorship, which is open to women scholars in any field of study, on the basis of a special committee's survey of the outstanding women of the scholarly world...
...survey of students taken by the Committee had shown that about one-third of the University is already enrolled in the Blue Cross plan. This possibility of saving money for many students was the chief reason for the Committee's proposal. Under the new system, the medical fee would be about $50 a year, but would provide hospitalization care as well as the infirmary coverage of the present $37.50 rate...
...Easter Sunday attendance in Anglican Churches fell from 2,261,857 in 1930 to 1,859,008 in 1950. Clergymen are as hard to recruit as churchgoers; though the Church of England needs at least 600 new deacons each year, only 380 are expected in 1954. A recent survey by the magazine Picture Post found only ten in one group of 40 R.A.F. cadets who had any idea how Christmas got its name, and one old lady who huffed, "They'll be dragging religion into Christmas next...