Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, found by a recent General Accounting Office survey: of the 1,200,000 vets and dependents now on pensions (1959 cost: $1.1 billion), 17% own $10,000 or more in stocks and other family property, 3.4% of the married pensioners have $5,000 family incomes or better...
...Capital spending this year will be 6½% higher than in 1958, hitting an estimated $34.2 billion, according to a survey by McGraw-Hill Publishing...
Families of patients who have been in mental hospitals for a long time usually do not want them home, says Charles L. Rose in Mental Hygiene. On the social service staff of the VA Hospital in Bedford, Mass., Rose found from a survey that many relatives do not expect the hospital to effect a cure and really do not want it to-they regard it as a place of detention, not healing. They are more comfortable feeling that the case is hopeless: if the patient never improves, he can never be sent home where "there is no room...
...example of genius blighted by the world's indifference. In 1941, the New York Herald Tribune headlined: EILSHEMIUS, 77, DIES IN BELLEVUE, PENNILESS, BITTER. AND FAMOUS. The fame that came too late has been growing sporadically since. In Manhattan last week the Artists' Gallery hung the biggest survey of Eilshemius' art to date...
What had everyone concerned was the biggest public participation in the market since the '20s; a recent survey by the exchange showed that 25% of those interviewed were interested in the market v. 9% a year ago. Nevertheless, many Wall Streeters felt that the warnings were being overdone. Said A. Charles Schwartz, senior partner of Bache & Co.: "It is stupid, after years of a publicity campaign to get more people to buy stocks, to come out now and blow the whistle...