Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Berlin, there seems little doubt. Some citizens may not know too much about the details of the crisis (in a New York Times spot survey of 470 people across the U.S., 185, or 39%, did not even know that Berlin is surrounded by Communist East Germany), but there is clear agreement that the U.S. must stand fast against Russian threats. The U.S. is no more disposed to retreat from Berlin than it was during the 1948 airlift. At that time, the Gallup poll reported that 80% thought the U.S. should remain. Last week a Gallup poll showed an almost identical...
Agriculture Secretary Ezra Taft Benson, who has been forced by congressional attitudes into taking half-a-loaf measures toward ending the farm scandal (result: a staggering $7 billion for farm programs this fiscal year), was swift to seize on the Farm Journal survey. Said Benson, speaking to 2,300 farmers gathered for Farm and Home Week at Cornell University: "Farmers recognize that the old basic-crop legislation is outmoded. It has placed ineffective bureaucratic controls on farmers, destroyed markets, piled up surpluses, and imposed heavy burdens on taxpayers . . . The voice of the American farmer calls in louder and louder tones...
Some Government committees are appointed to delay action. Some are appointed to build up support for a course of action already agreed on. But when Dwight Eisenhower put onetime Under Secretary of the Army William H. Draper Jr. in charge of a committee last November to survey the vast U.S. foreign-aid program, the roll call of blue-ribbon committee members * made it clear that the President wanted hard answers. Last week in the Draper committee's preliminary report, he got three that nobody quite expected. Said the committee...
Even if overall dollar aid remains at the current level of $25 million annually, the U.S. will shake up its program. First to be reviewed: the technical-assistance program, which employs 4,000 Bolivians, maintains 20,000 miles of road, gives agricultural help to thousands. A recent survey showed that half of the Bolivians had no idea that the U.S. was doing the helping...
...character that it affords both confirm and expand the experience of people. Lately this enjoyment has been far to seek, since modern artists are more concerned with expressing their own personalities than exploring other people's. Yet a few brilliant portraitists remain-among them ebullient Boris Chaliapin. whose survey of people and places he has known opened at Manhattan's Hirschl & Adler Galleries last week...