Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Congratulations on the comprehensive, intelligent survey of a significant social development contained in your special article April 14, "Human Relations: A New Art Brings a Revolution to Industry...
Thereupon the delegates settled methodically to work in 16 committees, dealing with 1,500-odd recommendations that will occupy the conference. Among the more pressing and controversial subjects: ¶ A church survey commission, working with a firm of Chicago management engineers, has mapped out a radical streamlining of church agencies, suggested a coordinating council to make sense out of the welter of semi-autonomous church boards. ¶ A special commission has recommended that candidates for the ministry should no longer be obliged to sign a pledge against smoking...
...Tomorrow . . . As the news of their work spread, they got help from unexpected sources. An Indian maharaja sent them scores of volumes about his own state. The Finnish Foreign Minister ordered an official geographer to help them, and Iran's late Premier Ali Razmara sent them a special survey he had made for the Iranian army. Some countries were not so cooperative, but the gazetteers managed nonetheless. By looking through a recent propaganda tract from Argentina, they found some of the 1947 population figures that Peron had suppressed. By combing through Soviet schoolbooks they learned a thing...
...begin at 7 a.m. It is sold, at $475 an hour, to sponsors peddling beer, jewelry, insurance and pianos. Each night and dawning, televiewers see two feature films, two westerns and one episode of a serial (currently: Flash Gordon). Because "you can't call people up on a survey at 4 in the morning," Lund has no idea of the size of his audience, but there is no doubt that the show is going over. Swing Shift fan letters pour in at the rate of 350 a week. Sample: "Even if a guy has dinner...
...added that even if background information is the primary object of a survey course, it doesn't follow that a non-survey course cannot accomplish it, too. The case method can give background information as well as the survey method...