Word: surveys
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...bodies to, among others, liquor firms under his tax jurisdiction. King's committee also flushed five suspensions and one resignation in New York by asking 20 employees to fill out statements of their net worth. On the strength of such results, the bureau agreed to adopt an annual survey of employee income as part of its routine...
...James Edward Church is a blue-eyed, twinkling man of 82 who looks like a rather hardy retired professor of Greek. That is just what he is, but he is better known as "the father of the snow survey" -the rough and rugged practical science of measuring the snowpack on high mountains...
Sweden to the Himalayas. In the last quarter century, honors have converged on the quiet professor. From 1933 to 1948 he was president of the International Commission of Snow and Glaciers. He was asked to help set up snow surveys in many western states, and in Norway, Sweden, Canada, Newfoundland, India, Switzerland, Russia, Chile and Argentina. His most difficult job was in the Himalayas, where most of the snow lies above 17,000 ft. He made the grueling survey, which would have stopped many a younger man, in 1947, when...
Cambridge police announced yesterday that they will continue their crusade against illegal parking--at least for the next two weeks. On Wednesday the City Engineer will present his survey of possible parking spots to the Traffic Board. But it would be several weeks after that before the City Council could consider the recommendations and pass" or reject them...
Perhaps the two most interesting articles of the survey are those that have little to do with immediate crises. David Daiches' critique of American university education--he is a professor from England who has taught on and off in this country for the past fourteen years--is itself worth the price of the magazine, for students anyway. And Harris Wofford's analysis of the foreign student situation explains a problem that is straightforward, but at the same time complicated and important. All in all, the issue is good reading and good value...