Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There were too many pratfalls in the Pentagon's terrazzo and waxed corridors. The complaints were duly referred through channels to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management. Naturally, the situation called for a survey. That called for special equipment. So the matter was referred to the National Bureau of Standards, Division of Research and Development. There a machine was built, and labeled "Sigler Pendulum Impact Type Slipperiness Tester...
This device, designed to "determine the coefficient of friction which is an index of relative slipperiness," was delivered to the General Services Administration, Department of Buildings Management survey team. The team surveyed. After weeks came a report. Freely translated from the Pentagonese, it said: the floors aren't too slippery at all; people around here are just too careless...
...reading of the current box office, customers are going to the movies at the rate of only 53 million a week - more than a third off from 1946's weekly rate of 80 million. The five best draws last month, as they placed in Variety's survey of 24 key cities...
Lattimore was pleased, he wrote Carter, at the I.P.R.'s plans to survey the issues of the Sino-Japanese War. "I think that you are pretty cagey in turning over so much of the China section of the inquiry to Asiaticus, Han-seng and Chi [all since identified as Chinese Communists], They will bring out the absolutely essential radical aspects, but can be depended on to do it with the right touch...
During the survey, one physician, waiting for his physical exam, died suddenly from a coronary attack...