Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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President Emeritus James B. Conant '14, has proposed that high school students be advanced according to their ability and skills. Conant's suggestions, the result of a survey sponsored by the Carnegie Corporation, appeared in yesterday's issue of Life Magazine...
...fact, though the book is sprinkled with such minor bobbles as his reference to a nonexistent 25-kopek piece, these are heavily outweighed by his sound reporting, his artful wrap-up of others' findings, and his sober conclusions. Unlike most books on Russia. Gunther's Soviet survey is fortified with perspective gained on three other professional sojourns between 1928 and 1939 for as much as five months at a time. Chuckles Gunther: "When people ask how that s.o.b. dared visit a new country for three days and write about it like an authority, I feel like asking...
...average U.S. motorist who drives 10,000 miles in 1958 will spend $1,078, about $76 more than it cost him to operate in 1957, says an American Automobile Association survey. Annual depreciation, the driver's biggest budget item, will increase by $51 to $565, chiefly because of the higher cost of new cars. Insurance will go up $13.31 to $116.71, license and registration fees up $1.48 to $19.16, maintenance up .05? to .79?a mile, tires up .06? to .59? a mile. The only saving, says the AAA, will come in gas and oil. which in 1958 will...
President Eisenhower's political popularity rating is down five Gallup poll percentage points below his previous low of 57%, recorded just after the 1954 congressional elections and again after the Little Rock segregation crisis last year. Results of last week's survey of opinion on the way Ike is doing...
...expected their own incomes to decline. Nearly three-quarters expected to be making as much or more at the beginning of next year; only one-tenth expected their rate of earnings to decline." Though consumers in 1958 plan to buy fewer houses, heavy appliances and new cars, the survey noted, they will spend more on used cars, furniture and home modernization. Retail sales for the year are 2% ahead of 1957, with a fat 7% increase in department-store sales to start off March...