Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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ECONOMIC CONCENTRATION is increasing, says Senate antimonopoly subcommittee. Its 18-month survey of latest Census Bureau figures shows that 50 biggest U.S. companies accounted for 23% of total value of U.S. manufactures in 1954 v. 17% in 1947. Top four automakers had 75% of auto and truck market v. 56% in 1947; top four appliance makers held 50% of market v. 36% in 1947; top four steelmakers held...
Hans Kohn, professor of History at CCNY, again teaches the two largest courses, History S-134c, Intellectual History of Nineteenth Century Continental Europe, and Government s-178, The World in the Twentieth Century: A Survey of International Relations...
...whistled southeastward out of Oakland, Calif. in his T-33 jet one day last May, Air Force Lieut. David Steeves, like any pilot, could survey the earth beneath him with something of detached contempt. Traveling at better than 500 m.p.h., he seemed almost motionless in space. Just behind him, in twinkling miniature, lay the sweep of San Francisco Bay; ahead, curving gently with the earth, was the hot yellow of Death Valley and the desert wastes beyond. And below, like the riffles in a child's papier-mache relief map, were the grey granite thrusts and the white snow...
Wall Street's optimistic mood was reflected in a survey taken by Dun & Bradstreet of the presidents* of 110 top U.S. corporations with total assets of $27 billion. Not one of the presidents saw a recession coming in 1957. To the contrary, three out of four were confident that no major depression or recession will occur within the next ten years, and all but five of the rest ruled out the possibility of recession until 1960 or later. As for their individual prospects, the presidents predicted sales increases in the next ten years ranging from...
Although no doctor knows quite how the springs work, there is some evidence that they often work very well. One follow-up survey showed that the water cure helps between 53% and 70% of patients with certain types of asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm...