Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ship on the bridge radarscope (he did not know it was Andrea Doria), about twelve miles off his port bow. Andrea Doria was at that point running a few miles south of the westbound lane of Track Charlie, an "informal" sea lane charted by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and generally followed by the big transatlantic liners of the U.S., Britain, France and Holland, but not necessarily by the Italians and the Swedes. Eastbound Stockholm was about 19½ miles north of the eastbound lane of Charlie...
Consumers were buying. The Federal Reserve reported that retail sales of nondurable goods last week jumped 8% higher than last year's levels. And a survey of bankers by the Clothing Manufacturers Association reported that retail sales are expected to keep on climbing in the fourth quarter of 1956 and on through the first six months...
Enormous numbers of babies have been produced by college graduates of the past ten years, a survey just published by the Population Reference Bureau in Washington revealed. The number of babies per educated capita is already almost as high as that for 25 year grads...
...ignored by the white leaders in their fixation with a principle. And even the spokesmen for the integration viewpoints tend to forget the complexities of the situation in their enthusiasm for ending the dual school system. Yet it has been decisively shown by Ferguson and Plaut, in a survey of 32 public high schools in 11 northern states, that only 53 of 3,300 Negro seniors finished in the top quarter of their classes out of a total senior class enrollment...
...CRIMSON is including in today's issue a special 10-page supplement on the Negro in Education. First published at Commencement last June, the supplement also includes a two-page survey of the major Academic Freedom cases during the past year. It was distributed nationally over the summer...