Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late preconvention season of 1956, two Catholics-Massachusetts Senator John Kennedy and New York Mayor Robert Wagner-rank high among Democratic vice-presidential possibilities. One reason: a confidential survey now in the hands of selected Democratic leaders, e.-g., Harriman Adviser Carmine De Sapio and Stevenson Campaign Manager James Finnegan (both Catholics). The survey's fundamental thesis: Democratic presidential chances in November may well depend upon getting a Catholic on the national ticket...
...much progress has been made in desegregating Southern schools since the U.S. Supreme Court's decision two years ago? Last week the nonprofit, nonpartisan Southern Education Reporting Service published a survey that leads to only one conclusion: progress has been slow-and anything but sure...
...working inventories of semi-finished steel," while its orders for structural steel were "greater than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above the same period a year ago," according to a Commerce Department survey of 1956's first half, released last week. Employment was at a peak; the demand for nondurable goods showed "little or no slackening"; the downslide in orders for durables "appears to have been arrested." Consumer purchasing, one of the economy's biggest props, had been helped by freer...
PERSONAL DEBTS are owed by 63 % of all U.S. family units, according to a Federal Reserve Board survey. About 9% owe on mortgages alone, another 17% have both mortgage and other debts, some 37% owe nonmprtgage debts only. Of the 20% of families who owe money on cars, one-fifth report repayment periods of 31 to 36 months; one-third 25 to 30 months; two-fifths 24 months or less...
Biggs' program constituted a virtual historical survey of organ styles, going from the late 16th-century Byrd through Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Bach, Handel, Soler, Schumann and Franck to Jehan Alain, who was tragically killed in his youth during World...