Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Members of both the Union Committee and the Student Council objected to the report, because, they charged, the recommendations did not accurately reflect the feelings expressed in a survey of Yard entries. This survey, conducted by Union Committee representatives in their own entries, was included in the report...
...spring flood of optimism, cheering reports of first-quarter earnings (see below), the big expansion plans of U.S. businessmen, the big spending plans of the U.S. consumer. Retail trade for March, said the Commerce Department, climbed 2% over February and 4% above March of last year. After a survey of economists and businessmen, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce predicted that consumer incomes will go up 3% to 5% this year, and that all of this $8 billion to $14 billion will be spent...
...though they were admitting to a shameful weakness, while the consultants themselves tend to be glowing and nonspecific about their work. Often their job is in the policy area and cannot be measured in dollars and cents. But there are tangible evidences of successes. A Cresap, McCormick & Paget survey of the New York Central introduced new budget and inventory control systems, divided jobs into staff and line posts, and resulted in a payroll saving of $600,000 annually. Ernst & Ernst's management consultant division charged Pan American a whopping $750,000 for reorganizing its huge Miami engine overhaul base...
...with "the homeless hands of the displaced craftsman: "If all people had lived in accordance with their collective fears, everyone would have become stationary, like a tree. In their heart of hearts, perhaps, most people would like to be plants, to be tall trees with eyes that could survey their surroundings and always be able to see and convince themselves that no one was coming, no one was going, no one could move; that all were lookout towers guarding the greatest security-that of absolute immobility." Martinson's tramps are mobile enough, and often provocative, and their wanderings...
Fall Guy. In Milwaukee, uninjured when his auto swerved off the highway, Eugene Cromwell stepped out to survey the damage, fell into a soft. limestone quarry, broke...