Word: surveys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acceptance ''in principle" of the aerial survey plan proposed last July by President Eisenhower at Geneva. ¶ Gradual reduction of conventional military forces to a maximum of 1,500,000 men each for the U.S., U.S.S.R. and Red China and 650,000 men each for Britain and France...
...Committee, a study group sponsored by the University of Minnesota's School of Business Administration, decided that it was time to move the tariff controversy into the realm of local reality. Last week, after interviewing officials of about 400 Minnesota companies, the committee released an item-by-item survey of the probable effects on Minnesota's industry of a U.S. tariff reduction...
...pulse-takers of the economy sounded more optimistic last week than at any time since the year began. As the first quarter ended, New York's Guaranty Trust reported in its monthly survey that businessmen had virtually stopped talking about a slip in business, more and more were talking about a "boom already set to start rolling again." In Washington Commerce Secretary Sinclair Weeks said that business activity was hitting a pace undiminished from the record rate reached in the final 1955 quarter, with chances "better than even" that '56 business would top the previous year...
According to LeLand, the primary reason for rejection was that freshman entertain a larger percentage of girls in secondary schools than upperclassmen. The board also cited a survey made at the time the Houses were petitioning for extended hours. Dean Leighton had polled mothers' groups, P.T.A.'s and church associations on the issue and all the groups had opposed the extension...
...yesterday's Omnibus survey of university education and "Harvard in particular," announcer Alistair Cooke thanked President Pusey for allowing Harvard to be turned "upside down" for the sake of the television production. The apology was in order--what covered the screen for ninety minutes was not only an inverted picture of Harvard, but a small and thus distorted view. The camera never focussed on a lecture, or classroom, and the few students and professors who did manage to appear were either outnumbered by deans and politicians or drowned out by announcers and alumni...