Word: surveying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homes in New York State (TIME, July 20). In working sessions Rockefeller, backed by Civil Defense Mobilizer Leo Hoegh, got his fellow Governors to formally 1) endorse a "vigorous and continuing campaign of education" on fallout hazards and the need for privately built shelters, 2) promise to survey shelter facilities in their own state buildings and set up alternate capitols in protected spots. (Twelve states already have them.) They also cabled the House Appropriations Committee, asking for a $12 million budget item to hire state and city civil-defense experts, provided that Civil Defense Mobilizer Hoegh approves local civil-defense...
With families enjoying the highest incomes in history, the University of Michigan Survey Research Center, which keeps a reliable temperature chart of consumer attitudes, spied a shift in the public mood. In the center's latest survey, out this week, the number of consumers who think the time is ripe to buy a house or used car showed a sharp upswing, and moderate upswings showed up among those who believe it is a good time to buy major household appliances and new cars, undertake large home improvements. The survey pointed out that some part of the public must...
...Change is the order of the day, and change of policy is indispensable" was the conclusion of a thorough survey of U.S. foreign policy by Thomas K. Finletter, former Secretary of the Air Force, in an address at the Harvard Law School on July...
...Seattle, George Brain has done a notable job of making democratic education flexible enough to give every youngster a chance at a good education. Taking over as the state's youngest superintendent six years ago, Brain proceeded, on the basis of a comprehensive and deep-delving planning survey, to put together a $45 million system of eleven elementary, three junior high and two senior high schools in a community that was little more than a little-red-schoolhouse hamlet before World War II. Five more schools are now on the drawing boards...
...agreed to supply a total of $37 million over the next four years-one of the few long-term promises of help the U.S. has made. Included: a survey by U.S. Army engineers before widening the narrow and potholed road to Mandalay...