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...sampling of opinion "directly from the voters" is highly untrustworthy. Accurate results can be obtained only by applying an elaborate series of checks and balances concerning types of voters, voting habits, etc. His polls, explained Dr. Gallup, depend on "at least twelve important adjustments for their accuracy." In this complex mathematical calculation, involving such unknown quantities as election-day weather, the only sin of which Pollster Gallup appeared guilty was that he may have used his Xs to bring down Roosevelt's vote and failed to recognize other X factors which would bring it up again. The astonishing accuracy...
...complex explanation boiled down to a grim fact: the productive miracle of industry was being outdone by the wasteful miracle of war. The shortages were still not at the front, but war was devouring the stockpiles faster than industry was replenishing them. Perhaps war was eating its last meal and would soon die of a surfeit-or perhaps not. Until the outcome was known more production was needed...
...private incentive for speed. Spry old Henry Ford expected to be turning out new cars within two months after he got the signal. Others could not afford to be too far behind. Most important, U.S. industry probably would not be hampered by any complex system of quotas which would protect established companies at the price of freezing out new companies and competition. At the beginning of the year business was highly suspicious that wartime controls would somehow be kept shackled on them in peace. But at year's end this seemed to be more shadow than substance...
...invasion was the greatest gamble, the most complex operation in the history of war. The design of it was the product of hundreds of brains. The responsibility of it fell on the shoulders of one man-Dwight David Eisenhower...
...diplomacy when the Chief of Staff sent him first to Britain, then to Africa in 1942. In addition to his natural ability to get along with people, Eisenhower acquired the knack of hitting it off with other nationals, notably the British. In Africa his command structure was a complex but smooth-working mesh of U.S. and British officers, and he carried the same formula back to England when he was chosen to head the invasion. Of the six men on his Supreme Command, four were British...