Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Gallup Poll was astonished to find that most citizens, though 80% do not pay income tax, are in favor of broadening the tax base. They would ask a family of four earning $ 1,000, to pay $6 income tax; would demand more than the present tax bill on incomes up to $10,000, less than the present bill on incomes over $10,000. Estimated yield: $300,000,000 to $800,000,000 more than the House called...
Half of them picked dessert, over soup, meat and vegetables. Twenty-eight percent favored going to war immediately with Germany. (In the last Gallup poll, only 24% of grownups favored such action.) Although 71% admitted that they got spanked, 82% deposed that they were afraid of neither father nor mother. Most would rather ride in an airplane than in a car, train or bus. Cartoons, comedies, mystery and adventure placed high in their movie tastes...
...News poll the most striking fact was that almost 30% of the answerers were willing to go to war now. Dr. George Gallup's scientifically conducted Institute of Public Opinion, in a special New York State survey (monthly-for-23-months), could find only 21% who wanted to go to war, 8.5% less than Publisher Patterson's poll. Obvious conclusion: instead of chortling at the lack of war fever, Publisher Patterson should be brooding over its high reading on his own thermometer...
...Rutherford McCormick, simultaneously conducted a poll in his Chicago Tribune on the same question. Of 257,484 post cards mailed to every tenth voter, 77,229 (30%) answered: Yes (for war), 14,176, or 18.36%; No (against war), 62,394, or 80.79%. These figures checked almost exactly with Dr. Gallup's month-by-month poll of Illinois sentiment. Obvious conclusion: Colonel McCormick would have saved thousands of dollars by reading Dr. Gallup's polls, which regularly appear in the rival Chicago Daily News...
...This week Dr. Gallup polled Who's Who in America, asked the U.S.'s most prominent and successful citizens how they felt about the war today. Go in, said 45%; stay out, 55%. The selected few were twice as warlike as the general public...