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...York, Pollster George Gallup reported, Wallace would now get between 13% and 18% of the total vote, depending on which Republican ran against Harry Truman.* In Massachusetts, a Boston Globe straw vote gave Wallace 11% of the total and made the state "a 50-50 proposition" for the G.O.P. for the first time since Calvin Coolidge...
These donations should be credited to a sizable segment of the whole U.S. press-for TIME'S story was merely the most recent of a long series of such articles. Regional newspapers like the Gallup (N. Mex.) Independent had long been recording facts about the Navajos-especially since 1933, when the Government crippled the Navajos' crude economy based on sheep-raising by ordering them-because of overgrazing and the resultant soil erosion-to begin doing away with their flocks...
...Democrats unwrapped an early Christmas package last week. Pollster George Gallup reported that in the key states of Pennsylvania (35 electoral votes) and Ohio (25) the Democrats are leading 51% to 49%. But the Republicans were still doing most of the political caroling...
Action. Eleven hours after the Gallup fire, American Airlines' Board Chairman Cyrus Rowlett Smith ordered American's 35 DC-6s grounded "until we know" the reason for the fires. Shortly after, United Air Lines' President W. A. Patterson grounded United's 34 DC-6s. President Truman's own Independence, a DC-6, came under the quarantine...
Estimate. As investigators went over the Gallup plane, suspicion at first centered on the heating system. The Sixes have had trouble recently when both the heating and pressurizing systems were working. But tests showed no fault in the heater. Investigators suspected another cause. This was that gasoline, overflowing from the wing tanks, had caught fire as it was vented under the fuselage just forward of the heater air intake. If that proved to be the case, Douglas estimated that modifications could be made in a short time. But the Sixes would stay on the ground until CAB and Douglas were...