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...Professor Gordon W. Allport, and University of Denver's Chancellor Caleb F. Gates Jr., onetime star Princeton tackle and track man. For active operators the academicians will lean on two experienced pollsters, British-born Harry H. Field (no kin to Marshall Field), who worked six years for George Gallup and organized the British Institute of Public Opinion, and F. Douglas Williams, who worked for Elmo Roper, conductor of the FORTUNE Poll...
...Gallup poll last week found that 39% of the people are satisfied with U.S. war production, 9% more than were pleased six months ago. Of the 43% who are actively dissatisfied, 48% blamed strikes and labor disputes, 18% objected to lack of coordination in the program...
...fast-working system, adapted from the methods of the FORTUNE Survey and Gallup Poll, uses a sampling technique. As developed after many tests, it has about 350 enumerators who go from door to door, asking some 22,000 families in 54 carefully chosen counties in 38 States which of their members are unemployed...
...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...