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...socialist doctrine of the Labor Party as with a host of little unpleasantries that have been digging them ever deeper lately. The cut in the food ration, housing inertia, a ban on travel, and end of pleasure driving aided the Conservatives in turning out a vote fifty-six percent greater than last year but composed mostly of those who only hurl their ballots when they perceive what they deem the source of their discontent...
Although there is fear of receiving facetious answers to questionnaires of this nature, Stouffer felt that, as on Army polls he conducted during the war, as many as 98 percent have been serious and candid...
...Council's frank partiality was justified to its satisfaction in the reasoning and documentation of its report. This stated that out of a poll of 2500 students had come 50.4 percent favoritism for a Student Activities Center and all but 1.8 percent sentiment in favor of the general principle of a "utilitarian" memorial, in opposition to something such as the embellishment to Memorial Church now leading the field...
Rucker said that tools "now supply 91 percent of productive power" and that therefore the owners of the tools or machines are entitled to profit. "The community must pay for the use of the tools," he said...
...tools of production are not owned by "rich people," Rucker said, pointing out that only 0.3 percent of corporation stockholders have incomes over $10,000. When questioned, he said he did not know how much stock this minority controlled...