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...national campaign to get more Victory Gardens planted isn't doing so well this year, reported the Gallup Poll last week. The goal was 22,000,000 gardens (1.6 families per garden). The achievement: about 17,500,000 gardens. Roughly two-and-a-half million more families told pollsters that they plan to plant that plot as soon as they can get it plowed up. But even this addition would still make the total 2,000,000 short of the goal, and 500,000 less than the number of gardens actually planted during 1943. The lag was chiefly...
...days before the election a secret message sped across the country from the underground Democratic Front committee in Guayaquil, Ecuador's hot and humid metropolis on the Pacific Coast. The Dictator, said the message, had ordered his police to shoot any citizen who interfered with the poll. In his exile headquarters on the Colombian frontier, the Democratic Front leader, scholarly Dr. Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra, pondered and schemed. Hidden in Ecuador, a spectacular family trio-the brothers Leonidas, José María and Galo Plaza-made ready to strike on Velasco Ibarra's behalf. Leonidas escaped from...
When he cast his vote, Grau San Martin was sure that he would win if the poll was honest. He was as surprised as anyone over the result: the fairest, most orderly, least bloody (one death) election in Cuba's turbulent politics...
...which makes readership surveys for other magazines and advertisers. Parade constantly investigates how many of its readers read what, and how much of it. Example: a batch of ten humorous drawings is submitted to 100 or more random persons in several cities. The top three in such a popularity poll will be those Parade prints...
...news of a Roosevelt v. Dewey poll...