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...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...
Author of the poll: young, blond William T. Reed, Chicago candymaker who, four years after he graduated from Purdue, invented fiber-rope handles for lollipops. (He claims they are safer than the old wooden sticks.) The Reed name for the safety suckers: "Paloops." Mr. Reed, who has a two-year-old son of his own, got lists from summer camps, Sunday schools and Y.M.C.A.s, sent out 10,000 questionnaires. He was so pleased with his poll's results that he planned another one, thought he might keep right on with...
...newspaper editors are opposed, two-to-one, to U.S. entry into a snooting war. Such was the verdict announced last week by Editor & Publisher, based on its poll of 1,878 daily newspapers, of whom 871 replied. Question: Do you favor immediate active military and naval participation in the war? Answer: Yes, 250; No, 615. Six States showed majorities for war: Florida, 10 to 9; Louisiana, 3 to 1; Maine, 5 to 0; Vermont, 4 to 1; Virginia, 7 to 3; Wyoming, 4 to 1. Three tied: North Carolina (7-7), North Dakota (1-1), Rhode Island...
...significant side light on Editor & Publisher's poll are the findings of James S. Twohey Associates, analysts of newspaper opinion, on war sentiment as reflected in editorial columns rather than by editors personally. In the past seven months ending July 31, a total of 30% of the U.S. press at one time or another editorialized for outright U.S. entry into war. Counting papers that demanded some form of more lively aid for Britain, interventionist editorials came out in 65% of the press in the average week. But the weekly percentage fluctuated widely around the average. In the week...