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...table already loaded with $12 million worth of recently bought companies, Lever Bros. President Charles Luckman this week tossed a $10 million newcomer: the John F. Jelke Co., sixth largest* U.S. maker of oleomargarine (Good Luck). Said "Chuck" Luckman: "That will be all for a while, until we digest what we've already...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Calling the Signals | 6/28/1948 | See Source »

...Trib, which had shouted the loudest against the plan, accusingly ticked off a list of beneficiaries, including the New York Times and Herald Tribune, LIFE, TIME, Newsweek and Reader's Digest (all of which publish foreign editions) and the A.P., U.P. and I.N.S...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Choice of Weapons | 6/14/1948 | See Source »

...long after the first Gallup Poll appeared, Gallup brashly announced that the Digest would be wrong in the 1936 election, followed that up with a prediction that the Digest, by its methods, was bound to pick Landon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

After three years of practice, Gallup had assured himself that polls on toothpaste and politics were one & the same. He was also convinced that the famed Literary Digest poll was heading for a disastrous cropper. The millions of Digest postcards were mailed on the basis of telephone and auto registration lists and took no account of the low-income voters who had swung solidly behind the New Deal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

...election night, 1936, Gallup flipped on the radio and knew he was in. Though he had badly underestimated Roosevelt's winning margin, he had called the Digest's predictions within 1%. After that, it was simply a question of convincing newspaper publishers that there was still news for pollsters to report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Black & White Beans | 5/3/1948 | See Source »

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