Word: galluped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a reluctant avalanche Franklin Roosevelt's Administration began to move. The public had shouted for action but its shouts had had no more effect than firecrackers in moving a mountainside. The President's popularity, measured by the Gallup poll, had sunk from 84% after Pearl Harbor, to 78% a month ago, to 70% last week...
...Petrillo to end his boycott against recordings. On hand to push the Government's case will be Assistant Attorney General Thurman Arnold. So far Trust-Buster Arnold has had no great success in his brushes with organized labor. But this time he has popular opinion behind him. A Gallup Poll question, "Do you approve or disapprove of the Government taking legal action to stop Petrillo?" turned up a 73% chorus of ayes...
What prompted this prolific pedagogy was the phenomenal success of his famed Donald Duck film on income-tax paying. The New Spirit, whose $80,000 cost Congress refused to pay. This film, made for the Treasury Department, played to 26,000,000 people, 37% of whom. Gallup-polled, said it animated their willingness to pay taxes. Since then he has tried filming such abstract subjects as Emotion v. Reason. High-domed Reason is personified as an automobile driver. Emotion is a caveman chained to the back seat. When they meet a pretty girl, Emotion yells "Hey, Babe," overrules Driver Reason...
...Hollywood's most cherished beliefs is that more women go to the movies than men. Many a picture has been made on this supposition- angling for a female trade often estimated at 70% of all tickets purchased. After a rigorous two-year investigation, Pollster George Gallup's Audience Research Institute (devoted exclusively to making cinema surveys for RKO-Radio and other moviemakers) has published some surprising statistics...
...Gallup popularity rating in Britain last week was 78%, a drop of eight points from just before Tobruk, now precisely the same as President Roosevelt's in the U.S. Only 41% of Britain's polled subjects approve the Government's conduct of the war, 42% disapprove. Sixty per cent want a second front in 1942; 12% think it should not be tried...