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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blackboards & Boredom. For its largest audience (an estimated 11 million around the country), TV tried earnestly to make up the difference by cooking up things to put on the screen. Some of the devices were effective and to the point-e.g., the simple scoreboards and graphs that gave the returns at a glance (but not the detail-packed blackboard charts that looked like visual doubletalk...
...their campaign coverage, could not see how they could have done better under the circumstances. Even their best sources had failed them, apparently led astray by the polls. Said one last week: "If a professional like Jake Arvey thinks his Democrats will lose Illinois by up to half a million votes, how can a reporter know that they...
More was at stake than election polls, which are only a small part of the business of Gallup, Roper et al. The whole $25 million-a-year industry of polling, which employs 10,000 people and serves up "scientific" answers on buying habits, audience reactions, and all manner of likes & dislikes for Hollywood, businessmen, educators, magazines, etc., was under suspicion...
...confusing. Six weeks ago, the Department of Justice had asked the courts to break up the Aluminum Co. of America. Last week another federal agency, the War Assets Administration, approved a deal to make Alcoa bigger. It sold to Alcoa, for $5,000,000, the Government's $19 million aluminum reduction plant at Massena...
Promptly at 6, at the sound of a bell, retail buyers crowded into the slime-spattered aisles. Booted and aproned wholesalers waved samples in their faces, and shouted sales to clerks in a code gibberish by which they hoped to hide prices from competitors. By 11 a.m., nearly a million pounds of seafood had been sold. In this business-as-usual way, the biggest fish market in the world passed a historic milestone last week: it was 100 years...