Word: poll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...committee will wait until the poll is complete before recommending a definite plan of action, Hastie said...
...Society for Minority Rights will poll the graduate students next week to find out how many students would not room with a foreign or colored person, Hastie said...
...argument was not merely an academic exercise involving a minority party. A Gallup poll last week in the London News Chronicle shows the Tories have lost sharply in recent months; if an election were held now, the Labor Party would get 48% of the vote, Churchill's Tories only 42%. If and when Labor came to power, the opinions, prejudices and rationalizations of Labor's touring troubadours could have disturbing consequences for everybody...
...Britain, according to the latest Gallup Poll, the Attlee tour was popular. In favor: 43%; against: 20%; don't know or don't care: 37%. Conservative voters disapproved of the tour, but only by a margin of 37% to 28%. Laborites gave their leader a rousing 63% to 8% cheer. The poll had been taken at the tour's outset, and perhaps subsequent events had changed a few minds: the British press, at least, was developing serious objections. "Not since Marco Polo," observed Lord Beaverbrook's breezy Daily Express, "has there been a more astonishing pilgrimage...
BUSINESS CENSUS will be taken early next year. With an unexpected $8,430,000 appropriation from Congress (TIME, Aug. 9), U.S. Bureau of the Census will poll 3,000,000 business firms to update government statistics on U.S. sales, manufacturing and mining...