Word: polling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...latest sally into the educational alley, the Gallup poll decided that the average U.S. college graduate has a knowledge of geography unworthy of an eight-year-old. Of those questioned, about eight in ten could not locate Bulgaria, nearly seven flunked on Rumania, nearly six did not recognize Yugoslavia or Austria, half flubbed on Poland. One out of twelve not only missed these, but Spain, France and England as well...
...poll, a majority of 15,000 (out of 24,000) wanted modification of the Amendment; almost 5,000 admitted that they had, during Prohibition, been drunk on different occasions. Of the 15 colleges participating, Princeton and Harvard polled the wettest vote...
...London Economist, "one of those rare periods of British history when it has been easier to govern than to oppose." Yet the voting swing to the Conservative Party was less than 2%. The Tories' white-haired campaign manager, avuncular old Lord Woolton, acknowledged that "the low poll" was the key to victory. He quoted a taxi driver in Stockport: "I had nothing to grumble about." Lord Woolton's conclusion was realistic: "A large number of people have not voted Conservative but have abstained from voting...
Sporting Life even stopped publishing the bookies' figures. For the first time last week, the phrase "Tory landslide" slid into some of the London newspapers, and the News Chronicle, on the basis of its Gallup poll, talked of a Tory majority of 100 or better in Commons (compared to 19 in the late Parliament...
...poll conducted by the Federal Communications Commission is running heavily in favor of the idea, sponsored by three companies (Zenith, Skiatron, International Telemeter Corp.). In the three months since FCC invited "public advice" on whether it should permit toll TV, it has received nearly 10,000 letters, telegrams and postcards from viewers, with all but 1,500 approving the plan...