Word: researchers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Denver, a statewide poll run by Edward Whittlesey, an ex-Gallup student, and William McPhee, an alumnus of the University of Denver National Opinion Research Center, found last June that Truman would win Colorado, as he did. But they got worried when their results disagreed with Gallup's, so they jiggered them for publication in the Denver Post- to show a Dewey victory. Said McPhee: "Whittlesey and I are thinking of going out of business...
...Gregg who obtained the funds and the scientific backing that made the "Kinsey Report," or "The Sexual Behavior of the American Male" possible. Profits from sale of the book are expected to finance the research for the remaining volumes that Kinsey is planning...
...modest article (which never reached a large public), Dr. Robert M. Salter, chief of the U.S. Agricultural Research Administration, figured how much food the world could produce if it really tried. As a mark to shoot at, he took an estimate by the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations) of how much food it would take to give every person living in 1960 an "adequate diet" (about what Americans get). By 1960, FAO believes, there will be 2,250 million people on the planet (other experts consider this estimate high). They will need 21% more cereals than...
...Second International Symposium on Feelings and Emotions, sponsored by the Mooseheart (111.) Laboratory for Child Research of the Loyal Order of Moose and the University of Chicago...
Died. Dr. Wesley Clair Mitchell, 74, Columbia University professor emeritus, dean of U.S. economists, co-founder and longtime research director of the National Bureau of Economic Research (1920-45); of coronary thrombosis; in Manhattan. An authority on business cycles, Dr. Mitchell headed the Hoover Research Committee on Social Trends, later served F.D.R. as a member of the National Planning and National Resources Boards...