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...Literary Digest straw poll, although it came to a disastrous end when it predicted that Alfred Mossman Landon would be elected President in 1936, demonstrated that public opinion polls have a commercial value. Result is that at least half-a-dozen organizations today are periodically polling the U. S. public on what it eats, what it thinks, whether it expects to come to a good end. First modern scientific pollitician was big-eared, sharp-nosed Dr. Henry Charles Link, director of the Psychological Corporation's Psychological Service Centre in Manhattan. Dr. Link, who thinks mankind needs more religion...
...service to sell to advertisers. He was the first to apply psychologists' findings about the mathematical laws of chance to polling. He analyzed standard tables of accuracy, found that with 5,000 interviews of a carefully selected, economically proportional cross-section, he could come within 1% of the result he would get by polling the entire population; with 20,000 interviews, within one half of 1%. To make his sample representative in a general poll of public opinion, Dr. Link questions 4,000 to 10,000 people (depending on the question) in 70 cities and towns throughout...
...entitled "Face the Facts." Its gist: "A hideous monstrosity is rapidly moving to rule the world by dictators and to regiment the people. God, by His holy prophets, thousands of years ago, as recorded in the Bible, foretold this great menace, its cause, and what will be the result...
...offer no explanation for the increased intelligence and lost tails of the irradiated group other than the fact that radiation stimulates circulation of the blood, sends more fresh blood through the brain and body. Whether increased intelligence might be obtained in humans he did not dare conjecture. Only mental result of artificial fever noticed so far is that the patient's outstanding personality characteristics are exaggerated after treatment...
Last week, as result of experiments in the little Pittsburgh "pilot mill." J. & L. introduced a new process which it hopes will give the company dominance of the seamless pipe market. Hitherto manganese, the element which gives, steel its pliability, has been apt to cluster instead of spreading evenly through the steel; now J. & L. is feeding manganese into the molten metal in carefully measured and shaped lots. The new process, says Metallurgist Graham, is like using bits of quick-dissolving granulated sugar in coffee rather than lump sugar. The analogy would be more accurate, he adds, if lump sugar...