Word: turnout
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stores reported record crowds, with some store sales last week-the traditional kickoff for Christmas buying-up 30% over last year. New York stores were packed; Atlanta's big Rich's department store had the greatest single-day volume in its 87-year history; and a record turnout of 800,000 shoppers jammed Chicago's Loop...
...early turnout indicates that Wilson will be faced with a lack of running depth...
...polls behind red banners, and handed ballots for the single official ticket, the Communist National Front. They could not vote no. There were no other candidates, no places for write-ins, nothing to mark. They could only drop ballots into boxes held before them. The result: a turnout of 99.3% of eligible voters, and 99.3% approval for every one of the 400 candidates. (Though the East German Parliament has unanimously approved everything put before it, new candidates had to be elected to replace nine Deputies who have been arrested, 44 fired for political unreliability, and 15 who have fled...
Thus, in a campaign which two weeks ago was "the dullest in years," and expected to bring out a very light vote, politicians are now anticipating the biggest off-year turnout in the state's history. Despite the fact that the Democrats are sure to gain at least one Congressional seat in the state, it now looks as though Lodge should be re-elected...
...first sign that the people of Brazil were not especially wrought up by Vargas' dramatic exit was the small turnout. Even in Rio, where talking politics is a year-round pastime, only two-thirds of the registered voters cast ballots, and after the polls closed unused ballots littered the streets. In some cities the turnout...