Counting the House.

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    • Subject Terms:
      DETROIT (Mich.); MICHIGAN
    • Subject Terms:
      R.L. Polk & Co.
    • Subject Terms:
      GARDNER, Walter
    • Abstract:
      The article offers information on R. L. Polk & Co., an information-gathering firm run by Walter Gardner in Detroit, Michigan. It says that the company can gather data accumulated at car-licensing agencies, from car sales up to the original owners, while it also publishes city directories and lists information of every 18-year-old and above household individuals in various cities by using computers. Meanwhile, it mentions a project in which the company gathers the sociological profile of cities