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...Pathfinder, Publisher Emil Hurja, acclaimed as the statistician who in 1936 told Jim Farley that President Roosevelt would carry 46 States, this year forecast a Republican victory, gave Willkie a popular majority of nearly 1,000,000 votes. Harvard's Professor William Leonard Crum, writing in Barron's weekly, predicted that Willkie would "probably win with about 300 electors...
...when William Peter Hamilton died, Dow, Jones & Co. needed a new high priest to lead the Dow cult of stockmarket analysis. They published some of Rhea's "notebooks" in Barron's weekly. The next year Rhea put his ideas on Dow lore into a book and, after publishers refused it as a white elephant, published it himself and sold over 90,000 copies. Letters began to pile up on the foot of Rhea's bed, and, unable to answer them individually, he one morning sent out a note to the effect that if & when he had anything...
Other indexes like the New York Times', Business Week's, Barron's-using fewer and what are considered more sensitive components-report on business activity with less time lag, manage to agree closely with the F. R. B. curve...
...PhiIip Morris' sales for 1937 were 7,500,000,000; Old Gold's, 7,900,000,000. No figures for this year are yet available but Barron's, the National Financial Weekly, has already concurred with Mr. Lyon's claim that P. M. now leads Old Gold...
WILLIAM P. BARRON...