Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...thick last month when Arthur Weigall, distinguished Egyptologist who had visited Luxor, died of an undisclosed cause (TIME, Jan. 15). Searching the rosters of expeditionists, tomb-visitors and their near & distant kin, Hearstpapers found that no less than 20 persons had shared the ancient penalty. Dr. Louis Dublin, master statistician of Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., examined the list of the dead, found that in 1923 their average expectancy of life was 20 years. Out of him was wormed the admission: "There is something uncanny about...
...deliveries was the tool and die strike last autumn, but the fact remained that the Industry's orders had piled up to $250,000,000. In Akron, all major tire companies raised wages 10%. Firestone dusted off molds it had not used since 1929. Goodyear's chief statistician predicted tire sales for 1934 would reach 46,000,000 units...
...twice what he should have paid for liquor." That salvation in Manhattan is expensive: "The cost of making converts in the foreign mission field . . . comes to about $260 a head. . . . In wicked New York the average cost of making a convert is placed by the most optimistic statistician at $660, and other experts who have tried to figure it out say that $1,500 would be more nearly the correct figure." That Broadway, "once a street of comparatively modest tastes, of some show of decorum . . . has degenerated into something resembling the main drag of a frontier town. . . . Broadway has become...
...average ago of the students last year was 31, and most of them had a regular occupation beside their school work. This year's group is slightly older, and boasts of, as members, a banker, a druggist, an architect, a United States probation officer, an hotel manger, a statistician in the Federal Commerce Department, and a Rabbi. The cause for the decline is laid to the unsettled conditions of these businesses...
...paradox is the fact that hot, dry, healthful Southwestern U. S. cities have high tuberculosis death rates. Tuberculous persons flock there seeking health. Statistician Frederick L. Hoffman reported in The Spectator last week that El Paso, Tex. last year had the highest pulmonary tuberculosis death rate in the U. S., 201.3 deaths per 100,000 population, followed by Little Rock, Ark. with 154.4. Large Negro and Mexican populations also up consumption death rates in Southern and Southwestern cities...