Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Elsewhere in the No. 1 U. S. industry, Ford depends almost entirely on its dealers' reports on consumer tastes. Chrysler's Head Statistician John Scoville spends most of his time studying registration tabulations, dealer suggestions and sales records, checks his findings with occasional direct surveys of buyer opinion. General Motors alone carries on constant customer research in the full sense of the word...
Last week the Christian Herald issued its annual statistics of U. S. church membership, compiled by Dr. Herman Carl Weber, expert religious statistician. Total 1937-38 membership was 63,848,094, an increase of 754,138 adults. Of the total U. S. population, 49.9% were affiliated with a church, as compared to 19.9% in 1880. Biggest U. S. denomination: the Roman Catholic, with 21,322,688 members (15,492,016 over 13 years of age). Biggest Protestant groups: Baptists of all kinds (10,322,005); Methodists (9,109,359). Statistician Weber estimated that 20,000,000 people attend church...
...classmates thought him "most likely to succeed." Having majored in English literature, Bill Martin had ideas of teaching, instead became a clerk in his father's bank at $67.50 a month. Thence he moved to the St. Louis firm of A. G. Edwards & Sons as a statistician, in 1931 was sent to Manhattan as its Exchange member. Immediately intrigued by the machinery of the Exchange, he often stood, mouth agape, watching speculation flow around him on the floor. Soon he was an expert at all phases of the market, could quote the capitalizations of 49 out of 50 firms...
With this rabbit punch at his foes, white-goateed Statistician Roger Ward Babson last week rudely suggested that famed Helen Keller be elected to succeed him as moderator of the general council of the Congregational and Christian Churches. Shocked bigwigs of the church council, which was holding its biennial convention in Beloit, Wis., hastily apologized to Miss Keller for "the public use which has been made by Mr. Babson of the name of Miss Helen Keller in a most unkind and undignified manner...
...agencies are under no governmental or other supervision . . . are extremely secretive about the technique at which they arrive at their judgment. ..." Mr. Palyi also had a long list of highly technical criticisms of the accuracy and permanence of the ratings. He was presently supported in his stand by Statistician J. Harvie Wilkinson Jr. of the State-Planters Bank & Trust of Richmond in a book called Investment Policies for Commercial Banks...