Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Statistician Louis Bean, an Agriculture Department economist who charts elections as a hobby: "This is still a Democratic year with Republicans likely to make approximately normal mid-term gains in both houses of Congress-but Democrats to retain control." To gain control, Republicans would have to keep the 169 seats they now hold in the House, pick up 49 more, pick up seven more seats-in the Senate...
...Louis I. Dublin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. asked themselves: How high is high blood pressure? To get the answer, they had to find out what is normal blood pressure-an item that a generation of researchers had failed to agree on. Dr. Dublin, aided by Statistician Herbert H. Marks, culled the health records of World War II workers at air bases and war plants, tabulated the blood pressure of 15,706 seemingly normal, healthy men & women from 16 to 65. They found a much greater range than had previously been considered normal. Therefore, they concluded, the definition...
This means that since March 16, when the shells first began to navigate the river, Bolles has had to juggle permutations and combinations like an insurance statistician to try and find the magic octet from a field of better than 40. A first boat lineup will probably be ready before the end of spring vacation practice...
...manufacturing ideas on easily understood charts. When American Telephone & Telegraph Co., owner of Western Electric, wanted to expand in 1908, President Theodore N. Vail put Gifford in charge of evaluating the companies which were later incorporated into the Bell System. For his crack job, Gifford was made chief statistician of A.T. & T. in 1911 at $7,000 a year. After that he rose through the company with statistical precision. At the age of 40, in 1925, he became president...