Word: statistician
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...count the number of first-class hotels built in metropolitan U.S. since the war, all a statistician needs are the fingers of both hands. But to total the number of new motels that have sprouted up around big cities and along U.S. highways, the experts need an adding machine. What was once a sorry second choice for prewar travelers has skyrocketed into one of the biggest and fastest-growing of U.S. businesses. By last week, as winterbound families started planning their annual vacation motorcade, some 53,000 motels, doing a $1.5 billion annual business, dotted the roads from Maine...
...winner of the 1954 race for the No. 1 spot in the auto industry was Chevrolet. So said R. L. Polk & Co., the industry statistician, last week. In 1954 automobile registrations, Chevrolet led Ford 1,417,453 cars...
...increasing crime, flourishing liquor consumption, marriages, divorces and other distractions, the U.S. somehow manages to keep on reading-or at least buying-more books. If the number of books published and bought were the only criterion, 1954 was a big year. Publisher's Weekly, the industry's statistician, guessed that 1953's alltime high of 12,050 new titles would be equaled or surpassed by Dec. 31. It seemed likely that 1953's record sale of an estimated 600 million copies (3.7 new books per capita) would be at least matched. The literary record was another...
...last-minute added attraction staged by a performer who previously had been most unwilling to get into the act stole the show at the A.M.A. convention. The star: the American Cancer Society's Statistician Edward Cuyler Hammond. His show-stopping material: figures proving that heavy cigarette smokers die younger than non-smokers-mainly from heart disease and cancer, notably cancer of the lung...
...system: one year he spent 200 nights on sleepers. The son of a baggage master, Symes (rhymes with hymns) grew up near the tracks in his native Glen Osborne, Pa., got a job at 18 on the Pennsy. From clerk he was soon promoted to car tracer, to statistician in Cleveland, to freight movement director in Pittsburgh, to passenger superintendent in Chicago, to freight chief for the entire system. For the job he did heading up the Pennsy's western region during World War II, he was named operational vice president, then executive vice president. As a Pennsy executive...