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...University of Chicago's WILLIAM F. OGBURN, 64, the top social statistician in the U.S., onetime director of research for President Hoover's Committee on Social Trends. In 40 years of teaching and research, Sociologist Ogburn has delved deep into everything from living costs to population movements and the tyranny of the machine. His plans after retiring: "I want to spend three months seeing every athletic event in Chicago, then I want to go to all the movies, then I would like to spend several years traveling-I haven't seen the Orient yet-and I want...
...started out in the business would as a statistician, but decided to go into investment counselling in 1932. It was in the middle of the depression, but the Cromwell and Cabot Corporation became a huge success...
...index (based on 200-odd household commodities) had advanced sharply (.6%) since Sept. 15 to an alltime high ceiling of 174.8%. (The base figure of 100% is based on living costs in 1939.) It would be considerably higher, he added, if his figures accurately measured rent costs. And, said Statistician Clague, there is no end in sight...
...barrier to new investment." War profits, said Henderson, should be kept down by constantly renegotiating military contracts. He insisted that World War II's excess profits tax had not caught profiteers: "Only one out of every six corporations that earned any income paid an excess profits tax . . . No statistician will ever figure out how many corporations escaped E.P.T. by the simple device of expensing the excess." In the same vein, television's Dr. Allen B. Du Mont, chairman of the National Conference of Growth Companies, warned: "I resent the threat of my Government taking legislative action that will...
...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...