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Died. Sidney Loeb, 28, statistician, market-letter writer for E. F. Hutton & Co., Manhattan brokers, brother of Hutton Partner Gerald M. Loeb; after an automobile accident; in Prescott...
...Moscow's chief abortion clinic the resident statistician announced last week that 60,000 births and 70,000 abortions a year is now Moscow's average. Abortions, being legal and free of charge, are performed by State physicians upon application. If the child is her first, she is advised against abortion. If she insists, "our Soviet technique is so advanced that the simple operation is now performed in about three minutes...
Last week's cause for corporate alarm was appendicitis. From 18,000 to 20,000 people in the U. S. are dying each year from this cause. The national mortality record, like the mortality record for women in childbirth, is, according to Frederick Ludwig Hoffman, consulting statistician for Prudential Insurance Co., the worst in the world. The U. S. appendicitis death rate per 100,000 inhabitants in 1929 was 15.2. Now the rate may be still higher. For in 1920 it was 13.4, from which it rose to the 1929 level...
...mortgages; 2) free silver coinage at a 16-to-1 gold ratio; 3) government ownership of all banks; 4) government ownership of public utilities; 5) abolition of taxes; 6) unsecured paper currency. Out of the Liberty Party's platform was kept a "wild suggestion by a St. Louis statistician" that the Government, to end war, bribe the enemy to surrender. Each deserter would get $1,000. Moreover, the crew of a hostile battleship would be paid $6,000,000 to deliver...
...offices of Moody's Investors Service last week a statistician tabulated the net earnings of the first 744 companies to report for 1930, found profits averaged 23.2% lower than in 1929. The group...