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...loans, last week, reached a new high, mounted to $4,907,164,000. A year ago, they stood at $3,371,705,000. Traditionally, rises in the total of brokers' loans are viewed with alarm (TIME, July 23, et seq.). Reassuring, therefore, were the figures quoted by able Statistician Charles H. Platt (Prince & Whitely, Manhattan investment house), in the bullish Wall Street Journal. Wrote Statistician Platt...
Life Span. In 1840 a person aged 50 might have expected to live to be 70. In spite of decreased infant mortality, public hygiene and medical skill, a person now 50 can expect to live only until he is 71. (Louis Israel Dublin, Metropolitan Life Insurance statistician...
Both men, before they became great in the world's oil industry, kept business accounts. Meyer at 22 (in 1886) found work as bookkeeper in the old Standard Oil's Boston office. Soon he became statistician. Deterding at 22 quit work as Chief Clerk in an Amsterdam bank to adventure in the Dutch East Indies, where he sold among a multitude of general items kerosene lamps. The East Indians who used those lamps filled them with Standard oil shipped in square cans from the U. S. Sumatra, Batavia, Borneo, Java and the rest of the archipelago were...
...Whenever I play in a golf tournament I lose six pounds," said Johnny Farrell. "I lose ten," said Gene Sarazen. "When Bobby Jones played eighteen extra holes to beat Cruikshank in 1923 he lost fourteen pounds," said a statistician...
...three years there won't be a sandbox on any course. Everyone will use wooden tees. One company gave away 3,000,000 of these pegs before the idea caught on," said a statistician last week...