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...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...
...M.I.T. suffers from some of the ills of bigness. It cannot quickly unload any of its large blocks of stock (for fear of breaking the market), hence it does not offer investors much chance for quick gains. This fact was spotted by Minneapolis-born Sidney L. Sholley, a statistician and financial analyst who had settled in Boston. In 1932, he organized a new Boston-type trust called Keystone Custodian Funds, Inc., which offered customers as conservative or as speculative a program as they wanted. If their main interest was income they could buy any of four bond funds...
...Proud citizens of The Bronx offered gifts of food, clothing, scales, cribs and even a house after 27-year-old Mrs. Ethel Collins, wife of a $72-a-week statistician, gave birth to quadruplets (two boys, two girls) at New York's Lebanon Hospital...