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Three newspapermen gave him three more answers. Then the chief of the city's tax bureau made it $23.16. Philadelphia's collector of internal revenue agreed with the chief of the tax bureau. But both of them were shortly corrected by the Chief Income Tax Statistician of the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in Washington. That statistician made it $4.05 more than the carpenter's original figure...
When the index was given its last major overhauling, in the campaign year of 1940, there were cries from many a bigwig statistician, including Cleveland's Brigadier General Leonard P. Ayres, that the updating was for political purposes. This time, outside of the necessary slide-rule juggling to bring related indexes into line, there was no commotion. Most businessmen, ear-deep in war work, now have only an academic regard for FRB's index. They gauge their business prospects by the communiqu...
Thursday, June 10 was the big day. The faculty nine, led by Captain McNair, was a colorfully dressed outfit. Statistician McNeil especially had the eye of the crowd with his green and white pin striped V-neck sweater; Professor Barloon was his usual sartorial self and played a faultless game at right field in a pair of white shoes and a form fitting light tan gabardine suit, while Slugger McNair cavorted around in a natty white straw...
Unfortunately, the playing of the faculty was as colorful as the dress. As a result, after the ASOTS finished their first time at bat, it was decided by Colonel Conner that no score should be kept lest Statistician McNeil be compelled to leave the game and keep score on one of his beloved IBM machines. There were no individuals who could be cited for outstanding play; performance was uniformly good (or bad, depending on the point of view.) fray was softened by beer and cold perk. The beer was good; the food was good; and so it was decided...
...nation's best players, picked to compete by a committee. No player has ever won twice. True to tradition, the six former champions entered in last week's tournament finished far out of the running. Winner and new champion was a young War Department statistician, sharp-nosed Alvin Roth, who has played bridge for only six years...