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Said Don Nelson truly last week: "It is uncertainty that bothers everybody. It always bothers me." In SPAB, there is still no shortage of uncertainty-particularly in statistics. To start allocation, SPAB must have good figures on supplies, inventories and minimum need for scarce materials. Head Statistician Stacy-May had divided the inventories job into three pieces, reported progress as follows...
Last year CBS engaged Pollster Elmo Roper to find out how much good its 40 evening shows did for the products that sponsored them. Last week his answer was made public. It was a lot more encouraging than that which Statistician George Gallup gave to R.K.O. when it asked him to survey the cinema business (TIME, July 21). Using as his yardstick a period of one month, Roper discovered a raft of pleasant statistics about CBS and its programs. Among them...
...some cases, tightness of materials may be as much a matter of maldistribution as of actual shortage. Bald, earnest Stacy May, chief OPM statistician, has tried for months to get permission from his bosses (notably Production Chief John Biggers) to make his own survey of manufacturers' requirements and inventories. Only with such information could OPM work out a rational allocation of tight materials. So far May has not succeeded, and OPM is ignorant...
...Home. Last week OPM Statistician Stacy May (see p. 61) flew to London. One of his quests: better statistics on Britain's use and need of her Lend-Lease imports. The British, out of fumbling politeness, have sometimes ordered things (such as cotton) they do not really need, and have timed their other orders very badly. Last month Sir Kenneth Lee of Britain's Industrial & Export Council arrived in the U.S. One of his jobs: to investigate and answer complaints of sharp British trade practices that hurt...
...falling U.S. birth rate, the U.S. Census Bureau sheepishly announced that 1941 will have the highest rate in a decade. In the first four months of 1941, about 20,000 more babies were born in the U.S. than in the first third of 1940. Dr. Halbert Dunn, chief vital statistician for the Census Bureau, began to talk of "an increase of about 7% in population per generation...