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...back. Their stand: the U. S. has plenty of capacity already, and if it hasn't, let civil needs be curtailed, the supply rationed. They cited one of their tribal elders, Cleveland Trust Co.'s economic essayist Colonel Leonard P. Ayres, who has turned up as chief statistician of the War Department, and who last month told the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce that in most cases erection of new plants or additions should be avoided if possible. Last week they found further support in an unexpected quarter: C. I. O.'s Philip Murray. Charging that a handful...
...Pathfinder, Publisher Emil Hurja, acclaimed as the statistician who in 1936 told Jim Farley that President Roosevelt would carry 46 States, this year forecast a Republican victory, gave Willkie a popular majority of nearly 1,000,000 votes. Harvard's Professor William Leonard Crum, writing in Barron's weekly, predicted that Willkie would "probably win with about 300 electors...
Nevertheless, this startling suggestion was sprung last week in the formal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, by Statistician Antonio Ciocco of the U. S. Public Health Service...
...rheumatic heart disease (which doctors suspect is infectious), the other might conceivably catch it. But most other forms of heart trouble are organic, noninfectious. As far as doctors know, so is cancer. Why husbands & wives should suffer these diseases together is a great mystery. Dr. Ciocco, who as a statistician is no sentimentalist, finds the mystery "immediately discouraging...
...renovated was the Prohibition Party, which met in convention last spring, decided that one way to solve the relief problem was to direct into other channels $5,000,000,000 annually-spent in the U. S. for liquor. Nominated for President was goateed Roger Ward Babson, Wellesley Hills (Mass.) statistician, who forlorn-hopefully declared: "I have nothing to offer the American people except the privilege of sacrificing themselves for the common good. . . ." For Vice President: Edgar Vaughn Moorman, wealthy Illinois feed...