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...Oberlin, Ohio, at a meeting of the General Council of the Congregational and Christian Churches, devout Statistician Roger Ward Babson presented results of his four-year study of church attendance. In 1,000 Congregational churches, said he, pews were 70% vacant. Only 42% of the communicants supported their churches by attendance or otherwise. Attendance varies inversely with the size of communities, the urban Eastern States averaging the lowest (36%) and the rural Southeastern States the highest...
Quintuplets occur once in about 57,000,000 births, if the "Rule of 87" holds out. W. W. Greulich, University of Colorado statistician, after examining tables of over 100,000,000 births in various countries, found that one twin birth occurs to approximately 87 single births, one triplet to about 7,569 (87 squared) singles, one quadruplet to about 658,503 (87 cubed) singles. Fifth power of 87 (for sextuplets) is about five billions. No one has been able to explain this apparent rule...
...short last week, rose moderately. Volume of transactions, however, continued to slide down to new low records. In a short Saturday session only 249,300 shares changed hands-lowest figure since July 1932. Even the Toronto market was more active. Having nothing better to do, a Wall Street statistician sharpened his pencil, calculated the shrinkage in value of 100 listed issues. He found that the $4,136,000,000 paper loss since the Stock Exchange Control Bill was introduced last February would have: 1) bought all last year's wheat crop at $7.80 per bu.; 2) built...
Secretary of Interior Ickes has Nathan R. Margold, Harvard Law School graduate, as his solicitor, and Robert D. Kohn as his director of PWA housing. Madam Secretary Perkins has two able Jewish helpers, Isador Lubin Jr. as labor statistician and Charles E. Wyzanski Jr. as solicitor. Lawyer Wyzanski has spent most of his 28 years winning prizes: as a high school boy, from the Daughters of the American Revolution; as a student at Phillips Exeter, the Walter Hines Page, Merrill and Teschemacher prizes (all in one year) and a four-year scholarship at Harvard; as a junior at Harvard...
...deliveries was the tool and die strike last autumn, but the fact remained that the Industry's orders had piled up to $250,000,000. In Akron, all major tire companies raised wages 10%. Firestone dusted off molds it had not used since 1929. Goodyear's chief statistician predicted tire sales for 1934 would reach 46,000,000 units...