Word: statisticians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...Administration has at last decided to investigate the College's marking system. Sargent Kennedy, the Registrar, and Henry S. Dyer, the College's statistician, have been appointed along with other officials to a committee which will make recommendations for revising grading procedure. One of the problems they should consider is the matter of letter grades and their relations to rank list standing...
...Jack Gordon, 48, crack engine man, who worked ten years on the new Cadillac engine; Chevrolet's W. F. Armstrong, 49, a cherub-cheeked man who is nervously cheerful about his big job of staying ahead of Ford; Buick's Ivan L. Wiles, 50, a tall, greying statistician who moved up from comptroller into Red Curtice's job; Oldsmobile's Sherrod E. Skinner, 52, a dark, heavyset, prim engineer; and Pontiac's Harry J. Klingler, 59, lean, angular and eager, a bow-tied salesman who always has one more funny story up his sleeve when...
...Lemuel Shattuck, statistician and genealogist, wrote a report for the Massachusetts legislature that has become known as the "bible of public health in the U.S." He made 50 recommendations ranging from smoke control to pure food laws...