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Anybody would have said that when Leon Henderson cracked down on sales of new cars and tires, automobile travel-and accidents-would fall off. But U.S. citizens are a perverse people who seldom do what they are expected to do. Bill Johnson, statistician for the National Safety Council, announced this week that traffic deaths jumped to 3,140 in January, up 6% from January 1941's 2,930. They went up because travel actually increased. Some people had put their cars away for the duration. But a great many more were defense workers, Army & Navy men on official business...
Most important, in WPB's second week, was a step which went almost unnoticed outside its own offices. On Nelson's desk each morning bald Statistician Stacy May began to place a fat progress report: day-by-day, company-by-company deliveries of armaments and armament parts stacked against the quotas. In OPM, a lazy or incompetent chief could sit motionless at his desk for months without having anyone the wiser. Under Nelson's WPB, any failures should show up at once in the morning report on his desk...
...tuberculosis death rate, which has declined steadily since World War I, rose in 19 U.S. cities in 1940. So reported Statistician Godias J. Drolet, assistant director of the New York Tuberculosis & Health Association, who last week published t.b. reports from 46 large cities all over...
Trying to figure what the scheme would cost U.S. taxpayers was a statistician's nightmare: estimates ranged from $5,000,000,000 to $20,000,000,000. The annual cost would start at a modest $7,000,000, jump quickly into nine figures, continue as long as the last widow of the last veteran drew her pensionable breath. Since many a veteran has a healthy young wife, that happy day would be around the year...
...year, more than four babies were born. Such was the summing up of the U.S. Census Bureau last week. Reasons for this increase, which represents a gain of 140,000 babies over the 2,360,339 born last year, were given by Dr. Philip M. Hauser, assistant chief statistician for population. Said...