Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...beginning of the winter of 1937 had trapped an unusually large number of icebreakers in Siberian waters. This has been known for months, but suddenly last week Vice Premier Kosior rushed before the Council of People's Commissars, declared that the early ice was a factor which Professor Schmidt and his scientific colleagues are learned enough to have figured out in advance. The professor was called before the commissars, but what he said was kept secret last week. Soon the charge of wrecking was hurled, with an official announcement that, acting upon the report of Vice Premier Kosior...
...pages in the new Sears, Roebuck catalogue, only four advertise books. But Sears, Roebuck is a big factor in one branch of the book business. Since 1920 it has owned a controlling interest in the Encyclopædia Britannica (total sales-1,000,000 sets). First published in Scotland in 1768, the Britannica came under U. S. ownership 35 years ago, barely squeezed through its 12th, 13th and 14th editions, was often rescued by the late Julius Rosenwald when he headed Sears, Roebuck. For its 14th edition, it needed $2,500,000 to keep going. This month veteran Editor Franklin...
...together to meet an unexpected problem." Mexico is the world's biggest silver producer and its silver mines are even more important to its domestic economy than its oil fields. Thirteen percent of the Government's revenues have come from the silver industry. Silver is a major factor in its currency and in its foreign exchange. And if Mexico tries to dump its silver directly on the world market, Secretary Morgenthau can simply pull his plug...
...conferring almost daily last week on the most amicable terms with Italian Foreign Minister Count Ciano, II Duce's son-in-law, and since at Moscow the Stalin regime chose last week not to make counter threats which might have given Italy and Germany pause, the dominant factor in Spain's civil war was not to be found this week in Aragon, in Catalonia or in Valencia, but in France. The army, navy and air force of the French Republic are among the most powerful in Europe, but was it certain that French Premier Leon Blum, although...
...Gilbert Gable's certificate of convenience & necessity be withdrawn but also that one be refused to the Crescent City group. Said he: "Recent army reports show that the prospect of future growing importance of the ports of Port Orford and Crescent City definitely may be discarded as a factor of consequence in this proceeding...