Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mark by 1935, and business was slow. Somewhat responsible were the railroads which by their delay in rate adjustment, encouraged the Central Valley's shippers to continue shipping produce destined for boats on down to San Francisco instead of to the nearer port of Stockton. But the big factor is that water-borne traffic follows a comparatively crude rate structure which does not discriminate in short distances. Cargoes move from Europe or the Atlantic Coast to ports on the Pacific Coast at the same rate for Los Angeles, San Francisco or Seattle. In 1933, however, Director Allin was instrumental...
Thomas N. Whitehead, assistant professor of Business, will speak on "The Union as a Social Factor" at an open meeting sponsored by the Harvard Student Union's Labor and Housing Committee to be held in Phillips Brooks House at 7:45 o'clock this evening...
...multiplying battles" and outbreaks of Arab nationalism are "more like a contagion than a directed movement," decided Mrs. McCormick. "The aggravating factor in the French colonies, according to the French residents, is the policy of the Popular Front Government (in Paris). . . . French merchants interviewed by this correspondent complain bitterly that agitators from France, representing the Government in power, are inciting the natives to throw off the yoke of France. . . . Mayor Rozis of Algiers, a colonial administrator for 30 years and a consistent friend of the Arabs . . . declared ... in an open letter to Premier Chautemps that the weakness and demagogy...
...Szent-Györgyi later found, along with Vitamin C in fruit juices and adrenals, a "permeability factor" which he calls Vitamin P, not present in synthesized C. Vitamin P keeps the walls of body cells in good condition. Without both, a person develops pyorrhea and scurvy. He bleeds easily, may be subject to certain virus and bacterial diseases. With an ample supply of these vitamins, he can overcome such ailments. Although Hungarian pepper is the most abundant source of these vitamins, this condiment is little known in the U. S. Most convenient source of the vitamins thus remain...
Since steel production is a basic economic index and since the stockmarket's traditional bellwether is U. S. Steel (whose operations last week were down a similar percentage"), a good case can be built to prove that railroad weakness is the governing factor in the current market slide. Last week this case was very much confused by the behavior of railroad stocks in one of the most tumultuous weeks in stockmarket history...