Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...major factor in last winter's airplane crashes was radio failure due to snow static. United Air Lines therefore set aside a Boeing laden with instruments and experts which flew almost daily over the mountainous Northwest-an ideal snow-static laboratory. Snow static was supposed to be caused by impact on the antenna of droplets containing tiny electric charges. United last week announced that it is caused by discharge from trailing edges of electricity gathered while flying through heavily charged clouds. When sufficiently severe, snow static affected the shielded loop, heretofore the best-known remedy (TIME...
...Sears, Roebuck & Co., which paid out approximately all it earned to its 34,500 stockholders, then proceeded to sell them $43,000,000 worth of new stock (TIME, Nov. 9). Since then the necessity to replenish working capital funds depleted by year-end dividends has been a big factor in starting up belated activity in new capital financing...
Hammering headlines from the steel front (see p. 11) drove shares to new lows and near records for inactivity for the year. It was the first time since C. I. O. got into action that strike news has been a general market factor. The motor sit-downs last winter merely interrupted the market's upward climb and prices were later pushed to new recovery highs...
...appears to have tracked down this lunar divagation, which he calls the "X factor," is Dr. James Robertson of the Naval Observatory, who has been prophesying eclipses for 26 years. Dr. Robertson now believes the "X factor" to be a resultant of three irregularity cycles, one of a lunar month, one of eleven to 13 months, the third varying over a long period up to 70 years. According to first reports from Canton Island, Dr. Robertson's time predictions for that spot, allowing for the "X factor," had hit the actual eclipse times on the nose...
...automobile, the installment plan before Depression had spread to refrigerators, pianos, radios, oil burners and similar relatively durable goods. It had always been possible to buy a diamond solitaire, or a suite of overstuffed furniture or an encyclopedia on a deferred payment plan, but installment selling as a major factor in U. S. economics developed after the War. Even in those exciting days a substantial down payment was required and terms for the balance seldom exceeded twelve months. Moreover, the goods covered by the contract were supposed to have a considerable repossession value...