Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...controlling factor in all business and industry is finance. Whether or not a company makes a profit depends upon how it is financed and the regulation of its receipts and expenditures. However different one business may be from another, money and credit are the medium common to all. Whatever the enterprise, its performance is calculated and governed in terms of dollars and cents. Thus finance is a function cutting across all business and industry providing opportunities for college men who, rather than deal with the actual making and selling of goods and services, are interested in reducing the operations...
...candidates may be easily performed in spare time during the day, and there is always enough variety in the work to make it exceedingly interesting. The desire to do a good job is given first consideration and a pure money total is by no means the sole factor in deciding a man's fitness to become a member of the board. It should be especially noted that once an editor, there is an excellent chance at a most attractive salary...
...eggs were at its disposal for feeding the destitute. These two items of good news for egg-eaters were the complementary results of a single Government action to stabilize the egg market. Responsible for both was Henry Agard Wallace's Surplus Commodities Corp., an AAAffiliate. Most important natural factor in determining the price of eggs is the laying behavior of the hen. In spring, the big egg-laying season, eggs are ordinarily plentiful and cheap. In autumn and winter, hens are less productive, more storage eggs are sold, egg prices rise...
...other factor which has made this flood a record breaker is the effect of an earlier flood in the lower Ohio Valley. This is acting as a water blockade, and is multiplying the destructive forces upstream. The rainfall in some parts of the Vailey has been as much as 20 inches since January 1. The significance of this figure can be better realized when compared with the record rainfall registered on Blue Hill for December, 9.01 inches...
...Washington the biggest factor in the fastest-growing U. S. industry last week filed a registration statement with the Securities & Exchange Commission for the first public offering of trailer stock. The registrant was Covered Wagon Co., the little Mt. Clemens, Mich, concern which was founded in 1930 by Arthur Georg Sherman (TIME, June 15). Exasperate by the faults and failures of a trailer he bought, Trailerman Sherman built one fc himself, was besieged on the road by s many "trailer tappers" (curious callers that he decided to make his model commercially...