Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plugs. In 1911 Autocar started to specialize on trucks, now makes models from 2%½ ton to 15½ ton capacity. An Autocar feature was long the under-the-seat motor, now being adopted by other truck makers. One advantage is increased payload per inch of wheelbase, an important factor because of legal limitations on truck lengths. Short trucks are also easier to maneuver in cramped quarters, and Autocars are a favorite with coal dealers. Autocar has paid no dividend on its common stock since 1921, though in the War boom it once paid $10 in one year including...
...much the other way that surprised members in the lobby after Sir Samuel, Mr. Baldwin and Sir Austen Chamberlain had finished their speeches wondered if the Cabinet break had not been a sham battle or at least an arranged episode to serve some future useful purpose. . . . Another factor that has made many members feel that Sir Samuel's retirement was not permanent was Sir Austen's remark in his speech that he hoped 'the tragedy which has caused the resignation is only temporary...
Admiring Shaw much less wholeheartedly, Maurois nevertheless makes him more human and entertaining than the other characters discussed in the book, while his essays on Wells and Conrad are uniformly dolorous and give little life to either. It may be news to most readers that a strong factor in Wells's social thought was the organization of the Boy Scouts; that in 1909 Conrad's earnings from his 13 published works amounted to less than ?5. Among English writers who took themselves, their ideas and art with great solemnity, the young Shaw appeared as a wild...
...Greece, the French Empire, the U. S. Cinema. Under a marquee passed film folk and thousands of others who had been summoned with great powder-blue and orange cellophane invitations to attend the opening of "the world's greatest cosmetics factory"-the new $600,000 studio of Max Factor. Pudgy, 61-year-old Max Factor has been a cosmetician since at 13 he left a Russian synagog school to become an apprentice make-up boy in a traveling opera troupe. He built a cosmetics factory in Russia, exhibited in the 1904 St. Louis Exposition, lost his money, started again...
...Factor does keep graduate chemists busy over the ingredients of his cosmetics, but typical of the faint air of hocus-pocus which surrounds the whole beauty industry was what guests saw at his studio last week. There was a spectroscopic contraption which, since Factor's speciality is "color harmony guidance," was supposed to show the slightest color deviation in the subject. There was a contrivance intended to calibrate facial contours minutely. Giant rollers ground grease paint to remove the tiniest speck of granular imperfections. From "the largest powder bin in the world" the powder was meticulously sifted through silk...