Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October Pennsylvania posted with the I. C. C. store-door tariffs for its entire system. So did Erie and Grand Trunk. Thus an entirely new factor was suddenly introduced into the highly-competitive trunk line territory. New York Central, Pennsylvania's traditional rival, led 16 other big eastern roads in a mighty howl of protest to the I. C. C. They failed to agree with Pennsylvania's William Wallace Atterbury that store-door service was the only way to wean back l.c.l. freight now in the hands of truckers. They doubted that the service would be worth...
Without economics and sociology standing watch, the conclusions of economic geography would be valueless; the point of view of the geography is so restricted that he can never be more than a minor factor in the truths with which he deals...
...winner of the intercollegiate award is not determined by the number of victories or tie games on a soccer teams's record, but on general excellence during the season. The merit of a team's opponents is also a factor considered in awarding the prizes...
...last week, London understood, the delegates had agreed in principle on a program for 1934 calling for 500.000 tons of cultivated rubber-50% of the potential production and 200.000 tons below the ten year average. Aside from the Dutchmen, production of native rubber, an uncontrollable and widely varying factor, has been one of the chief obstacles of a rubber-tight agreement. But the times are in joint: it is estimated rubber consumption in 1933 will exceed production for the first time in five years. This week all good Dutch planters will emerge from the jungle to ponder their delegates...
...year, or perhaps, if he is especially strong, two years; but eventually he cannot escape acting like a 'mayor of New York' and thinking like a 'mayor of New York.' Likewise Roosevelt ceases being Roosevelt and becomes president of the University States. In this capacity he is merely a factor in the continually undulating evolutions of American political thought...