Word: factor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...truism of writers on military problems is that the next long war will be won by the nation with the greatest industrial potential behind the lines. The ability to mass-produce and to service guns, tanks, planes, ships and motors will, so the military theoreticians predict, be the crucial factor. Her lack of home metallurgical supplies would indicate that here, too, a warring Germany would be behind the eightball...
Most psychologists firmly believe that companionship with intelligent parents and playmates is the most important factor in a child's mental development. The Emperor of Japan shares this view (see p. 31). But last week at the Chicago meeting of the American Association for Mental Deficiency, Psychologist Harold Manville Skeels of the State University of Iowa, questioned this old belief...
Threats of war in Europe have been one factor retarding U. S. business, but last week a significant incident spoke in an-other tone of voice. After waiting anxiously for days, businessmen heard Adolf Hitler speak (see p. 18). Promptly the London market spurted up and the New York market headed down-a pointed suggestion that the worries of U. S. business are made in the U. S. Two of those worries...
...that the adoption of Senator Pittman's plan would be disastrous to China. Said he: "Now we are furnishing Japan 50% of its war materials. One-third of the scrap iron that is being hurled upon civilian populations comes from the United States. Trucks, the most decisive single factor in Japanese advances, are supplied...
...Healey is a potent factor in more than one respect. Coach Floyd Stahl was pitching to him in batting practice before the Princeton game, when a savage Healey liner caught Stahl squarely on the proboscis, breaking...