Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time. He decided to adopt Reese Taylor's centralized plan to allocate steel-and to apply it to other raw materials as well. He issued orders taking away the blank-check power that Army & Navy field agents all over the country now have over priorities -a big factor in today's hopeless confusion. He insisted he would not back down, because of Army & Navy opposition, on his promise that Henry Kaiser could go ahead with cargo plane construction...
...pound and Delta land went to $35 an acre. The second year of the war, Old Man Town sold 750 bales and bought 4,000 acres from a neighbor. He also mortgaged his 16,000 acres and his next year's crop to a Memphis cotton factor for $50,000. He gypped his hands out of "everything he thought they would stand . . . sold them cheap whiskey at bonded prices for what little money they did draw." In 1917 cotton went to 50?. Old Man Town, in his $75 custom-made boots, his faded wash pants, his wide Stetson...
...Memphis an automobile salesman walked into the factor's office. "Why don't you get yourself an automobile?" the factor said. "Well, I never thought about one," said Old Man Town. "Whut they wuth?" "We've got a nice little job here for five thousand that ought to get you over your place ail right," said the salesman...
...this bang-up job, United increased flying time per airplane, speeded up all turnarounds, reshuffled schedules, converted a dozen-odd twelve-passenger sleepers into regular 21-passenger transports. In the past six months the company's over-all "load factor" (i.e., percentage of carrying capacity used on all flights) has jumped about 20 points to a record 85%. On the important San Francisco-Portland run it is averaging an unprecedented...
Aviation Important Factor...