Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...major mystery is how the animals maintain their fixed cycles in spite of all such interference. Zoologist Elton concludes that the master factor is still unknown. He believes it may prove to be of a hitherto-undetected meteorological nature, hints at possible interstellar influences...
...sandstorms. Then there are the Nazi battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, on their dash to home port, defiantly steaming through the English Channel before the British navy woke up. A brief, shocking sequence of Jap soldiers executing a pair of Chinese prisoners suggests the basic note of frightfulness as a factor in Axis tactics...
Sperm Meets Egg. One important contributing factor in sterility. Dr. Hamblen claims, is the fact that few people understand even the mechanics of conception. Spermatozoa (self-propelled male germs), when deposited in the female cervix (neck of the uterus), swim into the uterine cavity, then up through the pencil-sized fallopian tubes...
...away, the use of fleets of cargo planes over six continents and seven oceans is no free choice. Something has to be done. The United Nations have been losing the Battle of the Atlantic for a long time now, and they are smack up against logistics-the time-space factor involved in war-supply problems. If Russia, China, Britain, Australia and the Middle East cannot be supplied, the war will be lost. Now it is freight-by-plane, or else...
Donald Nelson last week denied any alarm over a manpower shortage, said: "Materials are the only limiting factor on American war production." Sidney Hillman, labor half of the late Knudsenhillman, announcing his retirement from Government service, proudly reassured the country that his farsighted 1940-41 training program had obviated the danger. But Paul V. McNutt, whose job as manpower tsar makes him one of the big five in the President's war council, knows differently and has figures to back...