Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Enough . . . Enough. "But there is one unknown factor in this problem," said Mr. Roosevelt cheerfully. The unknown was rubber scrap. How much rubber scrap is there in the country? The President, with the help of all the citizens and the 400,000 filling-station operators, proposed to find...
...Stainless steel is more durable, stands up four times better than aluminum under the incessant vibrations and strains which can "fatigue" a plane's metal structure to the breaking point. Result : longtime maintenance of steel planes is easier. Hitherto this factor has not been important, but engineers think that after the war air transports will be built (like railroad cars) to stand the strain of at least ten years of heavy duty...
...Europe, but the most common form of the disease in the Orient and Africa. Reason: the Oriental diet consists chiefly of rice and vegetables. This diet makes the liver susceptible to cancerous destruction by some unknown agent. In Occidental countries, the liver is resistant to the unidentified cancer factor because it is protected by diets of milk, dairy products, wheat flour. These facts, said Dr. Cramer, show that cancer of the liver, at least, can be prevented by proper food...
...were substantially frozen. Old-line yards learned new tricks-how to fabricate sections upside down in order to eliminate overhead welding. Bows and sterns of destroyers, weighing 30-40 tons apiece, were assembled in mammoth shops ashore, rolled out, lifted by giant cranes on to the ways. Chief limiting factor long since has been the ability of the rest of U.S. industry to produce raw materials and equipment fast enough to keep up with the shipyards...
...Aviation in war should no longer be an adjunct of the Army and Navy, but should be an independent arm used as the major factor in our striking force," Alexander de Seversky, noted flyer, plane designer, and aerial strategist told the newsmen's Institute on War Problems last night at the Faculty Club...