Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...controversy over Marshal Timoshenko's ancestry (TIME, Jan. 5), there is one factor deserving of attention. Timoshenko's birthplace, Stalino, was not just "a small town called Youzovka" but a very English town, the first and one of the most important English industrial centers in pre-war Ukraine. The name Youzovka is itself English-a Russian spelling of Hughes-ovka-after its founder, a Welsh ironmaster named Hughes...
...October convention, A.F. of L. claimed total paid membership of 4,569,056. At the same time, C.I.O. claimed a total membership of almost 5,000,000. Further, the report was eight months old -and since April 1941 union membership has increased notably. And one other big factor was not considered: some of the biggest and fattest of all unions did not report-A.F. of L.'s teamsters, carpenters, electrical workers and garment workers, C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers...
They numbered about a division. Some of the men arrived just before Malaya was attacked and these green men, many of whom were used to Australia's dry brushland, had to be accustomed to Malaya's dripping tangle; this may have been a factor in the decision to hold them back...
This is an all out war. It is a war in which the civilians are fully as important a factor as the armed forces. We must not only hate the little yellow warrior; not only despise the war party that has created them; but we must learn to loathe every Japanese boy and girl who gather rice in the fields, or go without food so that the yellow army can bomb our shores. It is the people, the customs, the culture,--every least part of the Japanese civilization that is symbolized by a spider or an octopus in the cartoons...
...main factor in bringing on plans for the bulletin," stated Miller. "We had to cancel our trip to central Peru when we had Lowell Thomas, the American Geographical Society, and perhaps even the Rockefeller Institute interested in it. Now we're going to attempt to keep up interest for future members by putting out the bulletin...