Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic nature of American, League play also seems to be the factor that draws small boys of the autograph-seeking variety and the hordes of casual spectators who pick a team for purposes of cocktail party conversation and that exhilirating sense of being one with the mass...
...American offered special family rates on the first three "off-peak" days of every week. Last week 744 families (the father pays full fare, wife & children only half) flew in American planes out of New York alone. American figures that the "family package" has boosted its DC-6 load-factor from...
...meat business is difficult to control. Each day the packers through retail stores deal with millions of customers. In the stockyards, even though they are the most powerful bidders, they still deal with thousands of livestock growers whose readiness to market their animals is the most important factor in determining meat prices from day to day. Throughout the U.S. the Big Four get lively local competition from some 3,000 smaller packers. The independents during last spring's meat workers' strike when 67 of the Big Four's plants were shut down, expanded operations, enough in nine...
Jaffa's subsequent defeat in the national election rendered him eligible for the regional office in time for Saturday afternoon's caucus. This factor set off an intricate chain of events so complicated as to make the machinations of Tammany Hall appear amateurish. The links of this chain in the order of their forging were...
...characteristics and forces that tend to make a man a criminal, says Dr. von Hentig, are diverse and complicated. A contributing factor may be ugliness, deafness, a physical handicap. Even the time of year and day has an effect (crimes of violence and sex reach their peak in late spring; most women, are murdered between...