Word: factor
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France faces a complex problem, which in turn has its bases in many factors including French manpower losses in the two wars, the prolonged German occupation, and the Latin temperament. The latter factor in large part contributes to the French failure to set up a long range, planned program of recovery calling for patience and deliberation along British lines. The difference is obvious in the conversation of the people. In England one talks about the difficulty of obtaining enough with the limited ration coupons allowed the individual. In France, one talks about the difficulty in obtaining enough money...
...candidate for the United States Senate. She told me on Tuesday that her decision, made some months ago, was final and that she would not be available. She urged me publicly a long time ago to run and has been consistent in her stand. This was a very influential factor in my own decision...
Concluding his comments on the social problems, he feels that "the vast majority of enlisted men do not deplore that lack of social equality which galls Col. Neville most, and it has never been a genuine factor in their discontent with army life in general...
Crowed the Communist Daily Worker: "The Communist Party has become a strong, influential factor in the maritime industry. . . . More difficult struggles loom...
...Midwestern isolationism. But most political prophets were cautious about building local results into a national, or even a sectional pattern. Last month, North Dakota voters had returned diehard isolationist Bill Langer to the Senate. And in Minnesota isolationist Congressmen had been renominated, in contests where Stassenism was not a factor. The defeat of Henrik Shipstead caused scarcely a ripple in congressional cloakrooms, changed no votes in the battle in the House over the British Loan (see The Congress...