Word: factor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unknown factor was the true nature of the Germans' winter plans. If, for example, they had deliberately withdrawn troops from Stalingrad's rear toward the Don and prepared for a stand there, the Russian advances might not have been a complete shock to Hitler. The facts remained that the Red Army had shown its best offensive generalship to date, that it had punctured the Germans' Don-Volga line, and that the battle was not yet over...
With the Allies in Africa and the Nazis in France, Spain and Portugal may have to maneuver smartly to keep from becoming a nut in a nutcracker. One factor may keep Dictator Franco from cooperating with the Nazis, no matter what pressure Hitler applies: the temper of masses of Spaniards who like neither Hitler nor Franco...
...booming Detroit at least $50,000 a day is spend in concessionaires' factory cafeterias and rolling canteens. Biggest factor nationally is the F. B. Prophet Co., which grosses $50,000 per day, services 61 companies and some 250,000 workers in the U.S. Probably No. 1 local caterer is Trainor Bros. Inc., which serves 150,000 workers a day at 13 Detroit factories (including Briggs Mfg., Continental Motors, Fruehauf Trailer) via 20 trucks and trailers and 120 rolling canteens. Average price for a full meal: 35?. Though it takes four caterers to cover the whole of River Rouge...
Disadvantage of the wax treatment is that the unbandaged patient is usually an unpretty sight, even to case-hardened hospital attendants. This esthetic factor, Dr. Pendleton suspects, in part explains former neglect of the wax treatment...
...ends have also been a big factor in the Tigers' successes so far. Captain Dick Schmon and Karl Harr form a light but effective first pair, while their substitutes, Bill Gallagher and Ed Harding, provide more beef but less experience...