Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...guilty verdict or an indictment dismissal leaves more possibilities. In both instances an appeal would be almost certain. What ruling the superior Federal courts would make is, of course, in doubt. If Kamin were found guilty, the severity of his sentence would be another doubtful factor...
Trouble with Postcards. The limiting factor, said Kefauver, is money. He explained in his best patched-pants style: "When I was out in California the other day, somebody told me that just to send a postal card to all the Democratic voters of California costs at least $115,000-one postal card. So that this campaigning has gotten to be very, very expensive . . . I do not have the money available and I do not know where I am going to get funds from. I do have reason to feel that some people will help me ..." Kefauver was asked what differences...
...problems that every architect of a music auditorium has had to consider and solve, often by trial and error (many older halls have adequate acoustics because of such accidents of general design as coffered ceilings, panels, statuary, friezes, all of which helped to diffuse sound). But the chief factor that gives modern halls their characteristic clarity and brilliance is close control of reverberation, i.e., the prolongation of sound...
...from 132 million to 166 million. In the same period, the annual gross national product has been pushed up 286%, from $101.4 billion to $391.5 billion. Such a massive increase in goods and services might seem to be enough to take care of the increased population, but a third factor makes a difference. Since 1940, personal income in the U.S. has risen a spectacular 293%, from $78.3 billion to $307.5 billion...
...Sellout. The push to find more and better methods of producing more and better products is a major factor in the current demand for engineers. Georgia Tech's placement bureau, which will be sold out of 1956 graduates by May, is already taking orders for the class of 1957. The demand has led to a story of the civil engineer who, tired of using a transit for the state highway department, went to work for a major oil company. Three months later he was back asking for his old job. The new job had been fine, he said...