Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...demand pushed farm income close to its alltime peak, gross farm income in the U.S. has dropped 11%. Because the cost of what the farmers buy has gone up in that period, they have been caught in a squeeze that has pushed net farm income down 27%. But another factor has tended to ease the blow. As a result of technological improvements on the farms and increased job opportunities in cities, farm population has decreased. Consequently, the per capita net income on the farm has been held to a 7% drop since 1951. It is actually 11% higher today than...
...sleep many nights, even missed his son's wedding two weeks ago. To report accurately and authoritatively on Ike's condition, Jim Hagerty briefed himself on heart disease. He collaborated with the doctors on four-a-day bulletins that were models of clarity and a major factor in dispelling the shock to the world of Ike's illness...
...article mentioned only Radcliffe as the "Lipstick" factor. But look around today at the Princeton game, or at cocktail parties and dances afterward. You will see a great many girls--far too many for all of them to be Cliffdwellers. A survey of the crowd would probably reveal that there are equally as many, if not more, Wellesley girls present. All the girls will look approximately the same--their best. Yet underneath this? female facade, there are some basic difference between the average Annex girl and her Wellesley counterpart...
Leading off the last half of the varsity season Saturday will be a Bucknell squad, an unknown factor around Boston except to Crimson scouts. After the Thundering Herd passes through, the Tigers from Princeton come to town to avenge the 14-9 setback the Crimson gave them last fall...
...case, Pan Am's move into jets will be a big factor in establishing U.S. commercial supremacy in jet transports. The only competitor has been Great Britain. But Britain's jet development has been so set back by the Comet's three crashes that cost 99 lives that even British Overseas Airways Corp. now may be forced to buy 707s or DC-8s to meet its competition across the Atlantic...