Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Strange Alchemy. But the most important factor about Lindsay Almond's role is that he is the anti-integration straw boss for one of the nation's oldest, most powerful and in many ways most sophisticated political machines, led by Harry Byrd, a symbol of Southern leadership with the capacity and influence for achieving the greatest good-or the greatest evil...
...spring when he called a special legislative session, proposed to extend recession-ridden Maine's unemployment aid or accept federal help, was turned down by G.O.P. legislators. Just three days before election, President Eisenhower vetoed the Payne-sponsored bill to provide federal funds for depressed areas. Another economic factor: the 57,000-member A.F.L.-C.I.O. poured $40,000 into the campaign on behalf of Democratic candidates, takes credit for electing Oliver and Clauson...
...these funds has totaled more than $5.5 billion since 1946. Individual investors have also come into the market in increasing numbers; there are 8,630,000 today, v. 6,500,000 in 1952. Thus Wall Streeters, who traditionally measure stocks by earnings and dividends, are now using a new factor-the supply of new money-to determine what stocks will do next...
...heartening factor concerns money, and it will take a great deal of it to finance the program outlined by the CEP report. A recent gift of $100,000 from Procter and Gamble to the Program for Harvard College has been ear-marked for the Honors Program Fund, and this hopefully is the first of many steps towards financing what in future years may prove to be the most significant development in education since education became General
...audience solemnly agreed. And in a poll taken by the Summer News, most students gravely declared that they had been academically motivated in coming to Harvard Summer School. The opportunity to take courses not offered elsewhere was mentioned as an intensely significant factor...