Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farmer's wife, and this letter is prompted by Max Factor's remark and insinuation that farm women do not wear lipstick! I would like Mr. Factor to know that my hair is styled at Antoine's, I buy Rubinstein, Arden and Antoine cosmetics, and did buy Max Factor's lipstick...
...Factor. When the race committee had completed its calculations and the winners in each class were announced, it was Yacht Designer Stephens (who stayed home all the while) who did as well as anyone. Not only had he produced Winners Finisterre and Good News, he was also responsible for the three class A leaders (on corrected time) Legend, Gesture, Argyll. Class C Winner Glory was one of his boats; so was Golliwogg, runner-up to Finisterre for the overall trophy...
...something special into the sleek hull that has carried him to so many victories. Said he: "Every once in a while a boat comes along that seems to go faster and do better than the naval architects say is possible. It must be some kind of an X factor, an extra. I guess Finisterre is one of those fortunate boats...
...Steel, which has kept mum about whether it will raise prices to meet automatic July 1 wage hikes (estimated to cost steel firms 20? an hour), last week gave a hint of its intentions. Said Big Steel President Clifford F. Hood: "While costs are a major factor in any price determination, any adjustment of sales prices can only be made in the light of all known commercial and economic factors. The only point we have reached to date is not to attempt to change our prices until the situation clarifies itself...
...warned graduates of Philadelphia's Combs College of Music: "Contests have their place in things like athletics, which are judged objectively, but in music it is not the single performance that makes a champion; it is the sustained consistency in performance quality that is the important, the telling factor-and that only time can determine." Cliburn, meanwhile, kept up his wowing ways in Great Britain, where, after a word tussle with London airport officials over his working permit, he scored neatly with a concert in the Royal Albert Hall, mooned to his audience: "I am an unabashed romantic...