Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small, work hard and do what you can," said Bernie Goldfine who did well enough in World War I to start buying mills for himself. His loose-woven little empire (now grown to six mills employing 1,372 in Maine, Vermont. Massachusetts and New Hampshire) never became a major factor in the industry, but it gave him the funds to begin major investments in real estate in mid-Depression. One day he heard that Western Union wanted to build on a choice block near the financial district, so he bought a corner building as a toe hold, quietly worked...
...There was no consistent predisposing factor (such as head injury) as some investigators have alleged. Alcohol was not important in their own lives, but had been in many cases for their fathers, often to the point of breaking up the home. CJ The difference between the homosexuals' ratio of male-female hormone output and that of normal men used for comparison was negligible...
...such foundation powders as Pond's Angel Face, Revlon's Love-Pat and Max Fac tor's Creme Puff; such lipsticks as Rubinstein's Red Hellion, Revlon's Fire and Ice, Helen Neushaefer's Torrid and Pink Pas sion; such creams as Max Factor's Cup of Youth and Helena Rubinstein's Tree of Life. It lends mystic significance to a word such as moisturizing and nurtures a euphemistic cant in which reducing becomes slenderizing, dye becomes hair color, and diet becomes menu plan. Its slogans have entered the language...
...have jobs. Young girls now battle parents to wear cosmetics in grammar school, and women's magazines are full of frightening stories about older women who let themselves go-and wake up to find their husbands gone. "A woman who doesn't wear lipstick," says Max Factor, president of one of the top five U.S. cosmetics firms, "feels undressed in public. Unless she works on a farm." The result: 95% of all women over the age of twelve now use at least one of the products manufactured by the U.S. beauty industry...
Thus some parental influence is unavoidable; and in some communities it is the only factor which preserves any sort of decent education. But if parental interests do not co-operate with school and public interests, little progress is possible; and if they co-operate in the wrong way, a stultifying and authoritarian atmosphere may result...