Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unfortunate that in your July 16 discussion of regional ileitis and the President's outlook after his operation you did not mention the extremely important factor of age. My own recent book on regional enteritis (ileitis) cited, with approval, [Dr. Ward] Van Patter's figures from the Mayo Clinic to the effect that the rate of recurrence is less in patients 51 years of age and older...
...while the Negro population of Texas went up 58%, the number of city Negroes quadrupled in the state. They are also getting better jobs. In 1940, only 2.9% of Houston's Negroes were in the professions; today the figure is 5.2%, of which almost half are teachers. Another factor in the fatter paycheck has been the lessening of barriers to better jobs. Bullock checked 736 Texas manufacturing firms, found eight of them now employ Negro chemists, nine have Negro engineers...
...will become obsolete. The nature of alliances will be changed; even now, the idea of expanding NATO from a purely military shield into a working community of political and economic interests is being discussed. Barring some new kind of economic or political magnetism, neutralism will become an even greater factor because of the risk of military involvement with either of the ICBM-armed powers. Certainly, statesmen will be able to approach the labyrinthine problems of disarmament from a new basis, once all profit is gone from world...
Fissioning in the Subway. Another key question was whether uranium atoms ever fission spontaneously-an important factor in weighing the feasibility of practical bombmaking. Theorists said that spontaneous fission ought to take place, but excellent experimental men in the U.S. were unable for a considerable time to prove that it did. The first to prove it (in 1940) were two young Russians, Flerov and Petrzhak, who did their work (to protect their experiment from the intrusion of cosmic rays) in the depths of Moscow's ornate subway...
Figuring all costs, says President Carmichael, Capital's Viscounts had a break-even load factor of 56.8%, almost 10% better than its piston-engined Constellations. Total operating costs are $1.57 per mile v. $2.16 for the Connies. But the initial costs of getting the new Viscounts into service actually cost Capital a $1,300,000 deficit in 1956's first quarter, will probably hold down profits this year, even though operating revenues were up to $11.9 million for an overall 13% jump over...