Word: factoring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While there will be space for only ten men, about 50 applications have already been turned in. Whitelock said it has not been decided how the residents will be chosen, but that academic ability will be a factor. He explained, however, that the program may be expanded in the future if it proves successful...
Urban designers should hold the dignity of man as the central factor in the reshaping of American cities, Jose Sert, Dean of the Graduate School of Design, said in a keynote message to the Urban Design Conference which opened at Fogg Museum yesterday...
BOSTON HERALD: THERE are many indications that the big factor in the vote was not Democratic bossism or Republican indifference but agrarian discontent. Senator Kefauver outbid Mr. Stevenson on the issue dearest to the rural voter, farm aid. The Republicans would do well to pay more attention to farm sentiment and putting across their essentially constructive farm policies...
Businessmen will probably soon have to take into account a new cost factor: an increase in the price of steel. The increase will be based on 1) inevitable wage boosts and 2) the need for cash for expansion. Last week Ernest Tenner Weir, chairman of National Steel, fifth biggest producer, touched off the campaign for higher prices...
...experts charting the U.S. economy, no short-range factor is more vital or volatile than business inventories. Economists estimate that see sawing inventories have been responsible for more than a third of the cyclical changes in U.S. industrial output between 1919 and 1946. Both the 1948-49 and 1953-54 downturns were "inventory recessions." They were caused by the fact that businessmen, worried by slipping sales, cut back their orders-and thus cut production -far more than the actual drop in sales. In the space of a few months during the 1953-54 recession, there was a whopping $7 billion...