Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan trackmen struggle for supremacy in the Madison Square Garden tonight, with Manhattan given an edge over Eddie Farrell's runners. Fielding a powerful squad of runners and a pole-vaulting combination second to none in the country, the Crimson's weakness in weight events may be the deciding factor...
...Muste has headed many of the contemporary labor movements throughout the country. He founded Brookwood Labor College and later organized the Worker's Party, which proved a prominent factor in the recent Toledo and Minneapolis strikes...
After taking the Nazi salute and drawing a deep breath Orator Hitler put all his simple heart into his loud Automobile Show Address: "I regard the motorization of Germany as the most important factor in our fight against un employment! . . . The German motor vehicle is not only the fastest but-we can say this pridefully-the best in the world. . . . Soon the Fatherland will be self-sufficient in motoring! I consider that the problem of synthetic fuel, like that of synthetic rubber, has been solved by German Science in principle. ... I point pridefully to our Party's record: four...
Meat prices jumped on the first Drought scare last summer but housewives brought the rise to a quick halt in September by stubbornly refusing to buy. Now that the beef and hog shortage is really a market factor meat prices are again climbing. The supply of fresh butter has dwindled so rapidly that dealers are drawing from storage 1,000,000 Ib. daily to meet demand, and stocks on hand at the beginning of February were only 18,000,000 Ib. as against 76,000,000 Ib. at the same time last year. Retail prices have jumped from...
From the welter of current publicity regarding the Civil Service, one factor, frequently overlooked, needs to be stressed, and stressed again: that Civil Service in America, whether Federal, State. or Municipal, is at present restricted to positions largely routine in nature. The higher categories of public service, in which precedents are set, and policies determined, are almost invariably filled with political appointees. To be sure, this evil is common to Civil Services the world over, and will be corrected only over a space of years, so deeply is the spoils system rooted in democratic countries. Because the odds are heavily...