Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thousands of businessmen throughout America are undergoing osteopathic treatment weekly no matter if they feel fit as a fiddle," observed Osteopath W. W. W. Pritchard of Los Angeles. "Osteopathic manipulation has a tonic effect upon metabolism and is an important factor in the prevention of disease...
...Aside from those surgical disorders resulting from accidents, it is practically axiomatic that what the osteopathic physician calls a 'lesion' is a predisposing factor in the production of such disorders. Such a 'lesion' affects the circulation of blood and lymph and thus becomes responsible for producing in the tissues the point of lowered resistance in which germs locate and propagate. It is also responsible for a region of stagnant blood, or some-times of stimulated circulation, which may result in excess or defect or perversion of the growth or function in structures directly influenced...
...September, 1916 Oglethorpe, with Dr. Jacobs as first president, opened the doors of its one building to 56 students. Last year 500 students occupied its five blue granite buildings and football stadium. A prime factor in the new growth has been Publisher William Randolph Hearst. He was Atlanta's largest personal subscriber in Dr. Jacobs' first drive, boomed the campaign loudly in his Atlanta Georgian and Sunday American. In 1927 he gave Oglethorpe $25,000 and his third son, John, as a student. Grateful Oglethorpe promptly gave Mr. Hearst an LL. D., the only university degree...
...common with all other forms of business, financial enterprises require profits to keep them going. There is, not the slightest thought of eliminating or restricting proper profits. . . . The earning power of a nation should be the controlling factor in establishing security levels, and the security business itself has the right to claim part of this earning power...
Statistically the biggest unknown factor last week was Russia, world's largest wheat-grower. Careless harvesting methods cost Russia nearly a quarter of her last year's crop. This year spring heat waves ripened the southern fields early, forcing peasants to harvest by night under the glare of electric lamps. Best estimates were that the total crop would be 700,000,000 bu., 30% less than last year. Several million bushels have already been imported from Argentina and Australia to Vladivostok to feed Russian troops concentrated in East Siberia...