Word: factors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weave artificial fibres into their cloth by an order from the Tsar forcing factories which do not use such substitutes to cut their production hours from 48 to 36 per week. Since Germans are now hoarding goods in fear of inflation there is no dearth of "unhealthy orders," another factor in the boom. Sternly the Economics Ministry sent out fresh reminders last week that Tsar Schmitt has barred all opening of new factories or extensions. Germans must not enlarge the stomach of the great beast of German industry...
...Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary of State. Today Mr. Moley is editor of Today and still a potent factor at the White House. Meanwhile at rustic, somnolent Berea one Moley sister married Superintendent T. R. Barnum of Cleveland Quarries. Sister Nell became a buyer for Cleveland's Halle Bros, department store, continued to live in Berea with Mother Moley. Brother Jim, amiable and easygoing, was proprietor...
Professor Petersen presented reasons for those peculiarities of distributions. Said he: "Assuming that malformations are possibly due both to a genetic and to an environmental factor, I shall disregard the genetic phase. . .In the Northeast we find a high cleft-palate rate. We deal with a population that has been domiciled under the present climatic conditions for perhaps some 200 years or more. . . . Cleft palate and harelip are not fatal and do not prevent reproduction. Familiar strains present in the population would continue and the climatic instability would, if anything, enhance the frequency of such defects...
...well as steam for heating purposes. The Combustion Engineering Co. are now installing the latest model Coxe Traveling Grate Stoker and the Jeffrey Mfg. Co. are installing special ash-handling equipment. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. ("blue coal"), tenants of the building, were a factor in bringing about this change, and their engineers assisted in planning this coal-burning installation...
...rest the fears that he will run to extremes. Eliot made Harvard a fine University; Lowell developed the College; Conant has the task in coming years of coordinating an all-inclusive program which on the surface seems to be pulling in different directions and of giving to each individual factor the importance which it deserves...