Word: factors
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...upsetting not only production records but outdated concepts of what the agricultural industry really is. While efficiency of livestock production has been boosted by refined management methods and breeding of animals with better production potential, constant beefing-up of nutritionally balanced feeds has probably contributed more than any other factor to present efficiency in food production...
...seller, and kept constant for a period of time and for a series of transactions. The opposite is a market price that fluctuates on the basis of supply and demand." Later Means amplified his definition by blaming administered prices on bigness in business. Wrote he in 1939: "While many factors influence price insensitivity, the dominant factor is the administrative control over prices which results from the relatively small number of concerns dominating particular markets...
...wear hair pieces (also known as rugs, mats, doilies, divots), and that 15 million could use them. Sales were short until makers started advertising hair pieces in major magazines and newspapers five years ago. Since then, annual sales of such bigwigs as Hollywood's Max Factor & Co., Manhattan's House of Louis Feder Inc., and Joseph-Fleischer & Co. (Fleischer will make the Sears toupees from imported hair) have climbed close to $1,000,000 each. Total U.S. sales are estimated at $15 million a year. Says Louis Feder, a wigger himself: "We have put across the idea that...
...flexible as Picasso at twenty-five.) The opus is a single tableau consisting of six larger-than-life-size bronzes, cast of wood and miscellaneous materials. The figures are drastically simplified forms and they compose a play of varied rhythms in which the element of surprise is no small factor--a technique Miro uses to the hilt...
Young's testimony was doubly significant because it came just after disclosure of a statement by the Administration's chief economist, Raymond J. Saulnier, that price increases not only aggravated the recession but contributed greatly to causing it: "These price increases were a major factor in limiting demand." Saulnier singled out for attack the rises in "heavy industries and those producing automobiles and other consumer durables." What worried Washington now was that industrial prices have started to inch up sooner than usual for a recession-recovery period. Though the consumer price index has remained fairly stable since...