Word: factors
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After the second phase of the survey is completed, and various budget estimates have been made for increasing the protection factor of possible shelter spaces to a pf of at least 100, the New England division of the Army Corps of Engineers will negotiate with the University for permission to designate shelter areas...
...separate preliminary study by John C. Collburn, assistant Director of Building and Grounds, indicated that there is a great deal of space in fireproof buildings at the University with a protection factor of at least 75 that could be increased to a factor of 100 "in most cases fairly easily and inexpensively." If ten square feet is allotted per person, the preliminary report suggested that almost 50,000 persons may be sheltered in buildings connected with the University's tunnel system...
Your story on the gold drain [June 29] was a keen analysis. But may I add one tremendous factor that is invariably ignored in these discussions, yet is costing us dearly in our losing fight for world markets...
Probably the most important single factor in Faulkner's success as an artist lies in his ability at once to express a particular culture and state of mind peculiar to the American South and to give that expression universal validity through his art. The impress of the Southern consciousness upon Faulkner's works cannot be erased. The philosophical longing for an ideal society long vanished and the painful consciousness of the attrition of the remaining institutions of that society reflect a state of mind that at its most eloquent, approaches the Romantic lament for a lament which has progressed...
Buyer resistance is fierce." No Plus Factor. Despite these scattered signs of consumer hesitancy, New York's J. Carvel Lange, a specialist in forecasting consumer and financial trends, believes that sales of consumer goods "have been only marginally affected by the decline in the stock market." People not only continue to buy staples, but also such lower-priced luxuries as outboard motors and golf clubs. In fact, says Lange, for the past two months consumers have been buying goods faster than merchants have been replacing their stocks-which means that the economy may shortly benefit from an increase...