Word: factors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...freighter named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan...
...confidence in the recession's end spreads, much of the boost will come from businessmen curtailing their inventory liquidation, the biggest factor in the G.N.P. slump. In the next quarter, the rate of inventory liquidation is expected to ease to about $2 billion, providing a solid lift for the economy. But that turnaround would not be as great as in 1958, when the inventory rate swung from minus $7 billion in the first quarter to plus $3 billion in the fourth. Nor do economists look for any strong spurt in housing starts, which have helped pave...
...afternoon of March 29 found Peter Seeger '40 guilty on ten counts for contempt of Congress. I cannot overlook the irony inherent in the conviction of Seeger for refusing to speak before the House Un-American Activities Committee. The most salient factor in the folk singer's character is his seeming inability to stop voicing his political and social opinions. Each Seeger concert is as much the singer's philosophical thesis as the folk songs themselves, and even the song "The Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly" is chacteristically prefaced by the performer, Carnegie Hall, December...
...School Republican organization has already selected Phillips as a delegate, but he indicated last night that, even if the meeting was never called, the petition would probably be a factor in the state election...
Argument also centered on the revenue that would come from strict enforcement of the parking code. Although Police Chief Daniel J. Brennan, Mrs. Wheeler, and City Manager John J. Curry stressed that the stricter fines were not to bring more revenue into the city, Vellucci emphasized the economic factor...