Word: factors
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Died. Dr. Tom Douglas Spies, 57, nutrition expert whose boyhood horror of pellagra (once widespread, often fatal vitamin-deficiency disease in the South) led him to use nicotinic acid to cure the disease in the South and the North (where alcoholism was a principal contributing factor) ; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...American Airlines, which operate competitive transcontinental routes, ran up January jetload averages of 80-85% capacity, while United's relatively newer DC-8 service chalked up 75%. On Pan American World Airways' North Atlantic jet flights, now facing heavy competition from foreign jets, the load factor last month was 79% eastbound, 76% westbound. Actually, Pan Am's jet travel was up 57% in total passengers over a year ago partly because it has upped the number of jets in service to 23. On the in-season New York-to-Florida runs, National, Northeast and Eastern jets...
...Neither is a factor. 62. A new device in the treatment of heart disease is the portable "pacemaker," which, through an electrode attached to the heart: a) Causes the patient to slow down...
Liquidation Factor. In Milan, Italy, Giancarlo Monti confessed to police that he was forced to steal two cars a day in order to meet his daily drinking needs: 30 shots of brandy plus four liters of wine per meal...
...years-long research. Why is it that, with Americans smoking about as many cigarettes as Britons, and at least some U.S. cities having air pollution as bad as many of Britain's, the lung-cancer death rate is markedly higher in Britain than in the U.S.? One factor is obvious but too often overlooked, said London's Dr. Patrick Lawther: U.S. pollution is mainly industrial, whereas Britain's comes largely from the burning of soft (bituminous) coal in open grates. And the castle that is every Englishman's home discharges the heavy resulting soot into...