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Roman Origins. Though more than a score of financial houses act as factors, the field is dominated by three giants: Manhattan's Textile Banking Co., Boston's First National Bank, and Manhattan's James Talcott Inc., each of which turned over $450 million or more last year in factored accounts. Throughout the U.S., factoring today is so much in demand that the volume of sales handled in this way last year rose 15.5% over the 1960 level to $5.5 billion, may reach $6 billion this year...
Many businessmen are still reluctant to link up with a factor for fear of scaring off customers. Richard Reynolds, president of the Childhood Interests toy company, a Talcott client since 1957, said last week: "We had little idea of what factoring meant-beyond the notion that it was something to be avoided at all costs. But our bank channels had dried up, so we had no choice. Factoring has enabled us to double our business, and, everything considered, costs us less than other forms of financing...
Also signing were Bayley F. Mason Assistant Manager of the Program Harvard Medicine; Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology; Dr. Vincent P. Instructor in Neurology; Richard , professor of History; Dr. Claude , associate clinical professor of ; Fred L. Whipple, professor of Economy; Robert B. Woodward, Professor of Science; and Mrs. Leona , who is lecturer on Opththalmology...
...signing were Bayley F. Mason Assistant Manager of the Program Harvard Medicine; Talcott Parsons, ssor of Sociology; Dr. Vincent P. Instructor in Neurology; Richard pes, professor of History; Dr. Claude elch, associate clinical professor of ery; Fred L. Whipple, professor of onomy; Robert B. Woodward, Don Professor of Science; and Mrs. Leona charias, who is lecturer on Opththalgy...
...splitting is that these matters of definition are more important than that: Sheldon Messinger and Burton Clark argue presuasively that Riesman has used social character to talk about personality when he should have centered his attention on schools, work, and nations in which people behave as if other-directed. Talcott Parsons and Winston White analyze the word values, and continuities in the evolution of American behavior which Riesman does not mention. These preoccupations with careful anlysis can be most frustrating (Robert Gutman and Dennis Wrong talk about property space and chop words with a microtome precision that reveals little...