Word: factors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...acres has been expropriated from the former capitalist owners and distributed to 26,381 campesinos or "small farmers" in accordance with party slogan: "Land for the poor!" These recipients of the Government's bounty comprise 69% of the state's inhabitants. They should prove a formidable factor in ensuing elections. "No land owner of U. S. nationality was affected by the expropriations," continued the Ministerial statement. "Of the 62 capitalists dispossessed one was Italian, six were Spaniards, and the rest Mexicans...
...prime factors in the production of wealth are natural resources--land the most common--and human labor. To these the common-sense of man has added a third factor, which is essential to our present scale of production, capital--that portion of wealth which is laid aside to assist in future production. Current wealth production must be apportioned, on some basis, to the three factors in the form of rent to land, wages to labor and interest to capital. And from rent, wages and interest, one or all, must come the current living expenses of individuals, current expenses...
...Another factor in the situation is the location of the common rooms in Lowell House. The Tutors' Room will be behind the high table, and at a considerable distance from the Students' Room. Again, name and position are not considerations of great importance; yet, when contrasted with Dunster House, in which the corresponding rooms are adjacent, and will be called simply "Large" and "Small" common rooms, Lowell House seems to be assuming a needlessly reserved attitude...
...such things as painters' materials (Dutch Boy Paint), babbitt metals, piano key leads, storage battery oxides. Important alloy of lead is tin, without which many of the most widely used lead products (such as solder) could not be made. The mines owned by National Lead are a small factor in its position as the world's largest consumer of tin and lead. For this reason National Lead, like any wise concern, keeps an eye on its raw supplies. It owns some Patiño stock, keeps its own president and vice president on the Patiño board...
...founder-president of the National Glider Association,* made the offer at the association's dinner in Manhattan last week. The association has a score of affiliated clubs with about 600 members. William Patterson MacCracken, resigned assistant Secretary of Commerce for Aeronautics, spoke of gliding as a cheapening, accelerating factor in the training of commercial pilots...