Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helping Chrysler explain its dilemma to the public was James Lee, a son of the late, famed Press Agent Ivy Lee (whom Laborites still remember as "Poison Ivy"). To the press and to dealers facing a shortage of cars at the start of their new season, Chrysler's President K. T. Keller sent a letter: "We are getting practically no production from any of our Detroit plants. . . . You cannot run a business on a sound basis and produce quality automobiles if men . . . take into their own hands the running of the plants." To bulbous, loud Richard Frankensteen...
...team. Whether he will measure up in other departments is a most point, but it is quite clear that he can't replace Waldstein as a kicker. Nor can anyone else, and with the hopes of Waldstein being ready to play for any length of time rather dim, this dilemma may cause considerable trouble...
Next day Mr. Browder's Daily Worker, along with his apologia, printed the text of a treaty minus escape, complete with commitments against further alliances aimed at either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. From then until week's end, the Daily Worker mirrored the dilemma into which Comrade Stalin had pitched Communist Parties of all nations. Its editorialists and columnists preached continued distrust of Nazi Hitler, continued cooperation with anti-Fascist men of goodwill, even a continued boycott of German goods which Soviet Russia was now pledged to buy. As a faithful organ of Soviet doctrine...
...adoption of a "militant creed directed to a specific goal," as Germany has done, he found, would lead to he abandonment of "almost all of those basic concepts of the integrity of human life--liberty and individuality. To me there is no escape from the dilemma...
...maintained by the average annual investment of $18.3 billions in new plant and equipment. In 1930-36 annual income averaged only $53 billions (it is now around $65 billions) and only $8.6 billions were invested in new capital goods. Professor Hansen wasted no time over economists' chicken & egg dilemma whether a big national income begets big investments in new capital or vice versa. He blamed the slump in national income squarely on the slump in capital investment...