Word: dilemmas
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...automobile industry finds itself in a peculiar dilemma this Spring. Under the extraordinary past purchasing of cars in the U.S., production facilities of the leading car manufacturers have been greatly increased. This has in turn led to stiffer and stiffer competition and a tendency to cut prices on the basis of quantity production. As long as more and more cars could be sold, this policy of expanding plants and reducing unit profits is, of course, perfectly sound...
Leading makers are now casting about for a solution to their dilemma. John Willys endorses higher prices and probably many will follow his lead later this year. However, unless buyers can be found for used and new cars, this is only a palliative. If the automobile makers' dilemma continues, the only answer is to shut down the weak companies and form consolidations among the stronger ones...
...orchestral dilemma. (P. 15.) The invisible sting of death...
...what are mathematically known as "Ingenious devices." Being temporarily thrown out of work--for fifteen minutes--the students would have to choose between going to Chapel and sitting on the steps of the New Lecture Hall. If the wind continued to blow at eighty miles an hour, this dilemma would undoubtedly stimulate many conversions: happily, spring is scheduled to begin on Friday. But the unfortunate part about this particular suggestion is that everybody would have to do penance by going to nine o'clock classes at a quarter to nine, lectures would commence during that portion...
...remainder biscuit." With greater freedom of study for upperclassmen an interest aroused by such a series of lectures could easily be followed without detriment to concentration. Indeed, any revival of interest in classics when based upon their direct appeal to the undergraduate, is a happy solution of the dilemma which haunted educators of the last decade: knowledge of Latin and Greek is too valuable a heritage of civilization to be lost, but an enforced study destroys the "sweetness and light" of this ancient learning. It might prove Cassandra-like to herald a revival of the Viscount's assertion that...