Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Friction Remedies. The antagonism between the Governor General and the Filipino legislature is the most immediate and vexing problem in the islands. As remedies, Colonel Thompson suggests that the administration of the Philippines be transferred from the War Department to some new bureau or department, that Governor General Wood's military advisers be replaced with civil experts, that the Filipinos be given increasing internal autonomy. Land Laws. The Philippine legislature should amend the land laws, so as to attract U. S. capital to develop, on a large scale, the production of rubber, coffee, sugar, rice...
...have firm faith that the urgent problem of Italian expansion can be resolved...
...almost say that this has become an international problem. It is international in fact because it is to the interest of everybody that Italians do not suffocate every hour in their narrow borders...
...image within the minimum time that the human eye will catch an image, a 16th of a second. This he had done by splitting his light beam into seven parts, letting each part trace a fraction of the whole image-pattern recorded by the photo-electric cell. The next problem was to transmit the seven fractional image-messages simultaneously upon high frequency ether waves. This Dr. Alexanderson had found still beyond the reach of practical radio, but calculated it could be achieved by the Hammond multiplex system (TIME, Oct. 26, 1925) using waves between 20 and 21 metres long...
...errors of the present arrangement. Their criticism is constructive. They are not merely abstract thinkers trying to bring their principles before the public eye. But in spite of all this it is exceedingly doubtful whether the statement which they have made will have any effect on the whole problem of international debts...