Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cooler." The loud-speaking of Senator Couzens raised the temperature in the Finance Committee room but nothing was done to discipline him. Just as the opinion began to spread out of Washington that the Republicans framing the tariff bill were demoralized by the heat and the problem before them and, leaderless, were voting every which way, it was announced that the new cooling system in the Senate had been completely installed, that the equivalent of 350,000 lb. of ice per day would be "melted" to keep that chamber comfortable and steady its occupants' wobbly nerves, when the Senate...
...Florida fruit fly problem rested more heavily at the moment upon Secretary Hyde than it did upon the Board. Florida banks were failing, 24 in a row. A rigid Federal quarantine around the infested areas had imperiled a $60,000,000 fruit crop. Five thousand workers fought the fly. Into long trenches fresh fruit and truck were dumped, covered over with lime and earth as a means of exterminating the pest. Florida's so-called Little People (small growers) were hard hit, lacking as they did resources for such an emergency. Congress had already appropriated $4,800,000 to control...
...what services and other outlays have become obsolete through advancement of science and war methods; and what development programs can well be spread over longer periods in view of the general world outlook." To his Shenandoah camp President Hoover took as week-end guests to ponder this problem Secretary Good, Assistant Secretaries Hurley and Davison, Chief of Staff Summerall. It was decided to let the General Staff instead of a commission thereof handle the problem...
...fort to powder. General Hero, however, saw only success in the defense operations under his command. His coast artillery claimed destruction of two battleships, one cruiser, five destroyers, many a seaplane, and the repulse of a night landing party. General Hero, thick-shouldered, grey-haired, blue-eyed, explained: "The problem of guardsmen at Hancock was to keep the harbor mouth open permitting the Blue ships to debouch therefrom and go to the rescue of endangered Blue vessels off Delaware Bay. This they did successfully...
...these 125 Negro graduates are to get their hospital experience is a problem which the Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges last week called to the profession's attention by its reports of the Association's last meeting. A doctor must spend one or more years at a hospital before he can be reckoned reliable for general practice. But there are only seven good Negro hospitals in the country and they can accommodate only 50 internes yearly. Practically none of the rest can get posts in general hospitals. So they must get work in dubious private...