Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Halterophera Capitata. The Board has done some preliminary relief work on the citrus fruit situation in Florida where the ravages of the Mediterranean fruit fly (Halterophera capitata) had created an acute local problem (TIME, May 6 et seq.). Two competing fruit cooperatives appealed for the Board's help. The Board sent them away with a promise of help after they had merged their efforts, eliminated duplication, become representative of all Florida fruit growers in trouble...
...House tariff bill took a long step in the direction of substituting U. S. Valuation for Foreign when it proposed that the President be authorized to shift tariff appraisals from foreign to domestic valuation when conditions warranted. Senate Finance Committee Republicans took their problem with them into executive session, wrestled with the evidence spread between the two valuation systems, pondered the merits of each...
...significance of this proposal lay in the fact that until then the Hoover Law Enforcement Commission had studiously avoided specific mention of Prohibition as a crime problem. How did Gov. Roosevelt get such a message? Was it meant for public use? Gov. Roosevelt explained that he had written to Mr. Wickersham, asked for some ideas. Responding in longhand from Bar Harbor, Me., Mr. Wickersham had explained: "I have no stenographer with me but I feel that your letter calls for the most helpful reply I can give and I hope that what I have written may suggest something of value...
...said Mr. Hines, 427,-638,000 yards of cotton were printed, an increase of 28% over 1928. During the same period, 763,462,000 yards of cotton goods were finished, a 21% increase over 1928. For three years the Cotton Textile Institute had been working on the problem of building up a cotton-acceptance among U. S. women. Last month, the problem was considered solved...
...shell was extended. This helped somewhat, but freaks of tone were still audible to a sensitive ear. Evidently the problem was scientific, beyond a musician's province. Conductor Fiedler might have abandoned the shell and tried electric amplification. But this method, with its rasps and harsh distortions, does not please true musicians. At length he consulted Dr. W. R. Barss, professor of acoustics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology...