Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...what she wanted even if the business men of Kansas who put the cash up for her start in art did not. And now the mid-western ingenue has an opportunity to show her gratitude to a nation of music-lovers by helping to solve the country's agricultural problem. Meanwhile, explaining to magazine fans why she did not choose to sing may be a profitable side-line...
...miles of line, but Canadian National's mileage is perhaps too great for its own good and only the rare vigor and ability of U. S.-born Henry Worth Thornton (TIME, Jan. 28) has lifted Canadian National out of the annual deficit class. No deficit problem has Canadian Pacific. In 1928 it showed a net operating income of over $51,000,000 and net earnings of over $48,000,000. Its common stock earned $15 a share. Canadian Pacific has a 1929 high of 267⅞, is thus selling at 17.8 x earnings. U. S. railroads traditionally sell...
Meanwhile in Washington Canadian Minister Vincent Massey took over the case from Sir Esme Howard, British Ambassador, because of the registry of the schooner. Secret notes and explanations passed back and forth between the U. S. capital and Ottawa and London. Three U. S. departments puzzled over the problem, namely, State, Treasury and Justice...
...Montezuma, like all schools, has chronic and clonic law-violators, a student-built gymnasium was erected. Last week, in Worcester, Mass., Clark University's Dr. Vernon Jones (psychologist) revealed a new method of teaching sound citizenship to future citizens. The plan: to confront elementary school students with a problem requiring a moral judgment, to let the students, unaided, make their judgment. Dr. Jones relates a story such as: "When he was a child, the late great Labor Leader Samuel Gompers and his small cousin had to carry milk pails from the dairy to their farmhouse home...
...radio colloquium will be held this afternoon at 4.30 o'clock in the Cruft Laboratory. J. P. Hervey will speak on the subject. "An Attempt to Solve the Design Problem of Intermediate Frequency Amplifiers". Tea will be served in the lecture room at 4.15 o'clock, and everyone interested is invited...