Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Tommy Corcoran & Ben Cohen. Administrator Andrews' choice of textiles as the first industry to regulate is really their choice, as the best industry in which to invite the law's test case. Reasons: 1) Textiles constitute a big section of "the nation's No. 1 economic problem" (the South). 2) Wage-hour conditions in the textile industry are notoriously vulnerable. 3) Textile labor is well-organized and politically effective. 4) As the son of a Rhode Island textile lawyer. Tommy Corcoran knows plenty about low textile wages...
Last week 125 of the numerous people in the U. S. who are professionally preoccupied with the traffic problem went to Ann Arbor, Mich, for the two-week National Institute for Traffic Safety Training, held at the University of Michigan. In Ann Arbor they paid $10, got a room at the Michigan Union, signed up for classes. Several things they were taught might have surprised many a citizen...
...mainly they wrestled with the Iraq servant problem (they had 15, costing a total of $153 a month). When they imported garden seed from England, the gardener threw out everything except onion seed, because he didn't like lettuce and such stuff. When a houseboy was married, they were put to much bother to provide a special room, because young Mohammed didn't want the customary wedding-night snoopers hanging around his door. One servant had a mania for jabbing people with forks. Household provisions disappeared as by magic. When a discharged servant was told he had been...
...Green Worlds he tries to do the same thing for the U. S. village of "Mount Brookville." His technique is the same: he describes the agricultural problem in terms of case histories. But he is handicapped by the fact that the Americans he met talked about themselves only when they were excited; Russians talked about themselves all the time...
...Mount Brookville. Most of his friends were dead, the fine stands of pine and cedar were logged off, the best farms had gone to wrack, the farmers were getting 3? a quart for milk and were grumbling like Russians. The U. S., said Maurice Hindus, had an agricultural problem...