Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nostrums were riches, U. S. Youth would have plenty of spending money. Almost everybody but the younger generation itself has tried to tell Youth how to cure what ails it. This week Youth had its say about its own problem, and the diagnosis was shocking...
...shouldered Homer Price Rainey, 42, who was a star halfback and pitcher at Austin College, Texas, became a college president at 31 (Franklin College, Franklin, Ind.) and headed Bucknell University for four years. In 1935 he and the commission set out to get to the bottom of the youth problem...
...page report throws brilliant light on many a dark corner of the youth problem. Youth's biggest worries are neatly summed up by one youngster thus: "The problem is how to get married on $15 a week." Some hard facts...
...showed an operating deficit of close to $235,000. Main reason: the Southern Pacific's auto ferries shuttle cars across the Gate at 30? per trip. The bridge toll is 50?. Last year the ferries made more than $50,000. Bridge officials have contrived a solution to their problem quite compatible with much new-style Alice in Wonderland economics. They appealed to the California Railroad Commission to force the ferries to raise their charge to 50?. While waiting the Commission's decision last week, the birthdaying bridge's officials considered reducing their own rates, quickly rejected...
...under 30 and unmarried. It gives them two years at the American Academy in Rome, from $1,400 to $1,500 a year, studio and materials, freedom to travel. To win it, Architect Iversen got through preliminaries that eliminated 74 entrants, then worked for a month on a set problem in competition with eight other finalists. The problem : to design an open-air theatre for a city of 500,000, in an amusement park on the westerly edge of a hypothetical lake, with the stage mounted on a barge. Said Winner Iversen, unflushed by his victory...