Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first part is an analysis of the various and conflicting factors and trends, the net result of which is the familiar thesis that the need for savings and capital investment in America is on the decline, and that in the future long-run we are faced with a problem of over-saving. "No technical events are in prospect at the present time which in their expansive force can be compared with the development of the railroads, with electrification, or with motorization." The statistical survey indicates that in a normal future year the capital needs of the country will be about...
...annual $450,000 mail subsidy and got nothing in its place. Beginning nine weeks ago, the Panama Canal changed toll charges in such a way that Panama Pacific's annual expenses would have been increased about $37,000. Third coffin nail was a rusty West Coast labor problem...
...action in an inconspicuous part of his April 14th message to Congress. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau, FDIC Chairman Leo Crowley, Acting Comptroller of the Currency Marshall Diggs and several Federal Reserve officers sat down to see if the simplification could not be accomplished without legislation. First problem tackled was bank examinations, now conducted differently by all three agencies. At week's end it was reported the conferees agreed to have not only a uniform examination blank but also uniform interpretations of such important matters as determination of the depreciation of securities...
...remarks would not be complete without taking recognition of the apparent beliefs of many of you that the satisfactory solution of our problem lies in superimposing the answer from without- by Government edict, as against developing it from within-through the spirit of cooperation. On this we stand at the crossroads. . . . Government is essential to protect and develop our civilization. But let us have government by law- thou shall or shall not-not government by edict. That means a stifling regulation -the direct road to regimentation. And when we start, there is no turning back...
...Gunnar Myrdal, noted European economist, will give the final two free, public lectures of his series on "The Population Problem and Social Policy" here this week, this afternoon and Wednesday at 4 o'clock in the New Lecture Hall. He will discuss remedial means for halting population decline...