Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...just what Mr. Lewis would have labor propose to the council of reason is still either his secret or his unsolved problem. However, Washington observers agreed with the Baltimore Sun's J. Fred Essary that Mr. Lewis' speech to the British Empire was "his most sensational bid for both labor and political leadership in this country and his most savage attack upon the Administration...
...plans for this spring are simple. A few second-hand dinghies will be bought by the group itself, and the problem of where and when to sail them will be worked out as experience is gained in the running of the organization. It is all on an experimental basis, but the interest already shown gives promise of rapid growth. The increased competition and increased chance for sailing are certain to improve the quality of Harvard's teams; and the domination of this sport by Tech may be nearing...
Vass. Since all new security issues are registered with SEC, it has been the best means of analyzing their success. On the basis of a study of three years' registrations, Lawrence C. Vass, chief of SEC's Investment Banking section, decided that "the problem of financing for small business today is its inability to raise junior-debt and equity capital, rather than an absence of short-term credit." In other words, when a small business wants temporary funds, banks are glad to provide them.* But when a small business wants $500,000 to build a new plant, banks...
...West presented a particularly stiff problem to Stone. Since the depression which had knocked the town's cigar manufacturing industry flat, most of the inhabitants were on relief and barely subsisted. The once thronging naval and military posts had dwindled down to a skeleton crew of eleven...
Gardner Murphy '17, who worked with Dr. L. T. Troland at Harvard on the problem on mental telepathy and who left recently to continue his studies at Columbia, has come out strongly for ESP (extra-sensory-perception...