Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hollywood labor, to which the present slump was merely the sharpest pinch of a long campaign of studio skimping & saving, fortnight ago engineered a general four-day work week agreement with the studios. And last week, the Screen Actors Guild was facing the problem of 4,000 members of the Guild's junior branch, chiefly extras and occasional players, for whom work has been so scanty that they have been unable to pay union dues. Since no actor in Hollywood can get a job without a Guild card, Guild officials were considering issuing temporary working cards to delinquents, permitting...
...explain their attitude. Only Commissioner Charles D. Mahaffie contended that the increase was not large enough. The other commissioners agreed with outspoken Joseph Eastman, onetime Coordinator of Transportation, who remarked: "It is unnecessary to say that an increase in railroad rates cannot furnish an adequate answer to our transportation problem. At best it is only a palliative and whether it is even that remains to be seen...
...issue is going to be whether we go one way or the other. Don't call it right or left; that is just first-year high school language, just about. It is not right or left-it is a question for national decision on a very important problem of Government. We are the only nation in the world that has not solved that problem. We thought we were solving it, and now it has been thrown right straight in our faces. We have been relegated to the horse-and-buggy definition of interstate commerce...
...Conference in Washington last month was for easier credit. Lately the Senate Banking & Currency Committee has been studying ways of providing it. Last week, while a crowd of small businessmen were reiterating their need before the committee, two Government officials appeared, one with the first sound analysis of the problem, the other with a bold remedy...
Distinct advances have been made on the problem of converting the active principle of sarsparilla root into sex hormones. Fry probably will be engaged in continuation of the same problem...