Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...another article, Robert W. Chambers of the research staff of the Business School discusses the movie double feature as a sales problem from the angles of producer, exhibitor, and public...
...nourished," he spoke a resounding mouthful. Last week the Federal Theatre made that echoing phrase the text for the latest edition of its Living Newspaper.* Against a cross-sectional background of a four-story tenement house with crumbling stairways and dank, sunless rooms, the U. S. slum problem is forcefully dramatized. Statistics and editorial comment are dressed up with music, movies, lantern slides. Most of the dialog runs between an omniscient Voice issuing from a loudspeaker and a Little Man who springs out of the audience and wants to know...
Tracing the history of Manhattan's housing problem, the Voice denounces such early settlers as Astor, Wendell, Goelet and Rhinelander, who, the Federal Theatre dramatists fervently proclaim, first grabbed the land and have snugly sat on it ever since. Less through their own foresight than through the industry of the masses, their land increased in value. And the masses got higher rent bills, housing that ran rapidly ramshackle...
...seems evident that we are in danger of reaching the condition already so acute on the continent of Europe, where the problem of unemployment in the learned professions demands attention. . . . It seems to me highly probable that a diminution in the total number of students in the universities of this country is desirable...
Since SEC's major purpose is to police U. S. security markets,* this ignorance, after three years' intensive study of the subject, might be surprising were it not that everyone admits that complete o-t-c regulation approaches the impossible. Congress was stumped by the problem while creating SEC in 1934 and purposely left the law vague. SEC ordered that all dealers register. Two years ago, after a majority had done so, it began a cautious supervision (TIME, Jan. 13, 1936). Last summer it issued a set of fair practice rules. But not until last week...