Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Receiver Hummel granted the Hamilton's 46 resident members until the end of the month to vacate. Most puzzling problem of Manager B. E. O'Grady was what to do with a stuffed seated elephant, borrowed from the late President Lucius G. Fisher of the defunct Elephant Paper Bag Co., which has accompanied jubilant Hamilton crowds on their special train to Washington for every Republican inauguration since...
...official summary, briefed down to 17 pages, was enough to convince reporters that Mr. Kennedy spoke with feeling and sincerity. The report itself was a monumental document of 40,000 words. No desiccated aggregation of charts and tabulation, it was a bluntly dispassionate analysis of a national problem that has been obscured for a generation in a curious combination of nostalgic sentiments and cunning self-interest. A more hard-boiled document has never come out of official Washington than the Maritime Commission's Economic Survey of the American Merchant Marine...
...eleven-year sunspot cycle has been traced in the growth rings of trees. Stronger ultraviolet radiation accompanies sunspot activity and the aurora borealis displays are more numerous and brilliant, probably due to an increased bombardment of electrified particles. Such influences are now generally accepted as proved. It is the problem of sunspot correlation with such human affairs as stockmarket trends that leads out on the limb of speculation...
Franklin Roosevelt had another expedient reason besides the Recession for making his peace offer. Up in the Supreme Court last week, two days after the President's proposal was made, came another and significant test case on the old problem of utility rate-fixing. The California Railroad Commission fixed rates for Pacific Gas & Electric which the company contends did not take into due consideration the reproduction cost of the property. Since the new rates would reduce P. G. & E.'s revenue some $2,000,000, the company got an injunction which the California Railroad Commission appealed. The Federal...
Fortunately, the break was not in the city water main. Had it occurred there, it would have flooded Memorial Drive, creating a problem far more serious than that which now exists...