Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Larger companies should not take on more boys than they can advance at a reasonable rate, and they should avoid "overpainting" the future to the men; and (6) A current major problem is to place the liberal arts graduates out over the next ten years-- more openings should develop for men with a background in the social sciences, economics, governmental affairs, and unman engineering...
Abolition of the luxury tax on theatre tickets, more WPA, establishment of modern auditoria from coast to coast to accommodate better road shows, a revolving fund for producers, more summer theatres, free seats for proven drama lovers were all discussed. But the Theatre's overpowering problem, the one which came in for far greater attention than any other and was worried over, snarled at, solved and despaired of by much the most important people at the convention was, of course, HOLLYWOOD...
...once there was no Problem Picture, those elaborate, generally sentimental illustrations for which the R. A. has been famed for generations. Nearest approach was a painting by Irish John Keating en titled Sacred and Profane Love. It showed a harassed mother wiping the nose of a snotty child while nearby her harassed husband holds the pram and gazes long ingly at a cinema poster of an inflamed kiss...
...Exchange's constitution provides death benefits for members deceased-$15 from each surviving member. Last week small-trading members whose summer budgets were already a problem had to deduct their shares of $20,000 or so for the estate of the man who made more money than any man who ever lived. Efficient budgeteers were prepared for this contingency, however. On an average, 14 Exchange members die every year...
...labor question ... is the outstanding problem in today's industrial life" declared Bethlehem Steel's Eugene Grace in a farewell address to the members of the American Iron & Steel Institute in Manhattan last week. To the nation's steelmasters, gathered in record numbers against a backdrop of the biggest steel strike since 1919 (see p. 13); the outstanding and directly related question was Mr. Grace's successor as head of the Steel Institute. The settlement by which Myron Taylor had made his peace with John L. Lewis had split the industry as it had never been...