Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Fleming, slight, bronzed, amiable, who works with the ticking efficiency of a time-clock, knows the U. S. as only an engineer can. He has performed special functions in PWA, Resettlement, Farm Security, supervised the attempt to harness the Bay of Fundy's tides at Passamaquoddy. First problem Andrews' successor must face: enforcement of the Oct. 24 minimum wage boost to 30? (from 25?) per hour; the maximum workweek reduction from 44 hours...
...inherited Senator Logan's seat. No Kentucky Governor may succeed himself. But Chandler's aide, Lieutenant Governor Keen Johnson, Democratic nominee for the Governorship in the Nov. 7 elections, is a 20-to-1 choice over Republican Nominee King Swope. So Chandler had no unemployment problem, for he could resign at any time before Dec. 12 and still be certain of the job. But, not to seem in undignified haste in rushing to occupy Senator Logan's seat, Chandler waited six days before resigning...
...political institutions, looked impressive. No catalogue could communicate the wealth of U. S. natural resources, no two experts could wholly agree about the maze of surplus commodities, farm income, legislative measures, mortgages, Government loans, the export market, yield per acre, drought and erosion, that is known as the agricultural problem. But in simple, physical terms, the U. S. still had, after ten years of Depression...
...brazen lover of the country could dote on these agricultural beauties without noting the rags and tatters that concealed some of them for many people and blotted them out entirely for others. U. S. farmers had little share of prosperity in the years before the crash. Depression deepened the problem, left farmers carrying into it a mortgage debt almost equal to income. In every 1,000 farms during the first six years of depression, 236 were foreclosed. Average value of farm land dropped from $48.52 to $31.16 per acre...
Nothing in the physical structure of industry, in the inventive genius of the U. S., in its plant capacity, in its ordinary workaday life, could account for a sense of hopelessness or weakness in facing it. There remained the unemployed, the ramifications of the problem they presented, doubt as to whether they could be put to work. But in ten years of depression, the U. S. had demonstrated that it possessed, as a natural resource more valuable than its mines...