Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...snow machine was the contribution of Walter Brown, coach of the 1936 U. S. Olympic hockey team and son of George V. Brown, who runs Boston's Garden. Obsessed by the idea of a wintersports show in his father's amphitheatre, Walter Brown was foiled by the problem of how to get snow indoors without importing it at prohibitive expense until one day, passing a Boston fish store, he noticed a handsome cod packed in ice that was chopped up so fine it looked like corn snow. The fish dealer's iceman showed him his ice-grinding...
...future requirement of something in the order of 15,000 stations to serve the 127,000 school districts in this country alone. . . . The present radio spectrum from ten to 30,000 kilocycles would be a mere 'drop in the bucket' in the solution of the educational radio problem...
Hitches arose with Pons, Ponselle, Tibbett. Witherspoon had thought they wanted too much money, could not come to terms with them. It took the Johnson tact to re-engage them. The new singers, many of whom Johnson inherited with his job, turned out to be another problem. Out of 19, only two achieved real success. Australian Soprano Marjorie Lawrence sang Brunnehilde dramatically, if unevenly, startled operagoers by mounting a horse in Gotterdammerung and galloping off stage as Wagner prescribed. Scrawny Swedish Gertrud Wettergren proved to be a siren as Amneris in Aida, a sensitive Brangane...
...redistribution of wealth: "Demand can be increased not only by increase in total national income, but also by distribution of the increase through the whole population. . . . Wage increases or investment returns that are paid solely through price increases are only apparent gains. ... It is probable that work on this problem will indicate that special attention should be given the low-income groups. This would have human value because these groups are most in need...
...write a book about it, he went to Germany, which left him still puzzled so he went on to Poland, then to Palestine, to Soviet Russia. He wound up with a mass of information, a collection of good photographs, a few good anecdotes, no final answer to his problem but a deep understanding of its international magnitude...