Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvard is tolerant when a thing pleases them, but when it does not please them, it is different," summed up his opinion of the University's policy and prefaced his remarks. "It would be much better if Harvard would try to solve some problem to get the unemployed back to work than to be seeking the truth...
...right tackle hole is still a problem, with the solution hotly contested by a trio of Al Kevorkian, Mike Adlis and Ken Booth. To Hartman Schmidt has been allotted the thankless task of subbing for Captain Gaffney, a job which he has been ably performing...
Thus was sharply drawn a problem between two mutually dependent professions. Doctors must have chemists to invent new drugs; chemists must have doctors to try out new drugs. But should chemists wait until doctors say: "We want a new drug to do so & so. Try to create it"? Or should chemists say: "Here is something new. See what it is good...
...James Ewing of Manhattan, undisputedly the world's No. 1 cancer authority, struck squarely at the entire cancer problem by saying: "The public must not expect cancer research to disclose the secret of the cause of cancer, nor to provide a universal remedy for advanced cancer. There is no one cause of cancer. There are many causes, often preventable, and the public should acquaint themselves with the nature of these causes...
Meanwhile Goodrich tire repairers took up the problem of accumulated dividends on Goodrich preferred stock, which by last July had piled up to $35 a share, a total of $10,300,000 overdue. In the first half of this year the company made more money-$2,727,000-than in any first half since 1929. However, earned surplus, out of which dividend arrears would have to be paid, still amounted to only about a third of the arrearage. In July Goodrich directors proposed a recapitalization plan by which preferred stockholders would give up their birds in the bushes for birds...