Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first magnitude. Looking back upon the brief history of President Conant's "concentration-quotas," no member of the University should now feel surprise at the present unhappy outcome of the Committee's devoted labors; and none should despair that President Conant may, in due course, view the appointment problem in a wider perspective than appears to have been the case last year when he felt a need for action
What U. S. ships, would look like if war came is still a deep defense secret. But outspoken army camoufleurs turn thumbs down on dazzle. Their problem, they feel, is harder than outsmarting a periscope running ten to twelve feet above heaving wave-levels. They have to conceal parked tanks, trucks, grounded planes, big guns from modern aerial camera-eyes which can even pick out the curl of withered camouflage leaves from 3,000 feet...
...committee used these ugly facts to pose a problem: How can democracy prevent such tragic waste? That fundamental problem is certain to be posed again & again until it is permanently solved. But the report of the committee was badly timed for getting Americans to face their problem now. It came at the very moment when a war boom threatened to abolish unemployment until peace brings the next depression...
...trouble getting workmen. In the propeller business Curtiss and Hamilton Standard (Pratt & Whitney corporate brother) were turning out all the props business needs without straining capacity and companies like The Sperry Gyroscope Co. had capacity for turning out plenty of instruments for every ship under order. The biggest problem of the industry may be post war: how to make use of its spawning capacity when war orders...
...Archibald MacLeish recently summed up the situation facing all college students today. The great problem is how far we should allow the European war to weigh upon our minds, and, therefore, upon our attitude towards life in general and academic work in particular. Though this problem strikes harder at the Freshmen, a solution is no less demanded by upperclassmen...