Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pointed out in the first of this series of editorials, Harvard is faced with a grave financial problem brought about by the large number of under-paid tutors and section men who all cannot be advanced into highly paid positions due to a lack of funds...
...said President Roosevelt, he had asked them for ideas. What he wanted to know was how to make more jobs in industry. The problem, he declared, was to speed up certain industries for whose products there was large demand by people who could not afford to buy them. Railroad equipment and housing were good examples...
Housing, he continued, was a different problem. He had asked Mr. Chrysler how much it would cost to build one of his $600 automobiles if it were put together piece by piece in a machine shop. Mr. Chrysler had said it would cost about $3,500. Housing, observed President Roosevelt, was still on a machine-shop basis. If there were only some way to put it on a mass-production basis and thereby reduce manufacturing costs so that houses could be turned out at not more than $2,500 each, he was sure that U. S. purchasers would snap...
...blessing in most observers' eyes was the California vote to Governor Landon. Ever since Publisher Hearst took up the Landon candidacy, and especially since he and his entourage descended on Topeka last December in two private cars and a chartered Pullman, Hearst support has been a prime Landon problem...
Last week California voters solved Alf Landon's problem for him. Publisher Hearst could still puff the Landon boom, but the one instrument by which he could have exerted real pressure on the Kansas candidate had irretrievably slipped his grasp. Commented Governor Landon: "I am entirely satisfied with the California results...