Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...school. Not that the platform of the Progressives was revolutionary, for they offered no clear-cut, constructive program. Few of them agree on the merits of compulsory health insurance or of the Wagner Health Bill. What united them was a desire for full, free discussion on the problem of medical care. The Progressives banded together merely to: 1) "introduce a liberal and inquiring attitude towards . . . social problems"; 2) "stimulate the society to take the lead in the movement to improve medical care of the people of this city...
...County Society," said the Progressives' manifesto, "should study without prejudice all reasonable proposals made for the solution of the problem of medical care [and] . . . encourage well-planned experimentation in this field...
...Congress met in York while Washington was at Valley Forge 162 winters ago), York's people thronged the stores, spent more freely than in any winter since 1929. York's industries offered 10%, more jobs than last year. Payrolls were 20% larger. York had almost no relief problem at all. York was grinning with prosperity...
...London. In spite of the ore handicap, Phelps Dodge can more than break even with tin at about 46?, which is more than 10? higher than the British break-even point. This should keep Phelps Dodge in the tin business even come peace. American Metal has the same economic problem. Meantime in Argentina, National Lead Co., St. Joseph Lead Co., and Patino are jointly working and smelting deposits similar to Bolivia...
Tower of London (Universal) solves the problem of what to do next with a popular monster (Boris Karloff), who has already been deranged (The Lost Patrol), mummified (The Mummy), roasted alive (Frankenstein), resurrected (The Son of Frankenstein). Horror-man Karloff is now introduced to one of Hollywood's most accomplished villains (Basil Rathbone) in the cellars of the Tower of London circa 1480. There, amidst moaning victims, clanking chains and chopping blocks, Villain Rathbone (the crookbacked Richard, Duke of Gloucester) shows Monster Karloff (Mord, the club-footed constable of the Tower) how to satisfy an active homicidal mania...