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Word: problem (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When the New Deal, tackling Depression, launched NRA, WPA, PWA, AAA, a host of new officials turned up in Washington to tackle new jobs. Last week the vanguard of a new host appeared to tackle the problem of a world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CABINET: Lean Men | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...supreme command. At the same time the air chiefs met, Sir Cyril L. N. Newall and General Joseph Vuillemin. In the air the Briton is the boss, but in this War, land and air forces are integrated more closely than ever before. All the generals concentrated on a problem for which neither nation had primarily fashioned its arms: an offensive action moving away from France's great defensive bastion, the Maginot Line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WESTERN FRONT: Soar Push | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

...anti-tetanic serum to all wounded soldiers. Fatalities from black gas gangrene were greatly reduced by immediate injections of vaccine, a treatment developed by famed U. S. Pathologist William H. Welch. The late Spanish war taught doctors a rapid, efficient blood-transfusion technique. But military surgery remains essentially a problem in organization, and doctors aim primarily to sort and shift casualties, to move them on like "factory goods on a conveyor belt." Experts claim that eight operating teams, of nine men each (including anesthetists and nurses), can handle 120 serious surgical cases in ten hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: War Wounds | 9/18/1939 | See Source »

Even on the prickly problem of Labor, the institute was in harmony. Catholic Missionary Edward L. Stephens asserted that workers have a duty to become members of "free unions, independent of companies, and guided by Christian principles of charity and justice." Rabbi Robert Gordis called upon the Church to "attack specific evils by urging specific remedies. Such problems as child labor, cooperatives, housing, minimum wages, are examples . . . where the Church should . . . strive to galvanize its membership into action." Methodist Episcopal Bishop Francis J. McConnell suggested that the Church set "its own economic house in order," declared: "It is nothing short...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Amity at Williamstown | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

...identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Superman | 9/11/1939 | See Source »

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