Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study of the whole tax problem by a joint committee of the House Ways & Means and Appropriations and the Senate Finance and Appropriations Committee members, with special attention to the present law which provides that corporation excess of capital losses can be deducted only to the extent of $2,000 plus capital gains...
...fault of the crew. Aboard a man-of-war floating above the 8-4 when she sank off Provincetown in 1927 with a loss of 40 lives, a thoughtful young officer named Allen R. McCann had been profoundly shocked by the inadequacy of rescue methods. Brooding over the problem of getting men out of a submarine, he designed a bell-shaped chamber which could be lowered from the surface and clamped to the hatch of a sunken ship. Last week, the best hope of the 33 men in the Squalus was Commander McCann's rescue bell, which was being...
Daladier solved his problem in opportunistic fashion by swinging still further Right. Because of the international crisis, Parliament twice granted him temporary power to rule by decree. He appeased the Right by doing away with the 40-hour week-by stages both before and after Munich. There were many small strikes and one big attempt at a general strike, all defeated. The nation wanted unity and strength and was willing to back him. The extreme Left felt betrayed but the Right (except for a few strong-headed nationalists) forgave him all. Even so, he had many narrow escapes from being...
...white. When Martina falls in love with a young Englishman (Michael Redgrave) whom she encounters on an alp, Sylvina steps in, nabs him. A sailing spill drowns Sylvina, leaves Martina in possession of her sister's wedding ring, husband, lover, and life-and Actress Bergner with a psychological problem worthy of her steel...
Although a modern country doctor makes his calls in an automobile, 55,000,000 U. S. rural dwellers are still getting horse-&-buggy medical care. To gather facts on this problem, the staff of Mary Imogene Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, N. Y., under the direction of Physician-in-Chief George Miner Mackenzie, last autumn held a conference of country doctors and public-health experts. Last week the papers of the Cooperstown Conference were published in a well-documented handbook, containing the most complete information on U. S. rural medicine to date.* Significant facts...