Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agreed to give state labor boards jurisdiction over small-business-labor disputes now rejected by the National Labor Relations Board, thus strengthening the Senate's halfway attempt to solve the "no man's land" problem. ¶ Accepted the House's stronger ban on blackmail picketing, but beat down a severe House section that would effectively prevent almost all picketing in advance of a plant's NLRB election...
...tipped in advance about the report. Commission Member John Battle disagreed with the "nature and tenor" of the report, said that in large part it was "an argument in advocacy of preconceived ideas in the field of race relations." In answer, Chairman Hannah reminded that racial discrimination was a problem "that is native to neither North nor South. It is, rather, a dilemma that concerns all Americans...
...really nothing more than an increase in the sales tax, which the Michigan constitution places at a maximum of 3%. The "solution" could amount to no final fiscal solution for Michigan-but very probably it had solved once and for all the G.O.P.'s problem of Soapy Williams...
...Harvard and M.I.T. will be largely theoretical, but highly practical hardware is likely to grow out of them. The development of fusion power depends on better understanding of high-temperature plasmas. A plasma rocket engine expelling charged particles instead of hot gases may be the solution to the problem of long-range flight. During interplanetary voyages, a spaceship will pass through lashing streams of plasmas shot out of the sun, and its designers had better understand them well in advance. If a spaceship tries to land on a planet, it will meet another plasma problem. A group of Harvard scientists...
...anything so vast be excellent? It has no leader, no philosopher, no hand on the tiller. Public education is a headless wonder. The problem: to give its body-the citizens-faith and direction. Few men have tried with calmer good sense to work to this end than James Bryant Conant, 66, volunteer Inspector General of U.S. public schools...