Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Assistant Postmaster General, "chief" of the country mailmen. Ned H. Goodell, the association's president, presented the car, told Mr. Billany: "You have humanized the service." Last week the Post Office Department found itself in a bad financial predicament. It was haunted as never before by the old problem of deficits, of the U. S. mails costing more to handle than they earn. Last year, it was announced, the postal service had run 137 million dollars into the red, which President Hoover considered a lamentable showing for the only "business" arm of a Government which its officials, in moments...
...friend because of his four initials. The chair was that of the Commissioner of Customs to which he had just been appointed by President Hoover. The first day in office Commissioner Eble smiled his satisfaction at the progress being made on the Customs Bureau's chief problem-smuggled liquor from Canada to Detroit where the Treasury now has stationed some 400 U. S. agents, mostly Customs officers. That the flow was being dammed was evident from the fact that in June, 112,878 gallons of liquor officially cleared from Windsor, Ont. for the U. S., as against...
Wheat was the Board's primary problem. Between the Board and that crop, the harvest of which was moving north out of Kansas at the rate of 25 miles per day, a hard-driven race had developed. The Board's first aim was to interpose its relief machinery before this year's wheat crop heaps up on last year's carry over and again depresses prices. A scant two months remained in which to erect dikes against the grain flood. In that time a wheat advisory council had to be named by the Board. The council...
...wheat representative on his Farm Board and having a hard time finding someone satisfactory to the varying shades of political opinion in that major branch of husbandry. When Chairman Legge accepted his appointment, he was in a Kansas wheat field, watching the progress of the harvest, pondering the great problem that lay ahead of his Board...
...give the Board a headstart on the wheat problem, the Department of Agriculture last week began a nationwide movement to get wheat-growers to increase their own storage facilities on the farm. Purpose: if each wheat man stored a part of his own crop, the autumn market peak would be diminished, prices would be steadied, car shortages and terminal embargoes would be avoided...