Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...considerable number of graduate students delay the question of getting a job by entering graduate schools; a few others by-pass the problem altogether by such dodges as taking a desk at the paternal office, or by making a Grand Tour. But for the majority each year, the question of a post-college livelihood becomes one of urgency as Commencement festivities approach...
...help solve this annual, large-scale employment problem, the Office of Student Placement was opened in Weld Hall at the end of the war. Now fully established with an impressive record already behind it, the Office is preparing a year-long schedule of counseling and advisory services that will reach every Senior in the College by June...
...Tree. But the real inventory problem was not in industry but on the farms-and in those products not supported by the Government. Near Palisade, Colorado, bronzed Harold Motz looked over his 15 acres of peach trees, complained: "I'm losing money for the first time since 1932." Motz had picked all his peaches, but "a lot of the boys," he said, "just left them on the tree. They just didn't sell well." In the rich San Luis Valley, farmers estimated that a quarter of a million crates of lettuce and 70,000 tons of cabbage...
Where was the steel going? After investigating the problem for nine months, a subcommittee of the House Committee on Public Works gave part of the answer last week. It reported that 10% to 12% of all sheet and strip steel production was being sold in the grey market at fantastic profits ranging up to nearly 200% and "running into millions." But the committee raised no prospects for steel users-except that the grey market might get greyer. Advising against any Government action, the committee suggested that steelmakers "police themselves" by "conducting impartial investigations" and "making reports...
...When one was discussing a problem with him, he would repeatedly pick up the telephone, ask to be put through to some departmental chief, and ask him-'How many so and so have we got?' Then he would turn to the man who was arguing with him, quote the number, and say: 'There you are . . .' without asking if the numbers stated were available in reality...