Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Found: Problem. Mayor Winfield Scott Marvel, who is also Arco's undertaker and paperhanger, began worrying about such big-city problems as labor unions, jails, and sewage (Arco now uses septic tanks). Other nearby towns caught the atomic fever, began figuring on their share of atomic prosperity. The mayor of Pocatello (pop. 30,000) expansively predicted a population of 100,000 in three years. A poolroom owner refused $70,000 for his place ("That's when two fools met," commented Idaho Congressman John Sanborn...
...define the moral problem and to speculate on a solution was the purpose of M.I.T.'s panel on "Science, Materialism and the Human Spirit." Gentle Jacques Maritain, Professor of Philosophy at Princeton, was not confused about his convictions on the subject. Twentieth Century Man, he said, is becoming "unable to believe anything but facts & figures and sense-data." Maritain found the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man and things. He blamed not science itself for the 20th Century's moral crisis, but two factors bearing...
...number of organizations which, like feudal castles, dot the 20th Century's landscape. They are created by the simple fact that man can no longer alone cope with what Churchill calls the 20th Century's tides and tornadoes. What happens to man in this situation was the problem discussed by the panel on "The Role of the Individual in a World of Institutions...
...Problem. Did O Presidente approve the government's outlawing of the Communists? This time the pause was longer. A chicken scurried across the floor. Then: "We should have followed the example of the U.S. Communism would have got nowhere as a political party...
...will finish four fact-finding inquiries into 1) mail-carrying costs; 2) the economy and efficiency of the major airlines; 3) the feasibility of joint airport and ticket facilities; and 4) air freight rates. It seemed to O'Connell that somewhere between the "meat-ax approach" to the problem of subsidies and the present tendency to higher & higher mail pay there must be a road to a system of sounder and more profitable airlines...