Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Sidney Hook . . . poses the problem of discovering Communist teachers, denning the doctrine, and detecting the "line" [TIME, March...
...year's end, she actually had a small surplus on hand, though, the report warned, it was not certain that the surplus had "come to stay." Within these overall trade figures, however, was Britain's trade with the dollar countries and her chronic dollar shortage. This problem '-Britain's most urgent-had also been eased. In 1947, the British had bought in dollar countries nearly $3 billion more than they had sold. That deficit had been halved in 1948, and the Cripps report called for more exports to close...
...been worrying a good deal about things like that. A twangy, kindly man of 56, raised on a Texas farm, he has become a sort of patriarch to the people living in some of the more dismal patches of West Dallas. Statistics tell part of the West Dallas problem. Spread out along the bottom lands of the Trinity River, it is a dreary settlement of native whites, Negroes and Mexicans jammed into row upon row of one-and two-room shacks -some 25,000 people-mostly without plumbing of any kind. In West Dallas, clean water costs 50? a barrel...
Perhaps the committee working on the problem will devise a completely new approach to grading. If, however, it does not plan a thorough reconstruction, and intends to make changes within the existing framework, it should record plusses and minuses so that rank group ratings will more accurately represent a man's effort, ability, and accomplishment...
Professor Selden D. Bacon and Robert Straus, research assistant, heads of the project, said they want to get right to the bottom of the problem--to find out when students began to drink, how much they drink, and the reasons why they drink...