Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...analysis of the matter, I commend you to The Legacy of Sacco and Vanzetti (Harcourt Brace, 1948) by G. Louis Joughin and Edmund M. Morgan. Morgan wrote the chapters dealing with this problem. I refer you particularly to pages 15-16, 67-68, 83-90, 98-106, 126-131, 135-137, chapters 5 and page 190. ARTHUR SCHLESINGER...
Even the University found trouble balancing the books, and debated asking for federal aid, a problem which has come up again more recently. The tutorial system was re-examined and intensified, and the House were fruitful topics for sustained interest in trivial problems, notably the subject of inter-House dining. House sports grew in organization, participation, and earnestness, and began to suggest an alternative to the looming professionalism of big-time football. Meanwhile, football relations with Princeton were renewed...
...most. He actually throws it from the fingertips of his middle and index fingers, keeps the nails on those fingers cut short for a better grip. Out of high school in the North Carolina mill town of Cornelius, Pitcher Wilhelm moved up through the minor leagues slowly. His chief problem was that few catchers could hold on to his pitches. He was 28 before he reached the majors with the New York Giants in 1952. Giant Manager Leo Durocher immediately made him a relief pitcher. "The knuckler can fool 'em for four or five innings," said Manager Durocher...
...flights in the first two months of operation were delayed more than ten minutes and 20% more than 20 minutes by such requirements. But the jets have had less trouble than anyone expected at the tricky job of integrating with prop-plane patterns. And even the routing problem may soon be solved: the Federal Aviation Agency is working on better equipment and new pattern and routing procedures that may give all of the safety without any of the delay...
...prices, starting with steel. He cites the fact that U.S. Steel cut prices $1.25 a ton in 1948 when inflation had pushed living costs up 14.5% the year before. Costs kept climbing so fast that the price cut had to be canceled within three months. Says Blough: "The problem isn't prices; it's costs...