Word: steps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Riggers' Figures. First step in solving any problem is to find out what the problem is. Last autumn, Franklin Roosevelt appointed President John D. Biggers of Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co. to make the first census of U. S. unemployment. Mr. Biggers went to work at $1 a year, with a $5,000,000 appropriation and the aid of the Post Office Department. Last November, 81,000,000 unemployment blanks were distributed by letter-carriers to 32,000,000 U. S. homes. As the returns came in, a separate door-to-door census checked them in 1,864 areas...
With the help of Harvard anthropologists, Vermont authorities have identified the victims and advanced one step nearer the solution of the baffling murder mystery which started with the discovery near Middlebury, Vermont, in 1935 of three skeletons with bullet holes in their heads as the only clue to their death...
...step nearer solving the Allston urchin problem, Brooks House announced yesterday that its plan for keeping the huge Smith playground back of the Business School open during the winter months and staffed by Harvard volunteers has been favorably received by Boston Park Commissioner William Long...
...step is part of Brooks House's drive to provide adequate playgrounds for the poor children of Cambridge and vicinity...
...middle of yesterday afternoon, when the Yard was beginning to recover from the violent interruptions of the morning that had broken its peace, a very small urchin stuck his face around the huge corner of the Widener Library steps. Cars were splashing away in the streets, but inside the Yard traffic consisted only of a few preoccupied pedestrians. The boy surveyed the situation for several minutes, then walked in an absolutely straight line toward a pile of snow in front of the Library. As he bent over to break the crust of ice, he didn't look much higher than...