Word: problems
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly before the War he set his aide, the Archduke Leopold Ferdinand, a problem in tactics. The Archduke scratched his Habsburg head and wrote out a solution. Unser Anton perused the paper and observed respectfully...
...There were two possible solutions to the problem set your Imperial Highness in today's maneuvers. Imperial Highness has chosen a third...
Production. Aside from Sir Henri and the Shell-Socony war, oilmen were chiefly interested in the perennial problem of overproduction. When 1929 began, there were in storage 625,000,000 barrels of crude oil, representing excess of production over consumption. Production during 1929 totaled about 200,000 barrels a day over consumption, so that at the end of the third quarter the 600,000,000 barrel excess had increased to 675,000,000 barrels, or about enough for eight months consumption. During 1928 oil wells produced about 900,000,000 barrels; during 1929 the production will reach an even billion...
...other hand, although the government failed to endorse the American Petroleum Institute's national program of oil restriction, oilmen have made marked progress through state-by-state restriction agreements. There is no overproduction problem in Pennsylvania fields; Texas oilmen have on the whole cooperated enthusiastically with the restriction plan; encouraging progress has been made in the Mid-Continent (Oklahoma) fields. California, however, is the crucial point. California increased its production 40% in 1929 and now produces 30% of the U. S. output. Last summer the California legislature passed the Lyon Act, a measure ostensibly designed to prevent wastage of natural...
Though the center is still in the period of formulation. It is interesting because of its resemblance to the Harvard Union, in which the University once hoped to find a solution to the same problem of reintegration to which the House Plan now seeks the key. Whether Princeton will have better success with a medium which Harvard found, inadequate, or will be forced to take other and further steps, will depend upon her own conditions...