Word: problems
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...relief problem to speak of existed in rural Monroe County. Nevertheless, the State gave Monroe $44.43 per month per relief case. The county paid out only $21.17 per case, made $23.26 on each. Urban Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) with the highest living cost in the State, got $599 per case per month, spent $24.40 per case, had a deficit of $18.41. In 1936, 30 counties ended the year with a surplus from unnecessary relief money, while Lucas County (Toledo) had a deficit of $300,000, Cuyahoga...
Belgrade was as sensitive as Bucharest to the Allied-German string-pulling in her part of Europe. Yugoslavia's most immediate problem was copper. The Yugoslav copper mines, largest of Europe, are operated by French and British companies which no longer sell to Germany. Moreover, a French trade delegation is scheduled to arrive soon in Belgrade with the explicit purpose of buying up all this copper output. The special Yugoslav dilemma is whether to expropriate the mines and let the output go to Germany, in which case the country may risk an Allied blockade, or whether...
...give the public what it wants. At Pimlico he introduced the unprecedented policy of a stake race every day, removed the famed infield hillock that obstructed the spectators' view, and inaugurated the Pimlico Special to determine the Horse of the Year. Last week Turfman Vanderbilt's main problem was: how to make elegant Belmont popular with inelegant New York racing fans (potentially increased for 1940 because of the recent legalization of pari-mutuel betting at New York tracks...
...problem at Reed, a progressive college that goes in heavily for the arts and social studies, is to get enough football players for a team. Reed has a normal annual football budget of about $100, charges nothing for admission to games. This fall, having decided that Reed football was becoming too dangerous, Mr. Keezer blew in $300 for shoulder pads, pants, etc. For the fun of it, two young facultymen-Biology Teacher William ("Bill") McElroy, lately a varsity end at Stanford, and Alfred ("Fritz") Hubbard, onetime Carnegie Fellow at Princeton-offered to coach. Result was an unusually big turnout...
Today Canadian aviation's chief problem is to tool its factories, to train workers to get into swift, economical production. In addition to the six companies owning Associated Aircraft, Canada has six lesser independents. But no Canadian plant employs more than 1,500 men (biggest U. S. employer: Martin, with 12,600) and no Canadian manufacturer is willing to expand his plant unless the expansion is underwritten by orders in hand...