Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...been increasingly difficult for the theatre world to maintain itself since the advent of the talking movie. The coming of other vicarious amusements has made its problem more complex. The public was beginning to for get it. Boston audiences have never been particularly enthusiastic or acute. There are only a handful who prefer the legitimate parent to the illegitimate son. The ruck are either too dull to fathom the sensible, or too untutored to follow the trivial...
Hoover's 800,000. Hopeful as were these predictions of better times by U. S. tycoonery they did not help President Hoover solve the immediate problem of Unemployment. The President's estimates showed 3,500,000 persons out of work. Of these it was figured that a million were in transit from one job to another or voluntarily idle and that another 500,000 were in communities of less than 3,000 population where they would be cared for by friends or relatives. The remaining 2,000,000 jobless represented about 800,000 families. The President...
With the cold snap came a new hustle and bustle among public men in many a city throughout the land to do something about Unemployment. During the summer, when men out of work were not perishing of hunger and cold, this major problem was largely allowed to coast along on the theory that autumn would bring economic improvements. When no business upturn appeared, widespread preparations were started to avert another winter of long breadlines...
...only this scheme were feasible it might solve very prettily the Labor party's problem of how to appease the Dominions and win reciprocal trade concessions from them without embarking on a tariff policy to which so many Laborites are opposed -but in London last week several Dominion representatives called the Snowden scheme a "quack panacea," expressed the belief that it envisions a form of interference with the laws of supply and demand by "meddling quota boards" so complex as to be unworkable...
Propellers. Effective silencing of air craft engines would be, roughly speaking, only half the battle. Much of the noise of planes - some say 50%, some say "most" is caused by the propeller itself.*The Aeronautics Research Division of the Department of Commerce has been studying the problem for two years, is still uncertain as to the exact process by which propeller noise is created. Of the solution, however, it is certain : "The only positive method known of reducing propeller noise is to reduce the tip speed by using a geared propeller." Geared propellers are in use, will be more generally...