Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...enormous body of citizens might turn to Alexander Legge, prime "new patriot" of the Hoover era, the man selected to cope with the country's most pressing politico-economic problem as chairman of the Federal Farm Board. But Chairman Legge only began his task...
...from complacent was James Louis Garvin, editor of London's Sunday Observer and the Encyclopedia Britannica. Warned he: "In a few weeks at the furthest this vast problem will begin to tower over every other issue, and may affect parties and politics like nothing since the World...
...meeting was concluded by a visit to the General Electric plant in West Lynn to see the work being performed there in the making of fused quartz mirrors, an innovation in the manufacture of telescopes. A constant problem in astronomy is how to make bigger and better mirrors for the telescopes. Glass, which has long been used for the smaller mirrors, is almost out of the question for a really large project. The reason for this is that the surface curvature of these reflectors must be correct down to a fraction somewhere between a quarter to a half millionth...
...obstacles seem almost insurmountable, but many have been solved, and those that remain very likely will be in time. The difficulty of fusing quartz for so large a mirror at the great temperature required, the problem of supplying heat for such an undertaking, and the ultimate question of how to mount such a heavy thing without having it bend and distort the curvature--all these are as yet not definitely solved, but they will soon be considered...