Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...only concern, he said, was that the loss of the account would jeopardize the jobs of about 200 out of 1,000-odd F. C. & B. employees (who once included rambunctious Frederic [The Hucksters'] Wakeman). After "long and prayerful wrestling" with this problem, Foote said, he decided to sacrifice himself, if necessary. Flying to Chicago for a Sunday meeting with Partners Fairfax Cone and Don Belding, he offered to resign from the firm if his associates decided to keep the account. But Cone and Belding would not hear of it, said Foote, so the account was dropped instead...
...machine was invented by Har old F. Silver of Denver, a designer for the sugar-beet industry. He tackled the problem shortly before the war at the request of a Colorado coal company, perfected his mining machine in 1947, then sold the patents to Pittsburgh's Joy Manufacturing Co. Joy, leading mine-machinery maker in the U.S., added the results of its own research to Silver's design, and began tests in the lignite fields of Colorado last year. But the tests at the Pittsburgh Consolidation mine in Daisytown, Pa. were the first in a regular coal mine...
...Continuous Miner will not solve the labor problem in coal mines. John L. Lewis once said that he would rather have 100,000 union members secure in their jobs than 400,000 who were insecure. But mine operators were anxious to see the machine. One of them has ordered 30, sight unseen. Joy hopes to have commercial models ready by year...
...they suffer the beginning of an average day in their Manhattan apartment. Even for a $15,000 income-grouper, the Blandings apartment seems rather spacious (you could encamp a platoon of homeless veterans in the parlor alone); but the closet space is convincingly niggardly, and the bathroom problem is enough to tempt anyone to the wide open spaces...
...classes certainly entitles them to special consideration, for the library's real function is to provide for the needs of those classes rather than for certain of the students in them. The Radcliffe Library, cited by non-believers as "where the girls belong," is hardly an answer to the problem. Its book resources are limited and its methods not designed to give really adequate service to all its students. Its function is, in fact, somewhat similar to the House libraries': to be convenient but by no means complete...