Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recent survey made by the National Funeral Directors Association, out of 86,369 adult funerals the median price was from $250 to $299, and purchases over $700, were only 2% of the total. . . Of all these services, 78.6% were under $399.00. . . .Every funeral director will agree that our main problem is not trying to sell $2,500 services (if there is such a thing) but rather to convince grief-stricken families to buy within their means and not allow sorrow or sentiment to influence them in a choice they may later regret...
...shared a bar with a neighboring girl. Londoners thought that "Do I lick or do I bite?" might be a polite, childish equivalent for "How much can I have?" Loretta's scoop on the fainting factory workers was from a housewife who said it was a problem to get enough food for her husband's breakfast...
Curved Space. Hubble also intends to count the nebulae that can be photographed up to the billion-light-year range of the 200-inch. Behind this humdrum-sounding chore lies the eerie, brain-staggering problem of the curvature of space. Mathematical physicists believe (from Einstein's ubiquitous Relativity) that space is curved back upon itself, in a four-dimensional way, by the gravitational effect of the matter it contains. The curvature is too slight to be detected on earth or even in the enormous sphere, 500 million light-years in radius, penetrated by the 100-inch telescope. But theory...
...complexities of the tax problem there emerges the one generalization that the increase in disposable income after taxes would result in a corresponding rise in prices and counter balance the possible advantages of the tax cut. A period of inflationary trends is the worst time to put more money into immediate circulation, and the best time for the government to pay off the national debt. A cut that induced savings might have some value, but the Knutson Bill frees from 10 to 30 percent of individual taxes for ready spending. And with the already rising prices, little saving is done...
...work. Most large firms have space for young men of ability and interest if his future in the firm seems promising. Yet, not all firms, indeed only a few, actively seek out college graduates whom they will use. According to Teele, "Job information is elusive and illusory." The problem is to equip the graduate with a knowledge of his interests and aptitudes, together with some information as to which companies might employ them...