Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upping the sales tax to 4%, but Soapy Williams adamantly opposes any sales tax boost, urges instead a progressive state income tax on middle and upper bracket incomes and a new 5% levy on corporation profits-which would worsen Michigan's already severe problem of attracting, and keeping, diversified industry...
...strait jacket; his younger sister Beneatha (Diana Sands), a race-conscious progressive who wants to be a doctor; Walter's wife Ruth (Ruby Dee), who yearns for a grassy reprieve from the soot-and-asphalt jungle; and the Youngers' small boy Travis (Glynn Turman), whose main problem is to be first in the communal bathroom down the hall...
...Love, affectingly sung by Loren Driscoll and Monte Amundsen, highlight a Marc Blitzstein score that is more thoughtful than tuneful. Stars Douglas and Booth have the skill and charm to appear to be singing and dancing while actually talking and jogging. But Juno cannot solve its main problem: how to do O'Casey short of actually doing O'Casey...
Unemployment, the No. 1 U.S. economic problem, is still failing to react to the gains in the rest of the economy. So the latest figures from the Commerce and Labor departments showed last week. The jobless in February rose 25,000, to 4,749,000, while employment also increased 16,000, to 62,722,000. The rate of unemployment, seasonally adjusted, rose from 6% of the labor force, where it has stood so far this year, to 6.1%. Ordinarily, so small a change would be discounted; it could be a statistical error. What worried economists was the failure of employment...
...past." He describes his economic philosophy as "very much in the middle," against too much power for both labor and management. He is in favor of "the freest possible market. There is a great danger of cartelism in the American economy and a great deal of concern over the problem of bigness." On the other hand, he does not believe that the closed or union shop or opposition to the right-to-work laws "serves the interests of the unions in the long, long run," calls them "a crutch...