Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...should go in support of England is a difficult problem, but as least it seems clear that if England survives, this country is better off. If we abandon England we abandon any remaining chance to enjoy relatively favored, protected isolation: the kind of isolation that does not bring external pressures of a magnitude that will prevent internal progress...
...should know summed up the skilled-labor problem last week. One was Alfred P. Sloan Jr., head of General Motors Corp. He flatly declared that U. S. industry should return to the six-day week as soon as "the slack of unemployment has been taken up." Said Mr. Sloan: "America today is working a shorter number of hours per week than any other nation-certainly any other involved in war or defense. Output can be increased 20% by working six days a week in place of five." Mr. Sloan also warned that the greatest source of inflationary danger...
...Navy's Philadelphia plan was only a tiny phase of a vastly more intricate problem growing out of defense. The problem : how much building-housing, industrial, Army-Navy-will be required for U. S. rearmament? This week ARCHITECTURAL FORUM outlined the problem's massive form, devoted its November issue to building for defense...
...Planning Commission. In this job, he had time to reflect on two things: 1 ) the fact that his more discreet friend, Adolph A. Berle Jr., whose economics are even less laissez-fairist than his, nevertheless managed to be an eminently respectable Assistant Secretary of State; 2) the long-range problem of integrating municipal spending and taxing with Federal fiscal policy...
Planners like Tugwell have been batting up a novel solution to this problem: abolish local real-estate taxes altogether. Property owners would pay just an income tax, and that to the Federal Government. Even cautious politicos like LaGuardia have been intrigued. Last winter he told the New York Board of Trade he wanted just one big tax collector -the Federal Government. The taxes it collected from each city and State would be allocated back to them on a kind of credit system. Workable or not, this kind of arrangement would do two things: it would stop the tax race between...