Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...bill to set up uniform standards of procedure for quasi-judicial Federal agencies. He had long felt that bureaucracy's big ears needed pinning back. Franklin Roosevelt, acting on similar motives, set up a committee in February 1939. under Law Expert Dean Acheson, to study the same problem. The Brookings Institution pondered; bar associations brooded...
...Kapitza's method not only did away with liquid hydrogen, but. cut the cost of making a quart from $50 to $5, the time from 24 hours to two hours or less. In the neighborhood of absolute zero, ordinary lubricants freeze hard as iron and Kapitza's problem was to find a lubricant for his compressor. He solved the problem by allowing a little helium vapor to squeeze through the piston clearance, so that the helium itself did the lubricating...
...first time in ten years, unemployment ceased to be U. S. Problem No. 1. Yet even this month there were still some 8,000,000 unemployed. At the same time, many industries complained of a skilled-labor shortage. Perhaps, like Britain, the U. S. could not absorb all its unemployed because its industrial mobilization never would be complete...
...whole problem of war orders in 1940, most U. S. manufacturers reacted patriotically but with caution. The Nye Committee was too fresh in their memo ries to give them any stomach for the munitions-makers role. The result was an apparent lack of ardor in the way industry went after war business. But with that coolheaded attitude, coolheaded William S. Knudsen was equipped to deal...
...Rochester, N. Y. last week, while city health officers struggled with a polluted water system, School Superintendent James M. Spinning announced an answer to the problem of polluted textbooks. Goaded by Rugg-beaters (critics of widely used texts by Columbia Professor Harold Rugg-TIME, Sept. 9), Superintendent Spinning had polled the city's 17,000 high-school students, found that 99.22% approved the U. S. form of government. Less than 1% had read any schoolbooks which, they thought, "break down the loyalty of pupils to the United States." Sixteen of them said Professor Rugg's did so. Others...