Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pfeifer issued a more diplomatic, but no less straightforward, formal statement: "I've been asked, what is the U.S. going to do about Spain? I think the order of the question is wrong. I don't mean to be harsh when I say Spain is a secondary problem to the U.S. The U.S., however, is a primary problem to Spain. The real question is this: 'What is Spain going to do about the United States?' Only the Spaniards themselves can answer that...
...number and variety of their costumes and disguises are countless . . . This eccentricity makes the problem of learning the names of a new class a formidable one for a man. He sees the girls on Monday morning looking like the wrath of God with hair uncombed and overalls pulled on over their pajamas, and gets to know them thus. He sees them again on Friday afternoon looking more glamorous than Conover models and doesn't recognize them...
Last week, Dr. Peckham reported on follow-up studies made during two summers with lifeguards at Atlantic City. What he found convinced him that overexposure of the eyes to bright sunlight creates an alarming problem...
...next problem is to find another $12.5 million to expand his newsprint-making. He thinks that the future of the economically backward South lies in such new industries. Says he: "Sweden plants timber on land that costs $100 an acre [v. Texas timberland costing $75 an acre], and they do it economically. But that land won't grow a third of the timber we can grow here in the South...
...four or five recent films dealing with some aspect of the Negro problem, "Intruder in the Dust" is probably the least melodramatic, and is surely the most consciously artistic. It is produced and directed by Clarence Brown and he has given it a production that is beautifully detailed and atmospheric. For the latter quality, Mr. Brown took his east and crew to the small university town of Oxford, Mississippi, which is the story's setting as well as Faulkner's hometown...