Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Acheson the problem of further aid to Formosa did not exist; the time was already past. Like China, argued the Secretary to the Congressmen, Formosa was all but lost, and to try to help Chiang Kai-shek on his final island bastion would jeopardize the whole U.S. stake in Asia...
Thus bluntly defined was the problem of what the West might do for Asia. What could Asia do for the West? Ceylon made a gracious start. Buddhist priests at Kandy, learning that Bevin has a heart ailment, invited him to view the cherished relic of Buddha's tooth, which they say has curative powers. Usually the tooth is taken from its jeweled cases and exposed only once in seven years...
Five hours after the air compromise was announced, U.S. Ambassador Laurence A. Steinhardt was threshing over a brand-new problem in Ottawa with ruddy-faced Arnold Heeney, Canada's Under Secretary of State for External Affairs. The new dispute centered around the proposal to ship 100 million bushels of wheat to Western Germany and Japan this year under the 38-nation International Wheat Agreement. Since the grain will be paid for in U.S. dollars, the U.S. took the view that it should be U.S. wheat, of which there is a surplus. Canadian spokesmen argued that the object...
...London last week, the Wheat Council, meeting in closed session, was considering first the question of sending the grain to Germany and Japan, then the problem of how to divide the shipments among the exporting countries...
...instance, has completed in 103 hours a job (see cut) relating to uranium fission for Princeton University. The same job would have taken a flesh & blood operator more than 100 years. The time could not have been shortened by putting 100 operators to work, because each part of the problem had to be done in sequence...