Word: problem
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Deal doctrine, back in the early '30s, that the U.S. industrial plant was built or overbuilt, that the last frontier had been reached, and that the nation had better resign itself to doing the best it could in a "mature economy." In 1932, Franklin D. Roosevelt defined the problem as "administering resources and plants already in hand." All this was formally reversed last week by Harry Truman...
...confusion of policy and reality in China gave the State Department another embarrassing problem this week. A fiery Danish-American named Hans Isbrandtsen, the ruggedest individual among U.S. shipowners, sent his American freighter, Flying Arrow, through the Nationalist blockade to deliver his cargo to the Chinese Communists. Two Nationalist destroyer escorts opened up on it and rifled 30 to 40 shells into the ship without hurting anyone (after missing with the first 38 shots). Then the Nationalist warships hovered by the crippled freighter...
...heaven. Douglas was too conscientious a rebel to go along. He began spreading his developing socialistic gospel before civic groups, before voters' organizations, before any who would listen. He wrote his convictions into a long series of weighty tomes with such titles as The Theory of Wages, The Problem of Unemployment, Wages and the Family...
Without public debate, indeed with almost no public awareness of the problem, a big and awesome decision, once postponed, was soon to be made...
...Design for a Stained Glass Window" is a Problem Play, among other things. The Problem is this: should we cling to our most sacred beliefs when we are faced by adversity and even death in doing so? It is not hard to see that the authors of this play, William Berney and Howard Richardson, have stacked the deck on favor of a great big "yes" with a halo over it. But they have done the trick in a good-natured ingenuous manner, and most people will be inclined to overlook the prestidigitation...