Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...possibility of Germany's getting a toe hold on the Western Hemisphere by way of French or Dutch possessions is the most pressing part of the problem of Hemisphere defense. The U. S. alone has the strength to deal with it now. But eventually a larger, more remote spot in the Hemisphere may have to be defended -if not from direct invasion, from a political coup which would put friends of Germany in power-and the U. S. alone cannot deal with that. Last week the military and naval establishments of Latin America, as well...
...every U. S. citizen the problem of national unity was just as serious as to the man jesting in the fizzling flare light on the Hyde Park porch. In the final count it appeared that there would be over 20,000,000 votes for Willkie and most of them were undoubtedly votes against Roosevelt. Besides a great victory Roosevelt also had the greatest vote of no confidence that any President ever received. On Franklin Roosevelt's brow rested something heavier than the laurels of political victory: on his big bland forehead lay a responsibility greater than any President...
...boss's pet from the start. Boyer blossomed in the F. T. S. He took to such brain-crackers as how to manufacture synthetic wool from soybeans, a type of problem that made experts stare blankly but were longtime reveries of Motor-maker Ford. In the summer of 1930 Ford built him a three-story frame laboratory behind the Museum in Greenfield Village...
...surface Henry Ford and Robert Boyer have done more to plague steelmakers than to solve the farm problem. But if their dream is true, the technological novelty known as plastics has graduated from its celluloid-and-Beetleware phase into an instrument of industrial revolution...
Thus were these noncomplementary economics forced into partial yoke for diplomacy's sake. In the offing was a still more difficult problem : How could the U.S. arm Latin America while arming itself and Britain too? With the U. S. steel industry at an all-time production peak and domestic priorities threatening, Latin America's orders stood at the end of the queue. Japan was still importing steel sheets and shapes for its Navy from U. S. mills last week. One possible halfway step: to give Latin-American orders priority over Japanese...