Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...White House visitors: Secretary Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; President A. Philip Randolph of the Sleeping Car Porters' union; T. Arnold Hill, an assistant in the N. Y. A. Division for Negro Affairs. For the Army's solution of The Problem had brusquely rejected the pivotal demand in the Negroes' seven-part memo to the President, that "existing units of the Army and units to be established should be required to accept and select officers and enlisted personnel without regard to race...
Among others trying to solve London's dormitory-shelter problem was Admiral Sir Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans. And significant of the increasing seriousness of the morale problem was a visit by King George and Queen Elizabeth last week to some of Sir Edward's choicest bombed areas, new and old. As common sufferers whose home (Buckingham Palace) had received a share of bombs, Their Majesties picked their way through debris, watched wrecking crews work, talked with A. R. P. wardens...
...Martin and his students will make scale models of buildings, take reconnaissance flights in TWA and Naval Reserve planes. From the No. 1 U. S. camoufleur, Director Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens of the Carnegie Institute's department of fine arts, Director Martin got a general line on the problem. Says Saint-Gaudens, a lieutenant colonel in the Engineers Reserve Corps: "Camouflage is just plain Injun fighting...
Another German problem is oil and high-test gasoline for her tanks and warplanes. To her own plentiful stores she has added the undestroyed stocks of the conquered territories. Her own synthetic industry was good for 600,000 tons yearly; Poland added an annual 530,000 tons. But Germany needed at least 12,500,000 tons of oil a year for total war. Even the complete output of the Rumanian oil fields (production: one-tenth of Texas') would supply only about a half of presumed needs. Technology-bound Russia, Europe's largest producer, could...
...Germany. If there is surplus food in Russia with all her great grain fields, it is a State secret. As a whole the territory that Hitler took merely added to his domains more territory that cannot feed itself or can barely do so. In a long war his food problem will be worse than before unless he feeds his people by starving the conquered. In the long run also, it does not pay to starve your slaves...