Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Into the Earth. But the biggest problem of the week was that of shelter. In the first months of the war the Government distributed Anderson shelters (named for Minister for Home Security Sir John Anderson), light steel affairs for back yards. They were designed to 'stop splinters, not bombs, and have proved ad mirable for that limited purpose. Their great fault was that they were not big enough to sleep...
Answers. All this pressed hard against the heart of Winston Churchill. Both from the military and the humane point of view, the shelter problem was of first importance. By his own choice the Prime Minister was grossly overworked. Besides daily War Cabinet meetings, raid or no raid, besides reading and editing some 100 State papers, he took all the civilian grievances on his own hunched shoulders. He knew how dangerous they were. He knew that excessive preoccupation with them was just the precondition for invasion which Adolf Hitler wanted...
...domestic policy planks advocate a program of progressive democracy, emphasizing that the growth of American institutions should be set above partisan politics, and condemning all persecution of minorities. The problem of morale is to "reconcils defense with reform, the possibility of war with the purpose of peace, and national unity with difference of opinion...
Concentrating his efforts upon the acute agrarian problem, President Cardenas has speeded up the distribution of land from large estates among the peasants. "It seems to me," Sweezy remarked, "that the only hope of raising the standard of living is to continue the trend towards collectivized agriculture...
...shown up yet although he still has one more year. To fill those gaps Coach Carr was relying on last year's Freshman strength. But with Al Merck, an outstanding Yearling half-back, and Joe Phelan, an equally brilliant '43 goalie, failing to come back, the problem is made all the more difficult...