Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...problem was most acute in small towns near military posts. Local health services were often impoverished, lackadaisical; so were local police, with whom Army police must cooperate. At two extremes were respectable, aseptic Battle Creek, Mich, ("the cereal city") and dreary Phenix City, Ala. Prompted by the wealthy First Congregational Church's outspoken, realistic Rev. Carleton Brooks Miller, Battle Creek officials decided to establish segregated, supervised zones for prostitutes who swarmed in after the 20,000 soldiers at nearby Camp Custer. Unchecked, unsupervised honky-tonks in Phenix City shot up the venereal rate at Fort Benning, Ga., nine miles...
...Last year the U. S. imported $853,094 worth of reeds from Italy and Germany for American-made harmonicas. Faced with a shortage this year, Philadelphia's Harmonica Reed Corp. and Chicago's American Harmonica Corp. handed the problem to their reed experts. Foreign reeds were tone-tested by hand. Lacking skilled labor for that job, the experts invented a machine which not only tests U. S. reeds for tone but also cuts them to size and rejects imperfect strips...
...pottery and china market on their hands. They were geared to supply two-thirds of it, no more. Last week they were so far behind on orders that they refused to make deliveries before early 1941. Yet they had licked one problem: prices were down to the level of the former imports...
More acute than temporary inconveniences was the problem of permanent housing. The present weekly payroll is $4000,000, but Du Pont, in charge of the Government's operations, expects to expand the construction crew to over 10,000 within a month, and eventually maintain an operating personnel of a few thousand less. Charlestown realtors looked hungrily for a housing boom. But fortnight ago Indiana Defense Coordinator Henry B. Steeg announced that the Government's powder plant will not be converted to peacetime industry once the defense effort is over; it will be closed. So Government agencies shied from...
Last October a British shipping mission came to the U. S. with instructions to work fast. The mission's problem was still unsolved last week. Chief difficulty: U. S. shipyards already are working to capacity, have neither ways nor men to handle additional orders...