Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Leaders. Three days later Wendell Willkie tackled the problem which his statement had made more difficult: how to get his own political machine rolling. To Rushville went the Republican leaders of 21 eastern, northeastern and midwestern States to lay plans with their candidate...
...this should have presented no grave problem. The New Deal had two great agencies (USHA. FHA) whose business was mass housing. RFC, WPA could also be enlisted to finance and build emergency houses. Ensconced in the National Defense Advisory Commission was keen-eyed, balding Atlanta Builder Charles F. ("Chuck") Palmer, to coordinate all defense housing. His consultant was young (36), aggressive Washington Builder Gustave Ring, who had made a tidy fortune on apartment buildings which U. S. housing agencies partly financed.* Last week Mr. Palmer figured that the U. S. defense industries needed 42,000 new housing units, the Navy...
...money could not solve "Chuck" Palmer's troubles. Red tape, inter-bureau rivalries delayed any clear definition of the housing problem. Coordinator Palmer hoped to get private builders to put up the needed houses with U. S. funds, provided he could keep housing bureaucrats out of his and each other's hair...
...problem during World War I was housing for workers in defense industries. Near the war's end the emergency U. S. Housing Corp. calculated a shortage of adequate shelter for 292.000 workers. Aircraft, steel, other companies reported that they could have increased efficiency, upped production 20% or more, simply by enough decent houses to keep workers from wandering elsewhere...
...East Asia include Japan, Manchukuo, Inner Mongolia, China, French Indo-China, Thailand, the Malay Peninsula, The Netherlands East Indies. The next step, about which many young Japanese speak frankly, is to delete the word East: establish Japanese hegemony over Greater Asia, meaning the Philippines, Burma, India, Australia. The strategic problem of attaining the first of these objectives appears on the map which occupies the following two pages...