Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...better or worse politically, he had refused to make national defense a political football, had saved the U. S. from being emotionally torn apart in a way that would have halted all action on the biggest U. S. problem. With Willkie approving, not even in the U.S. Senate was a hullabaloo raised over the deal which brought the U. S. eight badly needed bases...
Rumania. And it looked as if Russia might not wait for the Transylvanian problem to settle itself. So Herr von Ribbentrop and Count Ciano, who consider southeast Europe their own back lot, decided on a squeeze play...
Next day Judge Carranza Trujillo committed Trotsky's assassin, pale, dark Frank Jackson, to trial for murder, committed Jackson's girl friend, Sylvia Ageloff, as accessory before the fact. The problem of Mexico City's tough, efficient police was not so much to make them talk as to keep them from being rubbed out before they talked too much...
Last week, Frederick Osborn started a new job: $1-a-year population consultant for the Division of Statistical Standards. In Washington, his work will consist of determining the effect of such govern mental innovations as Rural Resettlement, TVA. First problem: Do improved en vironments stimulate birth rates...
...case, involving dairies, the drivers' union and the Board of Health, Arnold figures prosecution cut Chicago milk prices by $10,000,000 a year. His next big target: food distribution, now under investigation. Such attacks, argues Arnold, by increasing U. S. consumer purchasing power, help solve the farm problem...