Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Central Europe. As additional Channel ports fell into Nazi hands the prospect of a severe counter-blockade by Nazi U-boats and planes threatened Great Britain. >Germany expected to loot enough to eat till autumn, hoped by then to have conquered enough more to master next winter's problem. Otherwise the Nazis looked to be in for it. Seventeen per cent short of food self-sufficiency, the Reich has brigaded its appetite, lived off stored-up peacetime surpluses. It lacks men enough to till its own fields, has had to summon 30,000 agricultural laborers from Italy and import...
...Balkans have their own food problem, for lower Danube floods, hard upon a cruel winter, devastated their plains and prevented spring planting. In Rumania farm hands were still mobilized in the Army. Even if Nazi Negotiator...
...gift of $500 to Mrs. Samuel Gompers, 57, disinherited widow of the late, great A. F. of L. leader. Said William Green: "No comment. We have been dealing with that problem for several years." Gangling (6 ft. 7 in.) Playwright Robert Emmet Sherwood, veteran of World War I, admitted that he turns over his weekly royalties (about $2,200) from "There Shall Be No Night" for civilian relief in Europe, has given more than $15,000 to war relief since September...
...artist is "a renegade who rides in a Lincoln-Zephyr V-12," whereas an "artist" is a "pure spirit who munches crusts in a garret." Say they: "They're often one and the same person." The show's 40 items were the work of artists whose main problem is to entice consumers with dream women, seductive bathtub scenes, irresistible automobiles, travel-teasing landscapes, nostalgic farm scenes, etc. (for which their fees range from $300 to $3,000 per illustration...
...citizens worrying about the danger to their crude rubber supply, of which over 90% now comes from the East Indies, neither of these events was particularly reassuring. Instead they emphasized the urgency of the problem in terms of National Defense. For since it still lacks real tonnage production of synthetic rubber, the U. S. might have tonight to keep the trade routes to the East open...