Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...waiting in one House next year, will have to depend directly upon the results of this poll. Since this is an important phase of the drive to bring greater efficiency to the Dining Halls, everyone concerned should take time out from the reading period long enough to consider the problem seriously...
...ever had and last year performed the difficult feat of working a group of Seniors into a well-oiled unit. This spring he had green hands to work with, and there were many headaches. Gene Lovett has never been a coach's ball player and has been a continual problem-child for Stahl...
...grim 1940 was preparedness against another war. For the leader of the richest nation on earth the easiest part of preparedness was money for that he went to Congress. Not so easy was the job of turning money into war material. That last week was his gravest unsolved problem for that he needed men who, like the War Industries Board of 1917-18, could get results. Most of all he needed a man like Bernard Baruch. All week advisers and an occasional tycoon (see p. 18) passed through the White House. Franklin Roosevelt, who has neither liked nor trusted businessmen...
British bombers did their raiding from England, instead of basing in France. This kept a force at home to bomb German troops that might be landed in Britain, and made the problem of supplying them easier. But the longer flights imposed extra strain on pilots and cut down the frequency of their raids...
Natural uranium exists in three isotopes (variant forms) weighing 238, 235 and 234 units. Experiments showed that U-235 held out the most promise of a "chain reaction" (continuous energy release). But U-235 comprises less than 1% of the natural element, so the problem was to isolate...