Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Forgotten Man and the Forgotten Factor. The New Deal leadership has talked much of the Forgotten Man. But, unless Government pays attention to what for seven years, under the New Deal, has been the Forgotten Factor in the national problem, the factor of full recovery, the Forgotten Man will be worse than forgotten-he will be betrayed by a Government that has led him to expect all sorts of social benefits which Government will, in time, find that it simply cannot provide, because it has neglected to make Economic America a going concern producing enough wealth annually to foot...
Germany's No. 1 economic war problem is to persuade, by hook or crook, her neighbors to produce and deliver to her much-needed war materials. The Allies' big job is to persuade them not to. Last week's action on the trade front went mostly in favor of the Nazis...
Once under way, Tennessee Eastman began to bud like a culture of yeast. The spread of home movies and the problem of storing X-rays in hospitals demanded a non-inflammable film. Cellulose nitrate was highly inflammable. Cellulose acetate was not. Made by treating cellulose (purified cotton linters) with acetic acid and acetic anhydride, cellulose acetate was costly because the method of extracting the two acids from the wood was crude. But Eastman's chemists found a better way, and in 1930 Tennessee Eastman's first cellulose acetate unit began turning out the raw material for "safety film...
Every month multiplies the number of ambitious plans for "Federal Union" of the democracies, of Europe, of the world (TIME, Feb. 19). Basic to such plans is recognition of the fact that European reconstruction and the problem of Germany are closely, not to say, desperately, related. Yet who among these planners has envisioned a credible future-or any future at all-for Germany...
Several recent books offer concrete facts, qualified interpretation, on some but not all aspects of Germany's-and Europe's-massive problem...