Word: problems
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Republicans considered the consequences of their denunciation? The answer was that they had. A few hotheads had solved their problem on a "to hell with it" basis. Others had decided that as long as Acheson must go, it might as well be now as ever; the U.S. was obviously going to go from one crisis to another for as long as man could look ahead. The U.S. people, New York's Irving Ives was convinced, were fed up with Acheson. "It all stems from the tragic mistakes made in Asia. Acheson is not entirely responsible for what happened...
Last week, a Senate investigating committee resurrected the case of Alfred Redl as an object lesson for the U.S. For 27 weeks, North Carolina's frock-coated Clyde Hoey, with three other Democratic Senators and three Republicans, had been quietly looking into a sordid matter: the problem of homosexuals in the Government. The problem had been the subject of nervous explanations, joke-cracking and effective campaign sneers ever since last February, when Deputy Under Secretary of State John Peurifoy offhandedly told Congress that State had gotten rid of 91 employees for homosexuality...
Every seven seconds, doctors estimate, someone somewhere in the world dies of tuberculosis. Because TB is a disease that thrives on poverty, overcrowding, malnutrition and ignorance, its prevention is largely a sociological problem. Doctors, however, have long searched in vain for a medical weapon that would work against TB with the sure efficacy of, say, the smallpox vaccine against smallpox. The best they have found so far is the vaccine called BCG, which was first tried out on calves in 1908 at France's Pasteur Institute...
Radioactive fish are not the main problem; water free of dissolved solids is essential for other reasons too. In its search for the best place for its new plant, the AEC narrowed its choice to a site on the Red River near Paris, Texas and the site on the Savannah. The two rivers are equally muddy, but silt can be removed by a comparatively cheap filtering process. The Red River, however, carries a large amount of dissolved material which would have to be removed by a chemical process costing $40 million a year. The Savannah gets its water from...
...Ridge National Laboratory, the Atomic Energy Commission had a peculiar problem with its library. Scattered widely around the great reservation are many individual laboratories, and the scientists could not use the central library without great waste of time in transit. Worse yet, some of Oak Ridge's laboratories are "hot" (radioactive), and borrowed papers which might pick up radioactivity in a hot lab could not be returned to the library...