Word: confrontation
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter wheat is ripening in Texas and Oklahoma. In a few weeks it will ripen in Kansas, later in the Dakotas. Farmers, oiling their combines, are about to confront the U.S. with the most colossal wheat surplus problem in its history...
...Before discussing the ideal program of tomorrow," said Dr. Grol, "we must confront the grave and immediate problem [of] how to keep thousands of children alive . . . children without parents, children with neither bread nor roof, some mown down by epidemics, others grown slowly blind through starvation...
However, a number of hurdles confront the History and Lit concentrator...
...Wrath. The tasks which confront the Japanese Navy will not provide pleasant afternoon outings for Isoroku Yamamoto and his subordinates. But they will be sustained in them by a deep resentment, something which hurts down around the breastbone. The Japanese have not known an easy life, and they think that this is so because Britain and the U.S. have kept them from their ease...
...difficulties in Pan Am's way are as real as war and not unlike it. Pan Am men confront Axis agents, spies and businessmen every day. A progress report on the new airport network, which arrived in Manhattan last week. read like a war communiqu...