Word: difficult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...concluded, "Your task in a troubled, a difficult, and an exciting world today is to prepare yourselves for the future...
Generally happy about the new President, Ecuadorians waited patiently to see what would happen when his energy took hold of the nation's difficult economic problems. "I don't remember a time," said a veteran Quito newsman, "when I have seen such tranquillity in the country...
...from iron ore, and found that its oxide is intensely white. So titanium dioxide got a job as a pigment for white paints. But until recently no one had much hope for the pure element as a metal. Getting it out of its ores in metallic form was very difficult...
Strong Facts. Federally inspected meat accounts for about 75% of the meat the U.S. housewife buys. But the meat business is difficult to control. Each day the packers through retail stores deal with millions of customers. In the stockyards, even though they are the most powerful bidders, they still deal with thousands of livestock growers whose readiness to market their animals is the most important factor in determining meat prices from day to day. Throughout the U.S. the Big Four get lively local competition from some 3,000 smaller packers. The independents during last spring's meat workers...
...Little, higher productivity had suddenly become very necessary. With the slump in textiles (TIME, Aug. 30), he was beginning to find it difficult to sell some of his products. Although Textron's net profits have jumped to $3,805,000 in the first half of 1948, from $2,841,835 in the same period last year, its current gross sales, running at a rate of $100 million, were off $25 million from 1947. Little thought next year would bring a further decline. To see him through the leaner years ahead, he was concentrating on his Textron brand name products...