Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Faced with a 20% drop in what it considered necessary production, the Army was also faced with a dilemma: Where to make the cut? Airplane production could not take it. Therefore the ground forces must. Result: a 25% cut in ground forces equipment schedule, particularly in items 1) whose production is already fairly well in hand, like some explosives and ammunition, 2) whose combat value has not been proved...
...committee moved on to Lewis' wage demand. Like a man begging humbly for guidance, Lewis told them he was in a dilemma. His men were now underground 53 hours, got paid for only the 42 they spent at the coal facing. But recently a New Orleans court, in a case involving iron miners, had ruled that workers must be paid on a "portal-to-portal" basis...
...Franklin Roosevelt was faced with a dilemma. Like Donald Nelson he had sat by while a clash of personalities built up into a major conflict. Some day soon he might have to choose-between Nelson and the Army point of view, between sweeping reorganization of WPB or creation of yet another agency...
When M-day came to WPB last week, Donald Nelson faced a dilemma of his own making. Month ago he could have bumped the heads of his fractious assistants. Last week Palace Guard shenanigans had gone too far to make this any longer possible. In sacrifice of top-flight ability, his indecision had cost the U.S. dearly...
...with high intelligence and clarity, Spencer shows Shakespeare as the archetype of his age, in Elizabethan literature what Drake was to the Elizabethan navy-a symbol of England's emergence into the status of a world power. The Elizabethans, says Spencer, found themselves in a social and moral dilemma. For hundreds of years men had lived and died in a world in which "order [was] behind everything." Man, animals, the heavens were set in fixed categories, hardly ever questioned. In this "order" man was seen as below the angels but above the beasts. Kings were divinely appointed; they might...