Word: dilemma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reason: the Army must keep its few trained units intact for service in the troubled, troublesome Americas. Said clearheaded George Marshall (to the Veterans of Foreign Wars): ". . . We must not become involved by impatience or ignorance in an ill-considered, overnight expansion, which would . . . leave us in a dilemma of confused results, half-baked and fatally unbalanced. . . . We must get down to hard pan and carry out our preparations without vacillations or confusion...
These young Republican businessmen did not enjoy their dilemma. Sword swallowing hurt. So last week in Philadelphia they took the Republican Convention into their own hands, pushed aside the Old Guard, nominated their own candidate, and set about creating a political party of their...
Last week Dictator Vargas still had not decided which way to go. He was still trying to wangle favors from both sides, to keep the favor of both sides. But he did the U. S. and South America a big favor by calling attention to Brazil's dilemma and to the Western Hemisphere's prime danger...
Last week East Ohio extricated itself from the dilemma. Proudly announced by President Charles Eugene Gallagher was a scheme that got the storage problem down to three dinky (57-foot) spherical tanks, the expense down to $1,000,000, the fire hazard to zero. The scheme: liquefaction. Against next winter's peak demand. East Ohio will next fall compress natural gas under 600 pounds of pressure, liquefy it by cooling at 250° F. below zero, pour it into insulated sphericals. In the three tanks, Utilitarian Gallagher will have the liquid equivalent of 150,000,000 cubic feet, compressed...
...said nothing. Like many another San Franciscan, its suave, cool President James Byers Black contemplated last week four ways in which San Francisco (short of shutting down Hetch Hetchy's turbines) may try to extricate itself from the dilemma. The ways...