Word: problem
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Canada has no less of a surplus wheat problem than the U. S. and it was by action in that quarter that U. S. relief plans may yet be nullified. The Canadian wheat surplus on April 1 was 246 million bushels which also had to be moved out before the new crop came in. The Port of Montreal was congested with surplus grain. Eleven vessels with large wheat cargoes cleared last week, starting the flow to Europe. To retain Canada's present 8 cent freight advantage to the world market, its railroad executives prepared to discuss rate reductions correspondingly below...
...professional leaders of the strike were faced with a difficult psychological problem. They sought to restrict the strike to its present confines, to increase union membership in mills now operating and thus collect dues to sustain the strik ers already out. But they found it hard to keep members at work ?members who glanced out of mill windows to see strikers idling in the sunshine, who realized that they were in effect supporting those strik ers by their labor. Many a new union member was tempted to quit the mills and join the "free grub" line in the sunshine...
...problem of how much Germany shall pay in reparations?incomparably the greatest fiscal issue of the age?seemed in a fair way to be solved last week by a one-time plowboy from Van Hornesville, N. Y., and a son of a Danish mechanic who used to repair typewriters in an upstate New York town...
Reduction of armaments is held by the Administration to be the great problem faced by the nations of the world...
...Hoover Administration is not yielding or backtracking on the cardinal ideal, but simply feels that a primarily naval power such as the U. S. should keep hands off the problem of land disarmament, leaving it to be thrashed out among France, Germany, Italy, Russia and the other land Powers...