Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...land of quiet towns, paved roads busy with the traffic of harvest time, fields bright with yellow bitterweed, people warmed and sleepy in the last hot suns of fall. Last week the land, the people and the sky of a large part of North Carolina were elements in a Problem. The U.S. Army was at one of its periodic peacetime wars, and civilians for once were principals...
Sheridan Downey knows all this and since getting nominated has backed away from "Ham & Eggs" as gracefully as possible. The scheme, he says, is a local effort to solve the "senior citizen" problem to which, if he gets to the Senate, he will bend his best talents on a national scale. He will vote for it, he says, "as a Californian," but he has made his peace with Franklin Roosevelt who has condemned "Ham & Eggs" in no uncertain terms...
...defend North Carolina or any other spot in the U.S. from enemy bombs is an Army problem. That the Army does not expect North Carolina or any other State to be presently bombed is beside the Army's point. For when & if it goes to "defensive war"-whether at home or on foreign soil-it still must protect itself, its occupied areas and the civilian lives and properties thereon...
...fact, Army airmen need not have been greatly distressed. The civilian net worked perfectly in daytime, when bombers would not normally attack. It also worked well at night. But unsolved was a great problem of night-time defense. Unless pursuit pilots and antiaircraft gunners can see their targets, bombers are safe...
...WNYC plays The Star-Spangled Banner as its signature. As every patriot knows, every patriot springs to attention at the first notes of the national anthem, remains rigid until the end. Because Elizabeth Faffs husband is a loyal WNYC fan and a patriot to boot, Mrs. Faff had a problem on her hands. She wrote the station that he made her get out of bed both times, complained: "It is rather upsetting....Have you any suggestions?" Stumped, WNYC referred the letter to Mayor La-Guardia. The Mayor was stumped too, asked the Army, the Navy, the D.A.R. what Mrs. Faff...