Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...automakers, who willynilly have begun to face their relation with the union as a practical operating problem rather than an emotional issue, 3) for John L. Lewis, the prestige of whose C. I. O. is shaken when one of its key unions gets in trouble...
...Home Relief clients in New York City. WPA used to make and distribute false teeth. It stopped when it could not find enough technicians on its rolls to keep pace with the demand. Last week, after many an indigent had waited toothless for two years, the problem was solved by the city's Department of Public Welfare contracting with nine dental laboratories to manufacture some 35,000 plates, following X-rays, extractions and impressions made by WPA dental clinics...
Lately another problem has become acute. Britons have talked of satisfying Germany's hunger for "colonies by assigning Angola to the Nazis. "The British" as one British paper proclaimed, "are prepared to endure almost unlimited sacrifices of Portuguese territory in their anxiety to secure a more equitable and peaceful share of the world's goods." Encouraged by this sentiment and backed by German funds...
...jump if they touched him. "I've got to work this out for myself," he cried. All afternoon, on his twelve-inch-wide perch, he argued with his sister, a priest, a doctor, a minister. He drank a dozen glasses of water, lit countless cigarets, pondered his problem. Should he finish the act the audience of 10,000 was waiting for, or return ignominiously to safety? The afternoon wore on, evening came. Still John Warde had not solved his problem. At 10:38 he heard the rustle of a rope net which police were vainly trying to anchor below...
...Economic Problem (Sun. 4 p.m., CBS) discussed by Southern farmers and sharecroppers, from the Alabama Polytechnic Institute at Auburn for The Farmer Takes the Mike series...