Word: problem
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Naval Big Guns. The argument about the relative value of plane and battleships boils down to a complex problem in strategy. In current naval theory planes are employed primarily not to sink rival battleships but: 1) to scout their position, 2) to disable them by bombing, 3) to direct the fire of their own ships which may be hull down over the horizon...
...Conant, whose championship of democratic education is well known, calls the nation's attention to a serious problem...
...Blondes At Work," the co-feature, is another in the Torchy Blaine series with Glenda Farrell and Barton McLane. It is probably the best to date, mainly because the problem of solving the murder is now less important than the saucy remarks and ingenious pranks of the little blonde newspaper reporter...
...national disgrace." Since 1928 a total of 49 possible airports, from marsh lands to race tracks, have been examined, but so far none has been found that is both politically and aeronautically safe. Meantime, various committees and the District Airport Commission continue a ten-year search to solve a problem "lousy with experts and options...
...detail is Wralt Olen, now 63, but still full of four-wheel-driven energy. When he laughs he still gets red all over. Pompous but kindly, he likes to lecture his men. When he is preparing a lecture, his wife has advance notice-he practices while shaving. Then a problem bothers him, he puts a compass in his pocket, strikes out into the woods until his mind clears. Whenever he passes an F.W.D. truck he tips...