Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hoffman was nibbling at a problem which many economists feel will inevitably scuttle the value of any economic aid we send to Europe, at least on a short-run basis. Europe, partially due to war damage, partially to technical immaturity, can produce neither as cheaply nor as efficiently as the U.S. This means it cannot trade with us in a particularly equal give and take footing. But this situation is even further aggravated by the myriad trade barriers and currency controls still stretched onto the containment; these restrictions are actively preventing what Hoffman calls the "resumption of normal healthy trade...
Within the last few years a wealth of new information-from seismology, astronomy and nuclear physics-has been brought to bear on the problem. Scientists are beginning to explain why the earth is not too smooth for such land animals as man to live...
Pinky. The best of the Negro-problem films; with Jeanne Grain, Ethel Waters and Ethel Barrymore (TIME...
Action on the food problem now requires two things. First, it must be proved that a problem actually exists and that complaints are not mere gripes. Last year's Council poll has proved completely useless in doing this. Until the Administration is convinced that the food is not good enough as it is, no major changes in the system will occur...
...fact remains that the food as it is now will always be a problem, and the student protest will not subside until the Administration goes to work on a permanent solution...