Word: problem
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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According to Subscriber Müller, he had offered this transportation problem to others only to be told that none of the five airlines advertising direct routes to Europe via the Azores "takes passengers to this place . . ." Then he added: "On page 3 of the May 23 issue of TIME'S Latin American edition you ran a full-page ad of Pan American Airways, which said: THE BEST WAY IN THE WORLD TO TRAVEL ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD. Should Pan American Airways correct this...
...this end Mr. Müller's problem was no problem at all. Pan American's New York City traffic manager said that his line was definitely booking passage out of New York to the airport at Santa Maria. He suggested an immediate round-trip booking for Mr. Müller's wife and child...
...State Department had not yet decided how to handle that problem. But it was showing signs of retreating from Dean Acheson's "wait -until - the -dust -settles" policy; it was at least and at last beginning to think about Asia. Before he left for Paris, Acheson, after some prodding from Defense Secretary Louis Johnson, had ordered Policy-Planner George Kennan to work on the problem. Last week Kennan handed his boss the first tentative outline of what might be done...
...Luxembourg, there was nothing to stop Perle from throwing some of her big parties there (to entertain, she will have to add considerable of her own money to the $15,000 or $20,000 salary of a Minister). Since Mrs. Mesta is a widow, protocol officers were spared one problem: when it comes to table-setting, there is no place to put a Minister's husband...
None of them gave the right answer. But Angelenos were sure that the problem -and all the rest of the city's problems-would be solved in good time. They had to be. City planners expect a population of 6,000,000 in greater Los Angeles by 1970. Less cautious citizens call the planners pikers, are certain that the city will eventually be the biggest in the world. And after that? Undoubtedly, its boosters mused, it would have another boom...