Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Year's Day there were other difficulties-dozens of war brides and fiancees had been delayed enroute to the U.S., and had not managed to arrive before the deadline. But at week's end, Attorney General Tom Clark solved the problem nicely with a wide, romantic gesture. He gave the fiancees eight more days to get to the promised land...
...Paris, the gloom surrounding the council's final sessions at the Palais de Chaillot inspired yet another figure of speech, less homespun than the Hollander's simile about the New England domestic problem. The scene, said one British delegate, was like Haydn's Farewell Symphony (in which the musicians leave the orchestra pit one by one until only two violins and the conductor are left). "The speeches started in crescendo. Then people began slipping away one by one. At the end there was no one left and nothing...
...problem for 1949 was for the nation to do so, adjust itself to a boom which had changed its character. It was no longer chiefly based on scarcities and stored-up war demand, but on full employment, and replacement demand, shored up by enormous federal spending. Businessmen would have to cut their prices to a new pattern of shrinking markets in many lines; labor would have to recognize that decreasing employment would bring a sort of buyers' market there also. It might have to reconsider "fourth round" wage demands in the light of benefits from a drop...
However many Senators appear to favor UMT. In addition the bill has strong backing from such groups as the American Legion and from Secretary of Defense James V. Forrestal, who sees UMT as an answer to the nation's long-range military manpower problem...
...York Times article, Harris proposed two solutions to the problem: improved publicity on the part of colleges on the object of a college education and the adoption of President Conant's plan to take an inventory of jobs and job-seekers...