Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they did not capture Texas. In an attempt to get their candidates on the ballot they took full-page newspaper advertisements, pleaded that the whole Democrat-Dixiecrat problem be presented to the voters in a referendum. The Texas State Central Committee, dominated by Governor Beauford Jester, refused. The Dixiecrats still had hope-though their chances looked slim, they were hell-bent to get control of the Texas State Democratic Convention next month...
...leaders, and last week Ottawa admitted that it had heard some of them. Prompted by the oratory of British Columbia's Premier Byron ("Boss") Johnson at the Liberal Convention, it promised to call a Dominion-provincial highway conference this fall. Because the British North America Act leaves the problem of highways to the provinces, Ottawa was not ready to do much more than confer. Besides, it wanted the provinces to bear at least half the cost of any highway built...
Then the Atomic Energy Commission (which took over from Manhattan District) yanked the foundation from under the Daniels pile. Practical work on a $10-20 million power plant was premature, it said. The wise course was to abandon a frontal assault on the problem and switch to a low-priority program of cautious, long-range experimentation...
Loud protests greeted the decision. Even scientists thought that AEC put the horse behind the cart. They felt that power plants were not a problem for cloistered academicians, but for engineers. Some industrialists grumbled that if AEC's slow, cautious approach had been tried on the internal combustion engine, physicists would still be riding to work on their bicycles. Monsanto Chemical's Executive Vice President Dr. Charles Thomas has argued: "We can't go out today and build a power plant that is a very good power plant. But to go from A to E you have...
...Work." Last winter AEC agreed to launch another major assault on the power problem. Then, under urging from the military (who had become more & more interested in atomic propulsion for ships, aircraft, etc.), AEC decided to centralize its power projects at the Argonne laboratory near Chicago. Under the supervision of hardheaded, 41-year-old Director Walter Zinn, Argonne will choose between three different approaches to a power reactor. Construction on one of them will be started early next year...