Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London's Economist last week complained of a problem: when it defends the Labor government against its critics, the British Socialists use it as evidence that the anti-Socialist Economist has all but gone Socialist; when it criticizes the Labor government, anti-Socialists in the U.S. cite the Economist as an authority to show that Socialism is no good. "From this dilemma there is only one escape," wrote the Economist, "and that is, for once, to give both sides of every medal...
...some 200 Dutch and Indonesian delegates assembled for a round-table conference in The Netherlands' staid capital. With the U.N.'s Commission for Indonesia looking on, the delegates in The Hague's ancient Hall of Knights expected to spend two months at solving the thorny Indonesian problem which has plagued the Dutch and the Western world since...
...Mexican treasury officials had suspected a big leak in silver shipments. Despite controls, there always seemed to be enough high-grade Mexican silver in Manhattan to cause prices to fluctuate between 70 and 77.5 cents an ounce. Earlier this year, Beteta put some of his best investigators on the problem...
...Traffic Problem. In Salt Lake City, after this year's 15th escape from the State Prison Farm, somebody planted a sign on the adjacent highway: "Drive Slow, Prisoners Escaping...
Here was a problem to intrigue the metaphysical-minded Melville: Was the white whale an agent of nature repelling man's attacks? Or was he perhaps a symbol of man's own rebellious instincts? Melville hardly cared. For him the whale came to represent whatever it is that drives men to self-destroying quests...