Word: problems
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lattre was also one of the army's hardest taskmasters. A colonel who served on his staff tells a story: "One night the general returned from a staff meeting to divisional headquarters with a strategic problem. He called me in with two other officers about dinnertime, asked our views on the problem, then told us to go back and put our ideas on paper. That took us till 3 in the morning. He read all the papers, said, 'Excellent, excellent,' then talked for 30 minutes tearing them to bits. Then he divided the problem into three parts...
Something was also being done about the big TV problem that lurked upstairs. Buyers were shying away from the high ($50 to $150) cost of installing and servicing aerials; worse still, many an apartment landlord was forbidding any more installations on his already cluttered rooftop, thus hitting hard at the big city audience, television's best market. To meet this threat, Raytheon Manufacturing Co. and Chicago's Earl ("Madman") Muntz had each brought out sets with built-in aerials, which gave fair service in areas where signals were strong...
Claims on the Whole Man. All agreed that the Protestant churches should speak out against Communist encroachments. The problem was, what could a group representing practically all of non-Catholic Christianity agree on saying...
...almost half of the nation's 98 biggest production centers, unemployment had already mounted to 7% or more of the local population. "In some cases it has become an acute problem," reported Employment Security Director Robert C. Goodwin. "The labor market has fluctuated since last November . . . largely [toward] higher rates of unemployment...
...romance. To Ronald Reagan, a New York commercial artist, she looks like the perfect model for the perfect cover girl. To Eddie Bracken, a down-at-heels promoter, she looks like the promise of a fat commission if she can be teamed with Reagan in a television act. The problem: to persuade highbrow Miss Mayo to lend herself to such a lowbrow enterprise...