Word: complaining
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...biggest jump was in mercury, which has soared over 85% from the January low of $187 for a 76-lb. flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market...
...gave itself a heavy handicap. It poured $35 billion of foreign-aid money into the economies of other countries (e.g., $207 million into Europe's iron and steel industry, $35 million into its auto industry). To many businessmen, the foreign-aid program has succeeded too well; they complain that they are losing business to their eager new competitors abroad...
...year. Imports of machine tools into the U.S., less than $1,000,000 a year before the war, were $5,900,000 in the first quarter of 1954 alone. Exports, meanwhile, have dwindled from a prewar average of 32% of total output to a scant 6%. Electrical equipment makers complain that overseas manufacturers, many of them helped directly or indirectly by Marshall Plan dollars, have consistently underbid U.S. firms on generators and transformers for Government power projects. The mining industry is also alarmed about foreign competition. A Senate committee reported that 85% of the U.S. stockpile of strategic and critical...
...this year showed that 84% of the people still believe in God after nine years of life under Communism. So reported a U.S. newsman from Belgrade last week. At a time of grave political and military defeats for the West, this figure marks a significant spiritual victory. Westerners who complain that they lack an "ideology" to oppose Communism overlook Christianity...
...will between car dealers and manufacturers has hit an alltime high. With a total of 647,000 unsold cars on dealers' lots, the National Automobile Dealers Association says that its dealers are "dying like flies," that some 1,800 have gone under in recent months. In turn, manufacturers complain just as sharply that dealers are falling down on the sales job. For the U.S. public, the bickering has been magnified to the point where the industry appears to be in serious trouble, and buyers have the idea that no car is a bargain unless it is a giveaway...