Word: demand
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Harvard Stadium will hold 2400 additional spectators at the Yale game on Nov. 22, the Athletic Association revealed yesterday. To accommodate the anticipated demand for tickets, temporary stands will be constructed in the open end of the oval...
...Band should be allowed to make a limited number of commercial appearances to meet the demand of the present emergency. The Band management, working with the Dean's office, can easily exercise selectivity in its exact choice of media. It should definitely be made clear that thse appearances involve no reversal in the Corporation's non-profitmaking philosophy for undergraduate organizations. There are occasions when the Band should be allowed to appear on its own behalf...
Ready to Wait. For Indiana's enterprisers, who are bidding for a choice zone around the capital city of Riyadh, Tariki hiked his opening demand to a 60-40 profit split, also "integrated1' right up to the gas pump. Indiana's President John Eldred Swearingen publicly rejected these terms last week, but was obviously ready to bargain further. Foreign oilmen pointed out that Tariki's deal with the Japanese promised at best small profit in limited markets, and only after years of waiting; Western companies alone, with their tanker fleets, refining facilities and extensive marketing systems...
...factor in keeping prices level is the excess capacity built by U.S. industry during the boom. This now permits the economy to recover and expand without pressure on production resources, thus preventing demand from overrunning supply-and forcing up prices-in the fashion of classical inflation. It also means that industry tends to produce more efficiently, thus cutting costs and helping to keep prices steady...
...material prices? Says Norman B. Ture, staff economist of the Joint Economic Committee: "I don't see it. Say autos go up to 6,000,000. That won't be enough to exert real pressure on steel, aluminum, glass or rubber capacity. So a good strong demand in autos will not spread great demand pressures through the economy." And just as there are ample materials, so is there still an ample labor supply to keep a brake on wages...