Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...clock near the speaker's platform had just struck 3 a.m. when the haggard, dark-eyed figure shuffled into the meeting hall outside Santiago. "Mr. Chairman," he said softly, "I demand the right to answer some personal attacks waged against me." With that, Chile's embattled President Eduardo Frei turned to the 530 members of his Christian Democratic Party's national committee and launched into a plea for his very political life...
...expanding science of oceanology, still largely dependent on instrumented probes from surface ships and buoys for undersea investigations, has increased the demand for manned exploration of the depths. And spurred by the need of effective submarine rescue craft and anti-submarine-warfare (ASW) systems, the U.S. Naval Oceanographic Office has been financing and encouraging the development of devices that enable men to experiment and work far beneath the waves, even at depths where pressure would crush a conventional submarine...
...days' lodging in London, for $37-less than a round-trip plane fare. Even better news for hard-pressed Britain is an upsurge in foreign orders for British autos. British Motor Corp. expects to increase its deliveries to Europe by 5,000 cars this month. To meet that demand, B.M.C. is switching one-third of its home-market production to export models...
...benefit one of Canada's biggest basic industries, the nation's seven nickel companies were flustered as well as flattered. Free-world consumption of nickel-825 million pounds last year-is approaching its highest point in history and straining the industry's capacity to supply. The demand is so strong that nickel producers are rushing to develop new sources from the chilly plains of Canada to subtropic mountains in New Caledonia...
...million more pounds of nickel per year by 1970." To finance all this expansion, a company that has been financially conservative ever since it was organized in 1902 may have to go into debt for the first time. Inco is not worried at the prospect. Rising demand and higher nickel prices produced a profit of $118 million last year on sales of $694,100,000, and Inco's stock and dividend payouts are setting new records, just like the shiny and coveted metal that is responsible...