Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...demanded a full-scale inquiry and added: "Mr. Secretary, what all of your officers will demand to know is just how in hell this could happen in the U.S. Navy." Alexander promised Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, that if his cause failed, he would request reassignment from the coveted New Jersey command. When the bill came due, Alexander paid it like an officer and a gentleman...
...bombardment north of the 17th parallel. Trinh's assurance--the first Hanoi has ever given publicly--stirred the sudden and exhilarating hope that a major obstacle on the road to peace had been swept away. Only three months previously, President Johnson appeared to mute his earlier--and ill-advised--demand that the North Vietnamese de-escalate their military activities in exchange for the bombing halt required to initiate talks. In a September 30 speech at San Antonio, Johnson said he only "assumed" the North Vietnamese would not "take advantage" of a respite from the bombing. This statement was more concilitory...
...Demand for gold has intensified so much lately that for the first time in history, it outstrips the amount newly mined. This intensifies the gold shortage, which aggravates the U.S.'s immediate difficulties. Gold is exceptionally difficult to mine, and most U.S. miners find that the price of $35 an ounce is too low to pay them to dig it out. In fiscal 1967, only $1.4 billion worth was unearthed, but $1.7 billion worth was bought by industry, jewelers, dentists and speculators. The $300 million difference was made up mostly by sales from the U.S. to the so-called...
...spends domestically, and the money that it spends abroad. When a country runs a deficit abroad, it usually must settle up quickly or else foreign creditors cut it off. When that happens, the debtor country often has to resort to deflation, cutting back on jobs and incomes to reduce demand and imports. In sum, a debtor nation tends to lose some of its sovereignty and freedom of action. No U.S. leader wants that to happen here, but then, none can deny that the U.S. position is precarious and that the U.S. cannot speak from full strength in world monetary affairs...
Leading supplier of weathered barn siding in the Midwest is former County Judge Gerald Jolin, 53, of Appleton, Wis. For years, as a sideline, he hunted old barns for architect friends. The demand kept growing, and in 1965 he set up Decor Materials Inc. and went into the barn business full time...