Word: demand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Trade Schol for Girls is straight out of a Charles Dickens novel. It occupies what was once a gracious mansion which has now become incredibly dilapidated. Cooperative work-study programs like the one in Dorchester High School offer courses only in upholstery, cabinet-making, and cabinet furnishing, though the demand for these skills has greatly diminished. Boston School for Business Education, which trains accountants and secretaries, has a decent program, but facilities are too few and too old. The only real bright spot in the Boston Technical High Schol, which has competitive admissions and sends sixty per cent...
Vocational schools in Boston have reached a crisis. Less than fifteen hundred students graduate yearly, many in outdated jobs like painting, printing, and cabinet-making. But the demand for skilled workers in metropolitan Boston has begun to zoom, especially in the highly technical electronics and fabricated metals industries...
...organize large-scale training programs, which many firms have already done. Boston and its suburbs would have to build direct transportation from the central city to Route 128, where many of the expanding industries are located. But this public transportation is necessary anyway to fill the skilled worker demand in the 128 firms...
...more than $1 billion. Salzgitter provided work for some 70,000 people in a tense and economically weak area and showed a modest profit after it was rebuilt in 1957. But those were still the years of Germany's reconstruction when any and all steel was in demand...
...third of the entire island, has already built 32 miles of fence and brought in 920 head of Black Angus-Hereford cattle from New Zealand. His goal is a herd of 8,000 head, plus hogs and chickens to supply a good part of the island's meat demand...