Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strong Flavor. Packers angrily yelped that Tom Clark was after a political goat for the high meat prices; the packers have repeatedly said that those prices were caused by a shrinking supply and enormous demand. Snapped Swift's President John Holmes: "The suit is an unproved charge, with strong political flavor. I am certain that [the packers] will be completely exonerated when all the facts are presented." The packers thought that Clark would have trouble making his charges stick. Eleven times in 50 years the Government had sued the big packers; it had won only twice. A year...
...Nashua, where one-fourth of the working force was employed by Textron, Roy Little's Puerto Rican deal looked like a death sentence. Cried a local labor leader: "A disaster for the entire community." A textile man was just as sore. "It is ridiculous," said he, "to demand that labor act with responsibility while capital takes an irresponsible attitude...
...fencing room has been provided with the study facilities and Watson said that another room will be set up if the demand warrants it. Following last year's recommendations, lights will be turned out at 10 o'clock, except for a dim, precautionary bulb overhead...
Though businessmen talked of supply catching up to demand in many a line, there were only a few faint signs that the boom was slowing down. In July, reported the Department of Commerce, individual income had fallen by $100 million from the June peak of $17.7 billion. Thanks to the drop in farm prices, commodity prices had also fallen steadily for three weeks, but were still only 1.1% below their peak last month...
After the summer lull, retail sales had picked up sharply and U.S. department store sales last week showed a 16% gain over the same week last year. This was partly due to an extra shopping day this year. But it was also due to the enormous demand kept up by industrial employment, which is still on the rise. It reached a record of 52,801,000 in August, some 350,000 above the previous month. (But total employment fell because of the seasonal midsummer slack on farms.) In the face of all this, it looked as if the U.S. could...