Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...defense family, said the President, and it might wreck the balance he had long sought between military security and the strain on the domestic economy. It wasn't so much the down payment, he went on, it was the upkeep. In succeeding years the extra planes would demand a larger & larger share of the budget as they required personnel, housekeeping and maintenance. "I am, therefore, directing the Secretary of Defense to place [the $615 million] in reserve," the President announced...
...Every Garage. What would the rich, full life of 1980 be like? ". . . The United States will gradually become a country of two-car families," Slichter thought. "In another generation 70 million or more cars will be on the roads . . .Air conditioning in restaurants and office buildings will create the demand for much air conditioning in homes. The family-sized swimming pool is likely to become popular and millions of these pools may be installed...
Died. Vladimir Hurban, 66, Czechoslovakia's veteran diplomat, onetime minister (1936-43) and ambassador (1943-46) to the U.S., who in 1939 refused the German demand that he surrender his embassy, thereafter stood as a wartime symbol of resistance to Naziism; of a heart ailment; in Prague...
Housing and city maintenance are the two big departments in which the services rendered are far too little and the cost far too great for the city. The community could stand thousands more low cost housing units and still not thoroughly fill the demand for the slum clearance. Worse than this, the city is paying now on the average of $80 per month to subsidize each of the present units. Both McDonough and Hynes have constantly attacked Curley on the housing problem--accusing him of allowing privileged families who have incomes above the specified ceiling to remain in the units...
There's nothing unusual about the present demand for bartenders and there are plenty of capable people around, according to James W. Holt, Director of Student Employment. He says that the production end is so lucrative that the barkeeps soon are sufficiently well-heeled to become consumers themselves...