Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Steelman McDonald had hardly spoken before the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther topped him. The U.A.W. decided Reuther's executive board this week, will patriotically forget all about its plan for a shorter work week in 1958 negotiations. Instead U.A.W. will couple its new demands for wage increases with a novel program of profit-sharing for wage-earners. And just in case this might not bring him a big enough audience, Reuther was ready to propose (but not "demand") that automakers also share their profits-in the form of rebates-with their customers...
...couched in Socialist and international tones, as though attempting to placate the Bolsheviks and appealing for the unity that all Russia desperately wanted. The response was bloodthirsty. "Bullets are the only way!" screamed the Bolsheviks. In answer to Chernov, Bolshevik Nikolai Bukharin strode to the platform to cry, "We demand a dictatorship of the toiling classes!" and, "From this platform we proclaim a war to the death on the bourgeois-parliamentary republic...
...rising clamor of businessmen for easier money. The New York Chamber of Commerce and Chairman William H. Moore of Manhattan's Bankers Trust Co. both appealed to the Fed to ease credit by lowering the amount of funds that commercial banks are required to hold in reserve against demand deposits. But Fed Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr., speaking at Richmond, Va., still branded inflation as the economy's enemy No. 1-hardly the talk of a man prepared to make money easier...
STEEL PRICE BOOST of $5 to $7 a ton is coming in July. Steelmen are resigned to rise even if demand remains soft. One major reason: steelworkers' wages go up automatically July 1, and they will get additional hike if cost-of-living rise continues...
Revenue Service said that he owed $25.33 in taxes on his 1955 salary. Though he wrote the service that his salary had been stopped, the revenuers were back again the next year with an additional demand for $69. Meanwhile, the school board began to get a bit embarrassed about having an unpaid crusader around. Last month, at the board's request, Janitor Andersson finally quit...