Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...A.F.L.-C.I.O. convention in Atlantic City pounced on President Richard James Gray of the 19-union Building and Construction Trades Department for making a proposal that he himself conceded was "most unorthodox." The proposal: a one-year voluntary wage freeze to keep prices from rising to the point where demand declines and sagging demand causes unemployment...
...least as important as federal credit curbs in holding down demand for housing is the fact that the wages of bricklayers, carpenters, et al. ($2-$5 an hour) have far outrun their productivity, pushing the prices of houses far out of line. To keep housing prices from getting further out of line is clearly to the interest of the building trades. That is what Richard Gray was trying to say, and it was precisely what needed saying...
France, which fears an Anglo-U.S. monopoly of nuclear weapons, will demand that control of any missile warheads based on French soil be vested in NATO rather than in the U.S. It is inadmissible, says Premier Gaillard, that some allies "should be a bit more equal than others." What the French most want is a formal reaffirmation that Algeria is included in the NATO area, plus a pledge that no NATO member will take action affecting the interests of another member without prior consultation...
...second largest island (after Greenland). For years the Dutch have refused to hand it over. Sukarno appealed to the U.N. "If the United Nations fail us," he warned last month, "we will resort to methods which will startle the world." The U.N. refused to consider Indonesia's demand, and last week Sukarno made good his threat...
French sources said Gaillard and Pineau led off with a demand for a coordinated world policy among NATO members, extending beyond the strict geographical area covered by the treaty...