Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control the situation nationally. The latest pronouncement of the Public Health Service asks that vaccine production be geared to state and local quotas, rather than to a centralized distribution system. In effect, distribution will be governed not by a manufacturer's ability to produce but by the limited demand in his area. Thus, heavily populated areas with too few vaccine producers will not have access to the facilities of medical suppliers in areas where demand falls below production capacity...
Persons who did not clear thorough-fares on demand were subject to arrest indiscriminately, and, at times it appeared that the least offending were marched...
...Area C, the capacity was 18 per cent of the demand, but if the assigned spaces in Area D were considered, capacity became 54 per cent of demand. Residents were the chief problem in this area...
There is always the possibility of reducing demand, rather than limiting it however. The Development Company suggested a clearing house to encourage and control car pools, and recommend that the University provide better facilities for bicycles and motor scooters...
...this is the interruption of the girl's "Dr. and Mrs. Allen have a tremendous amount of savoir faire," by the more important escape of her father's cows from the pasture. Miss Douglas is aware of the effect of the city on the farm girl, making them demand such needless conveniences as inside plumbing and all, but she fails to make plausible the severe temper tantrum of her heroine about such matters. The girl had previously appeared as a "Good morning, Mummy," type. Although Miss Douglas has attempted less than her fellow contributors, she has achieved much more...