Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ordered in mink from a Hollywood furrier. Even in the executive dining rooms of some of the movie studios that once swore war to the death against the invasion, television sets now play through lunch. These and many other signs suggest how television, with its voracious demand for stories, actors, film and filmmakers, has become the star of a new Hollywood and reduced the movies to the role of a supporting player. See TV & RADIO, The New Hollywood...
...edged close to the border, but he had also aired his private conviction that the budget flap would soon blow over. Ten days of Texas barbecues and bellyaching had turned him into economy's all-out champion: "I have never in my career seen such a strong demand for economy in Government." So general was the agreement that Capitol Hill was betting that Dwight Eisenhower would be lucky to get his record $71.8 billion budget through with no more than a $2 billion clipping...
...rally popular support for the budget? The new penny-pinching Democrats hoped so, because they were delighted to see the Republicans split on the issue of economy. Favorite Democratic cloakroom joke of the week: "If Ike does go on TV to defend his budget, the Republican Party should demand equal time to answer...
...zinc output (an amount almost equaling 1956 imports) off an overloaded market, has met its goals and will end "in a matter of months." The only solution for the miners' troubles, said Robert Hendricks, vice president of the Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. of Canada Ltd., is to boost demand. Said he: "The producers must engage in extensive research to develop important new uses for lead and zinc and to improve the advantages which these metals already have...
Last year Hollywood produced more than 250 shorts, about 30% of its 1935 peak, and hordes of industrial shorts were turned out in hope of creating a bigger demand. For the regular studios, the competition could be stiff. Reason: while they have to sell their shorts to make a profit, many major corporations are able to dump their industrial films on the general public by paying exhibitors $50 to $100 to show them for a week...