Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gift to the more highly paid, and 2) cost the Federal Government an indispensable slice of its income. Illinois' Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, a McKinley Republican, has dropped a tax-limitation bill into the Senate hopper, but the proposal is sleeping soundly, and only a loud popular demand-wildly improbable-would awaken...
...calls); most pick up a few hundred more in special fees or by working for industry. Last summer the powerful British Medical Association and its trade-union shadow, the British Medical Guild, decided that something must be done. They drummed up doctors' indignation, presented the government with a demand for a 24% across-the-board increase. Trying to check Britain's wage-price spiral, the government flatly refused...
...servo-mechanisms, which sense and correct their own errors, run entire plants without human help. Beyond the computers, the age of electronics has produced hundreds of knowing gadgets for every use under the sun. There are electronic elevator systems with miniature electronic brains that automatically keep track of passenger demand, electronic "Ph meters" that can test with equal ease the acidity of California's lemon juice or the radioactivity of the AEC's plutonium, electronic "stopwatches" for industrial and nuclear use that can time movement down to one-billionth of a second v. one-hundredth of a second...
...brighter outlook came from a break m the drought that had dried up 14 Midwest and Southwest states, plus soil-bank payments, which will make participating farmers an average $1,000 richer in 1957 t came also from smarter marketing a curbing of production to meet demand. Hog shipments were down 13% thus pushing prices as high as $18.25 cwt v. $15.75 last year...
Although 20 or 30 secretaries are hired each month, the personnel office has been unable to keep up with the demand, Wessell said. Typists and dictaphones have replaced stenographers, he said, but have not significantly reduced the total number of office workers needed...