Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intervention, Blough and McDonald agreed to resume negotiations-this time in Pittsburgh instead of New York. Management finally got around to making the union a money offer to chew on. But it was a small offer, totaling about 8? an hour in added benefits as against McDonald's demand for a 15? package. And at the same time the steel industry stuck determinedly to its insistence on contract changes, including revision...
...Treasury's bills until tax collections pick up early next year. The Department also expects to raise another $2 billion or $3 billion before January, but does not know at what rate. Some moneymen think that the end of the steel strike will see a big demand and further squeeze on the money market; others argue that the impact of the post-strike demand has already been discounted. In any case the new bonds show that, given favorable interest rates, there is still plenty of money around...
...that his country is "now organizing political democracy" in the riot-swept Congo, and Austria's Dr. Bruno Kreisky warned that if Italy does not grant autonomy to the German-speaking people of the South Tyrol-an area that Italy acquired as World War I spoils-he would demand U.N. intervention...
Four years ago 4,800,000 U.S. families owned two cars or more. Today 7,000,000 do-and there are 350,000 three-car families. By 1965, more than 10 million families will have at least two cars. With the population growing fast, and the demand for special-purpose, personal transportation growing even faster, Ed Cole believes that auto sales in the U.S. will ride up steadily to 8,000,000 in the mid-1960s. More than that, in at least one year before 1970, the U.S. will sell an awesome 10 million cars...
...last 20 million Ibs. to school lunch program. Government will still buy butter, give it away to schools and welfare groups as production increases next spring, but grand-scale surpluses of past years are unlikely to recur. Reason: overall milk production has failed to increase in proportion to consumer demand...