Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Play Ball. Soft words last week also met seven U.S. mayors who marched into the White House in the company of Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole. The mayors had a simple demand that typified Ike's budget problems, i.e., they wanted the President not only to fight for the $75 million in federal slum-clearance funds that Cole voluntarily cut from his budget but to release a $100 million housing reserve fund as well. Ike praised the mayors' announcement that cities were spending $10 for every $2 in federal aid. At the same time...
Most of the reason for Lukens Steel's sudden prosperity was the very uniqueness that had kept it unobtrusive. A nonintegrated producer that purchases pig iron and scrap for its twelve open-hearth furnaces, it specialized in heavy steel plate, therefore cashed in on the peak demand for heavy plate caused largely by the oil tanker boom...
Nudged from the Niche. Founded in 1810 by a Quaker farmer named Isaac Pennock (whose daughter Rebecca gave her married name to the company, actually ran it herself for 22 years), Lukens has been nudged out of its modest niche by the big demand. Last week President Huston announced that the company will launch a $33 million expansion program that will boost Lukens' rated ingot capacity by nearly 25% to 925,000 tons...
...delegates of the United Automobile Workers convening in Atlantic City last week (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) U.A.W. President Walter P. Reuther announced a new labor goal. Next year, he said, the U.A.W. will demand a "shorter workweek with increased take-home pay," leading as rapidly as possible to a four-day workweek for auto workers and for all of industry. The cost can easily be paid, said he, out of the "increased productivity of the tools of production...
...response to repeated student demand for an outdoor ceremony, Jordan this year appointed a special committee to consider the request. Although the committee recommended an outdoor commencement for 1957, the Council of the College decided to postpone the experiment until June...