Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Imperative Demand. Two years ago, McNeill upset some 50 members of his influential, 1,200-member First Presbyterian Church by writing a magazine article calling for "creative contact" between whites and Negroes in the South-"representation of both groups on city councils, grand juries, school boards, medical societies, ministerial associations and other public agencies." Fortnight ago, he wrote a note in the church bulletin urging parishioners to read without prejudgment an article by a Columbus newspaperman saying how much better the racial situation had become in Columbus...
...finished his Sunday sermon, the Rev. Frank C. King of Valdosta, Ga. rose to read the decision of a commission appointed by the Presbytery of Southwest Georgia to study reports of dissension within Pastor McNeill's church. The decision : Robert McNeill must go: "The interests of religion imperatively demand...
Most encouraging to aluminum producers is that demand is not based merely on the business recovery, nor is it the result of hedging against the July 31 deadline when most of the industry's labor contracts expire. It is based largely on new applications. The uses of aluminum by the housing industry are expected to increase this year by more than 50% over 1958. The 1959 car uses about 52 Ibs. of aluminum for brakes, pistons, automatic transmission parts and trim (v. 47 Ibs. last year). By 1962, predicts D. A. Rhoades, general manager of Kaiser Aluminum, the auto...
...price of aluminum at 24.7?a Ib. is too low. Although a price rise is expected later this year, it will not come until the steel industry contracts are signed, since aluminum traditionally follows the labor patterns set by steel. For the long range, makers hope to increase demand not only at home but by developing world markets. In Western Europe and Canada percapita consumption of aluminum is only 6.2 Ibs. a year v. 21 Ibs. in the U.S. Says Reynolds' President R. S. Reynolds Jr.: "International markets will be the next scene of dramatic aluminum growth...
Earlier Retirement. While only a handful called for a general wage increase (average demand: 12½? or 15? an hour), many a worker wanted to wipe out wage inequities and sweeten fringe benefits...