Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CHICAGO AMERICAN : The resignation of Clare Boothe Luce as Ambassador to Brazil will have no effect on the welfare of the U.S. There had been no popular demand for her-return to public life, and it will not be difficult to find a substitute for Senator Wayne Morse-almost anybody would...
...remodeled and started on the road to today's success. After this Economic Year One, Germans spent their money in distinct waves. First came the food wave. A year or two later. Germans went on a clothing spree. As the hunger for these basic things was satisfied, demand focused on household goods, then on motorcycles and cars, later on travel. Today 'Germans are back on a food buying spree, this time an Edel-fresswelle, or high-class-food wave. The best South American coffees (at $2.50 per Ib.) are now as much a commonplace as washing machines...
...tone of the Latin American speakers at last week's meeting verged on the desperate. Said Argentine President Arturo Frondizi: "The destiny of democracy is at stake." Cuba's Fidel Castro dramatically showed up and won cheers with a blatant demand for $30 billion over a ten-year period. "I realize this means a sacrifice for the U.S. taxpayer," he cried. "But they are so much richer than...
...Auto Workers' Walter Reuther last fall-to prevent revival of the rebel faction that tried to bounce him in 1957. Last week more mutinous mutterings rose from McDonald's ranks. Pollster Samuel Lubell found that many a steelworker genuinely fears a steel strike, is lukewarm to demands for greater wages, fearing that they might cost him his job (TIME, May 4). To refute Lubell, McDonald arranged for seven of his wage-policy committeemen to stand up in public meeting and demand hefty wage raises. Said one: "A lynching bee would look like a Sunday-school picnic compared...
GENEVA, May 8--The Soviet Union demanded today that East German representatives be brought into the opening session of the Big Four foreign ministers conference tomorrow as full participants. The Western powers rejected the demand. The dispute created some uncertainty about the actual opening of the conference set for 2:30 p.m. Monday...