Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Second District, Republican Errett Scrivner, best remembered for his demand for the return of the suit with two pairs of pants during World War II, has held forth for 15 years. Scrivner should win against Lawyer Newell George-but Kansas is holding a right-to-work referendum and labor is working furiously in industrial Kansas City, which lies in Scrivner's district. Similarly, in the First District, Republican Incumbent William Avery should win against Topeka Lawyer Robert Domme but is plagued by a migration away from the farm towns to Topeka, where labor's C.O.P.E. is battling right...
...this time Maverick had become a hero. Newspapers cheered him. A thousand dog lovers wrote and phoned the animal shelter begging for him. So great was the demand that the shelter agreed to auction him off, and last week at the auction Mrs. Doris Crown, wife of a Van Nuys aircraft-parts manufacturer, bought him for $134.88, drove him away in her red convertible Cadillac...
...census figures provide wholesale proof of a mushrooming demand for knowledge in gerontology and for the services of geriatricians. In 1900 the life expectancy of a U.S. male at birth was 49 years, and there were only 374,000 Americans aged 80 and over-one in 200 population. Now it is estimated that there are nearly 2,300,000, or almost three in 200 population; nearly 1,300,000 are women, slightly fewer than 1,000,000 are men. Projecting present trends in death rates, the National Office of Vital Statistics predicts that by 1980 there will...
Dealers reported that demand for other models was racing far ahead of last year. But buyers found that a little haggling still goes a long way. Dealers were shaving about $200 to $300 off suggested list prices of most cars, with or without trade-ins. When pressed, dealers commonly offered discounts of $500 to $700 on cars listing at $3,500 or more with extras. Only the Cadillac dealers refused to bargain, figured that their luxury market will run high and fast without discounts...
When will U.S. steelmen learn "the hard way" that they cannot compete? Answered Glossbrenner: As soon as the Soviets have satisfied their own domestic demand for steel, start dumping cut-rate steel abroad, upset world markets as they did this year in aluminum and tin. Glossbrenner said that the U.S. can get competitive only by spurring workers' productivity. One way to do it, he advised, is for "strong" managers to hold the line on wages until workers become more productive, and to create "an overall attitude of discipline in the mills that strengthens the right of management to make...