Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production will reach its limit. And then, if population is still increasing, famine will do the execution that was done in the past by famine, pestilence and war combined." In Washington, NATO Secretary General Paul-Henri Spaak of Belgium wanted the Western allies to do something useful about "the demand of the poor countries." He and others saw it as more than a problem of cold-war advantage. Recently Dwight Eisenhower remarked: "I believe that the problem of the underdeveloped nations is more lasting, more important for Western civilization than the problem of Soviet-Western differences. There...
...Panama. There last week the government went gunning for Canal Zone Governor William E. Potter, U.S. Army Major General on active service, who a fortnight ago firmly put down riots aimed at raising the Panamanian flag over the 10-by 50-mile zone. The U.S. reply to a demand for Potter's removal: a flat...
...strike began with Portland's 54-member Stereotypers' Local No. 48, whose key demand was that four-man crews be used on a new German automatic press plate casting machine, designed for operation by one man, that the Oregonian plans to buy. The Journal refused to bargain separately, and the stereotypers walked off both papers, to be followed by members of all the other newspaper unions. At that point the executives, editorial-page writers, ad salesmen, secretaries and other nonunion employees of the Oregonian and the Journal put on yellow aprons and ran off a joint, jury...
...according to Professor Charles R. Cherington, who often acts as a consultant in railroad disputes. Although railways carry only 50 per cent of the nation's freight now, this is a significant half which must move to keep the national economy from halting completely. Cherington does deem the management demand for complete overhaul of work rules "extreme," and proposes instead a renegotiation of individual jobs...
...tons of finished steel in inventories in the U.S., much of it is in odd sizes. It will take at least four weeks before the pipelines begin to fill with new finished steel products, five to six weeks before completely balanced deliveries are resumed. The press of demand is so great that the steel companies will fill back orders as they appear on the books on a straight first-come, first-served basis. For the time being, many companies are not accepting new orders. As one steelman says: "We're backed up solid with orders for six months...