Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...know," says a businessman, "when we were the arsenal of democracy, there was a great premium put on inefficiency of operation. The more payroll a company had, the more profit it would make on the cost-plus arrangement. And when the war ended, there was tremendous pent-up demand for what Detroit could produce, and wartime business became even bigger." A University of Michigan economist recently warned that even after the U.S. recession is past Detroit will still have a serious hard core of unemployment to worry about. Basic reason why Detroit is in trouble, apart from the current auto...
Footnote to History. The germ of Inside Europe was planted in Gunther by Harper's Editor Cass Canfield after IQSI'S Washington Merry-Go-Round, by Drew Pearson and Robert S. Allen, created a demand for uninhibited political reporting. In 1934 Gunther reluctantly agreed that he might do a book on Europe's political leaders if Harper's put up what he considered an "impossible" $5,000 advance. He got the advance, slaved over the book at night while working in the Daily News's London bureau. With help, as he acknowledged, from "colleagues...
Both groups were asked: "Do you think our public schools today demand too much work or too little work from the students...
...problem is food. Platypuses eat half their weight daily, and they demand live food. So every day Fleay dispenses 2,000 earthworms. 200 meal grubs, 30 crayfish, chafer grubs and crickets. Favorite item with the growing platypuses: small, wriggling grubs that Fleay raises under his house in bran and meal moistened with beer...
...already too mature. Last week, building a platypusary for Pamela's and Paul's trip to the U.S., Fleay was hoping that they would be reconciled to traveling by air. But even air travel will not be carefree. Between Australia and The Bronx, Pamela and Paul will demand-and get -7,000 earthworms, 165 crayfish, 130 chafer grubs and 1,300 meal grubs. By the time they arrive, Fleay estimates, they will have cost the New York Zoological Society about...