Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After reading your March 17 article, I can assure you, in any house that I shall ever build I shall certainly demand that all my plumbing fixtures be Kohler...
...refusing to be part of this political pact, the President listed half a dozen ill effects on farmers if the bill were allowed to become law. Among them: it would reverse notable progress made to date in balancing farm supply with the demand for farm products, pile up more Government surpluses, discourage the growth of new markets for farmers' products, postpone the day when farmers can be freed from the straitjacket of controls. Regarding those, said Ike. "what the farm economy needs is a thaw rather than a freeze...
...research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market was effectively killed. Unable to find enough six-pounders, hundreds of trappers went out of business in India, cut off all but a fraction of the monkey supply. And while U.S. drug houses have passed the peak of polio vaccine demand, the Indian ruling was a disaster to Britain, which is still forced to limit its small vaccine supply to children under...
Behind Aluminium's cut were two factors: Russian competition and shrinking demand. By underselling Aluminium by 2? per Ib. in British markets, the Russians have cut deeply into the Canadian company's sales. Meanwhile, consumption, which has been steadily rising for years, leveled off as aluminum-using industries slowed their expansion. Aluminium deferred plans for 240,000 additional tons of capacity, dropped its operating rate to 80% of its current capacity of 770,000 tons...
...producers are unhappy about the price cut, feel that it will not bring in many new customers for aluminum. But Aluminium's President Nathanael V. Davis disagrees. He feels that when demand is soft, a price cut may help aluminum expand its inroads into other metals such as copper. "This." he says, "will encourage engineers and manufacturers to design their products for more aluminum, and thus will open up new applications for our product...