Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...civilian builders" to have laid big roads, "cutting across high mountains, throwing bridges and building culverts" without India's knowledge, thus making "absolutely unconvincing" India's claim to jurisdiction; 3) the strong implication that unless China gets what it wants in Ladakh, the Communists may enlarge their demands in other areas of the 2,500-mile border where China has "not up to now made any demand"; and 4) border peace and mutual confidence "are unattainable by other provisional measures." After asserting these squatter rights, Chou blandly declared that China is so big a country, and so sparsely...
...item whose output is sharply limited: "Honegar," a fifty-fifty mixture of honey and apple-cider vinegar, compounded by Mrs. Catherine Perry, using frontier-housewife techniques, at Hartland Four Corners, Vt. And all over the U.S., booksellers were doing equally brisk business with an item in seemingly unlimited demand as well as supply: Folk Medicine, by D. C. Jarvis...
...there is no limit to the ailments for which Dr. Jarvis offers the honey-vinegar panacea, so there is no limit to starry-eyed consumers' demand: more than 245,000 copies of Folk Medicine had been sold by last week, and countless readers had written testimonials to Dr. Jarvis...
...from being deterred by such formidable monthly fare, readers of Scientific American magazine dote on it, spend an average of four hours and twelve minutes reading each issue, and constantly demand more of the same. This month, without a bit of persuasion from the magazine-which has not invested a dime on circulation promotion this year-circulation climbed to a 114-year high of 250,000. Estimated 1959 gross-$5,000,000-represents a 50% increase over last year, a 4,243% improvement over...
...being placed on the market, the first public offering of 1,000,000 shares of Transitrun Electronic Corp. at $36 each was snapped up by investors. Not since the first public sale of 10.2 million Ford Motor Co. shares in 1956 has a stock issue attracted such broad public demand. Transitron quickly jumped to $49 per share in over-the-counter trading, closed the week at $43 per share. To Transitron's owners, David and Leo Bakalar. went $34.4 million for part of their interest in the third largest U.S. semiconductor producer (first: Texas Instruments Inc.; second: General Electric...