Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...millions of parents, July's polio scares in North Carolina, California and Texas (see MEDICINE) seemed more real and frightening than the Russian blockade of Berlin. Shade, cold beer, watermelon and air conditioning assumed a great seasonal significance. California fruitgrowers and shippers noted an increase in the demand for lemons...
...steel industry caved in last week under the pressure of labor's demand for third-round wage increases. To the 35,000 miners in the steelmakers' "captive" coal pits went the same $1-a-day boost John L. Lewis had wangled from other coal operators. Then U.S. Steel Corp., which had held out for more than two months against the wage-price spiral (TIME, May 3), gave Phil Murray what he wanted for his steelmakers: an average 13?-an-hour increase. Other steel companies followed U.S. Steel's lead, were expected to follow it also with price...
...eight weeks ago, when Judge Goldsborough issued his temporary order and the Army took over nominal operation of the roads. The engineers, firemen and switchmen still wanted more than double the 15½?-an-hour raise which a fact-finding board had recommended as a fair settlement. Their demands were louder than ever now because, they said, even while they had been arguing, the cost of living had gone up. The conductors and trainmen, who had accepted the 15½? increase last fall, were also whistling down the track again. They had decided that the time had come to demand...
...yachtsman (his cutter Gesture won the Bermuda race two years ago), became president in 1943, when Arthur Fuller upped himself to chairman. The new president took over a business which had cut its normal civilian output drastically to make brushes for the cleaning of guns. To meet the demand he made the company tops in the field of brush-making machinery, developed new brushes for industrial uses. He also began to use girls to reinforce his war-depleted sales staff. The experiment was only partly successful; lugging a sample case with 36 different brushes was too much for most girls...
Over the Moon. The Department of Agriculture predicted that meat prices, which hit a new high last month (295% of the 1909-14 average), would go even higher this summer and fall. Reasons: 1) a seasonal decline in the already low rate of production, 2) an "unusually strong" demand due to high consumer income...