Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...substantial exporter of wheat. The once arid Anatolian plateau was dotted with green fields and bustling communities, and the cotton-producing areas of southern Turkey experienced a new prosperity. Turkey's sugar production, which nearly trebled between 1950 and 1956, was barely able to keep pace with domestic demand. Reason: the Turkish peasant, with money in his pocket, had taken to using sugar for sweetening instead of honey or homemade fruit...
...imperialist" Arab nations, and its members' hopes that more Arab states may one day be persuaded to join (Iraq is the only Arab member) still remain just hopes. The U.S.'s refusal so far to become a full member-largely because this would prompt an immediate Israeli demand for a separate mutual-defense treaty with the eyes...
...Ultimatum. The meeting was called, Simbolon told TIME Correspondent James Bell last week, because the Djakarta government had ignored an earlier demand from the colonels made last September, asking for an anti-Communist government of democracy, constitutionality, law and order. After two weeks of discussion, the conferees decided on their tactics. They would form a counter-government headed by Sjafruddin. and send an ultimatum to Acting President Sartono, demanding that he dismiss the "unconstitutional" government of Premier Djuanda and ask former Vice President Mohammed Hatta to form a national government of antiCommunists...
Down & Up. On a nationwide basis, there is no doubt that demand for credit has fallen off considerably from the boom-time peaks, as industry has cut expansion and merchandisers have reduced inventories. Business loans at leading New York banks fell by $235 million last week; Chicago dipped $38 million, though both areas are still ahead of 1957. In Detroit, where layoffs have pushed unemployment to 12.4% of the labor force, bankers report that they have more money than business. Boston bankers say the same...
...running at 55% of deposits, are only able to take care of their best customers. Dallas banks have more borrowers than there is money to lend. Says President Benjamin Wooten of Dallas' First National Bank: "We're not going to drop our prime rate. Supply and demand should be the governing factors in the cost of money...