Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...International Industrial Development Conference, 600 business leaders from 60 countries are signing their distinguished names in hotel registers. For five days next week, they will discuss needs, techniques and potentials of a growing partnership of world business. Among specific subjects they will examine: the world population explosion; the future demand on industrial production; the high cost of money; national markets, common markets and free-trade areas; labor's role in economic development; the challenge to private capital. In short, the agenda adds up to this resounding objective: how to raise standards of living for the peoples of the world...
...diversified light-industry city that makes its living above all from nonnative enterprises-the Arkansas state government; the Missouri Pacific Railroad repair yards in North Little Rock; the nearby Little Rock Air Force Base (biggest employer)-and as such, before the crisis, had no one thing to demand its attention. General Douglas MacArthur is from Little Rock, so are fictional Lorelei Lee of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes ("I'm Just a Little Girl from Little Rock") and Nellie Forbush of South Pacific. Says one Little Rock citizen: "It's always been an easygoing town-hunting or fishing on Sunday...
...Russia is 1) maintaining the world's largest armed forces, 2) trying to overtake the U.S. in production of meat, milk and butter, 3) sending aid not only to the satellites and Red China but also to susceptible Middle East nations, 4) facing an increasingly vociferous domestic demand for better housing and more consumer goods...
...independence to a frontier people so close to Red-occupied Tibet. For the sake of expedience and compromise, Phizo was momentarily swept aside. "He just does not come into the picture," insisted the Naga Delegation Chief Incongloba Ao. Privately, Ao admitted that most Nagas still favor Phizo's demand for complete independence. "But," he added with a sigh, "we must be practical...
...first volume on his reading list: Stendhal's The Red and the Black. Some sleepy viewers garbled it a bit, asked for The Black and Blue or "that book by Stan Hall," but one publisher alone supplied 2,600 copies to dealers in four days without slaking the demand. Said a book buyer: "I'd wager that more copies of Stendhal have been sold in New York this week than in Stendhal's lifetime...