Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turn, will be "constantly pressed by the Vice President of the U.S. to apply the great powers of the law to the Southern states at such places and in such time and manner as the N.A.A.C.P., of which the Vice President is the most distinguished member, may demand...
Canadians last week enjoyed the mixed blessing of having the world's hardest currency. A brisk international demand pushed the dollar to an alltime high of $1.0611 U.S., bringing joy to Canadian importers, dismay to exporters, and concern to the nation's money managers...
...Supply & Demand. Economists had a ready explanation for the demand for the Canadian dollar: heavy foreign investments in Canadian securities. But Canada's tight-money policies also figured in the climb. Last week the Royal Bank of Canada and the Bank of Montreal increased their prime rate-the interest rate on high-grade business loans-to 5¾% (v. 4½% in New York). The rise will drive more Canadian borrowers to the New York money markets for funds, and with their borrowed U.S. dollars, they will help bid up the price of Canadian dollars...
...Answering this demand, the big, successful discounters are turning into cut-rate department stores. San Francisco's Government Employees Together, a clublike discounter aimed at Government workers, claims a wider diversity of goods than any of the city's regular department stores. Los Angeles' William Phillips Co. carries gifts, clothing, luggage and records, even added a liquor department this year. Manhattan's E. J. Korvette (estimated 1957 sales: more than $70 million), which calls itself a "promotional department store" and is even listed on the New York Stock Exchange, has quickly fanned its discount selling into...
VOLKSWAGEN BOOM is buzzing along so fast that used cars originally slated for European drivers are being brought into U.S. and sold as import models. Franchised Volkswagen dealers are worried because made-for-Europe models lack safety devices that many states demand, e.g., shatterproof glass, directional signals, sealed-beam headlights...