Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...areas (Detroit, in fact, was hurting as auto plants got ready to shut down for changeovers to 1958 models). But it underscored an important element of the continuing wage-price rise: a nationwide shortage of labor, from engineers to drive-in dishwashers. Despite automation and efficient new machines, the demand for labor is greater than ever, e.g., to build the plant for expanding industry, to provide added services-haircuts, repairs, domestic help-for a rank and file with more take-home pay. At the same time the pool of labor is being fed only from the small baby crop...
...meet the problem is to ease up on the demand for labor by postponing the building of some new plant, and this essentially is what the Federal Reserve Board was attempting to do last week by raising the discount rate from 3% to 31%. highest in 24 years (see BUSINESS). Another way is to cut Government spending, which would mean a cut in Government-financed demand for labor. But perhaps the most important way is for organized labor and big-business management to find a temporary new definition of progress beyond Samuel Gompers' historic American Federation of Labor...
...nuclear navy is growing so fast, says the trade magazine Nucleonics, that its demand for reactors and other tricky equipment is threatening to block the development of peaceful nuclear power. The Navy's building program, which passed Congress last week, calls for 30 seagoing reactors and six landbound experimental prototypes. Navy officers and Navy contractors are busily learning atomic arts. They all know that nuclear power is sure to dominate the Navy in the near future...
Even so, only 20 million Americans have so far received the recommended three doses of Salk vaccine, Surgeon General Leroy Burney reported; 48 million others have had one or two shots. Though vaccine is again in brisk demand and short supply, Dr. Burney urged community health officials to plan now for mass inoculation, as soon as vaccine becomes available, of 41 million citizens under 40 who have had no shots...
After outlining the director's relations with the producer and designer, Guthrie said, "The really crucial thing is casting. Suppose I want to do Macbeth. Who is my first choice for the lead? Lawrence Olivier. But the Oliviers are more in demand than any other players in the world. So harassed are they with mountains of marvelous offers that they must feel as though they had to decide whether to tear up the Magna Charta before breakfast or put the Crown Jewels down the lavatory and pull the chain. So it is that a director almost never...