Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Maunoury, 42, looked as though he might be bounced out of office. He approached his first vote of confidence after doling out so many jobs-splitting portfolios two ways-that his Cabinet became a 45-man team, biggest in French history. But he still had to water down his demand for higher taxes before the Deputies would give him a chance. In the end the specter that haunts his government, and would probably bring him down, is Algeria...
...France, for all its crisis of government itself, industrial production has doubled since 1938. Citroen is 18 months behind the demand in production of its sleek new DS-igs; vacation resorts are booked solidly for July and August-not only with foreign tourists but with Frenchmen. In all France, though there are many poor, only 82,000 are unemployed. Every weekend restaurants and hotel dining rooms in provincial towns are crowded with whole French families eating a meal priced at no less than $3 a place...
Some newspapermen think that the staid A.P. is becoming bolder while the brash U.P. grows more conservative. Still, the differences in their handling of the major news are sufficiently marked as to demand a story-by-story selection by conscientious editors. The fact that such a choice exists is the best measure of the U.P.'s contribution to a free press. The Associated Press in 1907 was a well-entrenched monopoly whose foreign news came from cartels, such as Britain's Reuters and France's Agence Havas; subsidized or directly influenced by their governments, they divided...
...other networks, which, like CBS, constantly demand equal treatment with newspapers and magazines, stayed as silent as CBS. John Daly, ABC's vice president for news, said that he found nothing unsuitable in the White House reaction. Such a demonstration of eggshell caution under fire suggested that TV may be getting no worse than it deserves...
...squeaking in short-term paper was nothing compared to what was happening in bonds. The demand for long-term money by expanding corporations was so great (eight bond issues in the week totaled $103, 575,000) that the corporations had to keep upping their bids for the available supply. The interest rate on top-quality utility bonds rose as high as 4.58%, while the cost on bonds that were rated a bit lower was as much as 4.68%. On some bonds the yields topped those of blue-chip stocks; Columbia Gas System's 5½% debentures were sold...