Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Some buy blind, simply phone their orders and leave the choice to Lowitz. Since the orders are often for hundreds of paintings at a time. Lowitz tries to keep an inventory of about 30,000 pictures, to suit all tastes, stacked in 17 locked vaults. The problem is not demand but supply. Says Lowitz: "It's harder to find good artists than good clients...
...meet the rapidly expanding demand for borax. U.S. Borax & Chemical Corp., the world's largest borax producer, last week began operating a huge new plant perched on the edge of the crater at Boron, Calif. It will process ore straight from the open-mine pit, thus cut transportation costs, eventually replace facilities elsewhere. U.S. Borax intends to boost production 30% through its $20 million expansion program at Boron, knows now that it will have no trouble selling all it can turn...
...invested $100 million in high-energy fuel development. U.S. Borax & Chemical is negotiating with top chemical firms to commit part of its borax production (70% of U.S. output) to making high-energy fuels. Should boron become the key element in the fuels of the future, the industry estimates that demand for borax, which has already doubled in ten years, would jump from its present 1,000,000 tons annually to some 8,500,000 tons...
LONG before the camera made possible the snapshot in the wallet, a man who cared to. carry about the likeness of his wife or children had to commission an artist. The demand for such likenesses, to hang on watch fobs or dangle in gold lockets, fostered the exacting art of painting watercolor portraits on small circles and squares of ivory. The genteel custom flourished in New England in the mid-18th century, died out a century later. Last week, in conjunction with the Colonial Dames of Massachusetts, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts put on view a choice selection...
...rise, for the twelfth consecutive year since World War II, to offset an automatic wage rise in July. Some plugged for $10 a ton, claiming that last year's boost of $8.50 was insufficient. Others wondered whether the steel market could absorb another price increase without further slackening demand, suggested a smaller boost. The best guess: July's increase will approximate last year...