Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Premier Guy Mollet faces a showdown today in the National Assembly on his demand that Frenchmen ante up more taxes to pay the cost of fighting rebellion in Algeria...
...great was the demand for tickets that the Queens Club, which sponsored the meet, was forced to extend the grandstands. "The Belle of New York" and other American companies playing in London suspended matinees on the Saturday of the meet, in order that the members of the cast could attend the meet...
...every indication that it will draw as well next fall, after a year's hiatus. "American Intellectual History" was also omitted this year, enabling Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. to devote himself to writing and politicking. The acclaim for his book, The Crisis of the Old Order, will probably increase the demand for his course...
...Registrar, however, were empowered to arrange lecture hours, with the assent of the various departments, there would be fewer mixups of this sort. This system would demand qualitative judgments which would not always be easy; an IBM machine cannot distinguish between Comp Lit 166 and English 10, but a perceptive administrator can. There is no reason why courses cannot be scheduled according to the needs of both instructors and students, instead of the whims of the autonomous departments...
Perhaps the biggest reason for the shortage is that U.S. industry has not faced up to the fact that the tremendous expansion of the economy, plus automation and the increasing complexity of machines, has created a tremendous new demand for skilled workers. Chrysler Corp., for example, needed only six skilled workers out of every 100 in 1938; now it needs ten. Nevertheless U.S. industry is training only one apprentice for every 50 skilled workers, far less than even the replacement rate...