Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defend before his fellow Communists, who see Poland's youth slipping away from them into the Catholic orbit. But Wyszynski is known to be in favor of reintroducing the parochial schools, and there is some laymen's pressure to make religious education compulsory for all-a demand that Gomulka cannot possibly grant and Wyszynski will not make...
...Supply & Demand. While Congress acted to make more mortgage money available, builders and bankers argued whether the housing slowdown is primarily due to tight money or to a more basic slump in housing demand itself. Speaking to bankers in Buffalo last week, President George S. Goodyear of the National Association of Home Builders declared that it was largely due to tight money. Countered Manhattan Life Insurance President Thomas E. Lovejoy Jr.: "The supply and demand for housing has more to do with the drop in starts than high interest rates. Since 1948, we have been building so many houses that...
This would be hard to prove. While overall housing starts are down some 20% this year, virtually all of the drop has been in the type of low-cost (under $15,000) Government-insured housing, where mortgage money is not available. There is little evidence of any slackening in demand for more expensive houses financed by conventional mortgages, whose 5½% to 6% interest rates (v. 4½% to 5% for Veterans Administration and FHA-insured mortgages) are competitive with other loans. Actually, as tight money has cut off the flow of funds for low-cost houses, it has spurred...
SHIPPING RATES are dropping as demand caused by Suez stoppage tapers off and new ships go into service. Freighter tolls for coal from East Coast to Europe are at 18-month low of $7.42 a ton v. $9.52 in March and record $16.52 in December...
...swarming demand for studio space has revived and even expanded old movie lots that had been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...