Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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CASTOR-OIL SHORTAGE is coming. World demand for next four years will be 565 million Ibs., supply 540 million Ibs., says Department of Commerce. Pinch will hurt U.S. industries using castor oil, e.g., makers of grease, drugs, soap, lubricants for jet planes, plastics, nylon bristle...
...reddish beard and mustache and the wart over the right eyebrow. Scholars who examined it at the Royal Archaeological Institute believed it to be genuine. In Canon Wilkinson's house last week the old Roundhead rested in its oaken box. No one seemed disposed to demand burial...
...paper and packaging industry, which had been booming along, showed the toll of lessened demand. Both sales and earnings drops were reported by St. Regis Paper Co. and Union Bag-Camp Paper Corp.; profits were also down for Crown Zellerbach Corp. (66? a share v. 1956's 86?), Scott Paper Co. (66? v. 72?) and Allied Paper Corp. (90? v. $2.30). High costs of labor and materials hurt Crane Co., Borg-Warner Corp., Carborundum Co., and Owens-Corning Fiberglas Corp...
LOOSER MORTGAGE MARKET is in sight, and home loans will be easier to get in months to come, say Manhattan bankers. Reasons: demand for other types of credit is slackening, and higher interest rates are boosting savings, making more money available...
Despite these Western trouble spots, the U.S. still has plenty of lead and zinc, with promising new veins opening up in Tennessee and Virginia. But because overall supply is outstripping demand, the Westerners are particularly vulnerable to rising imports. U.S. lead production in 1939 was 421,000 tons v. imports of only 87,000 tons. By 1956 U.S. lead production was an estimated 350,000 tons, while imports had climbed to 460,000 tons. With powerful representation in Congress, miners have tried hard since 1949 to get higher tariffs and bigger subsidies...