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Word: demands (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Denying the workers' demand for a flat $440 raise, the city manager stuck to his original offer of a seven per cent increase, but conceded a minimum raise of $350 for all permanent employees. Also at yesterday's meeting, the Council again declined setting a date for the referendum on the 17 controversial School Committee appointments...

Author: By Blaise G.A. Pasztory, | Title: City Manager Offers Employees Compromise in Pay Controversy | 2/19/1957 | See Source »

SOFT-COAL PRICES will go up about 25? a ton although demand is dropping. Reason: 200,000 miners are getting 80?-a-day raises on April 1. Hike will hit coal-burning utility companies hardest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Clock, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...Supply & Demand. Amidst the furor, up stepped Hines Baker, president of Humble Oil Refining Co., biggest U.S. domestic producer (300,000 bbl. daily), to make his case for the industry. Humble had supplied almost 50% of all the oil shipped to Europe in November and December-and it was also Humble that had set the pattern for the recent industrywide price rise by boosting the price it pays well-operators for crude oil. Said President Baker: "Once the Suez was closed, Europe was bound to have a shortage. In a situation like this, no one man, no one company...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OIL: Target for Criticism | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

...House United. In Tokyo, faced with a new national law designed to force its members out of business after April 1, the National Federation of Special Restaurant Workers' Unions, a sisterhood composed entirely of prostitutes, agreed to comply, made only one demand on the government: $500 each in severance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Feb. 18, 1957 | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

McFarland said that "there is an in creasing demand for civilian and military physicians trained in aviation biotechnology" and added that this is the first graduate center to be established for training such personnel...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: New Aviation Project Will Study Health | 2/18/1957 | See Source »

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