Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Believe it or not, the South is a part of the U.S., and is entitled to majority rule. If the majority of the people of a state want segregated schools, they should have them. The minority have the right to demand equal facilities, and a state which fails to provide them should be penalized. But to integrate the schools against the will of the vast majority is a crime against democracy. Such action will only harm the public schools of the South. TERRELL W. ECKER Laredo, Texas...
UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 14--The U.N. Steering Committee beat down today a Soviet demand for immediate Assembly debate on the Eisenhower doctrine and other alleged aggressive acts by the United States...
...that a theatre owner has the right to show what he wants. But on the other hand, a movie as a work of art depends upon its exhibitors for its very life, and should have the same right of dissemination that printed literature has. If there is a substantial demand for a certain film, it should not be squelched by the disapproval of a minority, or even ideally, of a majority...
...meet the demand, equipment-makers estimate, they will spend 26% more this year on new plants than they invested in 1956. Caterpillar Tractor Co. alone is budgeting $80 million for expansion this year to bring its postwar total to $500 million through 1960. Bucyrus-Erie Co. will boost production of excavating gear at South Milwaukee, Wis. and Evansville, Ind. General Motors will break ground this summer for an earth-moving-equipment plant southeast of Cleveland...
Stiff federal regulations also will slow building; e.g., because the new highways must have milder curves, contractors will cut through hills, not go around them. The demand for better roads will give an edge to the big contractors, since state highway officials are expected to parcel out longer pieces of road in a single contract, rather than chop them up in six-or seven-mile bits for smaller local operators. This should not pinch the small man, because the pie is big enough for all. But it will make for efficiency. As U.S. Public Roads Commissioner C. D. Curtiss said...