Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Federal Reserve's credit policy responsible for muffling the housing boom? Said Martin: additional home-building credit will not create more houses, but would increase the demand for already scarce labor and materials and therefore drive up prices...
...editors originally announced, "This review is meant to support a demand for art and especially thought, the products and sources of a vitality which is being unconsciously or accidentally crushed by the universities." They suggested that universities, like museums, now preserve dead things, through the memorization or paraphrasing of past knowledge, as if it had nothing to do with...
...University's parking facilities can satisfy only 54 per cent of the present demand, a detailed professional study revealed yesterday, but the same report found "a definite opportunity for a substantial reduction of the parking problem for the next academic year...
...Washington's social circuit, Mac-Arthur and his witty wife, Laura, daughter of the late Alben Barkley, are much in demand. Laura MacArthur leans naturally toward the Democratic Party; her husband diplomatically describes himself as an independent. MacArthur keeps a motorboat on the Potomac, hopes that when he, Laura, and daughter, Mimi, 19, are settled in Tokyo he will be able to follow a favorite pastime: skindiving...
...Demand for new cars was so brisk that there were already shortages of many models. Henry Ford said that his new Mercury "has stimulated unprecedented customer demand which cannot be met for some considerable period of time despite rapidly increasing rates of production." As a result, Ford was upping its goal from 28% to 31.5% of the 1957 market...