Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Springfield's answer to the demand for more firepower was the T 44, a fully automatic, .30-cal. rifle weighing one pound less than the unwieldy, semiautomatic 9½-lb. Garand, and carrying 20 rounds in its magazine clip to the Garand's eight...
...experience. In Vienna, the U.S. Consulate staff processed the stream of Hungarians round the clock; even Pennsylvania's Democrat Francis Walter, co-author of the restrictive McCarran-Walter Immigration Act, returned from an inspection trip along the Austro-Hungarian border (where he saw a rebel shot down) to demand that the U.S. quota of arriving refugees be raised from 5,000 to 17,000. The Army reached fast, far and wide to find GIs of Hungarian descent, to include them in a special detachment mobilized to provide food, transportation and other services for Hungarians arriving at New Jersey...
...William V. Bradley, longshoremen began to trickle back to the docks. But injunction or not, the devisive issues involved in the strike were likely to be in and out of the courts and before federal mediators for weeks to come. Still to be settled is the union's demand-vigorously opposed by the shipping association on the ground that it can only bargain for shippers in its own area-that the I.L.A. be given a master contract covering all Atlantic and Gulf ports. Beyond that, the I.L.A. and the shippers are still far apart in negotiations over wages, length...
Next day Tory Backbencher Julian Amery leaped to his feet to demand-"Now that the Leader of the Opposition [has] spoken for Egypt"-whether Butler could "confirm that the troops will not be withdrawn from Port Said until Her Majesty's Government are satisfied that the U.N. is willing, and its police force is able, to secure international control of the canal." Said Butler carefully: "We are not prepared to withdraw until we consider that this force is competent to discharge the tasks which the Assembly has given it to do." Leader of the Opposition Hugh Gaitskell was instantly...
High Hurdle. To meet the demand for new shipping, the highest hurdle to jump is the shortage of steel. Merely counting current orders, shipbuilders will need at least 170,000 tons of steel plate this year. Yet plate is so tight that deliveries have already fallen 40% behind demand. With the new orders, the shortage is so serious that Government maritime officials are talking about some sort of priority system to allocate supplies. The problem is that so many industries are pinched for supplies that the Office of Defense Mobilization fears that special treatment for shipbuilders will bring demands from...