Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearby Providence. Turned away by force, they returned under escort after National Guard Adjutant General J.J.B. Williams arrived in town with 500 troops. Despite an opinion by State Attorney General J. M. Ferguson that Mrs. Gordon had enrolled her children in the school prematurely and illegally, and a demand from Mayor Herman Z. Clark that the troops withdraw, General Williams announced his intention to remain as long as necessary to maintain order. Replied Mayor Clark: "We're having all the people in town sign a petition asking all the teachers to stay out of school until the Negroes...
Acceleration applies also to milk and feeding periods, Dr. Sackett reports in the current issue of the magazine G.P. He has no patience with feeding baby "on demand"; he thinks six-hour intervals are fine at first, but that the midnight bottle should be cut out within five weeks, and the baby put on three meals a day. He also says that the baby should be weaned (from either bottle or breast feeding) to the spoon at seven months, and that by ten or twelve months he should be able to "eat almost entirely from the table with the rest...
COAL EXPORTS will be pushed to new record by growing European demand. At current pace, booming overseas business will boost bituminous coal exports to 44 million tons in 1956, some 1,000,000 tons more than previous peak in 1947; anthracite coal is also keeping pace, topped 1,000,000 tons for first seven months of 1956 v. a mere 266,000 tons this time last year...
Many businessmen and civic leaders deplore the fact that too much of the work is still done by those who have always done it-for a willing worker is in high demand. They also point out that there are still too many "letter-headers," businessmen who merely lend their names to a civic campaign without also lending their time. Recently, however, more young men are sharing the load. Both they and their companies realize that it will give them invaluable experience; they will meet the top men in their fields, learn to talk and think on their feet. When Pacific...
While many cottonmen cry for higher tariffs or strict import quotas, the Administration is determined not to give in. Textilemen want protection, demand restrictions on Japan, which is "flooding" domestic markets with cheap finished cotton goods, forcing the closing of some U.S. mills. Actually, Japanese exports to the U.S. are barely 2½% of the U.S. cotton-goods market. Moreover, Japan is also one of cotton's best customers, bought $120 million worth of raw cotton last year from the U.S. To still the protests, the U.S. has worked out agreements for voluntary curbs, e.g., Japan has pledged...