Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...There's going to be hellzapoppin' in the steel industry all the rest of the year." So said Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace last week as the steel strike ended (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS) and he took a good look at piled-up demand. Like other steelmen, Grace reported that his company had "never been so low in working inventories of semi-finished steel," while its orders for structural steel were "greater than we've ever seen before." The unleashed steel demand was piling atop an economy already operating "at a record rate, well above...
With supply more in line with demand, Detroit automakers showed their confi dence by upping production to a rate of 440,000 units in July, the second month of the year (besides March) when auto pro duction gained over the previous month...
WOOL COMEBACK is cutting U.S. stocks to lowest point in years as demand outstrips production. Low wool prices and reaction against synthetic fabrics, whose novelty is wearing off, has upped wool consumption 20% above 1954 low point, 10% above last year...
Like all great ships of the past, from the Greek trireme to the Yankee clipper, the supertanker was launched to meet a specific demand at a specific time. Supertankers have not only kept a vast and constant stream of oil flowing from the Middle East and South America...
...profits that were made on war surplus ship sales. A congressional committee found that Massachusetts' former Representative Joseph E. Casey had joined the late, onetime Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius Jr. and others in 1947 in what seemed like a surefire venture. Tankers were then in such demand that it was possible to make a down payment on a war surplus T2, get a charter from an oil company and then sell either the charter or the ship for a fancy profit...