Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Needless to say, the "Threepenny" was a "smashing success" and sold out for five straight nights, the last one being added to meet an overwhelming demand. Aaron believes that this showed other House groups that performances of superior quality could be achieved in House Dining Halls, and could prove both financially and artistically successful...
...French soldiers are engaged against rebels who fight in small bands of 50 or 100 that vanish under strong attack to fight again somewhere else. The French have the lives of 1,000,000 Frenchmen (v. 140,000 in Indo-China) and thousands of farms to protect. The colons demand protection for their property, would like a guard for every farm. The army demands concentrated forces to attack and root out cen ters of rebel infection. The government has compromised by doing both...
Early this month hundreds of clandestine pamphlets began circulating in Spain. Trumpeted one: "We demand the vital minimum salary of 75 pesetas a day and equal pay for women. We must protest the ridiculous wage increases that have been handed to us ... agitate for the minimum basic salary and a democratic Spain." Some pamphlets urged workers to stage a demonstration in mid-April. Rebellious Madrid University students who had demonstrated against the government of Dictator Francisco Franco in February (TIME, Feb. 20) planned new protests of their own, timed to break out just as Madrid played international host...
After a quarter-century of trying to set its foreign exchange rates by complex official decrees, Chile chucked the philosophy of government control over the value of the peso and went back to the supply-and-demand free rate...
SUPER COKES, tried out in test markets for almost two years, are so successful that Coca-Cola cannot meet demand. With 600 of 1,100 U.S. plants converting to supply family-(26 oz.) and king-size (10-12 oz.) bottles, the bottlers have told customers that they are not restricting production, but simply cannot keep up with orders...