Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With a license, American exporters can deal with the Soviets in consumer items, semi-manufactured goods, agricultural produce, and similar products. Russia, at least the Kremlin, does not, however, demonstrate a desire for these goods. Official Soviet purchase demands include raw materials and capital goods which are specifically embargoed in the U.S. Red Square, claiming a goal of economic self-sufficiency, does not request what American exporters are permitted to send. Estimates show that the Soviet people sorely need consumer and agricultural goods. Their masters, unfortunately, are not primarily interested in these needs. They demand only articles necessary for rapid...
...college students graduate, and 5.6% of these get doctorates, fewer than four out of ten women graduate, and not even one in a hundred earns a Ph.D. Of 321 Radcliffe Ph.D.s questioned, 136 have gone into college teaching. But at a time when teachers are more than ever in demand, the number of 'Cliffites heading for the academic life appears to be decreasing. Between 1948 and 1951, 98 women got Ph.D.s and only 21 of them Became teachers...
When his work took him south to the U.S., Pop Johannsen helped lay out trails around Lake Placid; soon his services were in demand wherever a North American ski resort was being laid out. Busy as he was, Johannsen never lost his zest for competition. At 60 he finished second in a 32-mile race from Ste. Agathe to Shawbridge, Que. The next year he led a dozen skiers on a 150-mile trip north of Mont Trem-blant, through the Five Finger Lakes area and down the Devil's River Valley. "The old guy set a hellish pace...
...tide turned in 1950 as the world's economy recovered and demand increased for more luxurious, better-feeling fabrics. Orders for silk organdy-lightweight yet stiff enough for full-skirted cocktail dresses-poured into Cohama's Tokyo office. Exports of organdy rose from 35,000 yds. in 1949 to 1,600,000 yds. in 1951. When the organdy phase faded, others replaced it: silk faille shipments went from 30,000 yds. in 1950 to 500,000 yds. in 1955; silk print shipments soared...
...some industries it is not cost but quality of production that brings in automation. The airfoils of supersonic aircraft and guided missiles demand such close tolerance that the human hand is often incapable of milling and finishing to exact specifications. To end one time-wasting source of human error, North American Aviation installed an automated "skin mill" to mill 1½-in. aluminum slabs into F-100 wing panels with one one-thousandth-in. tolerances, found that the robot millers could make a pair of perfect wings in 2½ hours v. 20 hours for a skilled machinist with...