Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this basis Harding and Makarios began talking details. The British insist that whatever the form of self-government, they must retain control of Cyprus' defense, foreign policy and internal security, i.e., police, and they demand tight guarantees that the island's 94,000 Turks will live as equals with its 410,000 Greeks. Makarios balked at first over leaving the police in British hands, later in the week seemed willing to concede the point...
...result of his work in selecting books for the library, McNiff wrote the catalogue of Lamont, which was financed by the Carnegie Corporation and was the first book of its kind published since the 1930's. Today the catalogue is in demand by libraries throughout the country--even a few students...
...than 1954; the company will spend $200 million on expansion in 1956 and confidently predicts still higher earnings. The boom in business flying brought light-plane-maker Cessna Aircraft sales of $16 million for fiscal 1956's first-quarter, 30% more than a year ago. In housing, the demand for home and factory insulation materials pushed Johns-Manville Corp.'s 1955 sales to $285 million, its second-best year in history. Increasing farm mechanization and highway building helped Allis-Chalmers to record sales of $535 million, up 9% over 1954. And the company expected 1956 business...
...atomic power could be competitive in cost with conventional plants, and by 1980 atomic-power capacity may soar to 135 million kw., 20% of the nation's total. The panel's forecast for atomic-power equipment sales from 1960-80: $27 billion. However, the overall U.S. demand for electric power will climb so fast that conventional power plants will also expand...
...Brookmgs' Dr. Marshall A. Robinson Dartmouth's Professor Herbert C. Morton and Dr. James D. Calderwood of Claremont Graduate School in Claremont, Calif. The book propounds no startling new theories, is intended only as a primer on the U.S. system. It covers the economy from consumer demand to unions, uses crisp, know-it-yourself language to unravel technical gobbledygook, e.g., "multiplier principle," "countervailing power...