Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...frank and honest. There seems to be a belief on the part of the Negroes that they have the white people hemmed up in a corner and they are not going to give an inch until they can force the white people of the community to submit to their demands-in fact, swallow them all." (The Negroes demand seating in buses on a first come, first seated basis, with whites seating from the front backward, Negroes from the back forward.) Mayor Gayle was specially vexed about the white families who give car rides to their Negro help, or pay their...
...party leaders by French President René Coty to "consult" on the choice of a new Premier. Red Leader Jacques Duclos, the onetime pastry cook, came away murmuring creamily: "Universal suffrage, in placing the Communist Party clearly at the head of all other parties, gave us the right to demand [the premiership] for a Communist . . . The attitude of official circles seems to make this impossible for the moment. In this situation, I have proposed that the President call a Socialist...
Directive No. 569673. As the demand for unskilled labor in factories and on farms has increased during the last two years, Peking has retreated steadily from any idea of expanding the regular school system. Said Minister of Education Chang Hsi-jo: "Mass industrialization comes before mass education...
...Indestructible Eugene G. Grace reported sales of more than $2 billion, net income of $180 million v. $132 million in 1954; fourth-quarter profits alone totaled $57.5 million, an alltime record. With order books jammed for months ahead, Steelman Grace saw no decline in sight in spending, rather, continued demand. To meet it, Bethlehem Steel is spending $300 million to add 3,000,000 tons a year to capacity. Said Grace: "What little the auto industry has cut back, other [steel] users are knocking on our door...
Part of the continuing steel demand came from U.S. railroads, which are expanding as never before to meet new markets. The Association of American Railroads estimated that overall profits for 1955 may hit $915 million for Class I roads, the best year on record. The New York Central, Union Pacific and Santa Fe are all reaping the benefits of new equipment and expanding business along their tracks; Central profits of $52 million were 400% higher than 1954. For the giant Pennsylvania Railroad, increasing dieselization, new maintenance shops, heavier coal and steel shipments added up to the best year...