Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...does all this not in hostility to business but on the theory that an orderly, well-clothed, well-housed, well-fed society is just the starting point for an expanding economy that will demand the best from all the people in order to give the best to all the people. The Federal Government, reflecting the growing mood of most Americans, has at last stopped thinking in terms of boom and bust, and is thinking in terms of graph lines going upward, with prices staying steady...
Long lines of volunteers sprang up outside Tel Aviv and Jerusalem headquarters, and by week's end the first 500 volunteers left Jerusalem for Negev villages. When trade union federation bosses voted to demand a 5% wage rise, Premier David Ben-Gurion delivered a slashing attack on them for blindness to the need for sacrifices. "The question is," he said, "shall we equip army, navy and air force to enable them to repel the enemy or shall we raise our standard of living?" The answer came from the trade union's own newspaper Davar: "The nation must gird...
Nothing could please the Communists more, and at week's end they were pressing their advantage. They paralyzed Calcutta with a strike of 2,000,000 workers to demand a bigger chunk of Bihar State for West Bengal. Across India, Sikhs rioted in Amritsar, and a Sikh leader told a cheering audience: "If Sikh demands are not met, the Bombay drama may be repeated in the Punjab...
Technological Revolution. Effective missiles call for a technology that did not then exist. The need was for better rocket motors, more sophisticated electronics, more intelligent computers, more sensitive instruments. The demand was for new metals, ceramics, fuels, new physics and mathematics. New production methods were called for-in short, a technological revolution...
Last week Detroit cut production into line with demand. Actually, production by any standards was still good-the 147,877 new cars produced last week were 9% fewer than the same week a year ago but still at the high annual rate of 7,700,000 units. This pace will probably not continue. G.M. President Harlow Curtice took another look at '56 sales prospects, whittled his month-ago prediction of a 7,060,000-car year to 6,500,000, which would still make 1956 the automakers' second-best year. He also announced that G.M. will spend...