Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...farm decline in 1955. Predicted the experts: if farmers want to live as prosperously through the present stage of agricultural readjustment as they did in the 1942-51 bonanza period, they must reduce savings and seek more income from nonfarm sources. Not until supply and demand are rebalanced can they expect much else...
Died. Arthur Honegger, 63, topflight modern composer (Pacific 231, Joan of Arc at the Stake); of a heart attack in Paris. Of the modern composer's plight, he said: "Music is dying, not from anemia, but from plethora. There is too much [talented] production and too little demand...
...demand to see those big fingers in operation is so great that Phog has had to rearrange his schedule to put the freshmen on the program before each home varsity game. "Everywhere I go," says Phog, "they ask me about Wilt the Stilt. I've seen them all: Joe Lapchick,* Clyde Lovelette, Hank Luisetti-all the top men, and this kid is the best I've ever seen. For 20 years I've used a twelve-foot basket in my gym; as far as I know, I'm the only coach who does it. Wilt...
...British scientists guessed that its intensity was in the neighborhood of 15 megatons (the most recent U.S. blast at Bikini is usually estimated at between ten and 20 megatons). Excited newspaper headlines (and some discreet Communist prodding) led fainthearts and opposition parties in most of the affected nations to demand an immediate stop to all atomic tests everywhere. Yet even in France, where the wails were loudest, the most intense concentration of radioactivity was ar below the top level that human beings can tolerate. Said the U.S. Atomic Energy Commision: "The fallout radioactivity in the U.S. has been far below...
...demand for broad knowledge about an area comes directly out of the Second World War. Total war required total information, and the government was forced to bring together some experts who had lived in a country, and knew the language, others who knew the history or the economy, and others who understood geography and military techniques...