Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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INTEREST-RATE HIKE on consumer loans is being considered by big Manhattan banks. Loan demand is so strong that the hike may be as much as ½% on auto, appliance, home-improvement and personal loans...
BEEF-BACON SALES are soaring as a result of newspaper stories that the meat is one of President Eisenhower's favorites, is on his menu at Fitzsimons Army Hospital. Armour says sales of beef bacon have shot up 30%, would have gone higher except that demand outran supply...
...McArdle also had admonitions and warnings for the foresters. He pointed out that much of the increased sawtimber growth ratio comes from less important hardwoods, while softwoods, in huge demand for construction and papermaking, were cut down in 1952 almost one-third faster than they grew. The quality of timber, he said, is declining. Control of insect pests, which in 1952 killed 5 billion board feet of sawtimber (seven times the toll of fire), has not gone far enough. Nor have the growth ratios increased enough; by the year 2000, the Forest Service guesses, U.S. demand for non-fuel timber...
...Athletic Department's post-war deficits have been due to rising costs and "the declining demand for our football games," Bundy said. He explained that 25 years ago, in the H.A.A.'s "golden age," the Association would balance its own books and frequently make large profits. In 1928-'29, for example, the College athletic budget had a surplus of 217 thousand dollars...
Like corn like picture. The charm of the play was in its note, however falsetto, of meadowy romp and dooryard homeliness. But the demand of the giant screen is for size and spectacle. The figure of Laurie, far away and touching as she sings Out of My Dreams ("and into your arms"), becomes on the screen a colossal closeup in which the heroine's left nostril alone is large enough to park a jeep in. The dances, too, come far too close for comfort. Though Agnes de Mille revised them for the camera, they now seem more like sophomore...