Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of the Treasury is in great demand as a speaker at big Republican fund-raising dinners. Last week he spoke at two, in Chicago and Boston. At the $100-a-plate dinner in Boston's Commonwealth Armory, attended by 4,200-the biggest political event of its kind ever held in Boston-George Humphrey said: "Do you remember the slogan, 'You never had it so good,' and the song with the refrain, 'Don't let them take it away'? Let me ask: Who wants to go back...
...intervals between operations (three or four may be needed for each patient), the girls pass from one Quaker home to another for visits. They are in such demand that the families vie with each other for the chance to put them up. Said one host: "When the girls first moved in, we looked for signs of homesickness or some uneasiness in their attitude toward us. But they couldn't be more cheerful or more delightful as guests." The girls have picked up enough English to get by without an interpreter; they have adopted sleek Italian hairdos, colored ballerina slippers...
With telephone service in the greatest demand since World War II, giant American Telephone and Telegraph and its subsidiaries reported record sales of $1.3 billion, earnings of $169 million for its third quarter of 1955, both well above 1954. International Business Machines Corp. announced alltime high earnings of $38 million for the first three quarters of the year, up 14.5% over last year. R. H. Macy & Co. posted still a third record: the highest volume in history for fiscal 1955, with sales of $376 million and earnings...
SHOE PRICES are going up. St. Louis' International Shoe Co., biggest U.S. shoemaker (1954 sales: $246.8 million), will boost wholesale prices as much as 5% because of rising labor and material costs, consumer demand for more varied styles. Other big manufacturers will soon follow suit, increasing retail prices as much as $1 per pair...
...meet this situation, however, additional funds would be necessary, he added, and "the one remaining problem is how to find resources to meet this demand without weakening other services which are presently performed and are also required...