Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eisenhower himself had warned of this danger. Only three weeks ago, answering an insistent demand that he run again, he said: "Humans are frail-and they are mortal. Finally-you never pin your flag so tightly to one mast that if a ship sinks you cannot rip it off and nail it to another. It is sometimes good to remember that." And he had broadened that advice to include all of the U.S.: "Any American would like to think that he has the confidence of his fellow Americans when he is trying to do a tough job. But, again...
...that government has a right to demand cooperation from its citizens presumes that the citizens have a moral obligation to cooperate with legitimate government. This was something generally presumed in Marshall's time, but today it is something that Communists deny and others have lost sight of. Witnesses, then, who refuse to answer legitimate questions are challenging the foundations of political society itself...
Flexible & Convenient. Hoping to cash in on the demand, several companies have already started building the new prefab schools. In Hamilton, Mass., Stoner Associates of Boston has just completed a two-classroom addition to the Manasseh Cutler School. It is built of aluminum, glass, steel and Fiberglas, is complete with heating, plumbing, TV and furnishings. Cost: $22,500 per classroom. Another Boston firm, Structo Schools Corp., is planning to build modified prefabs, rent them to communities that have reached their bonded-debt limit...
TITANIUM, once boomed as a wonder metal, is going begging. Demand is so low (8,000 tons yearly, v. industry capacity of 22,500 tons) that the Office of Defense Mobilization has curbed expansion of production by withholding aid, e.g., fast tax write-offs, for titanium plants. As a result, Du Pont will change plans for making titanium in Tennessee...
...four-door sedans), and higher-powered but little changed in appearance. Higher-priced models will have the Thunderbird Y-8 motor (up to 202 h.p.). Thunderbird production has topped 16,000 in its first year, 25% more than Ford anticipated, but still less than demand...