Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nationalists denounced Moulay Arafa as a puppet and usurper. In the great mosque at Fez, the bearded priests of the Prophet issued a solemn edict: "In the name of Islam and the Moroccan people we demand the return of the legal sovereign, Ben Youssef." Istiqlal's moderate leaders, most of them French-educated businessmen with little stomach for violence, pleaded with their followers to avoid bloodshed, and petitioned the French for reforms...
Despite all the heated words, all three powers seemed to be reaching the stage where what united them was more important than what divided them. The making of a likely compromise lies in Greece's abandoning its demand for an immediate plebiscite in Cyprus in return for a British promise of gradual self-government for Cypriots...
While the demand for Old Masters continues, nothing is surer than the shrinking of the supply-especially since the best paintings are continually being frozen into permanent public and private collections. The result, as the London Economist recently cautioned would-be investors: "Too much money has been chasing too few good pictures...
...Dodge, and American Smelting & Refining) hiked prices of copper for the third time this year, for an overall 10?-a-lb. increase since January. Reasons: 1) a 15½? wage boost given 35,000 U.S. copper workers after a 43-day strike, 2) a general increase in world copper demand...
SYNTHETIC RUBBER is rolling at top speed now that private business has taken over the Government's 24 synthetic plants (TIME, May 9). With natural rubber prices soaring, demand for synthetics is so high that man-made rubber will total 60% of the market this year, has already hit 500,000 tons in 1955's first half, a 36% jump over 1954. Goodyear, Firestone, U.S. Rubber, Goodrich all have big expansion programs in the works...