Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intruders overpowered them and trussed them up. "Consider yourselves prisoners of war," said the leader of the commando gang. The raiders were members of the Irish Republican Army, that outlawed, audacious nationalistic group which, in prewar days, used to plant time bombs in the British mails to reinforce its demand for the unification of Ireland. Swiftly, they went to work, loading rifles, Sten guns, light machine guns and 200,000 rounds of ammunition into a fleet of cars that rolled in through the main gate, then vanished into the night. Not until three hours later did one of the sentries...
Until a few years ago, workers in the field of mental health were neglected, underpaid and unwanted. Today they are in urgent demand all over the U.S. This goes for psychiatrists, administrators, occupational and recreational therapists, and psychiatric social workers. Items: the U.S. has 8,500 psychiatrists and 12,000 psychiatric nurses, has jobs for three times as many of each; the average state hospital is 75% understaffed in clinical psychologists and social workers. At the annual governors' conference in Chicago last week, a new fact emerged: the shortage is so bad that raids between states for psychiatric workers...
...Breathing Spell. Ideally, as business reaches peak production and employment, there is a leveling off period. With labor in increasingly short supply, businessmen must bid higher for more workers to make more goods; marginal costs increase; expansion becomes more difficult; prices tend to go up, thus gradually lessening demand. At first, the forecast was for such a breathing spell starting last month...
VOLKSWAGEN'S MILLIONTH, rhinestone-studded and gold-painted for the occasion, rolled off the assembly line last week. Supplying more than 40% of the German market already, the biggest German automaker will boost production another 20%, to 1,500 cars daily, to meet a growing demand both at home and abroad. Target for 1955 in the U.S.: 25,000 Volkswagens...
...public-power advocates are planning to demand a rehearing before the FPC, and will carry the fight into Congress and the courts...