Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...after another, the Cunard Line's Britannic, Mauretania and Saxonia and the Canadian Pacific's Empress of Australia and Empress of Scotland missed their sailing dates as a result of the seamen's and stewards' demand for a shorter work week-44 hours as opposed to what they call the 56-70 hours now demanded of them. As the week drew on, the strikers immobilized the biggest prize of all, the Queen Mary. Fuming with indignation because the shipowners had pooh-poohed the likelihood of a strike until they were comfortably settled in their cabins, hundreds...
...York Post: The agreement between the Ford Motor Co. and the Auto Workers Union is a landmark of industrial democracy in the U.S. According to the ancient Marxist cliches, the union's demand should have precipitated a long and violent class struggle. Walter Reuther was advancing a proposition that would have been generally considered revolutionary two decades ago. There will be diehards who call young Mr. Ford a "traitor to his class." But in the history books he will be remembered for a contribution to the social engineering of this century as momentous as the mechanical wizardry...
...weeks ago now burst forth. Adenauer was the hero of the hour. Visions of a united Germany danced before the eyes of the hopeful; the most sober took pride in this acknowledgment of their young nation's stature. The best the Socialists, thoroughly confounded, could do was demand that the Chancellor fly right off to Moscow before the Big Four talks in July...
...there are others, too, who fear a Blank check. They protested that Adenauer's three-paragraph emergency bill set precedents without creating safeguards. By a unanimous vote, the Bundesrat (where Adenauer usually has his way) sent his bill back with a demand for clarification of policy...
...shortage exists or is developing. The real problem is one of distribution -how to get the water where it isn't. Shortages crop up because a growing population and a rising standard of living (e.g., 35 million bathrooms now v. about 13 million in 1930) are multiplying the demand faster than the U.S. is learning how to use its supply. For every one of its 165 million people, the U.S. uses an average of about 1,500 gallons of water every day (v. 600 gallons in 1900). All told, the nation consumes 231 billion gallons daily, more than enough...