Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...engineer, I place the blame for the shortage on low pay. While the starting rate offered at colleges is high, progress thereafter is slow. Only a few specialists, due to demand shifts, can command salary ranges that are common to executives, salesmen and owners of small businesses. My work requires less effort but pays more, and offers more freedom than when I was an engineer. In addition, I do not have to live in a dirty industrial town...
...Hampshire Supreme Court will decide this fall whether or not its Attorney General can legally demand the contents of a college lecture before it is delivered, without infringing on rights granted under the First and Fourteenth Amendments...
URANIUM SHORTAGE will slow down peacetime power developments unless new domestic sources are found, says Atlas Corp. President Floyd B. Odium. By 1965 the U.S. will need as much as 5,000,000 tons of uranium ore annually, and the demand will increase rapidly after that. By 1975, predicts Odium, the U.S. will have a generating capacity of nearly 40 million kw. (38% of the current total) of electric power from nuclear fuels alone...
...much-touted miracle metal for jet engines, said the committee, is not living up to its advance billing. Though planemakers need titanium badly, the metal is so costly (current price: $7,000 to $8,000 a ton) and so difficult to fabricate that "production is running far ahead of demand." As a result, the General Services Administration has already stockpiled 4,000 tons of excess titanium at a cost of $36 million, may have to buy another 5,100 tons over the next year...
...University Librarian announced that every effort was being made to obtain duplicate copies of books assigned for the Reading Period, and expressed the hope that most undergraduates would see fit to study in their rooms and to choose books that weren't in great demand. But he could only hope; there was no telling what 3,500 students were going...