Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...parties. The chief differences among them have not been in their respective attitude toward the United States. Unlike the Labourites, the Conservatives have firmly committed themselves to supporting American policies. Thus, although Eden has recognized Communist China's claim to admission into the United Nations, he has hesitated to demand it for fear of alienating the U.S. Labour stands for pressing this claim. Both parties urged the withdrawal of Chiang Kai-shek's forces from Quemoy and Matsu back to Formosa; while the Conservatives thought in terms of their "two Chinas" policy, the Socialists suggested that the Formosans hold...
...suggested a compromise. The foreign ministers could meet first, to iron out the agenda and make sure the Russians had no opportunity to disrupt the top-level meeting by a sudden demand, for example, for the presence of Red China...
...raising the cost of living 13% since taking office, and caustically read off comparative 1951 and 1955 prices for market-basket items. "To the housewives who needed pots and pans [the late Sir Stafford] Cripps and I had to say, 'Sorry, girls,' because of the foreign demand...
...high-caliber opera workshops are evidence of a demand for opera that eventually may bring about more truly professional productions. Says Composer Dello Joio: "We're on the threshold of a real American theater. We haven't had our Verdis and Wagners yet. It is inevitable in the next twenty years...
Wolf Roundup. But for most retailers the legal problems were small compared to the pleasurable problem of keeping up with demand. Coonskin hats, the biggest seller next to anachronistic Davy Crockett T shirts, have touched off the biggest run on raccoons since the giddy '205; coon tails once selling for 25? a Ib. are now nearly $5 a Ib. Seattle's Arctic Fur Co., which has shrewdly been buying wolf pelts for years, is producing 5,000 ersatz coonskin hats daily. In some stores Davy Crockett accounts for 10% of all children's wear...