Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...France, planning his comeback, asked for an extraordinary party congress to decide the party's pos ture before the 1956 general elections. Implicit purpose: to oust Léon Martinaud-Déplat as the party's administrative boss. Martinaud-Déplat yielded to the demand but spitefully made the bleakest arrangements possible: he scheduled a daytime congress last week in Paris' dreary, colonnaded Salle Wagram, knowing that a wrestling match was due to begin at 6:30. "If Mendès wants to fight," said Martinaud-Déplat sourly, "let him stay...
...curvy, and you can be so graceful when you play it." Others were more practical: "It's a sound investment -costs as much as a Cadillac but doesn't depreciate as fast. It's an instrument you can get your money back on-very much, in demand for weddings and funerals...
Spry little Archbishop Martínez, 73, is given a major share of credit for this improvement in the church's fortunes. Much in demand at Mexico City cocktail parties, where he handles his quota of martinis, the chain-smoking Archbishop might long since have been a Cardinal in a land less nervous about princely trappings. He still watches his step. When the Archbishop drops in on President Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (about once a month), secrecy surrounds the meetings, which are politely called "accidental" when they have to be called anything...
...keep up with the post-World War II demand for new cars. Ford Motor Co. has spent $1.7 billion to expand and modernize plants and equipment. Last week, in a speech before the Bureau of Advertising of the American Newspaper Publishers Association&* at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria hotel. President Henry Ford II admitted that even those husky figures had not been enough. Said he: "The booming market for both new and used cars has frankly been something of a surprise, even to us." To keep up with the expanding market, said he. Ford will spend an additional $625 million...
...heavily industrialized north, executives at Falck, Italy's biggest privately owned steel company, reported that demand was outstripping production, that steel had been in a sellers' market for the past nine months. Such big motor-scooter companies as Innocenti and Vespa were rolling along at an 11,000-per-month production rate, more than double the figure two years ago; overall, the industry has produced 2,400,000 postwar scooters, and has only skimmed the top off the market...