Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since all parties are condemned to being permanent minorities, they dare not alienate the special groups on which they chiefly depend. Socialists must always demand more favors for civil servants, and Independents always refuse any reform of the farm support system. The M.R.P...
...biggest demand came from the auto industry, which last week turned out 175,000 cars for its second record week in a row. General Motors' output of nearly 86,000 cars and Chrysler's 34,000 were the highest ever; Ford's 44,000 was a postwar peak. Throughout the auto industry, plants were working Saturdays and overtime to get the cars to market...
Radcliffe women will forego their Vitamin A in the interest of weight reduction, according to Miss Marjorie Russ, Radcliffe dietitian. Annex dining halls now serve skim milk in response to student demand for fat-type milk...
There is a secondary need for bankers in industrial cities of over 400,000 population, Schroeder said. Here banks are run by not more than three or four people, and there is a large demand for more," he added...
...rubber to a new 1954-55 high of 37¼ a lb. Copper supplies were tighter than at any time since the scare-buying at the start of the Korean war. Reasons: a month-old strike at the big Northern Rhodesia mines, and rising European demand. Although copper prices steadied at 33? a lb. in the New York market. London was offering 44? and up. As supplies grew short, the U.S. Government refused to dip into its low stockpiles, instead banned the export of all domestic refined copper, limited copper scrap export to 12,000 tons for February and March...