Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...supply them. Crowds of already legendary size collected in the offices of overworked physicians, and as they sat and fumed, they cursed the new health program. Compulsory health insurance would present similar problems in the United States, unless increased numbers of nurses, dentists, and doctors could meet the new demand. Even under the current voluntary health insurance program, the nation will be short 15,000 doctors by 1960; yet the Eisenhower health program-because of AMA insistence-will train only nurses, supplying none of the $50,000,000 needed each year to counteract the doctor shortage...
...with its hierarchy of officials and police, is unworkable, both in industry and agriculture. The idea of the "new life" had sprung from Stalin's Economic Problems of Socialism in the U.S.S.R., published just before the old dictator's death, in which the idea of satisfying consumer demand on the basis of "primacy in the production of means of production" could be found in a fog of ideological jargon. Khrushchev made a savage comment about "ill-starred theoreticians" in his last speech on the subject, but it was Malenkov he was aiming at, not Stalin...
...building of machines themselves-plus their installation, maintenance and the construction of new factories to house them-has opened up thousands of job opportunities that never existed before ... As mechanization has enlarged the output and the purchasing power of our people, it has also multiplied enormously their demand for services. So they, in their turn, employ more doctors and dentists, more engineers and scientists, and more teachers and clergymen. They send out more of their laundry, and they eat more often in restaurants. Even the fact that they have more leisure time has created more jobs for others...
...ELECTRICITY DEMAND has made it the nation's biggest consumer of power, surpassing such big users as General Motors, Alcoa and Ford. Last year AEC burned 18.9 billion kwh, 4% of the U.S. total, expects its demands to grow to 9% this year, and 13% of all power used...
...price cuts, both by Brazil and U.S. roasters, were caused by the drop in demand; coffee imports fell almost 20% during 1954. This was partly due to high prices, partly to the growing popularity of instant coffee, which has come up from a mere drop in the cup to claim 25% of the U.S. market. Not only does brewing coffee and dehydrating it at the factory stretch the beans more than 50%, but the housewife wastes less instant coffee, thus the nation is getting far more cups per pound...