Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high rate, builders stepped up their activities, trade unions conducted their affairs with a sense of responsibility, farmers recognized the dangers of piling up ever larger surpluses, private lenders made ample supplies of credit available on liberal terms, states and localities carried out large construction programs, and export demand remained strong." To keep things that way in the future, Ike continued to preach optimism, pointing anew at the presence of prosperity's ingredients-population growth, business initiative, technological advance, etc. "The vigor of the recent recovery," he said, "suggests that economic expansion will probably continue during coming months." Study...
...Mississippi, where the Klan has been mercifully buried for years. Elsewhere throughout the Deep South there are being awakened old hatreds and fearful distrust. These Southern who, in the South, work for racial understanding cannot be blamed for recalling the days or Klan terror when their Northern critics demand an immediate change. The same enlightened Southerners point with justifiable pride to the immense and recent progress made in Negro education and social improvement. They fear that the great strides which have been made toward a solid understanding between the races will be wiped away by a forced desegregation. Virtually...
Pusey voiced concern that the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences is experiencing a decline in enrollment at the same time that "clamorous demand" for college teachers is foreseeable...
...General Assembly had directed Hammarskjold only to seek release of the prisoners, but, he made plain, the discussions covered much more ground: such issues as the 35 Chinese students held in the U.S., Chou's demand to enter the U.N., and many other "grudges, worries, concerns." "No deals of any kind" were suggested, he said, but "there is a very definite link between" the prisoners and the Red objectives...
...river Vorkuta above the Arctic Circle, about 1,400 miles northeast of Leningrad. A century ago Czar Nicholas I's advisers suggested to him that he make a colony for political prisoners at Vorkuta, but when he learned the conditions, Nicholas decided that it was "too much to demand of any man that he should live there." The Soviets let the native Komi remain there, virtually ignored until 1942, until the invading Nazis captured the Donbas coal mines. Then, gathering a vast horde of war prisoners, refugees from the Baltic states and the Ukraine, the Russians built a railroad...