Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disclosed the power behind the free-trade drive when you reported "U.S. productive capacity is outrunning domestic demand and the result is thousands of businessmen are seeking bigger outlets abroad." There is a limit to the total dollar volume of both foreign and domestic trade in domestic consumption. To maintain a healthy domestic economy we must consume all of our own production plus the imports, else the mounting inventories depress values to depression levels. We must not add world supplies to domestic supplies . . . We simply cannot consume that much production...
...Republican counterattack is less clearly defined. President Eisenhower, who believes honesty is the best politics, has refused to demand legislation that he knows will not pass (e.g., Truman's civil-rights measures), although by doing so he could easily drive wedges among the Democrats. Accordingly, Republicans may strike at the Democrats' exposed position; they think they can make the Democrats regret in 1956 any failure to deliver the President's program...
Capricornus. Premier Mendes-France will demand a recount, but with the block of editorial researchers holding solid, Dulles will retain Times' title, Man of the Year. The Department of Defense will release details of a new manpower plan which abolishes Armed Forces and conscripts all young men to 27 months with General Motors. General Ridgway and the Joint Chiefs of Staff will resign in protest. Henry Ford II, will not be happy about it either...
Some of Perón's countrymen see a method in the President's motorcycle madness. His enthusiasm boosts demand for motorcycles (which the government manufactures) and eases the hunger for U.S. automobiles (which the government keeps out with import fences in order to save scarce dollars). But whatever such practical motives Perón may have, the main reason for his addiction to motorcycling appears to be simply that he gets a huge kick out of the sport...
Actress Fanny Kelly was another lady who got a sharp comeuppance when she crossed swords with the monster. "Being offended" with him, she said: "You know, my Lord, I can act men's parts. I have a great mind to put on breeches and demand satisfaction [i.e., fight a duel with you]." To which his lordship replied coarsely: "Then, Miss Kelly, I should be very happy to pull off mine and give you satisfaction...