Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Aruba processed 72% of the crude produced in Venezuela. With this new prosperity, the Negroes, East Indians, Hindus and expatriate Netherlanders in the colonies (230,000 in Surinam, 174,000 on the islands) developed political ambitions. Political parties sprang up at war's end to demand more autonomy for the territories. In 1948 their leaders began to shuttle across the ocean for conferences at The Hague. But none demanded full independence; the territories were well satisfied with last week's statute that kept them an integral part of Queen Juliana's realm...
...Belgium, where as leader of the heroic "battered bastards of the bastion of Bastogne" he uttered his famed "Nuts!" to a German surrender demand, Lieut. General Anthony C. McAuliffe was a palace guest of King Baudouin and later heard himself eulogized in a ceremony marking the tenth anniversary of the U.S. garrison's besiegement...
...SALES for 1955 will approach the 6,000,000 mark, predicts C.I.T. Financial Corp. President Arthur O. Dietz, whose 1954 estimate of 5,400,000 cars will be only a shade low. Demand is so heavy that Detroit production is up to 142,000 cars a week, 65% higher than this time last year. One example: Studebaker, which slumped badly in 1954, last week went on overtime at its South Bend, Ind. plant...
...production of a new product: a pre-stuffed frozen turkey. In four months production has jumped 50%, to 15,000 birds a day. Last week, by adding a night shift, the Swansons boosted output to 18,000 (about 350,000 Ibs.) daily, and they still cannot catch up with demand...
...continuing attempt to bring more of the commuters within the circle of college activities, Whitlock has been a fervent advocate of recent features that give the commuter better access to the University and its officials. He has promised to find more bunk room if the demand is excessively large during exams, and has promoted Concentration Dinners and Career Conferences for the commuter. To help the Freshman, a grant from a special fund provides a limited number of coupon tickets for evening meals in the Union, so the needy student can afford to attend evening activities. Most recently, Whitlock helped start...