Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Stuart Symington, Illinois' Paul Douglas) leaped up to congratulate and commend Knowland. They had good reason. No one on Capitol Hill had ever expected a majority leader of the U.S. Senate to 1) intimate that his own Administration's foreign and defense policies were dangerous, and 2) demand an investigation by committees controlled by the opposite party...
...Abandon his demand for 15 more active ROK divisions (and with them, his dream of "driving north" to unify Korea on his own), and settle for the U.S. plan he had accepted in Washington-ten reserve divisions, 75 jet planes...
...invaders were going to seize five ports, border towns and airfields near them. From these bases, planes would bomb Costa Rica's defenseless capital, San José. Women in the capital would be stirred up by fifth columnists to parade hysterically to the presidential residence and demand that Figueres resign, to spare his country. His enemies hoped that he would then lose his nerve and turn over his government to a rebel junta...
...freshman. Pusey has several times in the past year stated that the University must soon decide what size it is to be. To provide for further increases the present facilities must soon be expanded through building of new houses and dormitories. In the next decade, experts predict that the demand for college education will increase two-fold...
...auto upsurge, sparking a huge demand for metal, was firing up furnaces all through the steel industry. Mill output last week was at 77.5% of capacity, highest in ten months and a full 20% over the summer level. Steelmen were also receiving big orders from such other metal-consuming industries as machine tools and appliances. TV setmakers for example, hit a record monthly output of 948,000 units in September and were pushing higher still...