Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Western Europe, complex and interdependent factors-population growth, technological progress, the replacement of the feudal system with more fluid social forms, the new lands across the sea-made tradition-direction obsolete. How were the young to be trained for the more varied and expanding new life with its demand for initiative...
...troubles began to crop up before World War II, when great technological advances in spindles and looms elbowed antiquated New England plants into obsolescence. In normal times these plants would have been forced to shut down. But World War II kept the demand climbing, and every plant hummed with war orders. At war's end the pent-up demand from abroad brought a new flood of orders, and the Korean war also gave it a short-lived boost. Thus, for more than a decade, the demand for textiles has been artificially high...
...example, some union contracts specified that a millhand could tend no more than six looms, even though workers in unorganized factories were tending 18 or more. Thus many of the high-cost New England plants became marginal producers, or lost money heavily. Instead of shutting down marginal mills as demand fell off, most of the industry kept them going, often at a loss, in a vague hope that business would improve...
...stockpiling was not the only reason for the price improvement. Increased demand from industries climbing out of their recession had boosted the price of lead from 12? last February to 14? before the stockpiling started. Other metals were moving up steadily, too. This week the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that its nonferrous index was up to 125.1 last month, from 118 in January...
...flask. Last week mercury rose another $4 to $6 a flask, causing one veteran trader to complain that "the market's just plain crazy." But there was a reason: producers were not running their mines full tilt to take care of big new demands for the metal (e.g., in the atomic field) for fear that the demand would disappear while they were spending a lot of money expanding. But when the Administration recently guaranteed the producers a fixed market over 3½ years for 200,000 flasks at $225, the mines began stepping up output in a hurry...