Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prophet met one day last week to give nationalism a religious blessing. To France's Resident General in Rabat, the political capital, they sent this solemn message: "A sacred religious obligation is imposed upon us to counsel the right, to reprove the wrong . . . We judge it opportune to demand in the name of Islam and of the Moroccan people the return of their legal sovereign, Sidi Mohammed ben Youssef, to the throne." Then, in secrecy, the priests reached another decision. Suicide is a deadly sin in Moslem theology, but the conclave decided to sanction the use of cyanide capsules...
...made in both military and civilian expenses, he said. But he promised "a rigorous defense" of the currency; to mollify the workers and peasants, he promised to lower the barriers to foreign competition "with the utmost prudence." But in the main lines of his program, and in his demand for full power, Mendès-France would not yield a centimeter. "The vote will be a question of confidence," he told the National Assembly, and in the prevailing atmosphere he was all but sure of getting his economic blank check...
GUINNESS STOUT, after five years at trying to convince U.S. beer drinkers that "Guinness is good for you," will give up. Guinness will close its Long Island City plant (annual capacity: 100,000 bbls.), meet the U.S. demand for its rich Irish brew with exports from the famed St. James's Gate brewery in Dublin (capacity: 3,500,000 bbls...
BASEBALL MANUFACTURING is in a serious slump, brought on by a 40% drop in the number of minor leagues since 1949 (present total: 33). Sales of baseballs are so low that Wilson & Co. closed its 50-man Schenectady plant, will meet the demand from its Tullahoma, Tenn. plant...
...gave its answer: Said FTC: "The increase in green coffee prices . . . from 58? to 96½? between December 1953 and April 1954, and the corresponding increase in average retail . . . prices from 91? to $1.18 . . . cannot be explained in terms of the competitive laws of supply and demand." In a report to Congress, FTC listed what it thought were the real reasons...