Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...President admitted that he made a little name check to see whether a picture applicant has generally gone along with his program. Ike explained that he did not demand 100% conformity. (He told the conference later that he was still behind Kentucky's Senator John Sherman Cooper despite Cooper's votes against the AEC bill.) But he did believe that the principles on which he was trying to conduct the business of his office must be observed by a Republican Congressman; otherwise, the President should not try to help...
...hearth was flaring up dangerously. In the village of Dadrá, ten miles southeast of the town of Damão, Policeman A. P. Rozaerio was addressing 150 restive villagers on their duty to defend Portuguese sovereignty. Suddenly, a voice from the edge of the crowd shouted a demand that Rozaerio surrender the village to India. Rozaerio, aware that he had a fight on his hands, seized his rifle and began spraying bullets into the lingering darkness. He had not gotten far when villagers, who had been waiting beneath a nearby banyan tree, surrounded him. One stunned him with...
...they paid him $10,000. Whereupon the hospital board of trustees fired both Haluska and the hospital's entire medical staff (although the doctors were reinstated later). Last week, after a stormy court hearing, County Judge John Pentz refused to help Haluska get his job back, rejected his demand for court action against the doctors and trustees. Angrily, Haluska announced that he would look for another Hoxsey clinic site near Spangler, Pa. "to serve suffering humanity...
...steel industry, which has been operating at scarcely better than two-thirds of capacity, combined earnings of 30 companies were just 14% under a year ago. U.S. Steel's second-quarter net was down 11.9% to $49 million. But Chairman Benjamin F. Fairless predicted that demand for steel would pick up late this month or in September. Chicago's Inland Steel, which concentrates on basic steels rather than high-cost alloys, announced alltime highs in second-quarter production (102.6% of capacity) and first-half earnings ($19.4 million). Bethlehem Steel's Chairman Eugene G. Grace also reported profits...
...hobbyists have bought the new products so fast that industry is hard pressed to keep pace with demand. Almost anything new catches on instantly. Three months ago, Denver's Rocky Mountain News started a do-it-yourself column, In one of its first articles it explained how to build an aluminum carport. By noon the next day, the News switchboard had received 200 calls; seven local firms immediately went into the business with carport kits, and so far have sold...