Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Furious about the demand from Toledo, Menlo Park voted 30 to 1 to give up its charter. Stockton, which voted 31 to 2 to defy the order, was suspended. The members of both chapters were invited to join the Lions, Rotary and other service clubs. Last week San Francisco's Golden Gate Exchange Club, the largest in California, which has only white members, decided to quit the national organization and to plan a regional revolt at a meeting this week of delegates from other California chapters. Said Golden Gate's President Mark Nusbaum: "Racial discrimination is un-American...
...American observer, was greater "than anybody had a right to expect." In six quick days in Cairo, Johnston, with much help from Egypt's government, hammered out a give-and-take agreement with the Arabs. The Arabs abandoned their alternative proposal. Johnston, in return, agreed to: 1) their demand for additional dams on the Yarmuk, and 2) their insistence that the Jordan waters be used "only within the Jordan basin" (which rules out irrigating Israel's Negeb...
Actually, manufacturers and dealers must share the blame for the trouble. When the auto industry caught up with demand after World War II, neither side was prepared for the new kind of market. Dealers hated to go back to the old, hard selling practices of prewar days, and manufacturers continued to pour out cars based on their economists' estimates of the market rather than on what the market actually would take...
...prewar days, production and sales stayed in balance, because a car was not usually made until a dealer ordered it. In the early postwar years, when factories could not meet demand, cars were allocated to dealers on a quota basis. Until a few months ago, a dealer still had to take his quota, whether or not he could sell all the cars, or face loss of his franchise. Automakers have belatedly realized that the quota system often forced a dealer to bootleg cars to stay in business, have now relaxed it. Manufacturers have also finally realized that the chief source...
Along with bigness came trouble. When carpet demand turned down and competition stepped up, the company found it could not operate efficiently in a plant that had grown up haphazardly. The multistoried, scattered buildings could not compete with the compact, straight production lines of other new plants. The company lost...