Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Arbenz turned next to the diplomatic front, instructing Foreign Minister Tori-ello to demand an emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council. Under this month's president, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., the council met this week for a tense, five-hour session...
With two Cabinet portfolios Aranha would have plenty of problems, even without Getulio Vargas' politicking. But last month Vargas bowed to labor and doubled the nation's minimum wages. That set off a new round of price rises and led to new union demands for a price freeze. With congressional elections due in October, Vargas may insist that Aranha, who is in favor of letting supply & demand set the price level, try to nail down food prices. But the fact that he took on the new Cabinet job last week shows that nervy Oswaldo Aranha...
...Supply & Demand. The price cutting was the result of too much wheat. Five years ago, 46 nations formed the International Wheat Agreement, and such big producing nations as Canada, the U.S. and Australia agreed to allot a certain amount of their wheat for export in a stipulated price range (not to exceed $1.80 a bushel). When inflation, the Korean war and poor foreign crops put wheat in tight supply, the International Wheat Agreement worked fine, at least for the importing nations, which got what they needed at bargain prices. But recently, with wheat in surplus, I.W.A. has not worked...
...will total 999,561,000 bushels, almost 100 million more than predicted only two months ago. While 15% below last year, because of acreage reductions, the harvest would still be 140 million bushels more than the U.S. expects to need for domestic and foreign markets. Barring some unforeseen new demand, the record U.S. wheat stocks of 875 million bushels (previous record: 1942's 631 million) will top a billion a year from...
When the pencils do get to work, the Viet Minh would demand large areas that would be economically independent. Since the French control most of the valleys, this meant the French would have to trade rice-producing riverland for barren mountains. If the French had their way, the map would show the French positions as a series of closely grouped goose eggs...