Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Conscription, enormous taxes, interference with business and labor unions are all justified in the name of national interest and national survival. Freedom must always be tailored to the facts of life-and the 20th century facts of life demand great sacrifices. Neither Senators nor scientists can be exempted. The task of statesmanship is to allow the maximum freedom consistent with the Government's responsibilities. In the McCarthy case Eisenhower is trying to enforce rules that are reasonable in the circumstances. In the Oppenheimer case Gordon Gray is trying to enforce rules reasonable in the circumstances. These rules...
...time he gave in, gained critical success with such pictures, then proceeded to make a popular and financial success with watered-down studio versions of his landscapes. From his late 40s until his death at 78, Corot painted thousands of such cobwebby canvases to fill a vast and continuing demand. Only now and then, as with the Blonde Gasconne, did he rise again to the heights of his intransigent youth...
...Steel promptly called a two-week recess to study the proposals. Chairman Fairless, who himself took a slight pay cut (from $261,200 to $258,000) last year, said that he wanted to settle peacefully and quickly. But falling demand has forced Big Steel and the rest of the industry to cut output in 1954, and they are in no mood to shoulder heavy additional costs. The Steelworkers themselves were not talking strike. Said a union spokesman: "These are things we have outlined for discussion . . . That does not necessarily mean that it is our price for industrial peace...
This economic muscle-flexing in Britain and West Germany was no signal that the two countries' economic troubles are over. British businessmen can borrow money at rates considered normal, i.e., about 4% or 5%. But in West Germany the demand for reconstruction capital still so far outruns the supply that business must frequently pay as much as 8% or 10% in interest. Moreover, both countries still need U.S. economic help to keep their books in balance. But in view of dwindling U.S. aid, international bankers took heart last week at the growing signs of British and West German strength...
...units and kindled the great growth of the housing industry. Last year this industry accounted for 7% of the gross national product, directly provided jobs for 2,200,000 carpenters, painters, plumbers and other well-paid workers. Indirectly, it provided work for many more, since new houses swell the demand for washing machines, TV sets, carpets, sofas...