Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...enjoying a new flush of prosperity. Sales of London's Cohn & Rosenberger. Ltd., one of Britain's largest earring manufacturers, have soared about 400% this year. So widespread is the earring fad that in Birmingham, center of the trade, some factories have fallen nine months behind demand, and one has stopped making everything else to catch...
Production. The industry can trace its trouble back before World War II, when salmon was king of the market, selling almost 9,000,000 cases v. only about 3,000,000 cases of tuna, the nearest competitor. During the war, the demand, with the Government buying 80% of the catch, was always far ahead of supply. Temporarily sure of their market, the packers forgot about advertising, shrugged off climbing costs, left it up to the brokers who sold the catch to keep up consumer interest in salmon...
...processes, lathing, machine shop work, operation of testing apparatus, and so on, is done by men without college degrees. Opportunities for pure science majors lie in engineering: research, design, and development. Nevertheless, the chief shortage in the aircraft Industry today is in trained technical personnel. Engineers are in great demand in an ever-increasing and accelerating scope of investigation...
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...volume of production increases, the demand for trained engineers also goes up. The airplane industry is just one of many industries clamoring for the services of the graduating engineer. Severe shortages in the supply of these men red many industries to set up their own training programs, or to help schools produce more engineers by giving grants and aids and initiating cooperative advanced study programs...