Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before some 400 Romans in the Palace of the Conservatori last week, Prime Minister Giuseppe Pella laid down Italy's new demand for settling the simmering, eight-year-old problem of Trieste: a plebiscite to let the divided Free Territory choose between Italy and Yugoslavia...
...Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial. "I refuse to be questioned by you or by anyone else," cried Mossadegh. Sometimes he simply pretended to fall asleep. He demanded to see a lawyer-to draw up his will. He wept in the old abundance, and once he cried, "Kill me now!" He wanted permission to see some old friends and henchmen, and when this demand was rejected, Mossy announced to the captain of the guard that he was going...
...young men and women of Israel are reaching for religious forms to give meaning to their new nationhood. Parents who belong to the old secular-socialist tradition of Zionism are finding that their children demand observance of religious festivals; even in the collective farms, which have been called "hotbeds of atheism," young people feast and fast in accordance with the Jewish calendar...
...will need to set a "fifth plate" for every four persons now consuming. Setting this fifth plate will demand an increase in cattle production, for instance, equivalent to all the present production of Texas plus Oklahoma and Minnesota, and enough more lambs to match the great production of Montana, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada combined. To produce this much food, every five acres of U.S. land must produce as much as six acres today-creating a tremendous need for more tractors, fertilizer, soil conditioners and other means of increasing food production. Millions of new houses, telephones, appliances and autos, plus more...
...demand for electric power is growing so fast that utilities reckon they will have to build as much new capacity in the next decade as in the past 75 years. General Electric estimates that in 1960 the growth and replacement market should mean total industry sales of 4,500,000 refrigerators v. 3,900,000 in 1951, 1,500,000 freezers v. 1,000,000, 2,500,000 ranges v. 1,400,000. As for the pivotal U.S. auto industry, which accounts for about 7.6% of U.S. manufactured-goods production, the predicted increase of 24 million population by 1960 will...