Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Retailing may have lagged behind other industries in its development, but never because of inaction. Merchandising has always been a dynamic field, of necessity living from day to day, dependent upon its ability to guess what the public will want tomorrow. With ever-fluctuating customer demand and price competition setting the pace, retailers have until recently hesitated to gamble on long-range planning...
...order to pass the language requirement, the student must either pass a second year language course or achieve a score of at least 560 on a language proficiency test, both of which demand a good reading knowledge. "B" and "D" courses do not give the student a sufficient reading background to pass the aptitude test after one year, Politzer pointed...
Since December, Polaroid has expanded production from 100,000 to 12 million pairs a month, but it still cannot fill the demand-at 10? apiece to exhibitors. United Artists alone has ordered 19 million pairs, and Warner Bros, and Columbia want 20 million for April delivery. But the best angle for Polaroid is that the glasses are used only once (for sanitary reasons). Headlined Variety: BEAUCOUP BLACK INK FOR POLAROID...
...committee's current Chairman Harold Velde), and two committee investigators. The complaint: that their being named on studio blacklists (for such things as refusal to answer the committee's questions about their political beliefs and affiliations) has made them jobless pariahs in filmland. The outcast 22 demand a permanent injunction against "maintaining any blacklist or policy of blacklisting or discriminating against the plaintiffs . . . with respect to employment in the motion picture industry...
...United States will have a period of higher wages and production with little or no federal control and a near balance in supply and demand, Sumner H. Slichter, professor at the School of Public Administration, predicted Saturday...