Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first years after World War II, businessmen expanded to catch up with existing demand; in 1952 they expanded to meet future demands, on which they put no limits. U.S. business had climbed to what it thought to be a peak, only to find that it had reached a broad plateau and that the peaks were still ahead. The forecast for further expansion was not based merely on arms-spending. It was predicated as well on a continued and continually surprising population increase...
...demand for goods is still big. Automen expect to produce at least 5,250.000 cars, third biggest output on record. TV makers expect to make 6,000,000 sets -and think at least 50 new stations may be built this year. New industries, like airconditioning, plastics and synthetic fibers, are just in their infancy...
...Robert Henry Best, 56, South Carolina-born newspaperman and longtime (1923-41) United Press correspondent in Vienna, who turned traitor during World War II, was tried and sentenced to life imprisonment in 1948 (TIME, July 12, 1948) for broadcasting Nazi propaganda from Berlin (sample: "I hope that Europe will demand the life of one Jew for every European who dies in the present war"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; at the U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield...
Pinay capitalized on the rule that a demand for votes of confidence must be followed by a 24-hour intermission. He usually asked for votes on Friday, so the votes would generally fall on Tuesdays, when the Deputies would have had a weekend to learn that the folks back home liked Pinay's proposals. He won vote after vote, ten of them...
...butter problem be solved? Answered an executive of one of the Midwest's biggest creameries last week: "Butter never will make it unless they yank out the supports and let butter go to a competitive 50?-or wherever supply & demand pegs it . . . Who can pay 70? a lb. for butter when you can get margarine for 30??" Such a proposal would hardly sit well with the dairy farmers. But many a butter dealer last week thought that something could be learned from the experience of potato farmers. Since supports were dropped from potatoes nearly 18 months ago, the market...