Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bases, NATO has already put up $750 million (the U.S. share: about 40%) and laid down plans for "standard bases," designed to suit the operational requirements of all participating air forces. Specifications for the standard fields: 8,000-ft. runways (a compromise between the U.S.A.F.'s demand for 9,000 ft. and the R.A.F.'s insistence that 6,000 ft. is plenty); standardized lighting, storage and fueling facilities. Beyond these bare essentials, each air force builds its own barracks, canteens and bowling alleys-at its own expense. To get a standard airfield ready for occupation by Americans...
...system similar to that adopted here. Four years later saw the first sophomore "revolt." Petitions, Club board resignations, and 'Princetonian' editorials ensued, but World War I prematurely ended the fracas. Fruitless revolts materialized in 1925 and in the '30's. The words "100 percent" were never mentioned, however; the demand was only for increased sophomore bids. Fifteen percent of the class, however, remained classed as "unworthies...
...late '30s were the good vintage years for swing, and the demand for the real stuff goes up as the supply disappears. Two years ago, Columbia reached back among the cobwebs and, to the cheers of the connoisseurs, issued a transcript of Benny Goodman's 1938 Carnegie Hall concert. The best news for swing fans since that occasion is Columbia's new album: Jazz Concert No. 2-a transcription of 37 tunes performed by Goodman and his gang on radio programs in 1937-38. The gang is all there-Gene Krupa on the drums, Harry James...
...March when Chancellor of the Exchequer Richard ("Rab") Butler tightened Britain's belt another notch with a new Tory budget. Transferable sterling (i.e., pounds bought in the free markets outside the sterling bloc), which sold for $2.40 eleven months ago, was up to $2.70. Some of the sudden demand for pounds stemmed from speculators who had expected further devaluation and had sold sterling short. Now they had to buy pounds to cover. But the pound's new strength-and confidence on the part of world traders-was due to the solid progress the Conservative government has made towards...
...demand is so great that Jaguar Motors Ltd. last week opened a sprawling new 1,000,000-sq.-ft. plant at Coventry to boost production from 720 to 1,000 cars a month. Jaguar is aiming three-fourths of this production at the dollar market. Moreover, it is concentrating on its Mark 7 sedan angled especially toward American and Canadian tastes and powered with the same motor as its speedy XK-120 roadster. Where Jaguar sold 2,886 cars in the U.S. last year, this year it will sell 4,000 at around $4,000 each, next year expects...