Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...unsound, that creeping inflation is a graver menace than it used to be. Economist Burns points out that the past few decades have gradually brought two new inflationary factors into the U.S.'s economic structure: 1) Big Labor's power to force wages up even when demand is falling, and 2) Big Business' tendency to eliminate price competition, set profitable "administered prices," and restrict cornpetition to quality, styling, service, etc. The combined result, says Burns, is that instead of slipping downward when demand declines, prices tend to hold steady during economic downturns, or even go on creeping...
...move will probably have little effect on credit. Money is not very scarce. Although banks have more of their deposits out on loans now than they did at the end of the last recession in early 1955 (largely because of a tremendous two-year growth in loans), the demand for loans has dropped off. With capital spending down and profits edging up, many industries have built up a good cash fund, do not need loans...
...unprecedented demand for student loans, she explained, had depleted all available funds at the Annex before the grant arrived in February. Attributing the growing demand to a new attitude among 'Cliffies that "intelligent borrowing is not a disgrace," the Dean added that "in the past they preferred taking on extra work...
...danger of severe outbreaks of paralytic poliomyelitis is greater this year than last because of public apathy about getting Salk shots, experts warned at a Manhattan meeting called by the National Health Council. Manufacturers are having to destroy tons of vaccine, outdated because of the demand lag. Most exposed age group: children under one year old (only 29% vaccinated), while fewer than 50% under five have had three shots. Best protected are children from five to 14. There is a big drop in vaccinations in the upper teens, but the worst is in the 20-39 age group with...
...demand for the more prolific egg layer has required more and more automation. Near Atlanta, Ga., Layer Breeder Roy Durr produced 500,000 chickens last year trying to keep up with orders for layers. He puts the eggs in special incubators that vastly improve on the maternal solicitude of real hens. A hen often forgets to turn her eggs (causing the membrane lining to adhere to the shell and killing the fetus), or in hot dry weather leaves the nest and lets them dry out. Durr's mechanical mother turns each egg every hour, and when a thermometer warns...