Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...contract from the Bituminous Coal Operators Association giving his miners 1) a $1.90 wage increase on their basic daily wage rate (now $16.35), 2) a 10?-a-ton boost in producers' royalty payments (now 30? a ton) to the union's welfare treasury. Lewis will probably demand and receive similar concessions from the rest of the soft-coal industry, whose contracts expire...
...when his security seemed to be threatened. His forceful side was in evidence just after he became governor. Concerned about the impoverished condition of state hospitals, he called a special session of the legislature to appropriate additional funds. Older politicians advised him that it would be political folly to demand more money so early in his regime, but Shivers ignored them and even dared to use some uncomplimentary language about Texas. In his message to the session, he said: "Texas, the proud Lone Star State-first in oil, 48th in mental hospitals; first in cotton, worst in tuberculosis; first...
After several years of wild inflation, Argentina is getting a massive dose of deflation. Partly this is the result of crop failures, which have cut rural buying power to the point where industrial workers are losing their jobs for lack of demand for their products. But another reason is that Juan Perón has embarked on a policy of credit restriction so drastic that many long-established commercial houses are being driven to accept short-term loans from private sources at interest rates ranging up to 10% a month...
...peso on the black market from 30 to the dollar at the first of the year to 19 last week. By making Argentine business go through the wringer, Perón apparently hopes to 1) drive workers back to the land, where they are badly needed. 2) cut demand for imported goods and thus ease the foreign-exchange problem. 3) force more widespread price cuts and 4) drive more marginal operators into bankruptcy. Still cheerful and cocky, Peron promised never to help dealers by relaxing his credit restrictions. Said he: "If I don't give [businessmen] loans they will...
...back taxes, but got the bureau to accept $7,500. Reasoned the tax collector: Ethel was "broke," had "no future on the stage ... It is generally known that her popularity has been on the decline for the past several years. At the present time there is practically no demand for her services." Despite this theatrical judgment, Ethel again caught the limelight, made a smash hit on Broadway in The Corn Is Green and in Hollywood with None But the Lonely Heart, The Spiral Staircase and Just for You. Since the compromise, she has made 18 pictures, earned well over...