Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...continued demand for consumers goods will force prices along in their present slow upward trend for at least another nine months, Slichter said. He added that there was almost no possibility of run-away inflation...
...inflationary spiral may continue only until next summer, he predicted. At that time the total demand for goods may begin to level...
...education during the last 50 years. Main trends: "Liberation of the Curriculum; the Mania for Military Preparation; the Formations of Small Sections and of Fast and Slow Divisions; the Rediscovery of Interest as a Motive; the Apotheosis of the I.Q. ; the Glorification of the Aptitude Test; the Popular Demand for Individual Attention; the Rise and Decline of Progressive Education; the Cumulative Menace of the Movies, Radio and Television; the Falling off in Voluntary Reading; the Multiplication of Records; and finally, the Training for Citizenship...
...this mean that the law of supply & demand would bring prices down? Livestock prices had already taken some pretty sharp turnbles. The best steers last week were bringing only about 25?-33¾? a Ib. on the hoof v. 29?-37½? a year ago. Retail prices were down, but relatively not 'as much. Spokesmen for two big chains last week predicted further drops. Said one: "There will be huge quantities of cattle coming to market within the next month or so, and we fully expect prices to go down substantially." But packers pointed out that higher freight rates...
Last week, as far as anyone could see, the Turner recession looked far away. Once more the U.S. boom was at full throttle. Appliance makers, who not long ago had been shoving mightily at their slow-moving goods, now had trouble catching up with demand. And only six weeks after the steel strike had cut auto production to the lowest level since World War II, automakers rolled out the biggest week's production this year: 103,054 units v. 100,584 for the same week last year...