Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...must many Americans, like James Crawford of San Francisco [who objected to Adlai Stevenson's "Princetonian" accent-TIME, Aug. 11], demand the homespun type for our public offices? ... I find the American fetishism for backwoods utterance a trifle tiresome and completely childish. At election time, surely no one of intelligence will measure a man's capabilities by the manner in which he pronounces a word...
Every so often the prophets of doom begin mumbling darkly that people have satisfied all their big postwar demands and the boom is ending. Last week, hard at work with slide rule, questionnaire and adding machine, the busy statisticians showed that a vast reservoir of demand still remains...
...such a pronouncement from Al Azhar would have put every veiled woman in Islam in her place. But it rolled off the arched backs of Egypt's feminists. Into the office of Egypt's new boss, General Mohammed Naguib, last week strode smartly styled Doria Shafik to demand a new deal for women. "You have broken the chains that bound the nation," she said, "and now . . . break the chains of the women who form half the nation...
...demand for cortisone, as a treatment if not a cure, is already tremendous. In the DanviUe plant every few days (just how often is a Merck secret), chemical operators pour 1,500 lbs. of glistening white crystalline bile acid ($37,500 worth at quoted prices) into a 1,000-gallon still. In the still are hundreds of gallons of a solvent liquid with which the bile acid goes through its first reaction in its long, tedious process toward cortisone. Within hours this reaction is complete and a precipitant is added, causing Intermediate Compound No. 1 to separate from the solution...
...long history as a feast-or-famine business, the sugar industry has developed a quick defensive reflex: the minute prices weaken, the growers cut production. This year, a record world sugar output of 44.4 million tons is expected to top demand by 2,500,000 tons. Faced with the prospect of falling prices, such big sugar producers as Cuba and Puerto Rico are planning a slash of 20% to 30% in their 1953 output...