Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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BILL KERNAN'S CURIOUS CAREER SHOWS HIM EVEN ILL FITTED FOR HIS AUTHORITARIAN CHOICE. HE WILL LEARN TO ACCEPT DISCIPLINE AS WELL AS DEMAND IT. WHATEVER GAVE HIM THE IDEA THAT THE RANK & FILE OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC LAITY DON'T OFTEN GET "SORE" AT THEIR SPIRITUAL PASTORS...
...Supply & Demand...
Junked Supports. What caused the great potato famine? Chiefly Washington's planners, who had tried to abrogate the law of supply & demand and had completely disrupted potato growing. In eight years, the Federal Government spent $542 million supporting the price of potatoes. As a result, farmers increased their plantings just to sell to the Government. Two years ago, horrified at the mountains of surplus potatoes, Congress junked the potato support program. Fearful of a price slump, farmers cut their 1951 plantings 20%, even though the demand for potatoes, freed from the artificially high prices of the support program...
...year. To keep pace, the oil industry spent a record $3 billion last year, drilled more wells (44,516) than ever before, and proved up 2.2 billion more barrels of new oil reserves than the nation consumed during the same period. To meet the still greater demand this year, the industry will spend an alltime record of $3.9 billion, drill 45,446 new wells...
...last time that billy clubs whistled through the air too often and too accurately--in 1927 after the University Theater released its swarm of students into a Cambridge mob that had gathered already--President Lowell responded by demanding the suspension of four officers. There may be no need for such a drastic rejoinder as that, but at least the University should make a clear protest and demand that relations with Cambridge be free of any more such occurences...