Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last week that, as soon as Dodd was in telephone communication with his successor, Brigadier General Charles Colson, he should have said: "Come in and get me. Use all the guns and force you need. If I die, the hell with it." Even if Dodd had made no such demand, the Pentagon man continued, Colson should have sent a force into the compound. Colson and Dodd would have been heroes, although Dodd might also have been a casualty: at any rate the day would have been saved...
...Germans demand the right to grant amnesty to war criminals; the allies fear that the Germans might renounce the principles established in the Nürnberg trials. Compromise: an allied-German board will review applications of war criminals and grant clemency in some cases without renouncing the validity of their trials or sentences...
...untangled 25 of the last remaining knots. Within the week, the peace should be made. It gives Western Germany and its 48 million people more sovereignty than the conquerors of seven years ago dreamed then of giving so soon, but less than the West Germans now demand...
...Department of Justice's trustbusters wanted Judge Ryan to go further in punishment, open up all of Du Font's future patents. This Judge Ryan sternly refused to do. He termed the demand itself unprecedented in law, and added that it "would be punitive as well as destructive of that driving incentive which has accounted for much of the remarkable development of the chemical industry." Noting that Du Pont had spent a total of $196.8 million to bring nylon from test tube to mass production, he observed that it is also spending $45 million a year on research...
...year's. The hard-hit textile industry picked up to the point where raw wool prices were on the rise again, and rayon and acetate shipments were up 4½% since March. The wholesale-price average of all commodities turned up 0.1% for the week, indicating a stiffer demand for raw materials. Moreover, construction, long a mainstay of the boom, was still running 5% ahead of last year's level in spite of FRB's failure to remove its Regulation X curbs on building...