Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beneath the bombast was an inborn genius for divining and whetting the public's curiosity ("once having made the readers talk, you can soon tell them what to say"). He warned his editors that he did not "believe in hobnobbing with politicians," demanded that the paper be independent and make up its own mind. When circulation gains were slow, Northcliffe slashed the price from threepence to a penny, overnight tripled sales. "I hear that the Old Lady of Printing House Square," he chortled, "gathered up her skirts and shrieked as at the sight of a man under...
Turndown. One reason for the easing of steel supplies is the dwindling demand from makers of appliances and other consumer durables, who are not even taking the metal allotted to them. Another is that the peak has been passed in defense-plant construction. But builders, who would like to use steel for many another project, are still hamstrung by restrictions on nondefense building (see Controls...
...citizens don't run wild in fear of the roof-top-stalking menace with a carbine and a good eye. The socialites act like socialites and demand the police "do something," and the newspapermen behave almost like newspapermen and threaten to turn the mayor out, of office if the killer is not caught. Except for a couple of lucky breaks, necessary to catch the sniper in an hour and a half, the police go through the dull routine of looking for tips on an unknown man who shoots almost anyone, anywhere, at any time...
More Expansion. Until now, these and other "aromatic" chemicals (also used in perfumes, synthetic rubber, explosives and drugs) have been based on raw materials drawn from byproducts of the steel indus. try's coke ovens. Yet demand for them is growing at an average rate of 30% a year, while the supply has been growing by less than 5%. With the information gained from the new pilot plant, Union Carbide hopes soon to build a full-scale hydrogenation plant which will help solve this raw-materials problem for good...
...fearful of losing his inheritance, buys the testimony of a prostitute that his late father spent the murder night with her. The prostitute, egged on by a money-mad sister, sells conflicting testimony to the boy's aunt. A kindly priest is torn by the Prince's demand that he tell the secrets of the confessional. Alone among the townspeople, Sperone, a poor, Christlike dyer, loves his fellow men enough to try to end the orgy of hate and suspicion. He confesses to the murder he did not commit, and so brings on the climax and the solution...