Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have begun to have some private doubts about the whole principle of Government seizure. Since August 1950, when the President acted to forestall a strike, the Secretary of the Army has been in charge of the nation's railways. The workers have not got the pay raise they demand, and now they want to strike against the Government. Last week a federal court in Cleveland gave them their answer: an injunction barring a strike. Cried James P. Shields, Grand Chief Engineer of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers: "In the light of the Cleveland decision, and the seizure...
Among the principal reasons the textile industry has been the problem industry of New England, Harris listed heavy concentration of mills, loss of consumer demand, technological revolution, competition of newer areas, and effects of federal government activities...
Prophets & Experts. Enrollment in engineering schools is only slightly more than in 1940, while industry's demand has increased tremendously under the impetus of war production. Worried industrialists also blame 1) the low birth rate of the '30s, which has kept college classes limited; 2) the armed forces, which snatch many engineering students before private industry gets them (the greatest concentration of M.I.T. graduates in the world now works at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base); 3) a wrong steer (fostered by prophetic experts) that engineering would soon be an overcrowded profession...
...Supply & Demand. What can be done? Educators and industrialists suggest some remedies...
Despite industry's frantic efforts, the demand for engineers will continue to outstrip the supply-unless a sudden, unlikely end to world tension should bring a cutback of war production. The class of '52 is graduating into a technicians' world and an engineers' market...