Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Besides the great demand for scientists, government service offers many open positions to graduate. Accounting and business administration are two other pelds which rank high in job opportunities...
Because of increased defense production and the draft, the demand for college graduates is estimated to be the greatest ever. "There just plain arn't enough guys to fill the jobs." Clark declared...
According to a recent nation-wide survey, the need for men is greatest in the technical field, but there is no field where the demand is not high...
...Wall Street last week, barely five weeks after it had been freed from controls to establish its own value, the Canadian dollar hit par with the U.S. dollar. Across the world, in the free markets of Paris, Milan, Tangier and Beirut, Canadian dollars were suddenly in such brisk demand that money-changers priced them at 101 U.S. cents. In the confused hippodrome of international finance, the wide, moss-green Bank of Canada banknote was running neck & neck with the U.S. dollar as the world's most desirable currency...
Howe's fame as an elevator engineer spread through the grain country, and he decided to cash in on the demand for his services. In 1916, he set up his own engineering firm in Port Arthur, Ont., Canada's main Great Lakes grain terminal. Later in the same year, he married Alice Martha Worcester, a friend of his M.I.T. days and the daughter of J. R. Worcester, designer of the Boston subway...