Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Korea last week, another coalition of free nations (including the U.S., Britain, France) was faced with another Communist demand for involuntary repatriation. This time the prospective victims were among the U.N.'s 130,000-odd prisoners of war (of whom about 20,000 are Chinese, the rest North Koreans). At the conference table in Panmunjom, the U.N. insisted that each man be free to accept or reject repatriation, the voting to be supervised by the Red Cross. The Red negotiators insisted that all Communist prisoners be returned to their masters, whether they wanted...
...secret that even a general description is hard to get. A nuclear explosive cannot be tested on small scale, and since full-scale explosions are costly and dangerous, Los Alamos is forced to figure out on paper the effect of every change of design. Some parts of this job demand long campaigns and elaborate equipment...
Heart of the new launcher is a slotted cylinder through which a piston is driven by high-pressure steam from the main boilers. Even during steady use, the large demand for steam does not interfere with operation of the ship's turbines. Nearly every type of Britain's newest carrier planes has been catapulted, and enthusiastic pilots report that the launching is an entirely new experience. "It eases you up so beautifully," said a U.S. flyer attached to the Fleet Air Arm, "that you almost forget you're being catapulted...
...Department spent more than half a billion dollars trying to keep up the price of potatoes. It burned them, gave them away, let them rot and tried dozens of other schemes of destruction. Finally, a year ago, Congress forced it to give up and let the law of supply & demand take over. When all subsidies were withdrawn, farmers cut their potato acreage, since many of them had not been raising potatoes for consumers, but only to sell to the Government for destruction. As supply decreased, demand increased, and the price of potatoes more than doubled...
...than 105% of parity and OPS Boss Mike Di Salle can control any farm products above parity. He rolled back white potato prices 5% to 26% at farm and wholesale levels and will soon follow with similar rollbacks at retail levels. Potato growers promptly protested. They thought that supply & demand would cure the high prices just as they had the low. Their sensible argument: to cash in on the high prices, potato growers would soon raise so many potatoes that the U.S. would have a glut again-and prices would drop...