Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late Mohandas K. Gandhi once said of the late Moslem leader Mohammed Ali Jinnah that he had "a difficulty for every solution." The U.N. truce negotiators last week at Panmunjom felt the same way about their Communist opposite numbers. The Reds yielded to a demand that a separate subcommittee be set up to deal with Item 4 (exchange of prisoners) while the first subcommittee was still grappling with Item 3 (supervision of armistice). Soon two subcommittees were grinding away under two tents at Panmunjom. This week, there rose one note of hope: the Reds turned over a list...
...estimate, which immediately started cotton prices rising close to the ceiling. Last week's estimate was a full 11% less than the first crop report in August. The Agriculture Department said that instead of a glut, there will scarcely be enough cotton to satisfy the domestic demand...
Last January Dean Watson issued an eight-page book setting forth the present rules. The Council agreed to a term's trial period, although it disagreed with the plan. In March it modified its proposals and dropped the previous demand that the membership rule be discarded...
...Demand: $500,000. Teitelbaum testified that the pair came to see him last April while he was visiting in Miami Beach. "Mr. Naster told me that-the substance of it was that I was going to have income-tax trouble unless I employed them . . . for $500,000. And I told him they were both crazy . . . They said there was a clique in Washington; that Mr. Charles Oliphant, Mr. Jess Larson, and there was a former collector of Internal Revenue by the name of Joe Nunan, and another who had just resigned, of the Internal Revenue department, Mr. Schoeneman, were...
...Beginning. When Peoples was founded 96 years ago, the market in Chicago (pop. 80,000) was small. As the city mushroomed and other companies came in, Peoples won a series of rate wars, absorbed twelve competitors, and by 1907 had the market to itself. As demand spared still higher, it bought into a pipeline company with gas reserves in Texas, helped build the first long-distance pipeline, began selling gas to heat homes...