Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...answered the Philippines' demand for $8 billion in reparations by pointing out that such reparations in the end would have to come from the U.S., which has already given the Philippines $530 million for war recovery. He quieted Australian and New Zealand fears of Japan by presenting them with a tripartite pact in which the U.S. guaranteed to come to their aid against any future aggression. He listened to British arguments that Japan's recovery would injure Britain's textile trade, shipbuilding business. His answer in effect was that the nations have no right to legislate against...
...opposition was already building up to the $8.5 billion appropriation. Ohio's Taft wants the money spread over two years. Illinois' Douglas wants it shaved by $1 billion. Such influential, economy-minded members as Georgia's George and Virginia's Byrd had joined in the demand for a cut. An old Administration stalwart, Texas' Tom Connally, in one of his tempestuous outbursts, accused ECA of "squeezing money out of our people and spreading it all over the world to take care of those wobbling little countries in the Orient...
...Christian evangelism will never make an impact until it regains the genius of the Cross, the capacity for sacrifice. Look what the Communists have required of just ordinary people . . . Religion today doesn't call it out because it doesn't demand...
...scoop grill which revolves at the flick of a switch. Other features: thermostatically controlled electric seat warmers, fenders that swing up on hinges to make tire-changing easier. Motorists are not exactly clamoring for some of those innovations, but Le Sabre has one feature that is in widespread public demand: built-in hydraulic jacks under each wheel...
...With that much money coming in, Captain Eddie, who is borrowing $30 million from banks for his new planes, expects to pay most of it back, plus the other $70 million, out of earnings. And he doesn't intend to lose money selling his old planes. Demand for secondhand transports is so heavy that the canny captain thinks he can sell them off for 75% of their original cost...