Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quarter reprints sell in astonishing amounts all along Massachusetts Avenue. The F. Scott Fitzgerald boom has hit the paper-covered market and some stands can hardly keep up with the demand; "they're all after him now," one salesman declared...
...last year, Harry's reflexes crystallized. "All right, now," Police Constable Muckle told Harry, when he pulled to a stop, "let's see your identity card." Since the first days of World War II, all Britons have been required to carry identity cards and produce them on demand, but Harry's jaw was set. "No," he answered. Constable Muckle rubbed his chin. "Will you produce it within two days at a police station?" he asked. "No," said Harry Willcock...
...Despite the fact that no penalty had been imposed for his willfulness, he appealed his case. Last week seven judges of Britain's High Court decided that Harry was technically guilty and liable for ?500 in costs. However, said Lord Chief Justice Rayner Goddard: "For the police to demand an identity card from all and sundry except when looking for a stolen car or criminals, is wholly unreasonable." His words, most regimented Britons agreed, gave the moral victory to Harry. "Every man and woman in Britain," crowed the Daily Mail, "will soon share in the fruits...
United's airmen were after more pay and less work for what they called their "increased productivity." Better aircraft, they argued, permit two pilots and one plane to do what formerly required eight pilots and two planes. Their demand: pay by the mile instead of by the hour, to be calculated so the pilots get the same salary for 70 flying hours monthly that they now get for 85. Added demand: pay (on an hourly basis) for ground working time...
...curl up inside a precedent), to make a survey, to appoint an "ad hoc" committee, or, if possible, to hand the problem to someone else. When "the flap is on," a process which can be set off by as little as a Congressman's letter or a sudden demand from a Chief of Staff, he responds by producing a protective cloud of paper in which he can safely disappear in a smother of initials and information copies...