Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Policy. Treasury's Texan Anderson reached agreement with congressional Texans Johnson and Sam Rayburn to keep tax cuts out of politics, won a wait-and-see period. Result: notable absence of grass-roots demand for tax cuts helped Congress avoid political temptation, keep income, corporation and most excise taxes at present levels...
Neither Left nor Right. This was the opportunity for which Bigeard's "political officers" of Algiers had been waiting. In righteous indignation General Salan sent an aide to demand that Bigeard apologize and issue a retraction. Bigeard refused, and Salan promptly sent him off on two months' compulsory leave, "pending reassignment in Metropolitan France...
Housing starts increased in June for the fourth consecutive month, steel production has declined only seasonally (while new orders held up), petroleum output increased and is scheduled to gain further in August, and demand for natural and synthetic textiles has firmed. Last week the Federal Reserve Board reported that department store sales for the previous week were running 3% above the 1957 level. Adding to recent gains in manufacturing employment and hours, the Big Three automakers announced plans to recall 182,000 workers to work on the 1959 models. And though the rate of inventory cutback continued in June...
...chamber, whose temperature will rise from 1,000°-1,200° range to the 1,800°-2,000° range. Combustion-chamber pressure will rise from the current 300-500-lb. range toward 1,000 Ibs. per sq. in. The turbopumps that deliver fuel to existing engines demand 3,000 h.p.-4,000 h.p. The pumps of the new engine will need 30,000 h.p.-40,000 h.p. -the equivalent of the power delivered by the six jet engines...
...Spurred on by a hike in steel prices (see below), Aluminum Co. of America led other major producers in raising the price of basic aluminum pig 7/10? per lb., to 24.7?. Reflecting lively European demand for copper, custom smelters hiked the price of refined copper...