Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that when President Eisenhower conferred with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles and other top team members at the White House early in the week, the most pressing problem was not what to do about Lebanon or Jordan or Iraq, but what to do about Nikita Khrushchev's demand for a Khrushchev-Eisenhower-Macmillan-De Gaulle-Nehru-Hammarskjold summit meeting at Geneva (TIME, July 28) to bring the world back from the "brink of catastrophe...
...answer the cries for help from the friendly government of a small nation-Lebanon-that stood in imminent danger of overthrow from subversion. Of itself, the show of strength rocked the Communists, who count on subversion to win the cold war, provoked Moscow's Khrushchev into a demand for a summit conference (see below) and titillated him into a threat of nuclear rocket retaliation. Moreover, it thrust on U.S. diplomats the urgent need to clarify U.S. aims and goals in the Middle East, where time was fast running...
...amassed stores of oil so large that production had to be chopped back hard this year. Last week the Texas Railroad Commission boosted the number of producing days in August from nine to eleven, but made it clear that the hike was due to a slight rise in petroleum demand and a reduction of oil inventories rather than to the Iraq crisis...
...What's wrong with American films and TV," he adds, "is that sponsors pander to the public's demand for a moral." Americans "get off easy" by identifying with virtuous characters...
...supplies were tighter and demand stronger than at any time since the post-Suez glut. By cutting production, imports and refinery runs in the first half of 1958, oilmen had whittled gasoline and crude-oil inventories to what they consider ideal levels. Last week stocks of gasoline slid to 183 million bbl.-a six-week supply-and crude dropped to 252 million bbl.-a five-week supply. More important, the boom in vacation driving boosted gasoline demand in June 4% above April and May, one of the best gains in twelve months...