Word: demands
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Talk about freedom of the press and freedom of information is being worn thin. There is too little said about the obligations of the press. Most editors' hackles rise when a reader suggests that maybe the press is not as responsible as it should be and that its demand for 100% freedom may be illogical if it does not exercise due restraint. The customer, I suspect, may be approximately right." ¶ "Most publishers need education in editorial matters. The editorial costs of a newspaper range from 5% to 10% of the total and so the average publisher is likely...
...last year. Businessmen count on their growing market, lower labor costs and the efficient new plants built by migrating Northern industry to carry them through the recession without harm. "I take a real deep breath of relief." says Southern Co. President Harlee Branch Jr., whose company still has record demand for electric power, "when I get away from those damned pessimistic New Yorkers...
...Plant-expansion slowdown and the consequent cut in spending: $3 billion. ¶ Inventory buying, accelerating at the rate of $3 billion annually, turned completely around in October and was decreasing at a lightning-fast $7 billion rate in January as businessmen lived off their warehouse stocks. Cut in demand: $10 billion. ¶ Total cut in spending rates: $21 billion...
...inventories ever since September 1956, may be getting down to empty warehouses. Anaconda Copper Chairman Roy H. Glover reports that inventories are down to the point where any substantial reversal in business trends will mean a sharp pickup for the industry. Says Glover, who notes that all customers now demand immediate delivery: "Many of our very important customers now freely say that their inventories are on the tailgates of our trucks...
...Russians' campaign to capture more Western markets brought some cries of alarm last week. For many years Britain has bought 80% of its aluminum supply from Aluminum Co. of Canada, Ltd. Currently, British demand is drastically down, and Alcan's British market has dropped from 205,000 tons in 1956 to 153,000 tons last year. At the same time, Russian aluminum exports to Britain have soared from 197 tons in 1956 to an annual rate of 23,000 tons. Reason: Red aluminum sells for $510 a ton v. the Canadian price...