Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vote on them. Thus, when a CCA-initiated proposal comes up for action, the Independents may vote against it because some special-interest group has requested opposition or just because they are suspicious of any sort of CCA proposal which seems to have no origin in popular demand...
...Cambridge voters, it must be admitted, demand progress; most like conditions the way they are, or feel that political action can do nothing positive and may make everything more difficult. Politicians, sensitive to this sentiment, oppose actions with uncertain social effects. If there is no public outcry for Urban Renewal, they think, why should we risk our future by agreeing to tear down slum dwellings? After all, voters live there...
This prediction is further enhanced by the current issueless campaign, when large groups of citizens are not aroused to vote as they were two years ago. At that time a School Committee issue concerning 17 controversial appointments stirred the CCA virtually to demand that the education of the city's children not be subject to personal political feuds. In 1957, there at least was an issue of the "ins" versus the "outs...
...train wreck will be carried in full; hockey scores from Canada appear regularly; the opening of a new bridge in Philadelphia may not make Pittsburgh papers, but it is likely to appear in the St. Petersburg Times, whose old subscribers come from all over the U.S. and Canada and demand such coverage...
Repairs & Shortages. In the face of tremendous demand for steel (total stocks are down to 7,000,000 tons, v. pre-strike inventories of 20 million), the industry will have onerous troubles getting back to full production. The lengthy strike caused considerable damage to open-hearth furnaces by cooling and contraction of bricks. One estimate is that some 300 of the 920 open hearths in the U.S. will need costly repairs...