Word: clamoring
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...years, the top interest which New York banks were allowed to pay on savings deposits was 2%. But when all other interest rates edged up, savings banks began to clamor for an increase. Though their earnings were up, so were operating expenses, and a corporate federal income tax was imposed on them last year. Banks were also losing business to savings & loan associations, which generally pay 3% or more. Last week the State Banking Board permitted the banks to pay 2½%. By week's end banks in New Jersey were raising rates...
...students graduate at mid-year, but the present job situation indicates the opportunities for June graduates. Employees clamor every day for prospective graduates at the University's Placement Office...
...House Judiciary Committee may yield to a clamor from its Republican minority and begin a fulldress investigation of the Department of Justice...
...Their glassy sonorities and petal-soft pianissimos in the final Debussy proved that they command just about every quality of quartet sound. The audience, aware that they were hearing what is probably the finest quartet of the day, refused to go home. The Italians finally responded to the insistent clamor for "More, more" with two encores-in itself a rarity with string quartets...
...dashed into the pressroom. Then came the announcement: Harry Truman had suddenly decided to cut short his vacation, and would fly back to Washington a week ahead of schedule "for a meeting ... of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and representatives of the State Department." The reporters immediately began to clamor: What's wrong? A crisis...