Word: clamorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...First, we have stabilized our currency at a rate favorable to our productive industry [one Belgian franc: 3?]. Second, our industrialists not only completely modernized their processes but declined to yield to the clamor for higher dividends and instead built up reserves. Third, a large part of Belgian industry remained in the hands of small, individual owners and families who with amazing suppleness adapted themselves to changing conditions. Fourth, Belgian industry did not make the mistake of overexpanding...
...dead issue, gave the islands' politicos fresh hope. This they transmitted to the Filipino populace which in turn began to demonstrate for the benefit of visiting U. S. Senators and Representatives. What President Hoover had really sent Secretary Hurley out for was to learn whether this native clamor for freedom honestly arose from the people themselves or whether it was just an artificial reflection of the agitation by agricultural self-interest...
...months, the monster Dornier flying boat DO-X (pronounced: dough-icks) stirred and surprised a city which had long ceased to be impatient for her arrival. The deep vehemence of her twelve 600-h. p. Curtiss Conqueror motors beat down like a whole squadron of ordinary planes, stilling the clamor of streets and avenues as she passed over. People, peering from windows and sidewalks were amazed at a hull which is three winged Pullman sleepers in capacity. The shadow of her huge wings flickered over the city's roofs surrounded by moving specks which were the shadows of accompanying planes...
President pro temp. Opazo Letelier appointed Juan Esteben Montero premier of a new Cabinet. That afternoon the clamor of the Santiago crowds became, "Down with Opazo Letelier." He resigned...
Meanwhile in Washington wheat prices produced political palpitations. The drive to get the Government to DO SOMETHING was centred on Farm Board Chairman Stone. But Mr. Stone's head and heart were steeled against the clamor. He persisted in his refusal to hold all stabilized wheat off the market, explained that only small sales were being made to millers, that the Board would not sell in competition with the 1931 crop at current prices. Said he: "There is no price to which wheat might fall that would persuade the Board to resume stabilization buying. . . . Wheat is selling...