Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...possible overthrow of the ministry. On the one hand it is maintained that the dismissal of General Robertson illustrates the shortcomings of political interference. An efficient general staff is impossible where the carping politician is free to do as he will. On the other, the supporters of Lloyd George demand that he hold tight reins on the English war policy. Labor, pacifist and every type of dissenter find grounds for criticism. Whatever the case may be, the Anglo-Saxon trait of self-criticism and blundering correction of evils has placed the Allies in a very dangerous position...
...constantly recurring strikes in the ship-yards of the Atlantic seaboard present serious obstacles to our naval program. The demand for ships has never been greater than now. Figures just made public demonstrate that the U boat has outrun the combined efforts of English and American ship-yards by three to one. New ships in vastly increased quantities must be had if this year is to see the tide turn. Yet the unpatriotic action of a large part of our workers at the present time threatens this all-important artery of our war machine. Whether walkouts have been inspired...
...natural laws of economics apply in times of war as well as in peace. Supply, demand, the distribution of labor can be only directed, not governed, by Federal action. It requires the co-operation of the entire nation to insure a proper emphasis upon our war industries...
...absurd or harmful to the interests of our cause? We have in our country a definite available supply of goods. We have a definite amount of labor, already diminished by the draft, which can be applied to the extraction and fashioning of such goods. We have an ever-increasing demand for war commodities, which means a necessarily additional application of labor to war industry. Yet we are told to spend our money freely for articles produced by concerns "of every kind." Non-essential industries (in the war sense), finding the same demand for their products, will continue to use supplies...
...early for undergraduates to consider what service they can give toward the prosecution of the war during the long vacation. No able-bodied man need be idle this summer in face of the demand for hundreds of thousands of workers from farms, railroads and shipyards. There is no reservoir of skilled labor to fill the needs of these trades. Unskilled men must be trained and of these the college man is best fitted on account of his education to acquire quickly the necessary ability. But a partly finished college education is no "Open Sesame" to a position of command. College...