Word: demand
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...When "futures" at Winnipeg were forbidden recently, grain ceased to come in from the farms, as buyers were afraid to buy from the farmers unless they could "hedge" by a "future" at Winnipeg. The prohibition had to be removed. (4) By collecting information of worldwide conditions of supply and demand, and expressing them in prices, the speculators make it safe for farmers, millers, and others to rely on the prices as guides for further production. This "directive function" of speculation is perhaps most important of all. A fifth point, which should receive greater stress than is usually given...
...well as to protect the trade from disaster, they would respond. If a committee of grain experts, under Government auspices, should use their wonderful machinery for collecting information, they could probably in a short time find out the existing stocks of grain and flour and the probable future demands for various purposes at various prices. With these data, they could perhaps estimate the prices needed to bring supply and demand together. Such estimated prices might tell the truth better than the present prices in a demoralized market are doing. Such a report might clear the air. We should stop...
...cadet should render the salute promptly. He should render it properly. That is part of the tribute he "pays to Caesar." In so doing he is simply fulfilling towards others the courtesy which he must demand, when an officer, that others fulfill towards...
...needed, the East, with lordly superiority, assumed to tell the West and the Middle West how much broader was its vision and how much deeper was its patriotism. Now that war editorials in the Eastern city papers have taken second place in the nation's war plans to the demand for men, and pretty words have lost, like the problematical salt, their savor, the West and the Middle West are citing their larger contributions in men to our fighting forces as proof of their true and actual patriotism...
...Commission has voluntarily gone further than formality and friendship would demand, and in visiting representative cities of the country it has introduced the people in person to France. That act of cordiality will not be valueless. An awakened trust in that brave republican nation which now is fighting for its very life against the enemies of all free governments has arisen in America. We remember, as we might have in idleness forgotten, the help rendered by the sword of Lafayette in our own hour of need...