Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President plans to have the Federal Trade Commission immediately investigate the rising cost of gasoline. The President has been told that the law of supply and demand is responsible for the recent rise. While in his opinion an investigation is not likely to reduce prices to any great extent, he thinks that it may have the effect of stabilizing them...
...recent years women leaders have become more diverse than they once were, just as their activities have become more diverse. The U. S. now has such diverse organizations as the National Woman's Party, which desires to be a real political party and set up a bloc to demand absolute equality for women; the League of Women Voters, content to work through existing parties for more modest political ends; the General Federation of Women's Clubs, with more general cultural aims, an amateur in the game of politics; and a host of societies intent on improving the world...
...cents per volume, books used in connection with practically every course offered by the various departments may be procured, the borrower having exclusive use of the book during the whole college year. This year some 1600 books are in use. The supply, however, is not yet equal to the demand, and it is to remedy this that the drive for 1000 more books is being carried on at present...
What was interpreted as the opening of Senator Borah's campaign for the presidency in 1928 took place last week in Baltimore. The Senator addressed the Presbyterian General Assembly, discussed the demand of antiprohibitionists for a referendum and exclaimed...
...want to see them as successes. It seems strange that so often in a topsy-turvy world the determination to reach a certain goal-should be the check which prevents such attainment. So it is here. The universal love of success over-crowds the markets with a supply which demand cannot accommodate and so the commodity of potential success goes begging. To continue the economic figure the root of the trouble lie in the fact that there is too little variety. Thousands of young men are coming to colleges to get possession of success, too few get possession of themselves...