Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Monte Carlo. Helen Wills seemed to be thinking too much. Suzanne Lenglen's nerves were twittering. Regal in pink silks, she had won her advantage from her opponent's errors. Then Helen Wills, driving at the corners, volleying and smashing, took three games in succession. Hence Lenglen's demand for the amber glass. It contained brandy and water...
...rubber industry is showing improvement in England, but what the trend of rubber will be I cannot say. I look for considerable fluctuation over the next six months. The demand for tires in England is increasing all the time. Our January business this year was larger than that of last year...
...other undulation at Yale was part of undergraduatedom's persistent demand for liberty. In the light of President Angell's observations it might have been interpreted as rebellion against "lock-stepping," or as an example of the things college men have time to get excited about when supplied with easy work and long vacations, or as an expression of "social maturity." In any case the recrudescence of Yale's war on compulsory chapel was no new phenomenon...
...country seemed to go quietly about its business. Optimists did not find it necessary to yodel glad tidings from the housetops nor yet to whistle in the dark. No "boom" was on, but pessimism was conspicuously dormant. The measure of distribution-car loadings- stayed high. The measures of demand and production-shipments and orders-were in good volume. The measures of volume-and-price -bank clearings-kept their level. Through the lens that is Wall Street, quickened activity could be observed in several industries that have drowsed of late-notably oil, copper, sugar, textiles...
...piece Gold Coast Orchestra has been engaged by the Committee to furnish music during the Smoker. Refreshments and tobacco, in quantities suitable for the class, have been ordered from caterers who are already preparing to meet the heavy demand upon their resources. The Smoker will be held at 7.30 o'clock in the Living Room of the Union...