Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...rates of interest, and was originally partly contingent upon "the amount of aid supplied to British troops by Italy" and other intangible factors. Two weeks ago, honest Italians considered the alleged original Italian total offer of 380 million pounds too high; and honest Britons felt the alleged initial British demand of 580 million pounds too low. As Count Volpi put it, in his now famous "favorite English sentence": "It all depends on how you look at it." 2) The Churchill-Volpi fiscal deal was persistently rumored last week to be only the visible cement of a British-Italian "understanding" with...
Some dental schools require only a high school diploma as entrance requirements; most demand one year of college work; very few a college degree. The dental student, realizing the profits a specialist earns, looks to becoming a dental hygienist, radiographer or exodontist. With perseverance, time and money he may become a dentist with a B. S. degree, M. S., or even D. D. S. But the run of the profession know little beyond immediate teeth conditions and their alleviation. In Chicago last week 12,000 dentists attending the 62nd annual meeting of the Chicago Dental Society were reminded...
...general outlook in the steel industry for at least the first half of 1926 is favorable. There is a large demand for steel products of all kinds, sufficient to support the present high rate of operations; there has been no apparent accumulation of stocks by consumers; there has been a general improvement in prices during the last three months, and if the current demand continues there is every reason to expect still further improvement. This, together with the increased production from Bethlehem's new finishing units, should result in better earnings...
...East. All of these sources have more or less identical attitudes in politics. In the midst of the difficult economical problems with which Germany has been confronted throughout the past year, and which the Nationalists were powerless to cope with, there has now arisen a fairly general demand for a "strong man" whom it is hoped might be able to stop the downward movement, the increase in bankruptcies and unemployment...
They are thus at a disadvantage in political lobbying as well as in economic initiative. Nevertheless, their political representatives are their only possible tools. Through such genius as they can command in these politicians, the farmers demand a way to economic sufficiency, to profits...