Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...production until the seed is long sown. And if the disaster could be foreseen, farmers have no means of effective and beneficial crop limitation at hand. There can be little of the selling out, merging, and re-investing that characterizes industrial fluctuation and enables manufacturers to weather variations in demand without serious loss. Geographically, socially, personally, the farmers are both set and separate...
...same time he blazoned abroad that whichever plan the Chamber chose, he would not consider its vote as implying either "confidence" or "lack of confidence" in the Government but merely as an indication of "preference." Politicians were aghast at this high handed flouting of the precedent which would ordinarily demand the resignation of the Briand Cabinet upon the rejection of M. Doumer's plan. Meanwhile M. Doumer appeared before the Finance Committee of the Chamber and told its Cartellist members that their plan was the work of bunglers who knew not the intricacies of state finance. He openly defied...
...Churchill undoubtedly felt impelled to mete out the heaviest practicable terms to Italy. Count Volpi, on the other hand, could point to the fact that the U. S. Debt Commissioners have granted proportionately much easier terms to Italy (TIME, Nov. 23) than those which they have thus far demanded from France. Count Volpi was therefore expected by the Italian taxpayer to get Mr. Churchill to see that, instead of demanding proportionately more from Italy than from France, Britain should be content with less. The Initial Offers. The British were said to have knocked off 80 million of the 580 million...
Since the Tuan Government is notoriously so weak that its pretense of representing "China" is a mockery, M. Tchitcherin's "impossible" demand that it coerce the powerful Chang was regarded as a warning that the U. S. S. R. is seriously considering the employment of the Red Army against the pro-Japanese, anti-Soviet "Manchurian War Lord...
...ministered to, one of the 200 he could not benefit, one of the few who died. For years Professor Leacock had watched his wife dying; had watched come over her the pallor and emaciation of brave suffering. But a public had come to like and demand his witticisms, stimulated by his uproarious Literary Lapses of 1910. Fifteen other laugh-provoking books he wrote* perforce, many of them as his wife failed. The public knew not his private life; demanded laughs; got them. Last week he let it be known that he would devote his fortune and his writing ability...