Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hundred and twenty-five candidates for the varsity team in the biggest colleges of America, and spectators in such numbers that many of the big games are unable to fill the applications despite the fact that their fields accommodate from 50,000 to 80,000 persons. With this increased demand the price of tickets has advanced from around 50 cents to $2 and $3 per ticket--and when in the hands of speculators to vastly more...
This afternoon at 3 o'clock President Ada L. Comstock of Radcliffe College will address the Society of Harvard Dames on "The New Demand" in Phillips Brooks House...
...operators would not be required to collect union dues out of miners' wages (the "check-off"? a demand made by the miners), but they would make such collections on voluntary assignments made by individual miners...
...felt that with a little more obstruction he might force President Doumergue to ask him to form a cabinet. He announced that he would support M. Briand only if seven members of his faction were given practically all the important cabinet posts. M. Briand majestically refused so absurd a demand, refused to continue to form a cabinet at all, washed his hands publicly of the whole affair...
...wire business is quite seasonal. Every summer, wires are established to New England and the summer resorts. Just now an unprecedented demand has arisen for wires to Miami, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Palm Beach and other Florida centres. To a less extent, the same thing may be said for many other parts of the South. The southern demand for security-trading wire facilities has arisen not only from the South's popularity as a winter recreation centre, but also from its marked prosperity this year...