Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...growing demand for food throughout the world will doubtless boost food prices in a few years so as to make many of the projects successful. The problem is to be prepared for future needs without undertaking projects that are too much of a burden at present...
...from many irksome union restrictions and cheapening costs. Large cigar-makers are consequently planning national advertising campaigns to obtain national distribution of their products. They predict that within a few years the 5-cent cigar will once more be a staple U. S. product, of good quality and huge demand...
...Hagenbarth, stockman, was the first witness. Said he: "The livestock men demand that their rights on the nationally owned ranges shall be recognized, defended and protected; and that such rights shall be based on established priority and preference at the time the law now in force was passed ... 20 odd years ago." He continued that at that time the rangers had "just put their heads into a noose" when they concluded with Governor Pinchot of Pennsylvania, then Chief Forester, an agreement whereby the users of the range pledged themselves to pay "a fee sufficient to bear the cost of administration...
...engaged persons of both sexes" stormed the Government tax bureaus. This year a mere handful, five or ten, were i bout all that tax officials in even the largest cities were called upon to satisfy. One hysterical woman searched through eleven volumes of statistics, seeking grounds on which to demand an increase in her alimony. The divorced one, ungallant, defied her; he has filed his returns in another city, dared her to guess its name...
...meantime, conditions in the industry have apparently altered much for the better-although the copper business is too temperamental to admit of cocksure prophecy. Recent curtailment of production is said to have reduced output by 20,000,000 pounds from levels reached last spring. Demand has continued strong and varied. What stocks of surplus copper amount to, is now anyone's guess. But rumors in the trade are to the effect that July and August figures will shortly be forthcoming...