Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...greatest progress made last week towards the settlement of the controversy between anthracite miners and operators (TIME, July 20 et seq.) was the scratching of seven days off the calendar. The present wage contract in the anthracite industry expires on Aug. 31 and, unless the miners, with their demand for higher wages, and the operators, with their demand for lower wages, reach a compromise by that date, a strike will begin on Sept...
...grouse season came round once more. Trains bound for the country were packed with shooters leaving London. Those for Scotland were running in three parts to supply the demand. The King and Queen visited Princess Mary and Viscount Lascelles, her husband, at Goldsborough Hall in Yorkshire en route for Balmoral, the King's private residence in Scotland. Before leaving the metropolis, which was several days after the shooting began, Their Majesties received a gift of several brace "to comfort them for not being among the grouse-shooting sportsmen." The Maharaja of Patiala, who is stopping in London in royal...
...past week in Morocco (TIME, May 11 et seq.) began by a flat rejection by the French and Spanish of Abd-el-Krim's demand that peace negotiations must be preceded by unqualified recognition of the Riff area as an independent and sovereign State...
...some months the "statistical position" of copper has been improving. Yet this has happened before, and business refused to become excited over it. Only lately have copper prices begun to reflect increased demand and decreased stocks...
...fields were opened, a serious difficulty with violently fluctuating diamond prices at once arose. Many people buy jewels as a sort of investment, and this type of buying was discouraged by the lively ups and downs of the prices for the white stones under natural conditions of supply and demand. Hence the De Beers Company assumed the function of buying, carrying and distributing at stable prices diamonds obtained from the South...