Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Churchill called upon the same publishers to withdraw from circulation the anonymous volume entitled Uncensored Recollections.* He made this demand in defense of his father, Lord Randolph Churchill, whom he claimed had been much maligned...
...maximum optimism is still monopolized by realtors. The Florida boom continues, out of season. Recently New York has discovered a new realty boom in its midst at Rockaway, which some believe to be fairly on the way toward rivalling Atlantic City. Building, once far behind demand, is now considerably ahead, according to the statistics of the U. S. Department of Labor, which counsels caution...
There are few posts harder to fill properly than important diplomatic posts, for they demand both ability of an unusual kind and personality. The Secretary of State has reason to be thankful when an embassy is suitably filled, and he has reason to sorrow when a post that has been well filled falls vacant...
What he said is just another complication of the coal-mining situation. The cause of the trouble is that production of bituminous coal is quite different from that of anthracite. There are far too many soft-coal mines and miners in comparison with the demand for coal. The result is tremendous competition, cutting of prices and a tendency to reduce wages. The soft-coal industry, unlike the hard-coal industry, is only partly Unionized. A year ago last spring at Jacksonville, the soft-coal operators in Union fields accepted a high wage contract, thinking perhaps that it would force high...
Furthermore, producers of receiving equipment surpassed even the surprising demand last winter, and piled up this spring large inventories. Finally, the dull and uninspiring flood of stuff poured out on the air by many stations last season threatened permanently to impair interest in radio concerts; here, too, it is now felt that mistakes of the past will not be allowed to recur in the future, at least to the same extent...