Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Peking. An exchange of notes between the Diplomatic Corps and the Chinese Government brought the latter out into the open. The Diplomats charged the Government with wilfully misrepresenting the situation in China, and declined to accept responsibility for it. The Chinese Government retorted by demanding revision of all treaties with foreign powers. Such a demand was clearly impossible...
Manganese is an essential ingredient in steel manufacture. World's annual demand now runs to about 1,750,000 tons of the ore. The Caucasian deposit acquired by Harriman is much the largest known and is estimated to contain about 70,000,000 tons...
Surprise in Belgium was quickly clouded by well-founded pessimism. Such a Cabinet would never command support from Parliament. Premier Poullet was wary. He did not lead his Cabinet into the Chamber of Deputies, as did his predecessors, and bluntly demand a vote of confidence. Instead, he put the onus of responsibility on the Catholic Party by asking its representatives in the Senate and Chamber if they were prepared to support his Government.* The Catholic Senators voted no confidence, 36 to 22. The Catholic Deputies voted no confidence...
...demand made by the Little Entente for an inquiry into Hungarian armament was shelved...
...market for crude rubber has continued to rise, under the influence of light U. S. and British stocks, steady demand for the automobile trade and curtailed British production in the British plantations...