Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Money is easing, after a record year-end clearance. Temporarily, easy money is anticipated, followed by rising rates, when reviving business creates a larger demand on the banks for commercial funds...
...second lesson derived from this latest explosion in the automobile world is the growing demand for closed cars and the effort of manufacturers to get them into quantity production. If this can be done, unit costs in a closed car can be kept even with an open model, despite the greater material and workmanship called for by the former. Enthusiasts now prophesy that in a few years open cars will be built only on special order-as closed cars were when the motor industry first started...
...addition to the argument that a common dining room promotes social contacts, considerations for the health of students who are forced to eat the insipid slow poison that is being dispensed in some of the restaurants, demand that the university consider means to replace Memorial Hall with a modern dining room...
...lectures, readings, and formal occasions, is inappropriate for large mass meetings and general assemblies. Even the living-room of the Union is inadequate for many functions, as evidenced within late years. The presence of a famous speaker, the joint reunion of classes, important celebrations, football mass meetings--all these demand a large auditorium such as Memorial Hall offers...
...pointed out that this makes another demand upon the already over-taxed Bureau of Printing and Engraving. To relieve the congestion Secretary Mellon ordered the coinage into dollars of some of the silver bullion stored in the Treasury vaults...