Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Passed the Ketcham Bill instructing the Department of Agriculture to collect and disseminate information on agricultural production, competition and demand in foreign countries, to promote the sale of American farm products abroad, and to enable the American farmer to adjust his crops to world needs...
...Cabot's admission that his college training not only did not counteract, but emphasized his incipient skepticism. For as he also says, it is folly to act on faith when one may have fact. One ascertains facts only with great difficulty and by constantly forcing one's self to demand the facts. This is the point of skepticism, only by highly developed doubt can the mysteries of the world ever hope to be penetrated, and the facts, which Mr. Cabot regards as preferable to faith, ever be discovered...
There has consequently been recently a great demand from business men for quarterly reports along the lines of those long issued by U. S. Steel, instead of simply annual statements which are out-of-date by the time they are issued. President Seymour L. Cromwell of the New York Stock Exchange, has long favored such a step. But the next move must come from the leading corporations themselves. Business men are incessantly talking about obtaining the good will of the public. Here is an effectual way in which it can be done...
...Road. It is almost a century since a charter was granted on Feb. 28, 1826, to the Mohawk & Hudson Railway, to connect the Hudson River with Lake Erie. In 1831 the first train was sent between Albany and Schenectady. In the next few years, there was a huge demand by promoters for railroad charters. Gradually the Hudson-Lake Erie route was built, by seven independent companies. In 1853 these and three additional roads consolidated as "The New York Central Railroad...
...extraordinarily large number of Freshmen have signified their intention of electing tennis as their spring sport, and overflow sections have already been organized. This demand will necessitate using the new courts which are being constructed inside the running track on Soldiers' Field. Dennis Enwright has announced that every effort will be made to have these courts in shape by the end of the spring vacation...