Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...idea in education-ad-vertising. P. 15.) Decline in steel demand...
...decline in the demand for steel which has occurred since last Spring is clearly indicated in the shrinkage of unfilled orders on the books of the U. S. Steel Corporation...
...Demand for tickets to the Holy Cross football game this afternoon drained heavily the supply of tickets remaining at the Harvard Athletic Association yesterday. Every seat in the stadium, and the colonnade, on the colonnade roof and in the emergency stands constructed on the track was gone by the 10 o'clock yesterday morning. To prevent activity on the part of the ticket speculators, 8,000 of the 12,000 rush seats in the wooden stands at the end of the stadium were put on sale during the day. The remaining 4,000 tickets will be one the sale...
Although the demand for tickets to the Tufts game next Saturday will be far less heavy than for the Holy Cross game today, the authorities at the H. A. A. do not except a slack week. Five entire sections have already been reserved by the Tufts management, and arrangements are now being made to engage two more. A large public sale is also expected. Applications from Harvard men will be received until 6 o'clock on Monday, and tickets will be on open sale during the rest of the week...
...suggestion that freight rates on export wheat be lowered if possible, President Coolidge shows at least a better understanding of the causes of cheap wheat than the farmers or their representatives. Lowered freight rates on wheat for internal markets as the latter demand, would be a mere drop in the bucket; while raising the import tariff on wheat would be like shutting out imports of dirt. There simply ain't no such animal. the reason for low prices is, as President Coolidge comprehends, the almost complete absence of a foreign market, and consequently a mass of grain, usually exported, tumbled...