Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...soon as school opened there was as usual a large demand for case books. Although the Loan Library had been added to last spring by contributions of used books, it was still not sufficient for the students' wants. In order to do the greatest good to the greatest numbers, an effort was first made to distinguish the applicants really in need of this help and then three books were allowed to each of these. A nominal fee of 25 cents is charged for the year's use of a book and an added 25 cents is required as a deposit...
Baseball is gradually supplanting bull fighting in popular favor. Mexican newspapers give more space to baseball than to the time-honored sport of Spain. In Chihuahua there are three large parks in which about 15 teams play daily. It is reported that the demand is largely for the better class of equipment...
...recovered its recent slight recession on heavy London buy. So universal are premiums for early deliveries of steel products that prices for such deliveries are in practice rather meaningless. The Steel Corporation is operating at 92% of capacity. Railroad buying has slowed up, but so great is the demand that the only check to production lies in the shortage of common labor...
Musicians here are concerned over what they deem the decline in prestige of Italian music and musicians. They say that the traditional great demand the world over for Italian singers and instrumentalists and Italian operas is diminishing. This is a matter of something more than mere national pride in Italy. For the Italians music has always meant a very fine profession. A great many musicians have regular and well-paid employment in Italy and a great many more find posts in other countries. The Italians have supplied musicians for a large part of the world...
That there is a decline all over the world in the demand for Italian opera seems doubtful when you consider the prodigious popularity of certain contemporary Italian composers, such as Puccini. Perhaps the point of the matter lies in the fact that no young Italian operatic composer has arisen who seems likely to succeed Puccini in popular vogue, and it may be that the reason for this is to be sought in the turning of newer composers of Italy from the traditional operatic form to symphonic music. Certainly there is a recent great increase in the demand?in America...