Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...movement for a wage advance to textile operatives in New England (of whom there are over 300,000) gathered impetus by the formal demand of the Fall River Textile Council for an increase of 15% in wages to become effective April 2. Fall River has 36,000 workers employed in 111 textile mills. About half of these workers belong to the Textile Council and about half to the United Textile Workers, who asked for a 29% increase a few weeks...
...study of economics may have a definitely vocational purpose. There is a large and growing demand for well trained economists, not only as teachers, but in business as well. Business becomes a more and more intellectual calling as civilization advances and the industrial system becomes more and more complicated. Problems of investment, of valuation, of coordinating the factors of production, of forecasting business tendencies, are not solved by men whose chief qualification is the ability to "hustle". They are solved by men who have a grasp of facts and principles, and the ability to think. That is why trained economists...
...movement; the Government would follow an autonomous policy. Italian workmen accompanied by a priest on their way to Belgium were maltreated in Bavaria by a crowd who were under the impression that they were distined for the Ruhr. Premier Mussolini has instructed th Italian Ambassador in Berlin to demand exemplary punishment of th ringleaders, with compensation fo the victims. The message inform Germany that Italy will not permit the molestation of her subjects an will defend them, whatever the consequences...
...cotton's recent extraordinary advance in price. Spinners' takings last week were 205,000 bales, compared with 184,000 bales for the same week in 1922; similar figures for the season are 9,012,000 bales this year as against 8,483,000 last year. While demand has thus been increasing, supply has been diminishing. The "visible supply" lost 91,000 bales compared with 46,000 for the same period last year; the American supply of cotton now amounts to only" 2,651,000 bales as compared with 3,907,000 a year...
...rates on these certificates by which the nation's floating debt has been financed, have proved a remarkably accurate index to prospective as well as present conditions in the money market. The rates on the present issue of certificates have, like the Reserve rediscount rates, recognized the increasing demand for money by an advance over the previous rate-on the other hand, it is reasonable to suppose that the Treasury foresees only a moderately increased expansion of loans during the coming year, and in consequence money rates only slightly above those now obtaining...