Word: demand
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Smarter Germans realized that Ufa is practically bankrupt and may possibly go into receivership unless subvened by the Reich Government. Herr Hugenberg is very close to the men back of the present Government-the industrialists. Where the Deutsche Bank can not blatantly demand a subsidy, he can slyly suggest one. And he can repay Reichstag favors by his control of news channels-through his own newspapers, his news agency and, now, his films...
...their wool yield has been largely increased, 16 pounds added to their weight and their lives prolonged six years. Now I have a monkey farm at Mentone on the French Riviera where I am raising monkeys to supply the tremendous number of monkey-glands that the world will soon demand. I use three types of glands: the thyroid, to stimulate the brain; the suprarenal, to stimulate the heart; and the testicular, to animate the entire physical structure...
...elderly shareholder rose to demand: "Will Senator* Marconi cease to speculate in the shares of the company?" Chairman Marconi: "I have not speculated in the company's shares." Old man: "You're a damned liar." The shareholders: "Throw him out!" But Chairman Marconi induced his shareholders to permit the old man to remain...
Piano Profits. President George G. Foster's reason to American Piano Co. (Ampico, Knabe, Chickering, Mason & Hamlin) stockholders for selling $17,666,105 worth of pianos last year and making $1,775,429 profit: "The increasing demand for good music from an appreciative public, which is constantly becoming more intelligent in musical matters...
...realize that this literary effort will not particularly endear me to anyone on the Board, but I do believe that Lampy should demand a higher degree of draughtmanship in his published drawings and I have seen vastly more humorous Lampoon literature than in the current issue...