Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ring, who was wearing for this popular occasion scarcely any of his medals, and these few on the brown shirt of a simple Storm Trooper, roared that "the courts" will deal with former Austrian Chancellor Schuschnigg because he "criminally" ordered a "fake plebiscite," later canceled on the demand of Hitler (TIME, March 21). "None of Schuschnigg's supporters died for their convictions!" jeered Daredevil Göring. "But some of them fled with the cash box! . . . The tyrant was swept away and our troops marched in as brothers of a liberated people." Since there were undoubtedly hundreds, probably thousands...
...Continuing his efforts to satisfy the demand for more credit facilities, first enunciated by the small businessmen's conference in February, Franklin Roosevelt appointed Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. head of a committee to study the problem and prepare a program for its solution. The committee: James Roosevelt, SEC Chairman William O. Douglas, RFC Chairman Jesse H. Jones, and Vice Chairman Ronald Ransom of the Federal Reserve Board...
...continued to woo his elusive angel with promises the Digest's circulation would be all the better for being pared from 465,000 to a solid, potentially-profitable 300,000 by doing away with combination and bulk sales. Against liabilities of $1,492,056 (including a $60,000 demand note to Funk & Wagnalls-original Literary Digest publishers-$63,000 for paper, $30,000 for printing, $612,000 to readers for paid-up subscriptions), the Digest listed assets of $850,923,: cash on hand, $222,293; mailing lists, furniture, machinery, $377,794; deferred charges, $160,821; goodwill...
...continuous strip steel mill. A 21-acre pile in Cleveland's desolate Cuyahoga River valley, the new $15,000,000 plant can turn out 70,000 gross tons of steel a month, but it employs a maximum of 2,000 men. And under last week's slim demand for steel, the mill operated smoothly with scarcely a man in sight for a quarter-mile at a stretch...
With Yard squirrels romping beneath the elms, soft zephyrs whistling through the Lowell House bells, and even finding their way through the dusty windows of Widener, comes the inevitable demand for a Freshman Soft-ball Baseball league. This year, as in the past, elaborate preparations have been made for its success; managers have been appointed, a preliminary enrollment made, and a tentative schedule drawn up. But this year, too, as in the past, the danger that early-season hustling and bustling will peter out, that teams will play one game and then fold up, and that the whole thing will...