Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This consisted of a demand for a formal apology, suitable punishment of those responsible, and "an assurance by the Japanese authorities that necessary measures will be taken to prevent recurrence of events of such a character." The British took no special notice of the fact that it was His Majesty's Ambassador who had been shot in the liver; the note went so far as to say that his diplomatic status was "irrelevant." "The real crime" was that the car's occupants were "non-combatants." The British Foreign Office thus really sidestepped the implications of an attack...
Also Harvard has been able to place students in jobs outside the University where there is a demand...
...first political party in the U. S in its Declaration adopted as part of its platform the demand for 'life, liberty, am the pursuit of happiness.' The Fathers were intellectually honest. They did not promise happiness. They only asserted that for pursuers of happiness freedom would be safeguarded...
...much as the year before. As a result Pure Oil's profit for 1936, $7,658,000 was nearly $500,000 less than in 1935. This year, though Texas has raised its proration. Pure Oil needs all the new production it can get to meet the greatly increased demand...
...trimmed poles of western red cedar, 25 to 35 ft. tall, creosotes them at its Chicago plant and sells them for $5 to $7. The company also manufactures a complete line of cross-arms, insulators, brackets, pins and other power line equipment which happens to be very much in demand by public utilities, now loosening up after years of pinching on maintenance. So last week Joslyn reported something notable: on sales almost doubled since 1936, six months earnings amounted to $573,025, an increase of 250% in one year...