Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...presently rumored in countries adjoining the Soviet Union last week that Dictator Stalin's hated onetime creature Yagoda had been arrested only upon demand of the Red Army in the person of its popular leader Marshal Klimentiy ("Klim") Voroshilov and Marshals Blucher, Yegorov, Tuckachevsky, and Budenny. Up to now the Ogpu has had its own troops, numbering some 240,000, and individually much better equipped than Red Army troops. As the Dictator's elite guards, these have rushed about Russia, here mercilessly mowing down a peasant revolt, there breaking a strike, next subduing a mutinous Red Army unit...
Because the proposal may take at least a year to reach superior councils, plans are under way at the Law School, where the demand is most urgent, for Union Cooperation to provide temporary dining quarters. Entirely a Law School enterprise this student-managed restaurant would be a second alternative should the University not favor demands to use the Gothic structure. Opportunity for students to earn board by waiting and executive work would overcome a serious shortcoming of the higher educational schools, it was emphasized...
...inevitably leads. Does the present policy of the University over-emphasize research at the expense of teaching, and does the College cut off men in their prime whose teaching capacities are admittedly of the highest caliber and promise? Does the University adapt departmental budgets to meet the shifts in demand for various fields that occur from time to time? Is the system of hiring and firing really keeping at Harvard the most promising men, or is talent thrown to the winds merely because no openings can be found for capable instructors, despite the fact that their immediate services are vital...
...second six months of 1938 I anticipate a price of something like $57 a short ton, which is preparatory to $65 for 1939. A price of $65 is not unusual or excessive. In 1925 the price in Canada was $75, although then there was nothing like the demand for pulp for other than news print purposes that there is today. Demand has definitely overtaken supply, and if there is no major international disturb ance, there is nothing can avert an acute shortage in five years' time...
What money has been made in paper in the past few years has been largely made in other types than newsprint, notably kraft and paperboard. Paperboard (boxes) accounts for nearly one-half the total U. S. paper production. So great is the current demand for paperboard containers that prices have jumped about 50% in the past four months, another boost last week carrying quotations to the highest level in ten years...