Word: demand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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While soft William Green talked, hard John Lewis was acting. Driving on against the second of the automobile industry's Big Three, his U.A.W. lieutenants opened their Chrysler conference with a bold demand for sole recognition, were refused, showed their strength this week by calling a sit-down which closed all of Chrysler's automobile plants in the Detroit area, throwing 55,000 employes out of work. Shut, too, by U.A.W. sit-downs were three Hudson plants employing 10,000 men. In Akron last week a walkout by C.I.O.'s United Rubber Workers closed Firestone Tire & Rubber...
...Queen Mother, the King and Queen and the Earl & Countess of Athlone. This was to consider the draft of a financial settlement for the Duke of Windsor brought from Austria by Sir Walter Monckton, and the Royal Family had to face among other matters the Duke's demand that provision be made not only for himself during his lifetime but for Mrs. Simpson, irrespective of whether he lives or dies. Windsor was in irascible mood last week, perhaps because of the bleak weather in Austria which kept him indoors. Incessantly he telephoned not only Mrs. Simpson but various people...
...museums and its lecture halls, ought to stimulate greater interest in higher education and a deeper appreciation of its services. Next summer, as an aftermath of the Tercentenary, there will probably be an unusually large number of visitors in comparison with former normal years, and consequently a greater demand for guides...
...career as a carver of ship figureheads and as such was neither unknown nor unrewarded. Besides being a ship carpenter his father was also first cousin to famed Dr. Benjamin Rush, best known American physician of his day, signer of the Declaration of Independence. Rush figureheads were in such demand that he employed apprentices to help him chop them out. Among shipowners he was famed for reintroducing the vertical figurehead, a figure that stood upright on the cutwater instead of hanging horizontally over the sea. British ship carpenters stood teetering with sketch pads in little boats to copy the latest...
...largely a series of belated retaliations. In their March 1918 offensive against the British the Germans fired half a million "Yellow Cross" (mustard gas) shells in ten days. In July gas shells constituted half of all German projectiles fired. Their factories could not keep up with this ravenous demand and a shortage ensued which greatly facilitated the victorious advance of the Entente armies. When the Armistice was signed. German ammunition dumps were found to contain less than 1% of mustard gas projectiles...