Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seized on an omission in Stalin's reply to U.S. Newspaperman Kingsbury Smith. Smith had asked what Stalin's terms were for calling off the blockade. Stalin's answer made no men tion of the issue of Berlin's currency, his major earlier demand. In the U.N. lounge, Jessup met Malik and asked: Was the omission accidental? Malik said he would find...
...Republicans' Joe Martin stepped across the aisle and whispered to Marcantonio. Vito got to his feet and demanded teller vote on his measure. Republicans stood as a man to support this demand, then filed down the aisle to be counted against the bill. Thus, angry and embarrassed Administration leaders were forced to make a public record of the fact that out & out reinstatement of labor's cherished Wagner Act was beaten by the House by an overwhelming 275 to 37 vote...
...rebuilding volume than early price reductions. It would appear that many appliance retailers have found their sales off as much as 50% [in 1949]. However, [price reductions] are about the one thing the manufacturers are unwilling to face . . . Relatively little has been done to meet the public's demand for lower prices. The only question seems to be whether industry will move in quickly and do the needed thing or whether it will invite a couple of seasons of bad business and then finally have to take even deeper cuts...
Before the plan can be expanded, however, the individual departments will have to be convinced that it is needed. And the best way to convince them is through forceful student demand...
...storable goods, however, prices to the consumer under the new plan would be allowed to vary, according to supply and demand. If this market price falls below the government support price, the government will send the farmer a cheek for the difference...