Word: demanded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...demand for Indian scouts being low, 93-year-old Ben Buffalo, who was with Custer before the Battle of the Little Big Horn, applied for unemployment compensation in Ohio...
...reported that in 1948, its best year yet, registered sales of purebred Holsteins reached a record total of 61,539 (there were all sorts of guesses on how many more sales went unregistered). Almost half of the animals had been exported, the largest number to the U.S., whose big demand for Holstein and other breeding stock has made Canada a leading exporter in the business. The rest went to 18 different countries, most of them in Latin America...
...clients. Five years later he was on their payroll. Since then Susaeta has made two trips a year through the hemisphere, has sold Holsteins from Puerto Rico to Argentina. Venezuela and Uruguay are his steadiest customers. Elsewhere sales have increased in direct ratio to urbanization, which has boosted the demand for milk...
...Government's Shasta Dam. It hoped to boost transmission enough so that last year's power shortage would not occur again. In addition, the Government hoped to step up California's Central Valley Project's capacity enough to take care of another big spurt in demand...
...Oscar L. Chapman, who last week called for a doubling of the U.S.'s generating capacity in the next ten years. Chapman thought that the U.S. would be short of power for years. Private utility companies disagreed. They guessed there would soon be a surplus, unless a new demand was created. To create that demand, the Edison Electric Institute last week started a nationwide drive for all-electric kitchens...