Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...only has the supply diminished but the demand has increased. Many of the older men who used to do the work year after year are still in the service, and new men are needed to take their places...
...foolish to expect industry, however willing it may be, to create jobs arbitrarily out of pure patriotism. A few thousand can be taken care of in this way, but the majority of the surplus labor can only be absorbed through increased production founded upon the solid basis of increased demand for products. The real remedy to this pressing situation must come through the stop-page of the streams of labor which are constantly adding their volumes to the idle army already tramping the streets in search of work...
...Radio School, $12,756.17; special furniture, $11,129.81; coal and special men's furnishings, $7,663.91; reg-special men's furnishings, $7,663.96; regular furniture, $7,198.03; and athletic goods, $1,008.84. At the Technology Branch Store the largest item was stationery, while books were next in demand...
...have struggled with the increasing difficulties until completely overwhelmed with their enormity; their cries for help have echoed in the empty rooms, and have penetrated into the Yard and the various dormitories. But the ears of the collegiate body and of the authorities have failed to catch the cogent demand of the tones. No assurances of aid, at any rate, had arrived in April...
...University of Wisconsin, in response to a great demand among the students, has just completed plans for the erection of a Union. This draws our attention to the fact that our own Union is not in as flourishing circumstances as it might be. Even before the war the expenses were becoming harder and harder to meet. The membership had declined. It was proposed to make membership compulsory among the students in order to meet the annually increasing deficit, but the plan was never carried out. The war and the Radio School coming at just this period, it was found convenient...