Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the elder J. P. Morgan created the U. S. Steel Corp., he sent blocks of the new stock to his clients with a demand for their checks forthwith. They complied. J. P. Morgan clients do not refuse J. P. Morgan offerings...
...Excellency," rapped the Kaiser stiffening, "I demand from my generals in writing a statement that the army is no longer under the command of its Supreme War Lord...
...April, but that this report was based, in turn, upon unusually late motoring weather. The 30 other stocks were, however, indubitable evidence of the bankers' determination to make a market. And the higher-than-ever seat price could not be discounted as a phenomenon of supply and demand. The majority of seat buyers lately has not consisted of youngsters experimenting with their patrimony or carrying on a family tradition, but of the shrewdest, toughmindedest, kind of traders and market students, and of keen younger men enlisted and financed by the old houses to cope with voluminous business, present...
...cocked a-wind for competitive drifts, he always goes his own way, explains nothing. The current this time is not of necessity pushed by Chevrolet with its daily production of 3,000 cars, nor by the new Overland Whippet, nor yet by the threat of small foreign models. The demand for Fords has abated, although not so much as some journalistic conjecture would have...
...voice has been lifted against any of them. And yet the moralists go down into a remote corner of the town, where men and women are as tough as stale beefsteaks, and demand that the lid be clapped on the innocent spectacle of a fat girl shaking her middle...