Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farmers' demand were not insistent, it is doubtful whether the Administration would ever have favored the Tincher bill, because there is some doubt whether the revolving fund will revolve or will merely fritter away into frozen loans. Many farmers do not want their co-operatives to be saddled with these loans, much preferring a gift of $375,000,000 at once, and then a division of any losses above that by means of the tax against all producers...
...Lockout-Strike." The long standing causa belli was, of course, the long standing demand of the British Coal Miners' Federation for continuance of the seven-hour day and a national minimum wage scale 33 1/3% above the pre-War wage...
Industrially, the business situation is irregular, even though statistical curves in the main keep on an upward trend. Customers are doing leisurely buying, and manufacturers keeping production near demand. Many commodity prices, especially of foods, receded slightly during the week. In April, butter, lard, lead, zinc, cotton, print cloths and rubber reached their lows for the year. This happened to copper, hides and beef at the end of March. Gasoline and crude oil have mounted with the opening of the season...
...British coal strike (see FOREIGN NEWS) may result in foreign demand for U. S. bituminous coal. During the four-month British strike five years ago the U. S. exported 4,000,000 tons of bituminous monthly to England...
...Rowell emphasizes the vividity with which the menace of yellow inundation strikes the inhabitants of our west coast. There are no way stations between them and China. Systematic immigration or even loosely administered restriction would inevitably turn California Asiatic. Westerners demand absolute protection from such a possibility before they will even think of the larger aspects of the matter. And this protection is conceded them. Further than this, there is nothing specific which can be done to define the relations of the white man to the yellow. The progress of comity awaits a superstructure of fellowship to be built with...