Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...heavens are aiding the U. S. wheat farmer. Wheat futures touched $1.50 on destructive rainfall in Europe and heavier consequent foreign demand for grain in Chicago...
...year ago, U. S. copper producers were inclined to think that only this continent, in the future as in the past, could furnish copper in large amounts when the demand for the red metal revived. Some of them have been treated to a rude shock by the sudden recent prominence in the industry of the Katanga mines in mid-Africa...
...days when farmers were demanding that wheat prices be pegged, not even the farm bloc would have ventured to set the official price at $1.50 a bushel. What the economic vagaries of the farm politicians did not dare, the forces of supply and demand have accomplished, and wheat futures touched that price recently in the open Chicago market...
...this exportable surplus, about 150 million bushels will go to continents other than Europe. According to recent estimates, Europe will need between 554 and 460 million bushels of wheat in 1924-25. Disappointing harvests have occurred in France, Russia and Poland, as a result of excessive rainfall. The European demand is accordingly bidding for wheat, and the result is a buoyant and rising grain market...
...Nevertheless, he is an efficient and successful maestro of impresario, bringing back his San Carlo Opera Company season after season with powers undiminished and spirits unabated. He may possibly hate music, but he loves his company and lives for it alone-which is perhaps all that one ought to demand...