Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...farm bill: A new Federal Board with $500,000,000 in credits. Farm producers would join in cooperative associations to which the Federal Board would loan money at 4%. With this money the cooperatives would buy and hold enough of the crop to keep the supply down to the demand, thus eliminating a surplus, keeping up prices. Off-season they would dribble out for sale their crop holdings at a steady price. Likewise, to get more of the consumer's dollar, they would market their own produce and thereby squeeze out haphazard, wasteful methods of independent middlemen...
...Legislation. Being new, the 71st Congress sought to undertake many another task than those for which it was called. Plans were laid for legislation to repeal the national origins provision of the immigration law, effective July 1, to reapportion the House of Representatives, to provide for the 1930 census. Demand was also heard for measures on flood control, prohibition, conservation, Wall Street speculation. Ambitious House members had hopefully prepared more than 300 bills for introduction...
...rounded out the six years of service after which the average automobile retains no great expectation of life. It is estimated that 15% of U. S. families have two automobiles and 8% have three. Exported automobiles totaled 13.7% of production in 1928, should greatly increase in 1929. Thus the demand for the motorcar remains healthy, and Hoover prosperity is expected to provide the purchase price...
Therefore, on May 3, 1926, President Gerardo Machado y Morales of Cuba announced a new and corrective policy. Cuba, largest (22% of total) world producer, would limit its planting. Thus, argued Cubans, would supply be brought down to demand. Thus would prices mount, profits increase...
...carbon copies legible through the medium of a stub pen required a firm, indeed a strong, hand. Strong-handed, Banker Mitchell is also strongwilled. Last week he halted a collapse on the Stock Market, "slapped the Federal Reserve Board squarely in the face," heard Virginia's Senator Glass demand his resignation from the directorate of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, announced the absorption of Farmers' Loan & Trust Co. by his National City, and regained his position (briefly lost by the Guaranty Trust-Bank of Commerce merger) as head of largest U. S. bank...