Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Heard Congressman George Holden Tinkham, of Massachusetts, demand investigation of alleged propaganda fund raised to support Kellogg Peace Treaty. Heard a 1930 War Department appropriation of $435,428,415 reported by the Military Affairs Committee. The appropriation provides for a U. S. army of 118,750 enlisted men and 12,000 officers...
...wondered at. An American university is a coolbed of conservatism. It is not the breeding-ground for cultural and political revolutions as it is in Europe. Our professors are by nature prudent, our students docile. This pleases American parents who, when they entrust their progeny to others demand intellectual safety first and last. At Harvard the last symptom of vigorous eruptive life ceased with the death of the Medfacs. In such an atmosphere any new venture must steel itself to criticism. If a Radcliffe student suffers from morbid depression and a copy of McDougall is found on her shelves...
...with tourists. 4) The authority of the Crown and the extent of the crown lands are still so vaguely defined that in practice the Prince-and in his name the Casino Syndicate-has frequently acted in a manner arbitrary, unjust, scandalous. Finally the resigned and angry councilors made formal demand upon Prince Pierre that he summon his father-in-law Prince Louis from Paris and set up a commission to investigate and right the wrongs of the 22,153 Monégasques...
...cylinder-in-line air-cooled engine (the other Wrights are radial air-cooled) for small gadabouts.† Usufructs of this astute advertising: people have bought twice as many planes as last year; next year they will buy twice as many as this; and they may naturally be expected to demand the motors they know most about...
...industry today suffers from overproduction, with its attendant fierceness of competition among more than 3,000 established oil companies. There are in this country about 320,000 oil wells with a potential daily production of about 3,000,000 barrels of oil. During 1926 the average daily domestic demand for crude oil was slightly over 2,000,000 barrels. Total 1926 production of about 770,000,000 barrels left a surplus of about 25,000,000 barrels. Inasmuch as the oil industry had been overproducing every year since 1918, there were on hand large surplus stocks of oil. During...