Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lawyers should get no more than one third of personal injury damages won. (Usually they demand one half...
...this year have given a new spurt to the U.S. amusement industry. But Warner Brothers have had very few houses of their own. Whereas their sound-picture rival Fox Film (with Movietone) has steady customers in the allied Fox Theatres, Warner Brothers have been obliged to depend upon the demand, insistent although it has been, of strange and invidious exhibitors. With Stanley Co. and First National Pictures it can stand shoulder to shoulder with other great amusement sellers-Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Loew...
...find reformers and nostrum dispensers digging far more deeply than necessary to find the cause and suggest the cure for student ailments. When a properly qualified person enters the field, and suggests a probable, though simple cause, he is ignored merely because he is not spectacular enough. The tabloids demand at least a scandal, and the serious-minded expect a psychological complication of the most severe sort...
...third of the Senators in the Danish Landsting (Senate) were elected last week for an eight-year term. The other two-thirds were elected four years ago for an eight-year term. Last week's voting resulted in slight gains for the Socialist-Pacifists (who demand abolition of the Danish army), and cut down from ten to four the majority in the Landsting now held by Liberal Prime Minister Thomas Madsen-Mygdal. The Folketing (Lower House) was elected two years ago for a four-year term...
Call money for transactions on the New York Stock Exchange reached 9% one day last week. That enticed vast new sums for loaning and retarded trading. Less trading caused less demand for the horde of money. So the call rate dropped the next day to 8%, to 7 1/2%. That in turn gave traders a chance to make money on stock deals. They scrambled. When the day was over they had swapped more than 4,700,000 shares. Motors and oils were popular. Someone bought $6,000,000 of General Motors stock in a single deal. There were other large...