Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Relief speech. He mentioned that, in 1921, the Republican Secretary of Agriculture (Henry Cantwell Wallace) recommended the first of the fiercely-disputed McNary-Haugen Bills and that President Coolidge vetoed the two McNary-Haugen Bills which Congress passed. He contended Herbert Hoover favored U. S. agricultural production for Home Demand, as opposed to World Demand. He said...
...inadequacies as a playwright, there are seldom, in his opera, those fearful stretches, common in the works of the worst dramatists, in which nothing is happening and nothing seems likely to. His plays are always full of motion and noise which carry with them a crude but undeniable demand for attention. Gang War deals with the adventures of a beer king who is engaged in guerrilla fighting with members of a rival bootlegging concession. Also, he has two frails, of whom one gets quickly killed. So does the beer king and many another. In the last act one gang drops...
...herself. But rayon has taught U. S. women and men to desire more real silk. This is also true of pearls. The U. S. and France sell the artificial ones. Thus people learn the beauty of the real ones and buy-from Mexico, Ceylon, Arabia. Into this double pearl demand Japan has insinuated itself. Work people drop a grain of irritant into an oyster's shell. A kind of hard felon develops in the oyster. It is a cultured pearl...
Mules. In two record days on the Fort Worth (Tex.) mule mart, sales totaled $600,000, with prices ranging from $75 to $325 a span. Operators reported the demand steady, the supply abundant...
Chief product of International Paper Co. has been newsprint. In 1927, its mills produced more than 800,000 tons of paper and pulp. Each year the newsprint demand, particularly in the U. S., rises higher (7% more in 1928 than in 1927), yet so prolific are the mills of the paper companies that the supply always exceeds the demand. Last spring, mills were operating at only 84.4% of capacity. An artificial combine to keep the price of newsprint at $65 a ton collapsed when some members of the combine made a slick deal with Publisher William Randolph Hearst. A price...