Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...control such a surplus, the Board, through the co-operative marketing associations, would first loan money from the fund to help withhold the crop until domestic demand increased, or to "dump" the surplus abroad. In effect, the Government would thus be a buyer and seller of grain...
...Immediately upon the announcements, demand developed in Manhattan for stocks of the Chase National Bank, which owns the Chase Securities Corp. The bank is considering the issuing of new stock carrying unusual privileges. Simultaneously the price of Guaranty Trust shares rose. And that gave face to a rumor, unsupported, that the two banks might merge...
This roundabout suggestion of Federal investigation followed the positive demand made in Manhattan last week by the executive committee of the National Association of Retail Meat Dealers that the Federal Trade Commission study the business methods of all chain store organizations. The butchers accuse the chain stores of misleading advertisements, false bargain sales, short weights and price cutting...
...Last week the Berlin correspondent of the American Medical Association Journal reported that these findings had led Dr. Stock to demand a ban on copper amalgam...
...course, aided the company's growth. Although he sold copper to the Government at half its market value, the Great War demand and the elimination of costly selling-methods gave the corporation great profits. But they were only incidental to his War efforts. Incidental also was the construction of 30 miles of railroad in Wisconsin. The road cost $12,000,000 and carried the precious spruce, logged in Wisconsin, to the tracks of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad, which carried them to the airplane-factories which Mr. Ryan was supervising for the Government. That the 30 miles...