Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...future of the motion picture industry will depend on college men," is the opinion of Adolph Zukor, President of Famous Players-Lasky Corporation, Mr. Zukor was speaking to a CRIMSON reporter Saturday, at the conclusion of his address at the Business School. "College trained men are becoming more in demand each year in the picture making business and I see the time not far in advance when they will be demanded exclusively. When I entered this business about 20 years ago, man from college despised motion pictures. To work for such a company was far beneath their dignity. But within...
President Andrew G. Pierce explained: "An average 20% decline in wool prices entailed not only a severe shrinkage in the Value of the company's raw material supplies but automatically affected stock in process and finished goods. This, coupled with the abnormally poor demand for goods, tells the story...
...Demand was poor because people with little money to spend curtailed purchases and those with much money bought silk and rayon. This year the advertising of cotton clothes will seriously affect woolen goods...
...Century Vienna. Love, of course, is the deity referred to by the title. The report, "Missing in action," is her prothalamium. . . . Author Waring is not just clever. He writes with scrupulous attention to his main obligations-sharp characters, vivid atmosphere, swift plot and plenty of it. Grant his one demand, Freya's incredible ambivalence, and he repays with corking entertainment...
...foreign sales of face powders, rouges and creams have developed promisingly in Latin American countries, led by Cuba," the Society summarized. "Men as well as women in these countries are much given to the use of scents and lotions." Chinese women demand U. S. hair lotions and nail polishes. U. S. dentrifices are the best in the world...