Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...usual harvest of ancient neckties added a festive note to the heap of habiliments viewed yesterday by a CRIMSON reporter. He was informed that these adornments, no matter how aged were always in demand, either among the Syrians of the Near East or the Ainus of the Far East. The most presentable suits will be kept for the poverty stricken of the United States, some of them being distributed in the vieinu of Cambridge...
...return for these allowances, Colonel Thompson will probably urge the U. S. to demand: 1) That the Filipinos postpone their independence dreams indefinitely; 2) That they withdraw their government in Manila from private business enterprises; 3) That they amend their land laws so as to aid in the large scale development of the rubber industry (in such event, the U. S. Congress will not interfere with these laws); 4) That stronger U. S. control be exercised in the Moro districts to prevent Filipino high-handed rule...
...take care of the crop surplus by government marketing aid, but Mr. Meredith's price-fixing scheme aims to eliminate the surplus by insuring a balanced production. Said he: "By raising and lowering the prices of these crops from year to year, as the law of supply and demand indicates, and relying upon the law of incentive, a balance can be kept and continuous surpluses avoided." Next day, Mr. Meredith turned political interpreter and said that "Progressive Democrats from the West and South" would rally behind William Gibbs McAdoo for President on a Dry platform. Mr. Meredith has always...
...natural gas supplies of the U. S. are rapidly approaching exhaustion and the known oil pools are estimated to hold only a six-year reserve against the present demand. But there are deposited in the U. S. over one and a half trillion tons of bituminous coal, a little more than half of the whole world's fields.* It is tempting, hoarded energy which industry has been demanding, more and more insistently, be transmuted into forms other than heat...
Heat. Gas made from coal produces more heat, for its money, than does electricity. Even in communities where electrical heat has been introduced, there has been no apparent lessening of coal-gas demand, these pokers into the possibilities of coal declared...