Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...convivial state he held his first press conference in nearly three weeks, devoted it chiefly to expounding the desirability of the 'Quoddy project, based on his expectation of a 10% to 15% annual growth in electric power demand, new methods of transmission that would take 'Quoddy's output to areas where it could be used. That duty done, he settled back to watch his boys play baseball on the sand, a game which ended with members of the New Brunswick Cabinet taking on an all-U. S. team. Driving home as the fog began to roll...
...grave do M. P.'s consider the European situation that they asked and received Cabinet assurances that the Prime Minister will not leave England. Young Anthony Eden, the luckless Foreign Secretary, had to announce last week that Britain has further capitulated to Italy by abrogating upon specific demand by Benito Mussolini, the Mediterranean naval pacts she made with Greece, Turkey and Yugoslavia as a "Sanction." German Questions as they emerged from the House of Commons' final debate : Is Adolf Hitler ever going to answer the diplomatic questionnaire sent him by Anthony Eden over three months ago? What chance...
Fear of strikes has continued to inspire steel consumers to buy more than they need at the moment, but the insistent and unseasonal demand for metal from U. S. industry has amazed the most sanguine observers. Operations entered August at 71¼% of capacity, highest level in six years. Prospects of a general business upsurge in the autumn are so bright that a brief reaction in steel operations, originally expected last month but now predicted before Labor Day, would probably clear up what little excess steel inventory there is. In Pittsburgh last week the price ol steel scrap forged ahead...
...saved! The Provinces of Andalusia, Valencia, Valladolid, Burgos, Aragon, the Canaries and the Balearic Islands, with their garrisons and civil forces, have joined enthusiastically with us. Only Madrid made an exception in sending its planes to bombard cities and towns without defense, killing women and children. . . . We will demand accounts from them as well as from those still on the fence...
...while $1,900,000,000 is a larger figure for excess reserves than ever recorded prior to 1935, it could be more than wiped out by selling the Reserve System's $2,400,000,000 worth of Government securities. Furthermore, with reserve requirements averaging 15% of demand deposits, the excess $1,900,000,000 will then represent not $19,000,000,000 of potential credit but less than...