Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matter Of Marshal Badoglio's steed. Was it bright as the daylight or duller? Some dangerous doubts have been thrown On this animal's actual color, And the truth should be known. . . . There is growing unrest in the nation, The facts should at once be released: I demand a precise explanation Of the tint of Badoglio's beast: Was it mustard perhaps-out of pity For the traces of poisonous gas? Or did he ride into the city On a mule-or an ass? Marshal Badoglio rode into the Ethiopian capital on a small dapple-grey. Last...
...that physical agony were largely academic for the practical reason that two out of three normal births in the U. S: today are accomplished without any form of pain-killer for the mother. Because the great majority of women bear this natural ordeal bravely, they have made no concerted demand for relief in childbed nor have more than a handful of pioneer doctors attempted to give them any. After last week's debate a fair-minded physician would probably come to the following conclusions: 1) Semi-narcosis is still a perfectly reasonable, safe and feasible obstetric help, provided...
Prime cause of the trouble was the demand of coastwise sailors for more pay and better working conditions. To agitate for these ends is nominally the job of the International Seamen's Union of America. which is divided into three districts, Pacific, Atlantic and Great Lakes. The Pacific section came out of the bloody 1934 San Francisco general strike with a pay scale of $62.50 a month, overtime pay, control of their hiring halls. On the east coast, however, the Union remained in conservative hands, wangled only a $57.50 pay scale with no overtime. The rank & file began demanding...
...housing shortage is the first stage. Rents rise higher & higher. People begin to buy houses for speculation, not for use. As rentals continue to climb, it becomes more profitable to build than to buy and residential building starts to boom-the second phase. Feeding on itself, the boom creates demand for additional office space and commercial buildings, the third and final phase of a great boom. "Soon after the peak in commercial building is reached, the feverish activity of the boom will subside," says Mr. Wenzlick. "This period is probably ten years distant. Vacancies will again increase and rents will...
Dean Sperry finds 100% employment of his graduates, Professor Menhinick of the Regional Planning Department of the School of Design discovers not only full employment, but an unsurfeited demand for more technicians, Dean Hudnut of the School of Design writes in this issue in a generally favorable manner, and Dean Donham of the Business School finds 90% employment of his graduates throughout the depression. These reports are highly significant and especially Dean Donham's, whose position makes him uniquely qualified to feel the pulse of business activity...