Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Secretary of Agriculture Wallace: We demand that the farmers shall be guaranteed a market at fair prices for their produce...
...spring, when the first boat goes down the river, the doctor goes with it to visit his brother, who runs the biggest hospital in Montreal. Called on for a speech at a medical banquet, Dr. Luke commits a faux pas by using the opportunity to demand a hospital for Moosetown. When he gets back, he finds that the trading company which runs Moosetown has put the town sheriff on his track for practicing medicine without the license he is too poor to pay for and has installed a resident physician of its own. It appears to Dr. Luke that...
...each article such practical questions as the apparent demand for college men, general qualifications, opportunities for training while working will be included...
...Government's. Last week Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau announced the largest single offering of Government securities for cash in U. S. peacetime history-a $650,000,000 issue of long-term bonds with a 2¾% coupon and $600,000,000 in five-year 1½% notes. Demand for these was so brisk that Secretary Morgenthau was able to close his books after the first day. An additional $559,000,000 in bonds or notes were offered in exchange for an issue maturing in April, bringing the total operation to $1,809,000,000. Since...
...Much of it, I feel, comes from the sense of personal frustration and tragedy which accompanies the feeling that one has 'sold out' to the forces of materialism which keep prodding an author to 'produce.' Many writers yield to the publishers' request for a second book to meet the demand caused by the popularity of a successful first attempt. The quality of their work usually suffers, their reputation wanes, and their outlook on life becomes warped and caustic...