Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Means. To accomplish this Dr. Ezekiel saw that planning would be necessary. Boards would have to be set up in each industry to see how much it could produce. These figures would have to be adjusted to the public demand for each industry's goods. Wages would have to be adjusted up and prices down so that the number of dollars in the public's pockets would equal the value of all goods produced. That such a national blueprint of abundance could be drafted and carried out by voluntary agreement of industry, Dr. Ezekiel doubted. That it could...
Moderate Premier Azaña had anticipated Companys' States' Rights demands, but he was flabbergasted last week by another demand of the Left parties that had put him into power. It was that Spanish employers be forced to take back every employe they had dismissed since Jan. 1, 1934, for any reason whatsoever. This demand covered not only Socialist work men who had murdered loyal employes and bosses during the revolutionary troubles but also embezzling cashiers and dimwit incompetents...
...demand that the management of Rockefeller Center be kidnapped, investigated, calumniated, and thrown into jail. Especially Mr. Rockefeller Jr., who has been one of my greatest enemies for years. SATAN
...belief that a brilliant opportunity for service and achievement lies ahead for the trained college graduate of 1936 who accepts the interesting opportunities today afforded by the public service. Regardless of the protection of Civil Service or other efforts to combat spoils system practices, such young men are in demand not only in government, but also in public organizations (such as the growing number of associations of government officials and the like) and private industry. Indeed, the future might very well reveal to us that the two-sided experience of a young man who has been trained in public service...
...sharp dip in automobile production, operations had actually risen five points since the year end. U. S. steel shipments for January showed an unexpected increase of nearly 60,000 tons over the previous month. The price of scrap, steel's principal raw material, was still rising. Better demand for structural steel was expected, since building contracts were holding 60% above the 1920-30 average and more than 100% above a year ago. More important, railroads, already in the market for rails and rolling stock, were counted on for the biggest steel orders in years...