Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only a few days ago I noted an item in the papers which I thought very significant. It told of increased activity in the textile mills. One reason, said the newspaper account, was the demand for textiles in the manufacture of automobiles. There you have the complete chain. The cotton-growing South, with more money to spend, buys new automobiles. The automobile makers buy more cotton goods from manufacturers in the Northeast and these manufacturers in turn go into the market for more cotton. . . . "Lifting prices on the farm up to the level where the farmer and his family...
...first place there is a large and growing demand for this sort of training from those working in or around Boston, and who have not the money nor the time to take a full college course. These people want a specialized education along certain lines and Harvard is well equipped to fill this demand...
...employing 800 hands. The population cheered, paraded around the village common. Gilbertville, once a model industrial town, has been depressed since its mills closed four years ago. ¶ At Winchendon, Mass. some 500 men & women worked in two 8-hour shifts to supply a record-making toy demand. Leading items: hobbyhorses and miniature baby grand pianos. ¶ Allegheny Steel reported a 1935 (ten months) increase in alloy sales of 16% by volume, 18% by dollars. Allegheny specializes in "Allegheny and Ascoloy Metals," chromium nickel stainless steel alloys. ¶ In the year ended Oct. 31, 1935, U. S. railroads abandoned only...
...royalties. By that time the War was on, business was good, and in 1916 Mr. Lashar purchased Parsons Non-Skid Co. Ltd., of London, became international leader in his special field. American Chain made all kinds of chains, including chains for anchors. With German U-boats creating an abnormal demand for new shipping, American Chain worked out a semi-automatic process for quick anchor-chain production, supplied the entire Wartime anchor-chain requirements of the U. S. Government. Shortly after the Armistice, Mr. Lashar issued an advertisement headed "The Honor in Our Discharge from the Service," said that the company...
With the return of more stable conditions, explained Professor Kemmerer, gold would come out of hoarding throughout the world, the demand for the metal would ease, prices would consequently continue to rise. If the dollar had not been cut to 59?, U. S. prices might only return to pre-Depression levels. Now, however, prices would not only recover to former levels in terms of Roosevelt dollars but, to make up for the slash in the gold content of the U. S. monetary unit, would mount another...