Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...your Representatives in Congress know how the loss of NRA will affect you and insist-demand-that everything left by the Court's decision be saved...
...each other. The operators had seen that if they could keep the price of coal high enough they could pay Mr. Lewis' union workers all that he asked. And Mr. Lewis had seen that if the badly overexpanded coal industry could charge high prices, Labor could demand and get a slice of the profits. Only trouble was that from the standpoint of maintaining coal prices, the Soft Coal Code went to pieces some six months ago. Three weeks ago meeting in Washington miners and operators amicably agreed that: "the operators are in no position to make definite commitments...
...opponents, had stung their vanity by insisting that he alone was capable of saving the country. Furthermore he had made no answer at all to definite questions from the opposition early in the afternoon. Two weeks of financial panic had brought forth nothing more specific than a demand for emergency powers with no clear clue as to how those powers would be used...
...permit. If Southern coal fields regain their wage advantage over Northern fields, railroads like Chesapeake & Ohio, Virginian, and Louisville & Nashville will gain traffic, and lines like New York Central, Baltimore & Ohio, Chicago & Eastern Illinois will lose it. Machine tool makers expect a slackening in the recent heavy demand for labor-saving equipment now that wages & hours are purely a matter of private negotiation between employer and employe. Yet employes in machine tool plants would gain by longer hours because a shortage of skilled labor makes a cut in hourly rates a practical impossibility...
...imports and domestic production. Hardly less important was a reduction in the tariff on Cuban sugar from 2? to nine-tenths of a cent per lb. Net result was a closed system (taking in the U.S., its insular possessions and Cuba), in which AAA could dictate supply, if not demand. Western sugar beet growers received a fat quota and benefit payment from a processing tax; duty-free producers in Hawaii, Puerto Rico and the Philippines got higher prices which partly compensated for the reduced tariff advantages; and Cuba, assured of an outlet for about 70% of its sugar at profitable...