Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...offer of $300,000 of Baer brought from the champion a demand for a guarantee, with the privilege of taking a percentage of the gate receipts...
...white, nonmetallic mineral is gypsum. It has been used as a building material throughout history. In raw form its principal use is as a retarder in cement, preventing it from setting too rapidly. It is also in wide industrial demand as a flux in smelting, as ''mineral white" or "terra alba'' in the paper, textile and paint trades. Blackboard chalk is raw, powdered gypsum molded with a binding substance. Pure gypsum is alabaster...
...economic notions. It was shortsighted, said he, to think that the U. S. must embark upon a vast building program to restore prosperity. There was far too much building in the last period of prosperity. Home and industrial construction would pick up when & if business activity created a genuine demand for new quarters. What was more, any building revival was unlikely until both material prices and wages came down. And Mr. Avery went on record with a prediction that there would be a period of deflation before inflation finally set in. That prospect, he declared, now has businessmen "not only...
...perhaps, we should demand why Pembroke was not included in this poll of emotions. --The Tech...
...trying to develop export trade. But last fortnight, Raymond Moley, the President's friend and counselor, published as the lead article in his magazine Today a sharply critical analysis of Japan's scrap buying by Ray Tucker, longtime Washington newshawk. Reporter Tucker concluded that Japan's demand for scrap was unmistakably for the purpose of 1) modernizing her army, 2) hoarding steel in case of war, and 3) constructing naval auxiliaries. "The junk piled up in American backyards during five years of depression," wrote he. "is helping to forge a modern, Oriental fighting machine against...