Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...committees, a knowledge of how to pass the buck, and a belief in the effectiveness of inaction which usually simplify difficult problems would not settle the question of Harvard's lost sheep. He would have appreciated immediately the pickle which confronts a growing national university, when its local clients demand concessions. He would have understood instantly that delay makes such a social problem rapidly attain momentum. By this time, he would have several ERA projects distracting commuter attention...
...declaring the oil control section of the Recovery Act unconstitutional (TIME. Jan. 14). Instead of his former "authorization" to forbid the shipment of hot oil in interstate commerce, he was directly ordered by law to confiscate any oil so shipped unless he found available supplies inadequate to meet demand...
...bold to postpone Cuba's long-promised elections once more, this time from March 3 to "some time in August." It was more than Cuba's volatile young voters could stand. A combined strike of students and teachers at Havana University was promptly made political, with a demand for the resignations of Mendieta, Batista and two members of the Cabinet. The popping of bombs in Havana suddenly accelerated to a steady sputter. The strike spread swiftly down through Cuba's entire State educational system, including even the National Kindergarten Association, taking in both teachers and students...
...Orders for machine tools, with which other machinery is made, rose from 62% of the 1922-24 average last July to 119% by the year end. Second-hand machinery, always a curse on the industry during depressions, has been disappearing. In January there was a notable pickup in the demand for used steam shovels. A bright spot in new machinery is the traveling crane trade. Higher labor costs have sent businessmen into the machine market but the rise has largely been the result of better business sentiment, heartening industrialists to the point where they will step out and buy modern...
...business cycle's normal upswing and 2) a Government deliberately and avowedly doing everything in its power to inflate. What is more, it has already succeeded in no small measure. Financing of the Federal deficits by swapping Government bonds for bookkeeping credits has helped raise bank demand deposits $6,000,000,000 in less than two years to almost the all-time 1928 high. Record excess bank reserves of more than $2,000,000,000 provide a base for a credit expansion...