Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...harvest moon, the round face of Tory Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill rose in the House of Commons seven weeks ago to demand a parliamentary investigation. To wreck the Indian Reform Bill he had counted heavily on a report of the Manchester Chamber of Commerce on Japanese dumping and the fall of British cotton exports to India. The final report was mild as milk. Tory Churchill roundly insisted that it had been changed from its original draft after the Manchester cotton men had been feted, fed & flattered by Sir Samuel Hoare. a Secretary of State for India, and Lord Derby...
...libraries. Behind silver-rimmed spectacles his blue eyes are spring cool. Thin-lipped, with a slow, warm, easy smile, he talks softly in a rich baritone. He is an unspectacular but able public speaker, much in demand. For an opener he can generally get a laugh with this old chestnut: "A mugwump is a fellow with his mug on one side of the fence and his wump on the other." In personal life Harold Dodds might be any one of 10,000 college professors, except that he has no children. For fun and exercise he plays golf; a 90 delights...
...York University-George Ogden Trenchard, Jules Blackman and Andrew Lavell Jackson, great-grandson of Thomas Jonathan ("Stonewall") Jackson and onetime editor of Bradstreet. Working in Wall Street by day and plugging for Ph.D.'s by night, they absorbed Professor Haney's theories of forecasting business by analyzing demand-supply factors, amplified his statistical methods, established the service just a year ago. Their clients already include nearly every big Manhattan bank, countless brokers, such major industrials as General Motors and International Harvester...
...such factors as reliability, seasonal variations, money, politics. In an industry like steel, for which no inventory figures are available, the wobbles of thick, black chart lines tell the story. The supply index is based on the American Iron & Steel Institute's published statistics of ingot production. The demand index, which anticipates the trend of actual consumption up to three months, is calculated on figures from steel's customers-automobiles, railroads, building, oil. Gross railroad income furnishes a clue to probable purchases of rails and equipment. Building permits and contract awards hint at that industry's future...
Speaking as one who had "now and then spent time on the technical problems which arise when science and industry meet," President Conant said, "It seems that whatever sort of social and economic order lies ahead of us, society will demand the luxuries and conveniences afforded by modern technology." In regard to the engineer's functions of the future, he was of the opinion that their ideals and standards may have a determining effect upon society at some not very distant date, and that much may depend upon the way they look at life...