Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...part of the debt that has accumulated through the years by issuing these popular parodies, but the results were far from encouraging. The tax collector of Cambridge has served notice on Lampy that the taxes must be paid within a week, and it is under pressure of this demand that the proposition with the CRIMSON was renewed with added vigor...
...deep black stood her three surviving children, bearded Cornelius, long-faced Gertrude (Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney), dark Gladys (Countess Szechenyi). Officiating with Dr. Brooks was Rt. Rev. Ernest Milmore Stires, Episcopal Bishop of Long Island, who once was rector of St. Thomas' and who is more in demand at the baptisms, marriages and funerals of the rich than Bishop Manning of New York...
...Last week Col. Prector, 72, lay critically ill of pnemonia in a Cincinnati hospital. †A by-product of soap is glycerine. During Depression, prices of glycerine dropped so low that soap makers let it run down the sewers. An unprecedented demand for anti-freeze mixtures during the winter, a pick-up in the use of industrial explosives and war talk has made the price of crude glycerine from a low of 4? per lb. in 1933 to about...
...form a new Cabinet, and another, and another. Only when France gives her Premier the club of Dissolution will the Deputies coalesce into two great parties, one to criticize and one to lead--to formulate and drive to the statute book the comprehensive legislative programs which the times demand...
...began accumulating large rye commitments, sat back to wait for a price rise. On April 1 they had good news. The rye crop was reported in the poorest condition in 55 years. Persistent lack of rain had parched the grain fields of the Dakotas, biggest of U.S. rye producers. Demand for rye on the other hand, normally 35,000,000 bu. per year, would be bigger, since at least 5,000,000 bu. were needed in the whiskey trade. Only one factor disturbed the waiting traders as they contemplated their market-millions of bushels of Polish rye in bonded warehouses...