Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Depression has meant a terrific deflation of students' incomes, and a similar deflation of the return upon the University's invested endowments. The increased demand for scholarships has been faced with a dwindling supply of funds. Scholarship funds declined from the peak of $196,000 reached in 1930 to $168,000, a sum which was distributed to 547 of the 1,000 eligible applicants...
...Macy & Co. announced that in the past six months their German orders had declined 98%. Hence, the biggest department store in the U. S. was closing its Berlin purchasing office, moving to Prague. Few days later Bernard F. Gimbel announced: "There now being practically no demand for German merchandise Gimbel Brothers, Inc. have discontinued buying German goods." Other big Manhattan department stores which have closed their Berlin offices or otherwise stopped buying German goods include Lord & Taylor, which led off the boycott last autumn, Bloomingdale Brothers, Best & Co. and Hearn...
...Hundreds of companies have given representation to their men through plant committees or so-called 'company unions'. In many of these same plants labor unions claim the membership of a majority of the men and demand the right to represent them. The crucial issue is: Who represents the men? If this one issue could be settled, other matters would cause no insurmountable difficulties...
...Railroad Company is not in effect. Round trip tickets limited to a period of 30 days are on sale, but in most cases students will have to leave Boston on Tuesday or Saturday if they wish to take advantage of the lower prices. Owing to the small demand the Coop has discontinued its usual practice of handling tickets the week before vacation...
...Wrigley, Beech-Nut, and American Chicle, which together make about 95% of all the gum chewed in the U. S., that clause is no burden. National advertising has built up their consumer demand. But when Tom Huston's salesmen approach a retailer with an unknown brand like Julep the retailer wants a money-back agreement in case the gum does not sell. Tom Huston says that none of his 40,000 retail outlets have ever called on him to make good his money-back agreement, but that in new territory his salesmen cannot sell without...