Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheat acreage reduction pact (TIME, July 3). Last week, after a conference of Australia's State Premiers. Dominion Premier Lyons ("The Man from Tasmania") had good news for Mr. Bruce. Next day the "Big Four" announced themselves agreed on "a policy of temporary adjustment of production ... to world demand, with a view to improving the price of wheat and liquidating the surplus stacks now overhanging the market...
...Fifth-support accorded armed bands which are organized on its territory and which shall have invaded the territory of another State; or refusal, in spite of the demand of the invaded State, to take on its own territory all steps in its power to deprive the bandits aforesaid of all aid or protection...
...Desultory trading continued to 1879 when gold payments were resumed. But from then until last April with the U. S. Government firmly tied to gold there was no incentive to speculate. With the U. S. now off the gold standard, gold miners, lacking a free supply & demand market and confronted with rising costs, are still forced to sell their product to the Government at the pre-inflation rate of $20.67 Per oz. President Roosevelt is being urged to revise his regulations on the grounds that a free gold market at No. 81 Broad St. would 1) do much to lift...
...week, a practice which gave the cellar the name of "Starvation Hollow." Parenthetically one might say here that the motivation behind almost every important item in the early history of the College, and in a lesser sense today, hras arisen out of grave problems of food supply and demand...
...best. An unrepining spinster, at 39 she finds plenty to do; besides her writing she takes an active interest in the Little Theatre movement, in the formation of women's lunch clubs, is in demand as a lecturer (she will lecture in the U. S. next January'), likes walking, badminton, tennis. Other books: The World's Bane, Cat-in-the Manger, The Spinner of the Years, The Partnership, Trio...