Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...prime demand of last year's B. E. F. was "Bonus or Jobs." Last week President Roosevelt deflated still further the bonuseers' purposes by offering them jobs...
...York since it was stilled by the death of the 72nd Congress last March. Short, swart, muscular Fiorello Henry La Guardia, insurgent Republican from Manhattan's Italian district who lost his House seat to a Tammany man in the Roosevelt landslide, raised his voice loudly to demand public support for one of the most startling coalition tickets ever proposed...
...between three and four million gallons, specialists judge. But there are only twelve million gallons of governmentally bonded whiskey in distillery warehouses. Whiskey must be stored at least four years before sale under government seal. Only four and one-half million gallons, little over a year's estimated demand, of such bonded drinks legally exist. But that supply is 16 and more years old. Wholesale prices quoted last week for cases of 24 pint bottles included: WTood-ford Bourbon $27.50, King Cole Bourbon $35, Old Quaker Bourbon $38.50, Old Quaker Rye $42.50, Golden Wedding $43.50, Gibson...
Shrewd U. S. businessmen feared only that industrial production may exhaust consumer demand before buying power slowly revives. But pleasing facts were: a 2.7% March-to-April rise in factory employment, a 4.4% rise in payrolls in the State of New York, both contrary to the usual season trend: an announcement by Rhode Island's labor commissioner that industrial employment rose 5.6% in April, that at the close of the month it stood nearly 10% above a year ago. Only Rhode Island industry reporting no gain was jewelry. Another consumer index was the Federal Reserve's figure...
...principle on which the good in the bill rests is this: where there are large monetary and credit facilities not being used because prices are slow or are falling, agreements to do away with cut-throat competition may, in many cases, actually increase demand and make possible an increase in output, by taking advantage of the speculative nature of rising prices...