Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Planter, who normally raises 90 bales of cotton, steps up and promises to raise only 60 this year. Secretary Wallace gives him an option on 30 bales of Government cotton at 6? per lb., the current market price. When hundreds of thousands of John Planters repeat this process, cotton demand starts to exceed cotton supply and prices (in theory) spurt up to 8? or 10? or 12? per lb. Next autumn John Planter orders Secretary Wallace to sell his option cotton, makes a tidy profit to compensate him for the 30 bales he never raised. If the cotton market fails...
Twice last week British Ambassador Sir Esmond Ovey clapped his hat on his bald, aristocratic head and left his Moscow Embassy. First he went over to the office of Foreign Commissar Maxim Litvinov to demand the immediate release of four British engineers: W. H. Thornton, W. H. MacDonald, John Cushny, and one Gregory, still held in Soviet jails last week on charges of sabotage (TIME, March...
These items enter into the rehabilitation of the beer manufacturing industry but do not include large secondary effects from beer retailing. Hotels and restaurants have reason to expect increased income with beer sales. Other drinking places must be built and remodelled. All must have new equipment. Items for which demand was last week reported high...
...companies. Clarence Edward Groesbeck, his president, was picked to succeed him. And for Chairman Groesbeck the job will not be easy, for Bond & Share's four big affiliated holding companies, American Power & Light, National Power & Light, Electric Power & Light, American Gas & Electric, must deal with a louder demand for rate reductions than ever reached Chairman Mitchell's ears. Its one subsidiary, American & Foreign Power (which owns no U. S. properties), has long been deep in Depression...
...closed doors of a big bank in the fourth city of the land one morning last week. It looked like a run. But practically every bank in the city had been shut tight for six long weeks and this crowd was waiting for the doors to open, not to demand their money but to pour checks & cash into National Bank of Detroit...