Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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However trivial the matter of providing convenient communication may be to the individual, in the aggregate it presents a serious need. Providing telephones is not only a matter of profit to the telephone company, or of convenience to the loquacious. It is a wise provision for emergencies which demand immediate relief...
...promises of office-seeking politicians, become conscious of their political power. Throughout the land they this year elected to the Portland convention an overwhelming number of delegates pledged to put the Legion on record for Bonus cashing. The B. E. F. episode only served to intensify their demand. Their attitude was emotional, not rational. Inside the Portland auditorium many of their representatives put aside courtesy and good manners, descended to rowdy catcalls and boos in overriding the opposition. Their behavior reflected a deep, unruly ferment in the Legion itself...
...also are working 24 hours per day manufacturing dolls which are marketed in various sizes and are doing all we can to manufacture a sufficient quantity to take care of the holiday demand for "Toodles...
...year did not expect to repeat its 1928 achievements in the Solid South. Business failures for the last week in August (435) were at a nine months' low. The Federal Reserve Board, issuing its most optimistic weekly report in two years, showed an increase of $120,000.000 in net demand deposits. A Treasury loan of $1,160,000,000 (mostly for refunding) had been oversubscribed six times...
...made 54,896 runs, never surpassed. He considered cricket a science, was meticulous in his selection of bats.* The bat which "W. G." preferred was straight-grained willow. With such a bat a scientific batsman like himself could calculate all the forces of his drive. To supply demand for such bats numerous Englishmen took to growing plantations of cricket willows, making comfortable fortunes therefrom. But lately growers complained to England's Forest Products Research Laboratories that their bat crops were imperfect. The Laboratories asked Dr. Joseph Burtt Davy to investigate. He found that soil, soil-moisture or climate could...