Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany's aide-memoire respecting her right to re-arm will be followed within a month by demands for restoration to her by the Allies of territories seized during the War and now administered as mandates by Great Britain. France and Japan. . . . The day is not far off when Germany will also demand restoration of territories seized from her on the Continent" (Alsace-Lorraine, the Polish Corridor, parts of Upper Silesia, Eupen & Malmedy, Danzig, the Saar. etc., etc.). Chancellor von Papen wrote in Der Saar Frennd last week: "The Saar District is German and wants to remain German. . . .* Growing...
This statement of course is factual, but Grandmother Zetkin went on: "I demand the impeachment of President von Hindenburg for violation of the German Constitution! . . . Despite its all-powerful character, the [von Papen] Cabinet has failed miserably to solve domestic and foreign problems. . . . The best means to overcome the economic crisis is proletarian revolution! ... I open this Reichstag in fulfillment of my duty as senior member. I hope to live to see the day when, as senior member, I can open the first workers' and peasants' congress of Soviet Germany...
Silk men say that a silk fad sweeps the world about every ten years. Creeping out of the post-War slump, in 1922 the silk industry was whipped to prosperity by a huge and sudden demand for crepe de Chine. It replaced taffeta, which had clung on tenaciously from the billowy era at the turn of the century, as the standard dress silk. When the good news came last month, silk mills had little rough crepe in stock. So great and so urgent was the demand that silk men last week were vainly trying to buy from each other...
Rough crepe is an old silk product but the demand for it has always been nominal. All crepes are woven on large looms with some threads highly twisted. When the cloth is removed these threads tend to untwist, giving it a rough or pebbly appearance. Rayon, though not so elastic as silk, is also used for crepes and rayon mills are sharing in the present boom...
...back in price in the meantime. They recall the famed boom of 1927 when prices zoomed from 12½¢ a pound to 24¢, most of the rise occurring in August and September. In 1921 an unexpectedly short crop of less than 9,000,000 bales combined with a sudden demand from textile mills (which were leading the way out of the post-War slump) shot cotton up 10¢ a pound in six weeks...