Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Auburn statements accompanied the reported Auburn boom. Vice President Roy H. Faulkner announced: "We are exerting every effort to meet this situation and are gearing our plants up as fast as is humanly possible with the hope that within 30 days we will be able to supply the demand. In this we are asking the public and our dealer organization to bear with...
...says Dr. McClintock. "It is safe to say that we are over the hump with respect to the traffic problem, and that there can no longer be any doubt of the capacity of cities and States to achieve progressive improvement in street and highway safety and congestion. It will demand constant work but the elements to assure success are available...
Boosters for the plan insist that the market will be in a better position when overhanging stock is thus distributed to the public. They point to the fact that the Exchange is aware of the plan's bad points, hence will demand much information from firms desiring to redistribute securities. The Exchange has the power to refuse permission, to limit the time during which a security may be distributed, even to withdraw permission. When the "doorbell-ringing" campaign starts to sell Big Board securities on a commission basis, the Special Committee on Secondary Distribution will rank...
England's demand for faith healing became apparent at last week's Canterbury convocation in London. Anglican priests and bishops want faith healing authenticated and formalized under the strict discipline of the Church for two reasons: 1) many have been anointing the sick and laying their hands on them in dismayingly haphazard fashion; 2) they wish to combat Christian Science, which they consider a growing menace to the Church of England. In sundry ways the Anglicans showed how appalled they were that London now has twelve Christian Science churches, whereas five years ago the number was only seven...
...University must influence the world, and the world is governed by utility. The twentieth century with its emphasis on speed and utility is not an age of leisure. A University that promotes knowledge only for cash utility accepts this typical modern imposition. The difficulty arises when nonfactual culture is demanded together with a participation in a highly factual world. It appears that the experimental educators demand the rather difficult compromise of being both a combatant and a conscientious objector...