Word: demanding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long-awaited Opposition demand for a public washing of Great Britain's air rearmament problems was beaten off last week as Prime Minister Chamberlain swung his Conservative M.P.s into line and downed a Labor motion for an inquiry, 329 votes to 144. Since many Conservatives had previously howled as loudly as the Opposition in attacking the Air Ministry while it was under the ousted Viscount Swinton, Mr. Chamberlain last week had to threaten Conservative members with ostracism at election time in order to insure himself of a comfortable margin...
...first time in 44 days, Duluth, a city of 101,463, last week had a daily newspaper. On April 3, 93 members of the American Newspaper Guild walked out of the Ridder Bros, papers, News-Tribune and Herald, after their 24-hour demand for a Guild shop had been turned down. Five days later, the papers suspended publication...
...boom in 1929, when it averaged over 18?; in 1932 it dropped to 5?. Last year, with war abroad and U. S. industry in better shape, the price rose as high as 17?. Under this lure, production in the U. S. and abroad rose to high levels. Then demand began to slacken; prices fell; production was curtailed...
Last week, with demand and prices still falling-on the London Metal Exchange copper dipped well below the 9? figure-producers shivered, for many a mine goes into the red when copper brings less than 9? a pound. Momentary relief came at week's end when German censors, after 15 days' delay, finally released figures on the Reich's copper stocks.* With these in hand, April foreign copper statistics could at last be compiled. These showed that foreign stocks of refined copper were reduced during April from 197,470 to 185,916 tons; that world refined stocks...
...Economics, there happen to be two courses, 11 and 36, primarily on the history of economics. The demand for a course in the history of economic theory ceased when the requirement was dropped; today concentrators can take a graduate course on this subject, if they so desire. Again it is reasonable to place responsibility for this instruction upon the tutors...