Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...increased sales activity seemed to be an appropriate time for advocating a fresh understanding of advertising's role in the U.S. economy. The advertisements in this series, which have been prepared by the Benton & Bowles agency, present six typical ways in which advertising helped to "create the demand that boosts the production that lowers the cost." Many other examples might have been used; many other facts might have been cited...
With an air of pained surprise, northern and western soft-coal operators fired crusty, aging Ezra Van Horn, an executive of the Ohio Coal Association, from his six-year-old job as the operators' chief labor negotiator. They also tied a new demand to the contract they are negotiating with John L. Lewis. If Van Horn was not relieved of his trustee's job, they would not sign a new contract with the union...
...Demand for Work. India's cities teemed with unemployed, her factories were producing less steel, less cotton cloth and less jute than before independence. Prices were three times as high as in 1939. Last year India imported 2,200,000,000 rupees ($665 million) more than she exported ; she was deep in debt for the balance. Said Nehru in his Independence Day message: "Criticism and self-criticism are always welcome provided they do not take the place of work. Today, India demands work from her children...
...quite clear that at no time did [the Steelworkers] actually intend to come to an agreement with [Inland]. We were but an insignificant part in the . . . global strategy by which the establishment of this board was to be forced upon the Government. The wage demand which was presented to you gentlemen was never brought to our bargaining table ... It was pensions the union asked . . . We made an offer . . . We were confident that our employees liked that offer, but . . . the union required that it be rejected...
...week ending July 30). But some of the drop seemed to be the retailers' own fault. The Wall Street Journal took a shopping tour of 15 cities and found that many a store had cut its stocks so deeply that it could not meet the demand for some items...