Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stomach pump, hell-I demand an autopsy...
...Great Britain had got the lion's share of ECA help; now she wanted at least an extra half billion this year. There were official hints that a stabilizing fund was necessary to save the pound. No sooner was the North Atlantic Treaty ratified than there was a demand for a billion and a half in arms aid. Where would...
...Maker Jay Kraus last week. He expected about 300,000 to sell this year-nothing like the 1,000,000 sold to flappers and friends in 1925, but good as compared with the 40,000-to-60,000 average in the early '40s. One explanation for the demand: frog-voiced Arthur Godfrey's use of the uke on his television show...
...backlog of orders thinned, first-half earnings for many companies were the best in history. U.S. Steel's $94 million net was up 76%, Bethlehem's $59.9 million a shade less than 100%. But Bethlehem's Chairman Eugene G. Grace, who first warned against slackening steel demand six months ago, now said: "We have been living on our accumulated fat ... and it is getting thin...
Caught between an irresistible force and an immovable object, the American Woolen Co. has long had a squeezed feeling. Irresistible force: the demand of consumers, retailers and clothing manufacturers for lower prices. Immovable object: the sky-high postwar price of Australian fleece, up some 120% since 1939 (TIME...