Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the House came to blows over the Administration's housing bill. Illinois' white-haired, 83-year-old Adolph Sabath, who has more years of service (42) than any other member, was waiting to start things off. Up strode Georgia's blustering Gene Cox to demand ten minutes speaking time for the opposition...
India's colleges have room for fewer than half of their applicants; the provincial governments, grappling with urgent problems of widespread poverty and starvation, cannot afford to build new universities. Thus each year, as more boys & girls come of college age, the demand for higher education grows more frenzied, the passion for degrees more fervent. (Even a "failed B.A." on a calling card is better than no college record at all.) Meanwhile, authorities have been forced to make the examinations ever stiffer. In Bombay alone, more than 50,000 youngsters took the 1949 tests...
...upward climb again. In industrial alcohol, a basic raw material for many manufacturers, the surplus had caused prices to toboggan from 87? a gallon to 21?, but by last week the turn seemed to have come. Pub-licker Industries, Inc., a big U.S. maker of industrial alcohol, thought demand had picked up enough so it could raise prices 8½? to 11? a gallon. Even in textiles, softest of the soft spots, there was some hardening; American Woolen Co. also raised prices on 14 of its woolen-type fabrics for women's wear. In short, some industries had already...
...almost as much cash as the year before, but were less ready to spend it unless prices went down. Consumers were in the market for up to 5,000,000 new cars, about 1,500,000 television sets and a million new homes. There was "strong underlying consumer demand," said FRB, "if goods were available at prices and qualities considered attractive." So far the price cuts on many things had not been great enough to coax out the "strong underlying consumer demand." And despite the drop in commodities and the general business recession, many an item in the cost...
...thoughtful men, who represented the good Hollywood . . . The movies need . . . 'more freedom for more men of talent' . . . But [it] must be fought for by the good Hollywood and by the people who believe in freedom . . . From this Hollywood . . . these people can get movies as good as they demand-but demand them they must...