Word: demandingly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...storable crops like wheat, corn and tobacco, to keep their prices up. But for perishables, such as meat, poultry, milk, vegetables-75% of the yearly farm output-the Government had something new to offer. It would let market prices for these commodities rise & fall with the tides of supply & demand. The U.S. Treasury would dole out to farmers the difference between the guaranteed prices and the market prices...
Bypassing the peace delegates, Boss Mao had drafted an ultimatum, sent it south to Nanking by special messenger. Its chief demand: within four days, the Nationalist armies must be transferred to Communist command. Otherwise Red troops, strengthened in the past months by fresh conscripts and regular reinforcements from Manchuria, would strike across the Yangtze...
...Baptist Atlanta, the demand for the Mountain caught booksellers by surprise. Said Mrs. Georgia Lecken, manager of the book department in Rich's department store: "I would say that Protestants and Jews are buying it from us more than Catholics." But Georgia bookdealers do not see this as evidence of the South's yearning for the contemplative life. The booming sales are rather attributed to Protestant curiosity about behind-the-scenes Catholic activities-especially within a Trappist monastery...
...February, had eased slightly. In March, the U.S. Department of Commerce reported, employment had increased by 479,000, mostly on farms. (Since newcomers had entered the labor force, the drop in unemployment was only 54,000.) Another bright sign came from General Motors. Demand for its cars was still so big that, with steel in better supply, G.M. last week stepped up production by shifting key departments to a 54-hour week (v. 40 hours before), with a 30% increase in take-home pay for the workers affected...
...soon have to change their tune. Some 68 million gallons of four-year-old whisky, made in the first distilling months after V-E day, will be ready for the market between July and December. This will bring the supply of aged whisky, now short, into line with current demand...